Came across this looking for something else and decided to put it up in the excerpts section of the ORU website. There's so many bits like this! Many of them no longer fit in the timeline of the published works or have been excluded for other reasons. Guess they are like out takes in a movie.

Labels: Amel, Creative History

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I hope that your work on your next book is going well. I know you and  
Brian have a pretty aggressive publication schedule set out, and I'm  
sure it's a daunting task to bring all of the storylines in your head  
to the page. sometimes it can feel so limiting to put things on the  
page -- suddenly, the events are all so defined. Often I prefer the  
liberties I can take in my imagination before stories become trapped  
in the bindings of a book.
             from an e-mail message Feb 22, 2009

This comment from ORU editor Richard Janzen struck a resonance with me, as I take a deep breath and face tackling book 7. Miss Alison. Grateful for the support of Brian Hades, Justyn Perry, Marie Bilodeau and Lynn Perkins on the publishing front. Paul Strickland recently volunteered to help with profiles of first expansion and other "connected" people for Bridges in June 2009. Krysia Anderson gave me a nice surprise last night, when I got home from a long day of wrestling with ergonomic problems at work, by engaging in discussion of her short story in progress for anthology 4. And I read a bit of the post-wedding scene that book 7 starts with, in which Sam O'Pearl is contratulating herself on pulling off a trick event-of-the-century ... just before Eler starts a brawl.

Labels: Alison Sinclair, Brian Hades, Lynn Perkins, Paul Strickland, Richard Janzen

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I had a very nice birthday yesterday. Took the day off (on overtime) from work, and puttered at plotting and bits and scenes in books 7, 8, 9 and 10. David took me to lunch. Jennifer called and so did my sister, Holly. After school, Tegan, Angela, Mel and 'friend' Holly came to my den to present me with a birthday song, one of Angela's handmade cards, a candle to blow out and an ORU cartoon card Mel had created for me. Click the detail, above, to see the whole thing.

Labels: Mel

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• Sandra Fitzpatrick has tracked down John Preet to get him to sign a first edition copy of Okal Rel Universe Anthology 2 for collector Peter Halasz.


• Adds and drops for authoriship in next two anthologies were updated, today, on http://www.okalrel.org/wanted


• I finished the first draft of Part 6: Avim's Oath last night, and Jennifer Lott has agreed to do a proofing pass for me once I've finished second draft corrections. Reading it to the family Saturday mornings after crepes has convinced me to simplify the Golden Demish stew of titles and history a little, among other things. Many thanks to the beta testers!


• Sent books to Charlie Harmon for dispensing at the next conference on her busy schedule. Thank you Charlie!


• Craig Bowlsby read Pretenders and gave me some interesting feedback. To paraphrase, he was surprised by how quickly Amel accepted the envoy role and stepped into a dangerous relationship with Ev'rel to shore up the new status quo behind the scenes. I'm going to blame Amel's 'female' emotional aspect for that one, and his history of abuse which made it feel like 'his' role to step into. But you are right, Craig, it wasn't a good move for Amel! Some of Amel's behavior in the early books are based on my crisis centre days and how difficult it was to stop abuse victims assuming the role they were good at in order to support a dysfunctional situtation. But Amel-lovers may be pleased to know that his slow, Demish process of maturation begins to flower in Part 6: Avim's Oath -- at the price of him starting to have trouble getting all the warm fuzzy feelings to keep working for him.


• Mel F. gave us cartoon valentines with ORU themes. :-) Chatted with Mel and Tegan about possible skit/costumes for Bridges presentation.


• Chatted with Krysia A. about her story ideas for Anth 4 featuring the inter-cultural fiasco that resulted in her character Victoria, who appeared in Okal Rel Universe Anthology 2.
  
• Hal Friesen is working on a Nestor story for one of the upcoming anthologies


• Christina Rundle has delivered a complete first draft of her story for Anth 5. Congrats!


• Keeping up with my column in The Northern Log, called "Thoughts from another universe". Feb one was on personal rituals. Got in my submission for March edition.


• Absolute X-Press has a launch planned and I'm hoping this means print copies of the ORU Legacies books by Bridges, at UNBC, in June.

Labels: Okal Rel Universe Anthology 2

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Hard to believe it is over a month, now, since we had my eldest daughter and fellow writer Jennifer home with us for a week after Xmas. David took this picture of her 'in her element' as he called it, as she read off her laptop to us, her siblings and the good friends who gathered to hear the next installment of her Drescopatia saga. Jennifer blogs at: Rocketdust and Glorious Mud.

Labels: Jennifer Lott

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Many thanks to Edward Willett for posting notice of Carl Brandon Award nominations for Canadian SF authors to the SF Canada site.

Labels: Carl Brandon Society Award, Edward Willett, SF Canada

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"A sweeping space opera with intricate weaving themes and brilliant characterisation that is sure to please any readers." is Nathalie's comment. Courtesan Prince appeared in her pre-Xmas blog entry "Books Make Excellent Gifts". Nathalie, of course, is a fellow SF novelist in Prince George, B.C. and author of the Princes of the Golden Cage and its forthcoming sequel The King's Daughter

Labels: Courtesan Prince, Nathalie Mallet

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My interview with Jessica Strider of Sci-Fi Fan Letter has popped up on Cool Bot at http://coboto.com.

Google Alerts says an interview of mine has shown up, archived, on SFFaudio but I couldn't find it by typing Lynda Williams into "search" on that page.
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