Friday, May 21, 2010
Okal Rel Books Displayed at CNC Event
 
Okal Rel titles (Far Arena facing out) were displayed May 2010 Okal Rel titles were displayed on the table featuring employee publications at the May Days professional development event held at the College of New Caledonia's Prince George campus on May 11 and 12, 2010. All the ORU titles were in a plastic box. Part 5: Far Arena features, here, as the one facing out. Many thanks to Kathy Plett, chief librarian for the college, for making the books available from her stacks.

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Friday, May 14, 2010
Feed-in and Feedback
 
Gina Tellez-McKee (reading Part 1: Courtesan Prince)
Mind Meld
I feel like I have had one:

"An ordinary person would get over it, but he's locked in perpetual crisis and the conflict between fear and love is paralyzing."

Yikes that's profound. That is where I am at in the C. Prince. I had to wait until I could really focus on your book . . . I warmed up with M. Atwood. I hope you take this as a compliment, the social content of your books reminds me of Heinlein.

Gina.


Margaret Haugen-Juniper (reading Part 4: Throne Price)
"Just finished Throne Price. One phrase: Oh my God!"


Angela Lott (Reading 1984 for school)
Reports a conversation with a Math teacher refuting the dark vision of Big Brother in 1984 with the more enlightened approach of arbiters in Reetion parts of the Okal Rel saga.



Dr. Neil Lettinga (theological/historian consultant advising me on Herver for Part 8: Gathering Storm and beyond)

One of the elements to be aware of in the case of conversions like this is the role that community plays in them. Herver needs to have ongoing conversations with people who think that commoners have souls. Amel is key, but let Herver seek out conversations with Reetions that reinforce his new beliefs, and maybe even have him run into the animal-loving princess again in a different context. In real life people don't have this sort of transformation without finding ways to reinforce it in the people they like to be with and spend time with and have conversations with. His significant others should change as a result of his conversion. Amel is certainly a good start, as is Erien, given the outcome of their conversation. He should be curious about Reetions, and might just gain a Reetion friend in the next book or two ... one who, in turn, would be interested in his religious beliefs.

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Thursday, May 13, 2010
 
Jennifer Lott and Brianna Thomas have released the next episode of their digital story adaptation of ORU novella Mekan'stan, featuring Ann and Amel during the early stages of their relationship, in the Envoy Period. The Envoy Period occupied the 20 year gap between Part 3: Pretenders and Part 4: Throne Price. Angie says all the stories in this zone should be collected in a Part 3.5 volume. For the time being, at least, they are scattered across the web, the Okal Rel Legacies series (available in POD format from Amazon.com) and ... well, sitting in draft form on my hard drive.

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Tuesday, May 04, 2010
Part 7: Healer's Sword to Richard Jenzen
 
Heard from Edge this morning that editor Richard Jenzen is ready to start work on Part 7: Healer's Sword. Also received short story for Opus 5 from author Elizabeth Woods. I've reached a good pausing place in my first draft of Part 9: Holy War and must devote any writing hours to the two anthologies for summer production target. Will post progress.

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