Just felt a sudden urge to add

[msagara]

... that there are, of course, authors who are considered midlist by the PTB, who are in fact making a reasonable living as writers. The gloomy spiral of doom about which one hears rather a lot is not by any means the only fate for a midlist writer.

That, and I think I want to be Tamora Pierce when I grow up.

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[mizkit.livejournal.com]

I want to be Tamora Pierce, too, but mostly because she's doing a comic book for Marvel. :)

[msagara.livejournal.com]

I just ... I just love the way she expresses a very passionate, very feminist fury as if all injustice had only just occurred; as if it was here and now and fresh and not somehow simply politics, position, etc. Her writing is so on point and so vibrant and so Right There.

Although when I think of the one time I shared a panel with her, I now cringe at the whole being-me on that particular day =/

The Marvel comics thing is cool, though.

[larryhammer]

I know I want to be Tamora Pierce when I grow up.

---L.

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Well, yes, but you've always shown yourself to be almost profoundly sensible.

When are you and Janni getting into Austin, btw, and do you guys have any free time?

[larryhammer]

Thursday mid-afternoon, and yes we have free time. Let me consult with Janni as to what she's committed to. You have our emails? (Mine's changed -- new one's on my profile.)

---L.

[drenilop.livejournal.com]

Noooooooooo! No! Don't do that!!

I like her books - in fact she was the first fantasy stuff I ever read - but I like yours for your style and hers for hers. If you disappeared and turned into her I would probably cry...

...THEN go buy the books. :-)

[domynoe.livejournal.com]

I want to be anyone but a teacher when I grow up. :P


But seriously, I'd just be happy to get a damn book finished (don't ask; A.C. is back on hold because I got tired of pulling my hair out -- tried too much complication and advanced crap for one book, much less a FIRST book) and published.

And to be able to stop being a sub. The teachign thing ain't looking so hot right now either. :P

[twiegand.livejournal.com]

I want you to be you. I like you like you. I would miss you if you weren't you.

[sqrrlsrant.livejournal.com]

That, and I think I want to be Tamora Pierce when I grow up.

So, in Cast in Courtlight when Kaylin is meeting with Sanabalis-as-magic-teacher for the first time and she goes on her rant about why learning magic is useless is that a conscious nod to Alanna's speech in Pierce's Alanna: The First Adventure?

[msagara.livejournal.com]

Maybe very subconsciously -- I read the book a long time ago. It's more Kaylin's general appreciation for any education that does seem, to her mind, to be of practical use to the Hawks.

[sphericaltime.livejournal.com]

Just out of curiosity, where's the list when you say mid-list, high-list?

I don't suppose there's an online copy?