Jargon, Stats, POV, Teach Me, and the Parallel Experience

I just learned that the moniker they use in-house at Bantam Dell to refer to my project is SOCIETY. I love it. Are you working on SOCIETY? How many ARCs are we getting of SOCIETY? I did the interior design for SOCIETY. Diana Peterfreund? Yeah, that’s the SOCIETY author. SOCIETY SOCIETY SOCIETY. I’ve been shortening it to SSG in emails to friends, CPs, agents… on this blog. But I think I’m going to have to fall in line with Bantam Dell and start calling it SOCIETY.

Actually, without realizing it, they have done exactly the same thing that we did at Yale in reference to these organizations.

“Want to do something tonight?” asks the unsuspecting senior on Thursday night.
Her friend blushes, ducks head. “Can’t. Society stuff.”

SOCIETY stuff.

My current SOCIETY stuff is all about working on the outline for SOCIETY2. I’m about a quarter of the way through, in that I’ve done about 3/4 of the first draft. You do the math. Also, going to look at my book on Amazon. The cover’s up and everything. So excited.

We seem to have lost a few readers recently — my stats are way down. I’m going to assume it’s because you’re all super-busy for the holidays and not that you’re mad at me. 🙂

The conversation about POV is still going strong in the following post. I’d love to get a real debate going on this issue so speak up! Don’t be afraid! Even you, various anonymi…

Finally, agent Nadia Cornier or Firebrand Lit is trying to spread the word blogly about TEACH ME, by R.A. Nelson. I’ve read this work, and found it to be totally worth spreading the word about (personally disappointed by the ending, but still enjoyed the whole), so here I am, spreading. She calls it The Great Blog Experiment. (She is *not* Nelson’s agent. Just thought I’d point that out. She’s also not mine.)

Speaking of agent’s, my agent, the legendary Deidre Knight, has a book coming out in a few months, and has just unveiled her mind blowing series tie-in website, The Parallel Experience. Wowsa.

Okay. I’m off. I hope to see lots of talking ere I return…