I’ve been futzing around with starting SOCIETY2 for quite some time now, and I really must get moving on it, so last night, I did a little BICHOK (butt-in-chair-hands-on-keyboard) and wrote six pages. Woo hoo! I reread them this mornign and I’m very happy with them, and on the way to work I thought of a great way to finish up the chapter, so hopefully I’ll get to that tonight.
My latest issue of Lady Jaided, the Ellora’s Cave magazine, came in the mail yesterday, and I was dismayed to learn that they are discontinuing the project. I know that the magazine business is incredibly tough, but I thought they had an excellent concept and really fascinating articles. I learned so much from reading Lady Jaided, from the current debate over the cultures that practice female genital mutilation to the hsitory of the art of Japanese rope bondage. Damn those puritannical distributors! So, Playboy and Maxim and stuff is fine, but a magazine of female sexuality? No way. Jaid Black says they will continue the magazine in some form online at the EC website, which makes me happy, especially because an old boss of mine is the EIC, and she’s positively brilliant.
In other news, from Publisher’s Marketplace:
February 13, 2006
Childrens/YA
Ellen Emerson White’s LONG MAY SHE REIGN,
for teens and beyond, imagining a woman president’s daughter in her first year of college — having recently and barely survived a terrorist kidnapping, to Jean Feiwel at Holtzbrinck, in a good deal, by Merrilee Heifetz at Writers House (world English).
Yay! I love the President’s Daughter books, so I’m thrilled there’s going to be another one. (They did start getting dark though, didn’t they?)
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