So I’m currently working on revising my third novel. The first needs serious revision, the second is making the rounds to agents, but this one is nearing completion (I hope).

It started out as an experiment, and turned into a YA fantasy. And since I am soon to be gone for a little while, without time to work on novels, I figured this would be a great time to start sending it to first readers.

So, here I am, seeing who might be interested in helping me out with this. Begging. Because that’s what we do. However, I offer up the following points in my favor:

1. YA novels are shorter than the typical adult fantasy novel – this one clocks in at just about 50K words. That’s practically half a novel. You’d get through that in no time.

2. I am not above compensation for people who read and give me some helpful feedback (I’m hoping for more than a couple of lines in an email). If you drink, I’ll buy you a drink or two. If not, I’m sure I can think of another way to show my gratitude.

3. I will be unable to do anything about this novel until August, so at the minimum, you would have two months to get to this. Probably closer to three. And it’s the summer. Bring it to the beach. Or the lake. Or wherever.

4.  Um, that’s all I have.

Anyway, if you’re interested, comment here or drop me an email or something. I would be extremely grateful. I’ll even make sure to thank you in print if the book ever gets published.

Thanks!

I moved this past weekend. After spending the last year in Manhattan’s Financial District, I am now living in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. And I love it.

Moving, of course, is stressful. Packing, moving, unpacking, discovering what you need, what you don’t have, how to set things up. But the bulk of the difficulty is over and now it’s just figuring out where I want to put things. I should have everything in order just in time for me to leave for six weeks.

In the meantime I am doing my best to get to know the neighborhood. There are so many really great places around that I hope to post about in the coming weeks.

More to come later…

I don’t have a lot of time now, but the good news is that my mother is home and doing well. She’s on blood thinners, and that should address the clotting issue. I spent most of the last week and the weekend with her.

Also, I’m moving on Friday, so things here are hectic and I likely won’t have time to post much. But we’ll see.

Hope everyone had a great Memorial Day Weekend and, if you went to Wiscon, you didn’t get sick (and if you did, I hope it passed quickly).

While I don’t take back my previous statement about a lot of Star Trek being shit, I will admit to being a fan of The Next Generation and DS9 in the day. It’s just that in retrospect, after watching BSG, I am a bit spoiled. The way I see it, Star Trek (at least the series I mentioned), was good SF television. BSG is good (actually great) television period.

But on to the Star Trek. There was another Voyager episode on the other day and it dealt with the burgeoning Seven of Nine/Chakotay relationship. I think it was the finale.

That made me think of the various inter-crew relationships on the various series.

So, I pose to you, the readers, what was the best, most believable relationship on the various Trek shows? And what was the worst, most clumsy, ridiculous relationship?

Here are the ones I remember:

1. Ryker/Troi

2. Worf/Troi

3. Picard/Crusher

4. Data/Yar (maybe not a real relationship, but I thought it deserved mention)

5. Kira/Odo

6. Worf/Dax

7. Bashir/Ezri Dax

8. Neelix/Kes

9. Paris/Torres

10. Chakotay/Seven of Nine

11. T’pol/Trip

Those are the only relationships between main crew members that I can remember (I’m not counting relationships like O’Brien and Keiko since she was a secondary character – though I did like the way that relationship progressed over the two series).  I also didn’t watch Enterprise much, but I read about the T’pol/Trip thing recently.

So, I open it up to you – which was the best? Which was the worst?

…can be such a load of shit.

My god, I’m sitting here watching a Voyager episode (don’t ask) and it’s appallingly bad.

BSG has spoiled me for a lot of other shows.