Write it down, but it doesn't mean you're not just telling stories

[sovay]

Ainsley, who sometimes hijacks spectre_general's account, found this for me: "The Space Between," the interview-article about me that appeared a few days ago in the Lexington Minuteman. I feel absurdly significant: I merit three pages in the arts section? It's a highly complimentary piece of writing. The quotes seem accurate to what I can remember from phone conversation. There are, I suppose, minor inaccuracies; but past one peculiar mistake (I only wish I could take an interview in Latin to graduate with my PhD), I'm pleased beyond words.

Her stories and poems in both collections are often the fusion between the real and supernatural in which the two are written not as opposites, but grinning sides of the same coin . . . In her fiction, Taaffe is often to myth what a passionate professor of Latin is to modern languages.

Can I put this sort of thing on the back of the book?

Comments

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

I don't see why not.

Nine

[sovay]

Hey, any jacket copy where I am compared to a classicist makes me happy . . .

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Yes of course you can. Or you can suggest to the publisher that they do, anyway.

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

Congrats on all of the fantastic reviews of late!

[sovay]

Thank you! I'm pretty thrilled.

unrelatedly...

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

I hear TEL is coming out this weekend at WFC! I wonder when Jay will send out contributers' copies...

Re: unrelatedly...

[sovay]

Cool! I am definitely looking forward to that.

While we're free-associating, do you know the current status of Alchemy #3?

Re: unrelatedly...

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

I don't, unfortunately. I sent him proof corrections in mid-June and haven't heard anything about it since. With volume 2, I didn't hear anything until the final journal was in my mailbox, so I don't expect to hear any updates about volume 3. Wish I could be of more help...

More free association:
Are you still a reader for Sean Wallace by chance? I sent an article back in May, didn't hear about it, queried, didn't hear back. He mentioned on Nightshade bboards that a non-response to a query means he's not interested, so, I'm thinking he's not going to take the article. But he's also been very busy with the move and Fantasy mag. Do you know if he's still looking at stuff from May, or has moved on?

Re: unrelatedly...

[sovay]

No idea. But can I prod him when he gets back from World Fantasy. : )

Re: unrelatedly...

[ombriel.livejournal.com]

If you think it wouldn't annoy him, yes, that'd be keen. Much obliged. :)

How odd that we have all these things that overlap, writing and interests-wise.

[erzebet.livejournal.com]

That was a wonderful review. I am so totally pleased to sort of know you. :)

[sovay]

Thank you. I am very pleased to sort of know you, too. : )

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

It was just a tad surreal, reading that article. I knew almost every piece of information contained therein, but somehow the overall picture strikes one differently when one reads it as told by a semi-detached journalist. I suppose that, given the relative brilliance of my circle of friends, I should get used to this sort of thing happening on occasion.

(Oh, and congratulations!)

[sovay]

(Thank you!) It was a tad surreal for me to read the article, too: I wasn't quite sure it was my own life, recounted so. Which pieces didn't you know?

[shirei-shibolim.livejournal.com]

The bit about your dad telling you incomplete stories. I also found the bit on your abysmal handwriting interesting, as I've never had any trouble reading it.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

Bah! How dare they slur your exquisite handwriting! I object!

(Congratulations :)

[sovay]

Look, today I have exquisite handwriting. In fourth grade, I had deranged ideograms of Cthulhuic incomprehensibility. : P

Thank you.

[kraada.livejournal.com]

*laugh* Next time I'm at your place in Lexington I know which things I'm going to make your mother pull out to embarass you!

(Consider it professional curiosity at seeing what a deranged ideogram of Cthulu looks like :)

[clarionj.livejournal.com]

Thinking further about Persephone, I was going to write a post to you asking if you were seasonal on an hourly basis, daily, weekly, or if you were somewhere between the seasons and the worlds, so thank you for linking us to the interview. I think my questions, for now, are asked simply because I'm trying to form the person behind the work, and so I particularly liked small things, like your father telling unfinished stories. That's the problem with having contact with an author--where usually I only have the work as body, here, the source can contribute to my, still imagined, formation of you. And, Sonya, congratulations, again. I'll be happy to continue congratulating you--so, Praise and Recognition, keep coming!