The Worst Bug in Your Book

Posted on May 30, 2014 by Lynda Williams
The Worst Bug in Your Book

The name-swap bug in Part 1: The Courtesan Prince

Some typos are nastier than others! Neither editor nor proof-readers caught this one. Maybe because we’re just meeting bad-guys Delm and H’Reth in chapter 3 of The Courtesan Prince, so someone unfamiliar with them might not see how out of character it is for Delm (vs. H’Reth) to be the one spluttering, here.

I believe it was corrected in the digital edition. It will certainly be fixed in the Reality Skimming Press re-release of the Okal Rel Saga.

Any writers reading this are invited to share their own worst ‘bug in your book.’

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The Second Edition Cometh …

Posted on May 25, 2014 by Lynda Williams
2nd edition of The Courtesan Prince at editing stage, May 2014.

Author’s copy of Part 1: The Courtesan Prince, with overlay of notes on back page.

Part 1: The Courtesan Prince has been accruing fixes, scribbled in the margins of my personal copy, since its publication in 2005

I got started on the job this month, and will be sharing the journey, here.

Happy to hear other people’s stories of re-boot or second editions, or changes you wish you could make. 🙂

Okal Rel Universe titles and adaptations to new media are published by Reality Skimming Press.


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Interview with Lynda Williams

Posted on May 20, 2014 by Lynda Williams

Still love the interview I did with the intrepid and generous Derek Newman-Stille on Speculating Canada, August 2, 2013.

Author and family

Here’s a quote from it:

“The blindness of social systems, in other words, is revealed by the participants’ failure to see the very truth they most profess to value.”

Catch the whole thing at:  Interview with Lynda Williams.

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Book Release – Cursed Dishes (from Reality Skimming Press)

Posted on May 19, 2014 by Lynda Williams

Book Release.

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Making a book …

Posted on April 23, 2014 by Lynda Williams

… is about making the world stand still long enough for a good, long exposure of one pearl in a sea full of broken shells.

– Lynda Williams, publisher at http://facebook.com/relskim

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Visual Ideas for a Chest Tat?

Posted on April 22, 2014 by Lynda Williams

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What’s the best way to assemble a dragon to use as a chest tattoo? Wings spread? Head over the sternum? We’re exploring possibilities. If you’ve got ideas, please share! Links to visual suggestions would be grand, as well.

 

Art work is in progress with Yukari Yamamoto. The tattoo canvas will be David Lott, production manager for Reality Skimming Press. Future uses include art prints for fund raising for Amel-friendly charities … and I dream of discovering a costumer one day who’ll make a Nersallian cloak with this dragon embroidered on it, to sell or auction at some con.

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LARPing in Text

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Lynda Williams

LARPing in Text

Woke up today on a battlewheel talking to Erien Lor’Vrel, a character in the Okal Rel Universe. For 30-odd years, he was the main avatar of my friend Alison. And Alison wasn’t the first friend I larp’d with in the creation of the Okal Rel Universe. Before the internet, and through its mighty spring into our lives. I founded a freenet in the early 90s because I already knew how important it could be. I communicated with Alison over it, when we were both grad students at universities. In the hurly-burly of being published authors, we lost the joy of mere creation and fell out of touch. Even in my dreams. So it was good to find Erien larping with me, again, in the theatre of the mind.

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OnAir on Trent Radio for the Summer : Mondays at 8:00 PM

Posted on April 21, 2014 by Lynda Williams

Wonderful development! Looking for guests?

dereknewmanstille's avatarSpeculating Canada: Canadian Horror, Science Fiction, and Fantasy

Speculating Canada is going On Air on Trent Radio for the summer. I will be on air every Monday at 8:00 (EST) throughout the summer starting next monday (April 28th). Trent Radio second Icon

The summer radio show will be a mixture of discussions of Canadian speculative fiction (horror, fantasy, science fiction, and the various speculative genres in between) and interviews with Canadian speculative authors, allowing them to share their perspectives, thoughts, and ideas.

Next Monday, Speculating Canada  on Trent Radio will begin with a discussion of Canadian zombie fiction, highlighting the diversity of the genre and focussing on texts that do something a little bit differently with the zombie.

If you are in broadcast range, Trent Radio can be heard at 92.7 FM, and if you are outside of our broadcast range, you can live stream Trent Radio at http://www.trentu.ca/org/trentradio/ . daniels_trlogo

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Reality Skimming Press Social – April 26, 2014, 7 pm

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Lynda Williams

Reality Skimming Press Social – April 26, 2014, 7 pm

It’s not a launch, it’s a social. Friends in the lower mainland are invited to come catch up with what we’re doing. And kindred spirits to come meet us.

The Okal Rel Universe (ORU) grew out of interactions with friends and colleagues. Maybe that’s why it inspires creatives to expand the canon and interpret it in new modes of delivery. In addition to canon, Okal Rel artifacts of all kinds keep us flying. Fan work. Donated art. Pictures and stories to capture glimpses of the ORU in the real world. Creating and enjoying those creations is a celebration of the imagination and a tribute to our need to grapple with the human (or post-human) condition to give meaningful shape to our struggle to live the ‘good life’. Defining the ‘good life’, of course, is half the battle.

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“Empathy flows in both directions …

Posted on April 20, 2014 by Lynda Williams

“Empathy flows in both directions. At one point, afraid he might die in a coming conflict, the prince begs leave of his betrothed to lose his virginity to a courtesan, and she writes back in anguish telling him she wishes she had given herself to him before he left, even if he had rejected her as a whore, “For I may ever after fear comparisons and hate to know that what is mine, alone, and meant to be unique between us, is but trampled ground and weakly treaded by a wife’s regard. I long to give what brims up in my heart. And fear to learn what you may ask could crush that flowering with needs beyond my scope. I have no ambition to do service as a courtesan; and if I had to learn to hold your heart, love’s joy would be sacrificed to duty’s call. And yet I know not how to answer for I understand you are a man and the dangers that you face are dire. The friend that loves you says, ‘of course!’ The woman who would share your life grows cold. I don’t know how she may respond no more than you can say what knowledge of a courtesan may do to you. The world is complex, love, and men and women different in how they respond. What can I do but trust you with my simple heart? Decide, and things will fall out as they must. But I can no more promise it will make no difference to us than you can.”

This re-cap of a Demoran tale from the Okal Rel Universe got snipped from the MS for Part 10: Unholy Science. Editor Richard Janzen said “sorry”, it was nice on its own. But I agreed with him. It bogged down the flow of the story for a wife — seeking wisdom from literature — to take so long a detour in thought. Jennifer Lott, acting as copy editor to help me get this finished, suggested a book of story synopses from Demoran canon, for Reality Skimming Press.

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