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Angel tattoo designs are gaining popularity

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Angel tattoos are probably the most common designs for women worldwide. Angel tattoos can be versatile and may be used to create unique designs in a lot of different ways. Angels are thought to be one of the most beautiful heavenly creatures and represent different ideas to different individuals. Professional tattoo studios typically have a number of angel tattoos to pick from and each might possibly be altered into whatever design you'd like. Angels have represented beauty, purity, and spirituality in several different cultures throughout history. The character of a angel has often been employed to symbolize someone's transformation to a higher plane of existence, either physically, mentally, or spiritually. Most angel tattoos have a great amount of detail so the attractive nature associated with the design and style and the intricate aspects of a design can match the loveliness associated with the angels which have been depicted in literature and art. Angel tattoos are easily...
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Factotum 1st Draft is DONE!

Yes, just as the title says, it is true, finally (*rolls eyes*) filled with self-doubt and trepidation, I am finished climbing the mountain. Factotum MBT Book3 1st Draft is complete! Now all that is left is to climb all the way down the other side. Now for some celebratory answers! Sylvenger was wondering ... 'in the video from Youtube for Lamplighter, it pronounces Europe's name exactly like the continent " YUR -up". I don't know, when I read the books I just thought it would be pronounced with a little more sophistication, like " yoo -ROE- puh ".' Actually, when used ordinarily it is said " YOO - rup ", though for more formal situations you will find it written Europ a and said " yoo -ROE- puh ". Ben Bryddia was wondering "... how nearly the present editions of Books 1 and 2 match their original drafts. In hindsight, would you have written them very differently?" The final volumes you all have read bear marked d...
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Errata

I would just like to take this opportunity to correct the doggerel that Rossamund recalls of Swill early in Lamplighter . I got the metre all out o' whack and would like to offer to you a slightly improved version (and so let you in on my restless and constant polishing of the H-c) Honorius Ludius Grotius Swill Will saw off your limbs, but eschews the pill; For coughs he takes fingers, a sneeze he'll take toes, But fevers will cost you your ears and your nose. So no its syllable count for each line is 11, 10, 11, 11 whereas before it was 11, 9, 12,11 - which does not sound like much but I like the rhythm in the more even structure of the new version better - sounds more lilting in my head. If at this point you think I a little nuts, you just might be right... To answer a couple o' questions: Yes Jenny M , MBT will be a trilogy but I truly intend and hope to bring you other tales from the Half-Continent over the years in what, Lord willing, will be a long term relatio...
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European Refinement.

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This is an updated, slightly more "polished" design version of a previous rough for Europe's final harness in Book 3. That's all...
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A Quick Break & An Idea.

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You might be wondering what the new poll asking about a Choose-Your-Own-Adventure [TM] style story is all for. Well, I was reckoning that when Book 3 1st draft and maybe edit passes are finally done we could embark on a project together where I write an entry upon a certain Half-Continent character, list a poll of options for their next action, give you a week or two or three to choose which way next, write that, give you more options to choose for the next bit and so on (am I making sense?) and maybe build story together. So I have put up a poll to start and we shall go from there. Thoughts anyone? To add a little spice to the entry I am also including some sneak peak appendices proposed for Book 3 (though constraints of book length might mean some do not make it in... we shall see) Until then, I hope you enjoy these. If you find any errors (such as the one for "parry" on the sabrine adept image) don't fret, these have yet to go under an editor's scrupulous eye.
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And the Winner is...

Just back from Brisneyland (being Brisbane for the uninitiated) having attended the Aurealis Awards night where, if you'll recall, Lamplighter was shortlisted in the Best Young Adult Novel category. Alas alak , I have to content myself with the shortlisting for I can reveal to you all now that Melina Marchetta 's (of On the Jellicoe Road and Looking for Alibrandi fame) first foray into the spec fic world, Finnikin of the Rock (Penguin/Viking) took the honours. Congrats to her - I'd be lying if I did not admit I was a tad bummed, but I got over myself and and very happy to have Lamplighter on a shortlist. The other winners of the 2008 Aurealis Awards by category were: best science fiction novel K A Bedford , Time Machines Repaired While-U-Wait ( Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing) best science fiction short story Simon Brown, ‘The Empire’ , Dreaming Again (Harper/Voyager) best fantasy novel Alison Goodman, The Two Pearls of Wisdom (Harper Collins ) best ...
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Time to get European.

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Today being the last day before I trip off to Brisbane to attend the Aurealis Awards I though I would share a bit more of y process with you (how the two are related I do not know, but it makes for a beginning to a post, so I am running with it). What I have for show and tell today are a couple conceptual sketches completed for Book 3, done to help me get a better "eye" for what Europe is wearing at certain occasions in the story. The first is for a more formal and fancy event. This second sketch is me trying to get a handle on colour and style for a set of new-made harness for fighting in. Spotting that clipping from the fashion section of the local paper helped me greatly in fixing down the nature of the cloth which I had previously designated as read on the sleeves and blue-grey on the apron. I like the green with red florals much better, though the flowers on the cloth used for the harness would not look or be placed in quite so modern a manner. Just goes to show how r...
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Cybils Fantasy/SciFi Shortlist 2008

Well, it is near two weeks since the peep of the year and have you heard anything from me..?! I am very chuffed to break silence (as it were), do as others have done and post up a shortlist from the up and coming Cybils Awards in my own chosen genre, Fantasy & Science Fiction : Cabinet of Wonders written by Marie Rutkoski , Macmillan Graveyard Book written by Neil Gaiman , HarperCollins Magic Thief written by Sarah Prineas , HarperCollins Savvy written by Ingrid Law , Penguin USA Airman written by Eoin Colfer , Hyperion Curse Dark as Gold written by Elizabeth C. Bunce , Scholastic Explosionist written by Jenny Davidson , HarperCollins Graceling written by Kristin Cashore , Harcourt Hunger Games, The written by Suzanne Collins , Scholastic Wake written by Lisa McMann , Simon & Schuster ... and (*drum roll*) Lamplighter written by some weird fellow surrounded by notebooks in a darkened room, Penguin USA. A true and dare I admit astonishing honour - (watch for my over-...
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