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  • 16-11-2012 7:38pm
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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭


    Well, the Pleasures of Winter launched officially on Wednesday, it's #3 in the paperback charts (and might even go higher if Easons manage to put it on the shelves) and I was hoping for a few days to relax.

    Today I got an e-mail - Penguin want another book. By February!

    I'm honestly not sure whether to cheer or cry.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    They want you to write and edit a book in under three months, with Christmas in between? How long did the last one take?

    You should most probably cheer though - being paid to do what you love is always a good thing.


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    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    You'll have to dig out the Kama Sutra and find some new angles!!

    It's a good thing though. You're popular and that's not something many writers can brag about.


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    EileenG wrote: »
    Well, the Pleasures of Winter launched officially on Wednesday, it's #3 in the paperback charts (and might even go higher if Easons manage to put it on the shelves) and I was hoping for a few days to relax.

    Um, I saw it today on the shelf in Eason's in Heuston Station.


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Antilles wrote: »
    Um, I saw it today on the shelf in Eason's in Heuston Station.

    Easons in O'Connell Street has it buried on a table surrounded by stacks of 50. It's on sale, but not visible


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    pickarooney wrote: »
    They want you to write and edit a book in under three months, with Christmas in between? How long did the last one take?

    You should most probably cheer though - being paid to do what you love is always a good thing.

    The last one took five and a half weeks, and it nearly killed us. We wrote all the time. I barely saw daylight. My family moved house without telling me.


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    EileenG wrote: »
    Easons in O'Connell Street has it buried on a table surrounded by stacks of 50. It's on sale, but not visible

    Hmm, well in Heuston I saw it up on the "new releases" shelf right beside the counter so hopefully the other branches will do the same!


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Hope so. Getting very paranoid about where it is shelved. I've already seen that the bookshops that have it displayed (like Tesco) are selling out, while Easons is not.


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Put on a red shirt and black pants like the Eason's uniform, then go in and start moving your books to the high traffic areas :D


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    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    EileenG wrote: »
    The last one took five and a half weeks, and it nearly killed us. We wrote all the time. I barely saw daylight. My family moved house without telling me.

    Now you know what to do you should be able to do it faster, say four weeks.
    Nearly killing doesn't count, if it didn't kill you it doesn't matter.
    There is no daylight worth bothering about this time of year.
    Did you find where they moved to?

    Cancel Christmas. By your mother's standards you have excommunicated yourself anyway, so have no right to be celebrating a Christian festival for good living people.:)


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    echo beach wrote: »
    Now you know what to do you should be able to do it faster, say four weeks.
    Nearly killing doesn't count, if it didn't kill you it doesn't matter.
    There is no daylight worth bothering about this time of year.
    Did you find where they moved to?

    Cancel Christmas. By your mother's standards you have excommunicated yourself anyway, so have no right to be celebrating a Christian festival for good living people.:)

    Oh well, if that's all it takes...

    No, we want at least ten weeks this time. Twelve is better. And we are going to nail Penguin down to a plot this time, so they don't change their mind half way through again.

    We've been thrashing out a plot today. Anyone have contacts in the SAS, been climbing in Death Valley or know how to bring down the cloud?


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    I was in Tesco Tullamore today and your book was sold out - hopefully that's a good thing!

    I'd have thought having your book on shelves in Tesco is better than somewhere like Easons - more throughput/sales. Would I be wrong?


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    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    EileenG wrote: »

    We've been thrashing out a plot today. Anyone have contacts in the SAS, been climbing in Death Valley or know how to bring down the cloud?

    I'm liking where this is going!


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    I'm liking where this is going!

    Don't get confused - those are just the distractions she needs to overcome so she can concentrate on coming up with a plot.


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Das Kitty wrote: »
    I'm liking where this is going!

    Well, we're revising a bit, after talking to techies. Now we want to know if anyone has experience of satelite manipulation, Siberia or MI5


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    echo beach
    Registered Users Posts: 1,252 ✭✭✭echo beach


    EileenG wrote: »
    . Now we want to know if anyone has experience of satelite manipulation, Siberia or MI5
    If you have knowledge of MI5 surely you aren't allowed to tell.:)


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    echo beach wrote: »
    If you have knowledge of MI5 surely you aren't allowed to tell.:)

    You might have captured an MI5 agent breaking into your satellite control station in Siberia.


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    Antilles
    Registered Users Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭Antilles


    I control all my satellites from Murmansk, and I've only ever had to deal with CIA agents, so no luck there.


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Penguin didn't like that outline at all. Too much plot, not enough kinky sex. Back to the drawing board. Or the orgy.


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    Das Kitty
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 17,231 Mod ✭✭✭✭Das Kitty


    EileenG wrote: »
    Penguin didn't like that outline at all. Too much plot, not enough kinky sex. Back to the drawing board. Or the orgy.

    Damn. Well I'd read that without the kinky sex so that's a shame.

    Orgy though. All I can think about is the pain of avoiding pronoun confusion. (Yes, I'm a saddo!)


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    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    Well, maybe not the orgy, but the fetish club. Time to break out the floggers, flails, canes and crops.


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    "Plotlines? Plotlines? We don't need no stinkin' plotlines!"


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    Elencst
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    EileenG wrote: »
    Well, we're revising a bit, after talking to techies. Now we want to know if anyone has experience of satelite manipulation, Siberia or MI5
    Hmm, Siberia, you say? I could help you with this one :) I'm from Siberia originally.


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    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    Eileen, how about this?
    NEIGHBOURHOOD WATCH

    After a messy breakup, Amy moves to the suburbs to get away from the hustle and bustle of inner city life. When her neighbour Sandra invites her to a house party, she is delighted to find herself in good company. But as the night ends with keys on the table, Amy realises suburbia might be more fun than she ever imagined...

    ;)


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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Yeah, write about a menage d/s relationship.
    :cool:


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    #26
    EileenG
    Registered Users Posts: 5,775 ✭✭✭EileenG


    They don't want menage. Or either of the MCs having sex with anyone else, though what they did before they met each other is fair play. And they don't want anything that could be considered sleazy, so no clubs or anything.


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    #27
    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    Who knew being easy could be so hard?


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    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    EileenG wrote: »
    They don't want menage. Or either of the MCs having sex with anyone else, though what they did before they met each other is fair play. And they don't want anything that could be considered sleazy, so no clubs or anything.

    Have one of the characters be a writer, writing about a character based on herself having sex with everyone that crosses her path and getting refused publication?


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    Toasterspark
    Closed Accounts Posts: 273 ✭✭Toasterspark


    pickarooney wrote: »
    Have one of the characters be a writer, writing about a character based on herself having sex with everyone that crosses her path and getting refused publication?

    Oh, oh!

    "Struggling with writer's block, a woman embarks on a seedy affair with her publicist, where inspiration soon blossoms."

    So meta.


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    #30
    pickarooney
    Moderators, Arts Moderators Posts: 35,093 Mod ✭✭✭✭pickarooney


    When Harry Meta Sally


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    #31
    havetoquit
    Registered Users Posts: 429 ✭✭havetoquit


    Wow! how wonderful. I congratulate you wholeheartedly and wish you continued success.

    Wish I had this gift for writing.


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