Speaking of Happiness
Apr. 25th, 2011 07:37 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ladyspriteSo once upon a time there was an awesome collection of urban fantasy stories and novellas and novels, called the Borderlands series. I fell in love with them when I was in high school, and I still go back and reread them on a semi-regular basis. The last one was written years and years ago.
Except it turns out that there's a new anthology coming out this summer. And one of my favorite writers, whom I discovered through said series, was holding a contest to give away an advance reading copy of the new book. All you had to do to enter was write an idea, or a scene, of how you would run away to Bordertown.
She just announced the winner today.
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okay. Maybe y'all are right, and I might have a knack for this words-thing.
I'd say more, but I'm too busy feeling rather like someone hit me in the back of the head with a two-by-four. In a good way, but still. Poleaxed.
Wow.
Edited to add - If you want to read my entry, she links to the contest in the above page; mine is on page 4 of the comments. I think it's #90.....
Except it turns out that there's a new anthology coming out this summer. And one of my favorite writers, whom I discovered through said series, was holding a contest to give away an advance reading copy of the new book. All you had to do to enter was write an idea, or a scene, of how you would run away to Bordertown.
She just announced the winner today.
........
.......
okay. Maybe y'all are right, and I might have a knack for this words-thing.
I'd say more, but I'm too busy feeling rather like someone hit me in the back of the head with a two-by-four. In a good way, but still. Poleaxed.
Wow.
Edited to add - If you want to read my entry, she links to the contest in the above page; mine is on page 4 of the comments. I think it's #90.....
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Date: 2011-04-26 12:05 am (UTC)btw, do you follow
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Date: 2011-04-26 12:23 am (UTC)I am sure that everyone else is much less surprised than you are.
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Date: 2011-04-26 02:07 am (UTC)(It really is an awesome little snippet of fan-fiction.)
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Date: 2011-04-26 03:25 am (UTC)Congrats!
Date: 2011-04-26 05:06 am (UTC)Way to go!
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Date: 2011-04-26 05:27 am (UTC)I had no idea this was going on! I knew about the book - I feel the same way about the series. They introduced me to the Scribblies in general, and therefore to my favorite book in the world, Brust's Sun, the Moon, and the Stars.
I even ran a Bureau 13 game set during the event that started the most recent Bordertown - I took out a swath of Washington from Seattle to Redmond.
So, that's so freakin' cool! Congrats!
Just to be sure..you have read Last Hot Time, yes?
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Date: 2011-04-26 11:37 am (UTC)(And so awesome to find someone else who's read the Bordertown books - they are one of the most underappreciated series I've ever seen....)
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Date: 2011-04-26 11:47 am (UTC)Have you read the Liavek series? It's another shared universe done by the same set of people.
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Date: 2011-04-26 12:42 pm (UTC):D
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Date: 2011-04-26 06:40 pm (UTC)And a great entry, too! Yes, you do have "a knack for this words-thing."
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