(refers to Book 2: Chapter 36)

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The First Battle

Part the second

Gudy asked for his points story, and I'm paraphrasing, how did the Teacher find the twins, and how did Teacher decide to sponsor them for the Temple? He gets two questions for all the work he does in the wiki, but I reserve the right to answer in two parts. Here's part one, part two to follow soon.

Won't make any sense unless you've read chapter 35 book 2.

Sedra as she appears at Temmin's first ball at the Keep in Book One.

Teacher sez... R U reddy 4 lesson?

Haven't been any LOL's up lately...

I'll be part of the late night erotica reading at Orycon 30 here in Portland in November. Darklady (old friend) is organizing the panel and asked me to read. I have NEVER, EVER read ANY of my own fiction out loud, let alone the naughty bits. I'm not sure I'll be able to get through it, and I know I won't be able to get through it without turning bright, bright red and staying that way. But, you know, she asked, and I need to get the story out there.

AAGH! WHAT HAVE I DONE!

*ahem*

You wanna see some Sedra? Well all right, then! Here's some Sedra! Alice is working on the color final right now, and I've sent her the description for Ellika. We'll be seeing Ellika with her "centerpiece hat."

I've been reading this over the last few days, and I decided it's finally time to introduce myself because I am completely hooked. I ended up here by way of the Phoenix Requiem, and like some of you was confused to find that, upon clicking "start," I was presented with a story rather than a comic. Regardless, I am completely in love with this story. MeiLin, I adore your writing style, the world you've created, and I both love and hate your for you cliff hangers. Mostly love.

What's on deck:

We have a lot of points stories to get through and I'm having trouble getting a chapter out on Thursdays. And unless you guys start giving me enough money for a regular housekeeper (and no, my perfume budget would not cover a housekeeper), it's going to stay that way.

Purveyors and Picnics

Summons

I am loving swapping. New smellies, no monies! And, wicked author that I am, I've been slipping my business cards in with my swap packages in hopes of luring unsuspecting BPALlers into the serial. I'd feel bad about it, but seriously, this thing is right up the average BPAL fan's alley if I can only get them to try it. (Present BPALlers, back me up here.)

Meetings

So I found another addition to my stable of quality web lit Mill Avenue Vexations, http://www.millvexations.com/read/index.php

I'm back! muahahaha. yeah, Mr. Ike knocked out power at my place for over a week and I finally got it back yesterday. Other than that no damage no injuries. My neighborhood is this magical island of calm in a sea of destruction. I don't think any of the trees even lost branches here. The neighborhoods on either side are trashed though. They don't have power yet, they've got trees that got lifted out of the ground root and all and put down a block away, roofs smashed, fences missing and or splintered. I feel bad for them, but glad for me. I have my internet back I finally got a job I'm good.

The last of the "baby commemoratives" from the BPAL.org forum, Lady Lilith is based on the Dante Gabriel Rossetti painting, and thus is properly a Salon scent (perfumes based on paintings). The official notes:

Climbing rose, vanilla cream, vanilla flower, white tea, mandarin, red and white musks, opium poppy, Parma violet, and opoponax.

In the bottle: I really pick up the mandarin and the tea, and a slightly decaying smell of violets.

There are times when I sit down and I have no idea what I'm going to do. I know where I'm going, but the route is completely unclear. I have a notes file, just a document where I put all the things I think might be useful in the story--ideas for names, scenes that come to mind and so on. I pulled on some of that for this chapter, but didn't have Macca's story completely in mind until just hours before I posted the finished chapter.

The Dark Woman's Secrets

OK, I did up some new ads and hit the bricks at PW. I ended up re-upping at AE's sites, and added modest longterm campaigns at Menage a 3, Penny and Aggie and QC, and kept my campaigns at SPQR Blues and Phoenix Requiem along with a bunch of occasional square ads scattered hither and yon. Watch fer 'em but don't click on 'em, because I want an honest indicator of how they're doing.

After the resounding success of yesterday's Lilith Victoria, I avidly look forward to the other two! Here's the second of the forum-only Lilith fragrances, described as:

Honeyed milk, baby powder, lavender, orris root, sage, carnation, angelica, frankincense, and rose otto.

My ad budget is dwindling and I need to make every dollar count. Do you have suggestions for where I should advertise to find likely suckers, I mean, readers? I currently advertise at Phoenix Requiem (a good source of traffic, but I don't know how well the visitors "stick"), ToMU, Buzzcomix, occasionally at Flipside, Slipshine, Errant Story, Blipcomic and Two Rooks currently, all of them off and on.

Icons, I has dem:

PLEASE TAKE COPIES, don't link to these! And if you use them on LJ, please credit them to user meilin_miranda. Thanks!

Beth an' Ted of BPAL have had their squidling, Lilith Victoria, and of course there was a set of perfumes to herald her arrival. I am as much a fool for babies as I am for BPAL--I love babies, absolutely adore them--and so I got all three. Bad Mei. Well, I've been selling and swapping unloved smellies, so I figger it's okay.

So, there I was, checking to see the ranking for Girl Genius after voting for it on Buzzcomix when I saw a banner ad for something called "An Intimate History of the Greater Kingdom" featuring a character called "The Teacher" and bearing the descriptors "secretive, powerful...trapped". From the illustration and description, this seemed to be my kind of character, and the art style looked good, so I followed the link. Once there, I discovered that this was not a web comic, as I had initially presumed, but an online novel series. Once I read the prologue teaser, I was hooked.