Date: Fri, 16 May 2003 17:10:23 -0400 (EDT) From: "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl at KeithLynch.net> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Missing messages Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Here are the ten messages that were received and archived but apparently never sent to the subscribers. >From leeandalexis at hotmail.com Thu Apr 18 16:30:07 2002 From: "lee gilliland" <leeandalexis at hotmail.com> To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Re: Attempted humor Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 16:29:56 -0400 ----Original Message Follows---- From: Samuel Lubell <samlubell at yahoo.com> Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> To: WSFAlist at keithlynch.net Subject: [WSFA] Attempted humor Date: Thu, 18 Apr 2002 13:27:34 -0700 (PDT) Michael Walsh wrote >Guilty of attempted humor. >mjw Attempted humor at a WSFA-related activity??? Perish the thought. __________________________________________________ You forgot heaven forfend. Lotl _________________________________________________________________ >From LKessler at lharris.com Mon Aug 19 10:43:51 2002 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:37:43 -0400 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> From: Liza Kessler <LKessler at lharris.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Banning Potter news . . > > Ask me > > again in March (after the wedding). :) > >And how are the wedding plans going? > >Elspeth Medium-well. I feel like I should be more obsessed than I am. But we signed a contract and put down a deposit on the location (Savage Mill, in Savage, MD) last week -- and I negotiated the cost down $5/head! Next weekend, I head home to try on gran'ma's dress. While in line at the DMV, I started sketching out the ceremony and my vows, which was actually a lovely way to spend the 2.5 hours in line (ok, I read some too). I still need to get catalogs from J.C. Penney's & Chadwick's so I can provide the non-tux option for those members of the wedding party who prefer to wear dresses. And find a friendly tux place that won't be weirded out by a bunch of butch lesbians (and possibly women who are not butch lesbians) coming in for rentals. Since football game-playing season officially started here yesterday, approximately 90% of the planning to be done before January is now mine. Liza >From LKessler at lharris.com Mon Aug 19 10:44:08 2002 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 10:43:49 -0400 To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> From: Liza Kessler <LKessler at lharris.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Last night's party >I'm glad I did. I saw all sorts of weirdness. Including a parade of >several thousand people, identically dressed, walking down West Street >in Falls Church. At about 1 am. > >I fininally found out what was going on. See >http://www.bethepeople.com/darkness/events_darkness.htm > >I think someone needs some lessons in PR. Holding events in the >middle of the night is not the best way to get publicity for a cause. I don't know, Keith, it sounds like they had excellent PR. I think it would be damn difficult to get several thousand people to do a walk during the day, much less at 1 am. ;) Liza >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Mon Aug 19 11:26:00 2002 Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 11:22:01 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: a brush with greatness (was: Clancy) > ronkean at juno.com 08/18/02 01:48PM >>On Sat, 17 Aug 2002 15:28:21 -0400 (EDT) "Keith F. Lynch" ><kfl at KeithLynch.net> writes: > >> I did go to Thursday's signing, and I was appalled. People stood >> in line outdoors in 95 degree heat without water for two hours or >> more.... >... And even if he won't sign anything, >> at least I'd be able to chat with him for 30 seconds or so. >> >> But I wasn't even allowed near him. Not just because of the store >> staff. He has personal bodyguards! I was made to feel very >> unwelcome. >> > >I would expect that fans who show up at a Clancy signing would get the >short end of the stick. There are likely to be just too many of them >there to be comfortably accommodated, whether in terms of being able to >even get into the place without a long wait in line, getting old books >signed, getting photo-ops, and getting close to, much less having a >chance to chat with, the celebrity. > >Contrasting that with the Homer Hickam bookstore stop in Georgetown a few >months ago, where the audience of 25 or 30 had comfortable seating, >Hickam gave a nice talk, and was available for schmoozing after the talk >(and no bodyguards), one lesson may be that the less famous the >celebrity, the more pleasant and lower pressure the celebrity-meeting >experience. > >As for the miscommunication about the ground rules for Clancy signing >books, I don't think there necessarily are any hard and fast rules set in >advance. Depends upon the author. If the author is dreadfully popular there may be a limit of X number of = books that may be signed - this to move the line as quickly as possible, = something the folks towards the end appreciate. This may be by limiting = the signing to just a signature, no personalization. More & more often = there is requirement that you purchase the book from the store - after = all, that is why they are in buisness. That said, some authors just do what the want. A few years ago Olssons = had, at different times, Clive Barker and John Kegan. Both stood up, = shook you hand, asked how are things . . . the line moved slowly, but = there was that personal touch. For Colin Dexter on one of his last tours, the publicist had degreed that = only one book could be personalized, the rest just signed. Friend of mine = was getting books signed for her and me (I was out of town, how surprising!= ) and when Dexter just personalized away. >The bookstore worker you spoke with may have been thinking that >Clancy would do what many authors do - graciously sign up to several >books per visitor brought to the signing, even if those books were not >bought right then and there. > Maybe he was having a bad hair day . . . mjw >At least it sounds like Clancy is somewhat accessible via email and >newsgroups, and I suppose he sometimes benefits from the ideas and >stimulation he gets that way. > >Ron Kean > >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Thu Sep 12 10:09:34 2002 Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2002 09:07:57 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Farscape > Weyrlady at dragonweyr.com 09/12/02 12:30AM >I'm a little surprised I haven't seen this show up here at all yet. > >So in case no one here has heard, last Saturday the Sci-Fi Channel >cancelled Farscape. Period. No one seems to know why, or how. It's = been >cancelled when all involved thought they still had another season to = flesh >out the story. To make room for more "Crossing Over WithJonathan Edwards" ? (What are they thinking ? Or is this part of a great disconnect between = what we know of SF and commercially driven "sci-fi" ?) feh. mjw >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Fri Sep 13 10:11:53 2002 Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 10:07:41 -0400 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Nice Work If You Can Get It from a publishing email service I receive: Fay Weldon will spend the next three months as a writer-in-(free)- residence at London's Savoy Hotel as she finishes her next manuscript. The room, ordinarily priced at £350 a night according to the BBC = comes with free breakfast, too=AFbut she'll have to pay for any mini-bar = goodies. But there will be no required product mentions, as with her Bulgari = novel. "The book is certainly not about the Savoy and I don't think there will = be any mention of the hotel in it because it's not that kind of novel. I = don't think they are expecting me to mention them. Funnily enough I often mention Claridges in my books and I have often stayed there. I can see that it wouldn't be too wicked to change Claridges to the Savoy just once." >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Fri Nov 15 09:30:59 2002 Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 09:24:44 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <wsfalist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Odd Titles >From "The Bookseller": Horace Bent writes. . . It is literary prize season. We need a little light relief from the Bookers, Whitbreads, Daggers and so on, and here it is: the shortlist for the Diagram Prize for the Oddest Title of the Year. The prize has been running for 24 years, during which standards of oddity have shown no signs of declining. The nominations for 2002 have been whittled down, by a supremely undemocratic process, to the following six. * After the Orgy: Towards a Politics of Exhaustion (Suny Press; submitted by Helmut Schwarzer). * Living with Crazy Buttocks (Penguin US; Neal Maillet). * Melons for the Passionate Grower (Workman; Yisrael Bronstein). * Six-Legged Sex: The Erotic Lives of Bugs (Fulcrum; Helmut Schwarzer). * Without Regret: A Handbook for Owners of Canine Amputees (Doral). * Women and Integrated Pest Management (ITDG; Martin Woodhead). >From MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu Wed Nov 20 13:44:17 2002 Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:43:32 -0500 From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> To: <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Capclaves future > kfl at KeithLynch.net 11/20/02 01:15PM >>"Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote: >> Phil is going to be a GoH at the next Capclave? > >"Michael Walsh" <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote: >> Arriving late to the third Friday meeting ... as Lee Gilliland was >> leaving she told me that her GoH for 2004 is Nick Pollotta. This >> was, I gather, also announced at the meeting so it is not a secret. >> You now have all knowledge of current Capclave GoHs . . . > >You could also have gotten this esoteric knowledge from our website. > >"Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net> wrote: >> Who is Nick Pollotta, and why should he be so honored? > >You could follow the link from our website to his website. Which is pretty annoying website, what with the crap framing the top and = bottom. Yeah, I know, right click "To Open Frame In New Window", but it's = still annoying. mjw >From dalek_cag at yahoo.com Wed Jan 29 13:41:45 2003 Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 10:41:41 -0800 (PST) From: Cathy Green <dalek_cag at yahoo.com> Subject: [WSFA] Re: 5th friday To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> If the only problem I had with junk email at my home email address was financial offers from N*geria, I would be a happy camper. Judging by the spam I get, people must think I'm a sex-crazed hermaphrodite in need of a second mortgage. --cathy --- Michael Walsh <MJW at mail.press.jhu.edu> wrote: > > elizceleste at mindspring.com 01/29/03 01:05PM >>> > > >Elizabeth, who knows she should check her email > more, and well, doesn't. > > Oh, it just givesyou more time to compare all of > those delightful = > financial offers from N*geria . . . <g> > > mjw > __________________________________________________ >From weyrlady at ashcomp.com Tue Feb 25 14:56:06 2003 From: Weyrlady <weyrlady at ashcomp.com> To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> Subject: [WSFA] Re: Best SF film of 2002 at The Charles Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:51:06 -0500 (EST) ---- WSFA members <WSFAlist at keithlynch.net> wrote: > Interestingly, Michael Walsh said: > >We were more or less obliged to see = > >the > > >anime version, this should be an interesting complement. > > > >I believe they are different films with the same name > > > I could be wrong, but I believe that the anime version was inspired by the > original. It was pretty impressive in its own right. Osamu Tezuka, the original manga author, was inspired by still images from the movie. He had never actually seen the movie and knew nothing of its plot when he wrote the story. I think the main similarity you may see will be the city itself. Meridel -- Weyrlady http://www.dragonweyr.com