You have to be particularly firm with the imaginary ones.

[mrissa]

Dear Carter,

If you are going to try to insist on a new short story every time I need to write a new chapter from your perspective in the revisions of this book, it is going to take a really really really damn long time.

And yes, we will end up with a lot of short stories, and yes, some of them will be very fine short stories, I feel sure, and yes, I did want to write this one for careswen with Deirdre of the Sorrows in it, well done, did not intend the bit with the goose shit or the Wonka bars--separated, I assure you, by several pages so there is no hint of anything Truly Nasty--but these things happen and I am used to it. However. If we keep this up we will both be four hundred and three before the book gets submitted anywhere. Which is not the goal. And if that turns out to be the case, I will make sure that "Carter Hall and the Quantum Mechanical Junior Hockey League" is not, in fact, the last Carter Hall story, but merely the last Carter Hall short story, because it will be followed by a series of magical mysteries starting with Carter Hall and the Sudden Death wherein you are paired up with a co-coach and co-detective who is a wee fireplug of a Quebecoise forward called Nathalie who actually has an Olympic medal which is more than you will ever say and also trained formally in magic with various Metis sorcerers (not shamans, that's a different bunch) and can make the hockey kids mind and do their math homework which she can help them with when they need it and runs your ass from here to Churchill and back do I make myself clear Mr. Hall?

All right then.

Love. But tough love.
mrissa

Comments

[tournevis.livejournal.com]

Oooh. Nathalie soubds great!

[tiger-spot.livejournal.com]

<3

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Would that my characters took well to being talked to in such tones. Way too many of them sit and smile and nod and wait for the book to progress and then show me they were doing something different entirely, and way too many of those turn out, basically, to be Aramis in disguise. Again. I mean I have written a whole novel in which Aramis gets to play Aramis, you'd think that would satisfy him. But no, not to any notable extent.

[chinders.livejournal.com]

Mris, I <3 you.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

LOL, you tell him! I'm totally totally sure he'll listen.

[timprov.livejournal.com]

Carter will have an Olympic medal at some point. Not for long, and it won't be his, and it may very well not even be for hockey, but I'm pretty sure.

[pameladean]

"You don't scare me. You may be funny, but you don't scare me."

Actually, I bet you do. Or Nathalie does, anyway.

P.

[carbonel]

Perhaps Carter Hall should have a little chat with Railroad Bill.

[elsmi.livejournal.com]

Carter Hall and the Sudden Death...... I would totally read it.

(But I can't tell if this is helpful or hinderful.)

[careswen.livejournal.com]

Somewhere between the mention of my name and this point: "wherein you are paired up..." I forgot that you were speaking to Carter and not to me, and I started to get excited at the notion of getting paired up, etc. And I know that you know (well, you probably know) that I am trained in magic both sorcerous and shamanic. So hey, when you need me, I'm ready.