Hi - I hope this is okay - but could anyone please rec me any fics about Cam and Booth. Not a very popular ship I know but I would really like to read some if anyone knows of any.

Thank you!

xx

Okay, here's a Net question.

I just did a LiveJournal read a little while ago, while drinking my tea. As it happens, some of my reading list overlaps with someone I don't know--I'm not on their list or they on mine. But they'd obviously been doing a run just before me because I encountered three comments in a row, basically like this:

ONE:

I hated that movie too.

Ima Writer

Author of FANTASY EPIC ON ICE, vol. 1 of the SHATTERED SHADOWS trilogy (June, 2008)

Twice nominated for the Internet Fantasy Award

Voted number 12 on Best Blog About Cats Internet List

Short story "When Cats are Floons," soon to appear in the anthology CATS ON ICE, Alfred E. Newman Press, October 2010

Visit my blog at CATPRINCESS@WORDPRESS.COM and my website at PRINCESSCAT@DOMAIN.ORG

TWO:

The last time I cooked rice balls, I tried using chicken broth, and they turned out awesome.

Ima Writer

Author of FANTASY EPIC ON ICE (June, 2008)

Twice nominated for the Internet Fantasy Award

Voted number 12 on Best Blog About Cats Internet List

Short story "When Cats are Floons," soon to appear in the anthology CATS ON ICE, Alfred E. Newman Press, October 2010

Visit my blog at CATPRINCESS@WORDPRESS.COM and my website at PRINCESSCAT@DOMAIN.ORG


THREE:

I've never heard of more than half of last year's Hugo winners.

Ima Writer

Author of FANTASY EPIC ON ICE (June, 2008)

Twice nominated for the Internet Fantasy Award

Voted number 12 on Best Blog About Cats Internet List

Short story "When Cats are Floons," soon to appear in the anthology CATS ON ICE, Alfred E. Newman Press, October 2010

Visit my blog at CATPRINCESS@WORDPRESS.COM and my website at PRINCESSCAT@DOMAIN.ORG


So here's my question: has anyone here ever followed up on somebody after reading a sig appended after a poster's name? In other words, do they really work as personal advertizing?

Here's my entry for round 8 in bones20in20 contest! Enjoy and lemme know what you think!




Click here for the rest! Possible spoilers from seasons 3-5.

A panel topic for Norwescon caught my eye:
Should all fantasy be escapist and always end in ‘happily ever after?’ Of
course not. But how does a writer balance ‘happily ever after’ with ‘the
heroes paid a price for their triumph?’ How much reality do readers want in
fantasy, and when do real life consequences become a bummer at the end of
the story? The best told tales balance dark and light. What is the current
recipe for a book that both writers and readers enjoy?

I don't think there is going to be a single recipe, but I'd love to know what other readers think.

Zooey Deschanel
Emily Deschanel
Bones
Emily & Zooey
Miscellaneous

Preview:


See here more @ jennymo93 

Title: Things He Knows/Things She Knows
Author: drphungus (fic found at escape_speed)
Word Count: 2,668 words
Rating: PG-13
Fandom: Bones
Pairing: Booth/Brennan, Booth/Other, Brennan/Hacker
Spoilers: Season 5, up to 5x15
Summary: Based on a prompt by tv_fan_girl from the bitesize_bones hiatus comment fic challenge. Booth has a girlfriend. She and Hacker confront B&B and force them to admit their feelings for one another...


("There are things Booth knows, but Booth isn’t always right. Booth doesn’t know everything.")

A few days ago, John Sobanski created an official facebook page for Michael Grant Terry (we all know he plays Wendell Bray, right?). You can find info and pictures (including a nice behind-the-scenes pic with Tamara Taylor).

HERE IS THE PAGE.

I'm very sure there's much more to come, so I would all like you to become a fan and maybe leave some love by posting something on the wall.

Michael also has MySpace and Facebook, but those are both private. This page is the first official page everyone is able to see.

By the way, it was nice to see how in a few hours, it has gone from 60 fans to 104.

Air Date: Thursday, April 08, 2010
Time Slot: 8:00 PM-9:00 PM EST on FOX
Episode Title: (BON-516) "The Parts in the Sum of the Whole"

( episode description. )

I love long train rides with a desperate love, but I haven't been on one since 2004, so I've been feeling deprived. So I ride trains on the Net.

Thanks to 365postcards there is this realtime snip of the countryside between St. Petersburg and Moscow. Watching that, I get as mesmerized as I do on trainrides, with my face pressed to the window.

And here is another one that I found immensely cool-- a stop-action, train's-eye view of a trip across Estonia.

And this one shows a train from the Estonian countryside.

The CityNightLine from Berlin to Moscow is really nifty--glimpses of not only scenery but the people you encounter on the train, with brief conversations. Over a thousand miles, five borders, and including the stop to widen the train wheels.

Back in 1972, I rode the Orient Express several times between Paris and Vienna. I only had a cheapo Brownie camera, and I was too poor to get a sleeper car, so I was often squashed between other people for the duration and didn't see much out the windows. So sometimes I check YouTube for train rides over the same routes.

I never made it east from Vienna, but I love this train ride from Beograd to Istanbul.

I've never been to China, but I love this ride between Beijing and Lhasa. This one, on the same route, focuses on the people who ride the train.

Title: 525600 moments (Chapter 4)
Author: Akarana
Rating:T
Genre: Romance/General
Spoiler: Season 5
Pairing(s): Cadgins
Summary: Trying to make a relationship work sometimes isn't all that easy. Sequel to "Never a dull moment". 

On Hulu:

( Videos under the cut )

Polyphony 7 is going to call it quits by tomorrow if they don't gain enough preorders to cover the costs.

I'm wondering what's going on. It has to be more than the economy which yes, definitely sucks. There are many (way too many) who are living on extreme frugal budgets, who have to get their entertainment free, or go without.

So my questions are for everybody else. Polyphony has always aimed for that difficult-to-define place where the fantastic and "high literary quality" (whatever that means) meet. It's generally acknowledged to be a good magazine--good enough, in fact, that 650 people sent submissions to the last call . . . but a fraction of that number has pre-ordered.

There are award-winning names on that TOC. There are new names. Maybe new names make readers wary, but what about when the new names are sharing a TOC with well-praised names, under the helm of good editors? Deborah Layne has teamed up editorially with Forrest Aguirre, whose name crops up constantly when various circles are giving out plaudits and awards. So . . . where is the readership?

Is short fiction reading shifting to the net?

"I don't want to pay for a short story when I can read them for free." I heard that at LosCon last November. The context was book writers offering short fiction as free advertising. At the time I nodded; I'd just been invited to join Book View Cafe, so I thought, "I can do that." Later on, though, it bothered me a little, because first of all I wondered if it really works. Then I wondered if readers are turning more to the net for short things, and wanting them at a convenient click. What about writers who work in short forms, are the markets vanishing before them like so many mirages?

Back to Polyphony. Why isn't it one of the hottest sellers among genre writers and readers? They don't pick incompetently written stories. They do pick some dark ones, but not uniformly so. They also try to choose stories that experiment with voice, style, plot, ideas, etc.

Anyway, thoughts on short fiction, Polyphony, or net publishing welcome--and even if you can't order a copy, if you could boost this signal (I nearly missed it) that would be great.

Chapter 3 of Wren Journeymage for those following it.

Elsewhere on BVC, Nancy Jane Moore talks hereM about a book called Fans, Friends, and Followers by Scott Kirsner.

Nancy Jane lists his main points, some of which I agree with, some I don't. Like, Sell merchandise. If I wanted to sell merchandise, I would be a store clerk. Just the thought of handling people's money and dealing with tax paperwork and standing in those horrible long lines at the post office is profoundly depressing.

More positively, Create only what you can create in the sense that nobody really knows what the market "wants" matches my experience. It seems to me that nobody has ever predicted with any trustworthy regularity what the market wants, mostly there's been a sort of slow but frantic chase to keep putting out things similar to what's popular until it's no longer popular, at which time the train jumps the tracks and chugs after the new popular thing.

But creating what you love is half the equation, because there's a good chance that someone else has been craving just that thing. The second half is the tough part: figuring out how to make that thing appeal to others.

Embrace conversation makes good sense to me, because that's what I come to the net for. But conversation and selling things seem two different beasties.

The one that seems most useless is Figure out how to bring in audience participation. Judging from my huge flist, and other linked things I see each day, there are very few who've figured out how to bring in audience participation.

Encouraged (or exhorted) to self-publicize, many writers post about their work constantly. Blogs like that begin to feel like commercials to me, though that might be just because I have so many writers on my daily list here. Some writers track and post about every single review (the praise ones usually with some variation on "By Jove they got it!" appended), or offer contests and prizes in the form of books or bookmarks. How is that working for folks--do new readers click those links, or compete for the prizes, or are those participatory events for already existing friends? Because from the distance it looks like the ones for whom that stuff is successful were already popular. I wonder if those things draw new readers.

The one thing that emerges from the chaos that is the net is that word of mouth is extremely powerful, something governments have always known. But how to harness it?

SPOILERS through 5x12 ("The Proof in the Pudding").
Follow the link to my journal!

"You're already in my rearview mirror. Vroom vroom."
 

A slightly different but awesome BONES/Fringe combo promo for the 100th episode!

Warning: May contain spoilers! under cut!

( click! )

Author: Solomynne
Chapter: 1
Characters: Brennan/Booth
Rating: T
Spoiler: Season 4/Season 5
Summary: A one shot. Booth and Bones get into the habit of coming over each morning and waking each other up in different ways. Pure fluff!

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Or if you prefer to read things on FF.net, here

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