Reviews...

[j_cheney]

I've gotten a couple of reviews in for "A Hand for Each", including today's posting over at The Fix: here. The reviewer (marshall_payne) liked the story, although it didn't speak to him stylisticly. Even so, I'm very pleased!

To be balanced, I should present the following review from John at Grasping for the Wind where I am considered too mean to my protagonist. (How very true!)

Sam Tomaino over at SFRevu posted this review.

Also, a reader sent her review to JJA who posted it on his blog...in which the author is apparently following the rule of 'If you don't have anything nice to say, don't say nothing at all' and says nothing about my story at all. Read into that what you will. ;o)

So, I have them all posted together with a knot tied around them for your perusal. I must now go and chop up downed tree branches! WooHOO!

ETA: I am also now done with Christmas Shopping....I am pleased.

Comments

[sarah-prineas.livejournal.com]

Hey, "best of the issue," he says. Pretty nice words there! Congrats!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[melissajm.livejournal.com]

Isn't it good to be mean to your protagonists? ;)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

So liberating! (We wouldn't get anywhere otherwise, you know. Just a lot of words about everyday work until we do something bad to them)

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

admittedly I've read little of your stories, but this one was my favourite that you've written, and I was really impressed by your handling.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I tried to have a 'guy' feel to it, so perhaps that's why ;o)

[theladywolf.livejournal.com]

Those are some pretty nice reviews. I'm thinking of buying the issue on the strength of them. :)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

It is a good magazine! (I have a subscription)

[rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com]

I haven't even started to think of Christmas shopping (holds aching head in hands). Wasn't it only yesterday that Christmas was like months away?

On to the reviews: I loved reading the reviews and the issue looks really amazing.

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

It's a great magazine, and JJA did a fantastic joba as the guest editor. He was a pleasure to work with!

Um, 11 days, honey. 11 DAYS....

[rcloenen-ruiz.livejournal.com]

So before other things got in the way...I went and bought an electronic copy of the Pirate Issue :) Can't wait to get my hands on it...yarrr! Okay, it's an early christmas present to me.

11 days? Oh help. Tomorrow, I'm going to have to join the christmas rush!

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

::crack whip:: Get out there!

(Thanks for buying...we always like that) ;o)

John@GraspingfortheWind

[(Anonymous)]

Maybe you are mean, but you write a great story. Yours was my favorite of them all. (But don't tell anybody ;-)

Re: John@GraspingfortheWind

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

::blushes:: Thanks!