tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post8215173903281256730..comments2024-03-18T21:13:12.753-04:00Comments on Jacob Russell's Barking Dog: What is Your Novel About?Jacob Russellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-9453611178782411742009-12-21T11:36:19.724-05:002009-12-21T11:36:19.724-05:00Relentless is perhaps a more apt word. Or furious....Relentless is perhaps a more apt word. Or furious.Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-77484537144078654432009-12-21T10:39:54.730-05:002009-12-21T10:39:54.730-05:00Frances... you're a fast reader!Frances... you're a fast reader!Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-39192774850925790142009-12-21T10:38:00.629-05:002009-12-21T10:38:00.629-05:00Frances,
Thank you for taking the time to read th...Frances,<br /><br />Thank you for taking the time to read this poor lost artifact--and for your thoughts. Looking it over, I see a lot of formating cliches from the file transfer.. and still some typos to fix. Proofreading is ENDLESS.<br /><br />Also see that my still waiting-for-closure 2nd novel is much more of a continuation than I thought.. Could be Part Two... even the Cosmic Egg pseudo-mythJacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-50685240865816433492009-12-20T23:11:48.172-05:002009-12-20T23:11:48.172-05:00Jacob,
Pleasure to read you as a poet, philosophe...Jacob,<br /><br />Pleasure to read you as a poet, philosopher, and now, as a novelist, and to see your thematic preoccupations expressed in the various modes. Very interesting and enlivening, how the ideas continue to be refined.<br /><br />I read Magic Slate as a creative distillation of your writing notebooks--free and unrestrained. There were many thrilling moments to be found in your Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-53134217204096546542009-12-20T15:29:24.590-05:002009-12-20T15:29:24.590-05:00Happy Solstice back atcha, Lulu... only 15 more we...Happy Solstice back atcha, Lulu... only 15 more weeks till May and the bugs come back! <br /><br />From bugs to lions and lions to bugs.. .whata life!<br /><br />---<br />Frances,<br />You mean so I get the year right? Oh... I forgot to mention Max Bodenheim! This book's got everything, sex violence Nemesis... and Max Bodenheim! That's the clincer... who's gonna turn down a chance to Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-30634398436788827112009-12-20T13:40:15.340-05:002009-12-20T13:40:15.340-05:00And a calculator, baby!And a calculator, baby!Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-22835393611168888952009-12-20T13:31:21.335-05:002009-12-20T13:31:21.335-05:00Ok this book is sounding really interesting now. A...Ok this book is sounding really interesting now. AND- I want to see a snap of the beads and spangly dress you.<br /><br />Happy Solstice Jacob<br />xxLulu LaBonnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05546286547273386382noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-91838868808333712812009-12-20T13:31:12.092-05:002009-12-20T13:31:12.092-05:00Nemesis was my first working title... in 1996 But ...Nemesis was my first working title... in 1996 But I had this hunch Phillip Roth would use it 20 years down the line. <br /><br />And damn, whaddya know? Only off by a year. I'm in the wrong business, that's what! I'm gonna get me some beads, a spangly dress, a crystal ball and start makin me some dough ray me!Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-51133087552013475282009-12-20T13:29:50.421-05:002009-12-20T13:29:50.421-05:00Ssshhhh! I'm busy reading.Ssshhhh! I'm busy reading.Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-14002401592194712992009-12-20T13:21:37.044-05:002009-12-20T13:21:37.044-05:00Actually... they may be the most acurate precis I&...Actually... they may be the most acurate precis I've come up with yet.<br /><br />Nemesis: Muse of the Peter Principle!<br /><br />You think that'd work for a subtitle?Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-90575245353271056212009-12-20T13:19:17.797-05:002009-12-20T13:19:17.797-05:00Writing a syopsis or precis is just way harder tha...Writing a syopsis or precis is just way harder than writing a novel. <br /><br />Or trying to explain what it's 'about.'<br /><br />... well, you know, sorta like, you know... the narrator is sortov a kinda Nemesis.. like, the muse (oh, yeah--it's got Muses in it too, like... and this Nemesis is sortov the Muse of the Peter Principle! There you go! Why didn't I think of that-Jacob Russellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07090220157886320148noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6631240246638798.post-43320377545107036352009-12-20T12:45:39.033-05:002009-12-20T12:45:39.033-05:00Okay, okay, Jacob. I will read Magic Slate and tel...Okay, okay, Jacob. I will read Magic Slate and tell you what the fuck it's about.Frances Madesonhttp://booktour.com/author/frances_madesonnoreply@blogger.com