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[yendi]

Okay, it's weird, but I kinda take pride in the interests in my journal that aren't clickable -- the ones that only I have. That's why I haven't added Liavek as an interest -- laurel is the only one with it, so I wouldn't want to remove it from that place in her interest list (and besides, if you can't figure out that I'm a Liavek fan from the fact that I like Emma Bull, Will Shetterly, Kara Dalkey, Steven Brust, etc, you probably don't care, anyway).

So I was shocked to discover that I'm down to one unique interest. I still have Kara Dalkey, but someone else (chastmastr) went and added Codename Knockout (and since he also added the writer and all the characters, he's obviously a bit more obessed than I am.

So damn, I need to find another unique interest or two. But legit ones. I wanna be the cool kid who's into good stuff years before anyone else. :-)

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[technomom]

Well, there isn't a general concensus as to whether one of the kinds of needlework I do is crossstitch or cross stitch. And some people use x-stitch or xstitch (though that seems like it oughta be naughty stuff to me, and the only pattern I've seen that fits isn't available any more).

Elise Witt is a local singer/songwriter. I attended one of her Singing for Fun workshops and cannot recommend it strongly enough. http://www.mindspring.com/~emworld/

Kathy Lynn Emerson writes mysteries set in the 1500s.

I have two Lucy Synk prints hanging in our living room/office. I want the third in the series (but then I'll have to have all three framed so the new one matches the other two). I think I saw the ad for them in Aboriginal SF many years ago. http://www.fantasticart.com/lucysynk.htm

Lynne Murray - writes modern mysteries featuring a delightful fat lady as the main character. I'm a fat lady and I often get to read about charcters who look like me. http://members.aol.com/murraymade/

Monica Ferris - she writes mysteries that involve a lot of needlework. Definitely a niche thing. She's published other stuff as Margaret of Shaftesbury, Mary Monica Pulver, Mary Pulver Kuhfeld and (with a cowriter) Margaret Frazer. I haven't been successful in actually finding the series that started with Murder at the War, involving the SCA.
http://members.aol.com/MaryPulver/

I'm running out of space for a comment entry. I know that makes it seems like I read mostly mysteries, which is funny - I don't. But those are the ones nobody else has listed as an interest :-)

[yendi]

I can see the need in the case of the cross-stitching (just to add another spelling).

Thanks for the links -- I'm not a huge fan of contemporary mysteries (although I read a few crime authors like Lansdale and Vachss), but I do like the occasional quirky one (An Instance of the Fingerpost, by Iain Pears, comes to mind).

In another small world situation, Teresa Loftin, who does the web page for Murray, is a former co-worker of mine. She's a huge mystery fan, and has done web pages for a lot of authors and cons.

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[technomom]

I think what I like about Emerson so much is that she's very historically accurate.

[phantom_wolfboy]

I'm still looking for Pulver's The Unforgiving Minute; the only one of the Murder at the War sequels that I don't already have. So if you do find a source for those, I wouldn't mind hearing about it.

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[technomom]

Will do :-) I hate reading a series until I have all of the books in hand, so reading MatW probably means I'll have to find the others anyway.