about me

Er...apparently I don't live in the same concept of time as the calendar says I do.

Has it really been since January that we took down Sea of Jasmine? Yes, it is going to be published, and no, we don't know who's publishing it yet. We recently hired a freelance editor (Sarah Cypher at threepennnyeditor.com - I highly recommend her, she's affordable and we were very happy with her) and SoJ is undergoing some rearrangements.

Our blog is up (http://themcclanahans.org/blog/), albeit a little plain at the moment. We also have a facebook page at http://www.facebook.com/SJMcClanahan, where I've posted a few excerpts and keep all my updates there.

~~~The Prologue and Chapter One of Sea of Jasmine are available to read on the blog! :D I'd like to put it back on authonomy, but two things stop me: 1) The publisher might already consider us self-published (I don't know how that works) and 2) not a high enough word count.

I am anxious to get new feedback, though...it's much nicer now after strenuously revisiting it.

I can NOT thank you enough, those of you who supported us with backings and comments when the book was here. Please feel free to solicit readings from me, but be warned: I have a different sense of the passage of time, as I mentioned earlier. I could tell you a week, but that could actually mean when the sun breathes its last and we're on a cold, dead planet. And I'd love to ask you to visit our blog, which is how I'll be doing read swaps until I get concrete evidence that it's okay to put it back out here.

As I'm not exactly a professional, I don't feel experienced enough to critique, but I'll do my best to give good honest feedback. I read every single message and try to respond to all of them. I've found some excellent books that way.

***What I don't read:***
- angsty vampires (only Louis and Nicholas are allowed to do that)
- horror/thrillers (I'll be up for days, I scare myself enough as it is)
- political novels, both the fiction and nonfiction varieties (they make my brain shrivel and die like a slug on the beach)

favourite books

RA Salvatore: Clerical Quintet and the Drizzt Do'Urden series
David Eddings: The Belgariad [formulaic, but nostalgic]
C. S. Lewis: The Chronicles of Narnia
J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings
Patrick O'Brian: Aubrey/Maturin series
Douglas Adams: Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe, and Life, the Universe, and Everything
Some Poe...(just enough to make me want to jump screaming off the nearest cliff)
Jim Butcher: The Dresden Files
David Weber: Honorverse series

POETRY:
Pablo Neruda
Alfred Noyes
John Lennon

Judges, Job, Esther, Song of Solomon, Matthew, Philippians, and James

Clamp: Chobits
Kiyohiko Azuma: Yotsuba&! and Azumanga Daioh
Natsuki Takaya: Fruits Basket
Kio Shimoku: Genshiken
Yuki Irushibara: Mushishi
Eiichiro Oda: One Piece

~ANIME~
Ghost in the Shell
Cowboy Bebop
The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Samurai 7
Planetes

my websites

http://themcclanahans.org/blog/     http://www.facebook.com/SJMcClanahan