HOST EBK Shadow: Hi Phoebe! Reeves Phoebe: Hi Shadow! OnlineHost: E cat s has entered the room. HOST EBK Shadow: Hello, E cat s! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're chatting with Phobe Reeves, HOST EBK Shadow: author of the Bram Stoker-nominated novel HOST EBK Shadow: THE REVENANT. E cat s: Hi. HOST EBK Shadow: E is a writer, too. E cat s: I'm early.... E cat s: as well HOST EBK Shadow: If y'all don't mind...we'll chat generally for a few minutes HOST EBK Shadow: until we get a few more people in. E cat s: Congratulations, Ms. Reeves! on your publication! Reeves Phoebe: Thanks a lot! E cat s: Do you read science fiction as well as fantasy? HOST EBK Shadow: So...you're in Sand Francisco, Ms Reeves? HOST EBK Shadow: Sans "D". Reeves Phoebe: Sausalito! HOST EBK Shadow: Ahhh...I was close, at least. Reeves Phoebe: Yes, I read Sci Fi! My two favorite authors Reeves Phoebe: Nancy Kress and Connie Willis. E cat s: I really like Kress as well. HOST EBK Shadow: I've always thought that San Francisco would be an HOST EBK Shadow: ideal place to write from. Reeves Phoebe: Sausalito is directly across the bridge -- still a nice place. HOST EBK Shadow: We had Nancy Kress in to speak with us, once. She HOST EBK Shadow: was a very friendly interview. Reeves Phoebe: Oh, that's great. I really like her early work best. HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe, do you draw on local geography in your work? E cat s: afk -- cat situation. Reeves Phoebe: Absolutely. SF has been the starting point Reeves Phoebe: for three different stories that I've done. HOST EBK Shadow: Are you a CA native? Reeves Phoebe: I also draw on each part of the *universe* Reeves Phoebe: that I travel tol It goes right into my work. E cat s: bk HOST EBK Shadow: Are we speaking physically,or metaphysically? Reeves Phoebe: Both! The whole world of dreams is a huge Reeves Phoebe: part of my work. Reeves Phoebe: I'm a New England native. HOST EBK Shadow: Do you draw on dreams, in your fiction? OnlineHost: Graymasque has entered the room. Reeves Phoebe: Oh, yes -- constantly! HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, Graymasque! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. Graymasque: Hello Shadow and Ms. Reeves Reeves Phoebe: Usually the fiction starts as a dream -- both in HOST EBK Shadow: And...do dreams figure centrally in your work? Reeves Phoebe: the genisus and in the opening image. Reeves Phoebe: Yes, centrally, yes! HOST EBK Shadow: Could you elaborate? OnlineHost: BLR WIZ has entered the room. HOST EBK Shadow: I'm getting a Clive Barker image. HOST EBK Shadow: Hi, BLR WIZ! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to O*W*C SF chat! Tonight we're BLR WIZ: Hi Reeves, Shadow, E, Gray HOST EBK Shadow: chatting with guest author Phoebe Reeves HOST EBK Shadow: about the shadow-zone of speculative fiction. Reeves Phoebe: Dreams are usually what haunt the character, Reeves Phoebe: start the mystery and the character's quest in the story. Graymasque: So, your work is rather like a vision quest? BLR WIZ: Wasn't the shadow-zone where the criminal were imprisoned in Superman? Reeves Phoebe: Absolutely, Gray. A vision quest sort of shamanistically. HOST EBK Shadow: I suppose it was, BLR. Didn't mean to sound like an HOST EBK Shadow: Action comic. Reeves Phoebe: But, also I like to see the world in terms of monstors. Graymasque: Intriguing. WOuld you say your work is influenced by aboriginal-type myth structures? BLR WIZ: LOL For some unknown reason that just invaded my mind. BLR WIZ: Such as it is. HOST EBK Shadow: Do you find your work more influenced by fantasy ot HOST EBK Shadow: horror, Phoebe? HOST EBK Shadow: ot=or Reeves Phoebe: Yes, Gray, in The Revenant, there's a chapter where Reeves Phoebe: the main character, Nenut, meets a Tiwi woman Reeves Phoebe: and battles aboriginal creatures with her. HOST EBK Shadow: Does THE REVENANT draw on African Animism? OnlineHost: Indiana48 has entered the room. Indiana48: hihi HOST EBK Shadow: Hi, Indiana48! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to O*W*C SF chat! Tonight we're HOST EBK Shadow: chatting with guest author Phoebe Reeves HOST EBK Shadow: about the shadow-zone of speculative fiction. Reeves Phoebe: Probably a tiny bit more by horror but it's a close BLR WIZ: Hi Indi Reeves Phoebe: race because fairy tales are my biggest influence. Indiana48: ok glad to meet you :o) Graymasque: Which version of the fairy tales Phoebe? The classic ones or the Frenchified ones? BLR WIZ: When you say aboriginal, I think of Australia and the Dream Time. Reeves Phoebe: Yes, it does draw on Animism -- particularly Indiana48: hi wiz Reeves Phoebe: Egyptian and Yoruban and Kongo. BLR WIZ: In interesting mix, Reeves HOST EBK Shadow: Unusual, as well. Reeves Phoebe: My two biggest influences are Grimm and Lang. Reeves Phoebe: Lang has a fairy book, The Brown Fairy Book, Reeves Phoebe: devoted to African fairy tales. Graymasque: I've heard of Lang's book, Reeves, but never come across it. BLR WIZ: That should have a different perspective on it. OnlineHost: T83BIRD has entered the room. Graymasque: I'm curious about your creative process... T83BIRD: Hi, all. BLR WIZ: Hi T8 Indiana48: hihi T8 Reeves Phoebe: I read a lot texts in all three areas and I've been a Graymasque: do you plot the story in advance or write it as it comes to you? HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, T83BIRD! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! Reeves Phoebe: member of Umbanda House. HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. Reeves Phoebe: Mostly, Gray, I write it as it comes to me. T83BIRD: Ms. Reeves, do youi have a background in folklore? Just curious. Graymasque: Did you write every day on a set scheduale or when the mood struck you? Reeves Phoebe: T83Bird, Academically, no. In the British sense of Reeves Phoebe: the word amateur -- yes. T83BIRD: Thank you. HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe, your work is described as magic realism. HOST EBK Shadow: Would you care to define that school of writing for us? HOST EBK Shadow: Some of our guests may not be familiar with MR as a HOST EBK Shadow: genre. Reeves Phoebe: I think about my writing all the time and then Reeves Phoebe: I sit down and write in long bursts -- Reeves Phoebe: I usually write in stream of consiousness and Reeves Phoebe: or phrases. Reeves Phoebe: Magic Realism -- it's the bending of realism to include Reeves Phoebe: phantasms, ghosts, magic and dream time realities... Reeves Phoebe: where time is totally fluid in either direction. OnlineHost: TAMirabile has entered the room. BLR WIZ: That describes this room. Indiana48: hihi TAM Graymasque: LOL BLR WIZ: Hi TAM T83BIRD: Hey TAM Reeves Phoebe: It's where your internal reality becomes externalized. :-) Indiana48: sounds very interesting to me Graymasque: Oh my. That could be dangerous in here. lol E cat s: Hi TAM TAMirabile: Hihi Indiana! Hi BLR! Indiana48: :o) T83BIRD: So you do that by means of an extended oxymoron. A useful storytelling device. E cat s: Hi T8 :) Hi BLR :) Hi Indi48 Hi Gray HOST EBK Shadow: Hello, TAMirabile! BLR WIZ: Reality is just a crutch for those who can't handle Science Fiction. HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're chatting with Phobe Reeves, T83BIRD: Hi E HOST EBK Shadow: author of the Bram Stoker-nominated novel HOST EBK Shadow: THE REVENANT. Graymasque: Hi E TAMirabile: Hi E! Hi Shadow! Hi T! Hi Gray! Hi Reev! BLR WIZ: Hi E TAMirabile: Hi Phoebe Graymasque: Hi Tam :-) Reeves Phoebe: It's not so much a oxymoron than a juxtaposition HOST EBK Shadow: Traditionally, magic realism has been associated with HOST EBK Shadow: South American fiction. Do you think its spread to a HOST EBK Shadow: more industrialized audience is fueled by a deepening HOST EBK Shadow: interest in metaphysics in industrialized audiences? T83BIRD: Fair enough. Reeves Phoebe: of what you think is going to happen and what Reeves Phoebe: you hope is going to happen -- and what does happen. Indiana48: phoebe have you read anything by Charles deLint?????? HOST EBK Shadow: Or, do you think we've always had MR in the HOST EBK Shadow: US...under different tags? TAMirabile: The more mechanical and industrial we get, the more magic we need? OnlineHost: Athanor IX has entered the room. T83BIRD: Hey Ath HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, Athanor IX! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. E cat s: Hi Ath Athanor IX: Hi. Reeves Phoebe: Yes, and by the fact that -- because we are an BLR WIZ: Hi Ath Reeves Phoebe: industrial society -- that gains more and more TAMirabile: Hi Ath Indiana48: sure we are getting further and further away from ourselves Reeves Phoebe: knowlege and information rapidly. We also are Indiana48: so need some magic in our lives Reeves Phoebe: deconstructing rapidly. Hence, our interest in Reeves Phoebe: Magic Realism. For example, author Lewis Shiner. BLR WIZ: That is part of the reason that the occult has become popular. TAMirabile: Deconstructing? OnlineHost: Graymasque has left the room. Indiana48: yep and UFOs T83BIRD: bye Gray HOST EBK Shadow: BTW, folks...if you'd like to purchase a copy of Ms HOST EBK Shadow: Reeves' novel, THE REVENANT, I'm going to put the HOST EBK Shadow: URL and ISBN up on the screen. HOST EBK Shadow: Xlibris Corporation HOST EBK Shadow: 436 Walnut Street, 11th Floor HOST EBK Shadow: Philadelphia, PA 19106 HOST EBK Shadow: 1 (888) 7XLIBRIS or +1 (215) 923-4686 HOST EBK Shadow: books@xlibris.com HOST EBK Shadow: http://www.Xlibris.com TAMirabile: Thanks Shadow HOST EBK Shadow: The Revenant HOST EBK Shadow: (ISBN 0-7388-0148-8, 265 pages, Reeves Phoebe: Deconstructing, meaning that we are constantly HOST EBK Shadow: $14.40 Softcover) Reeves Phoebe: taking apart -- and challenging -- every thing we Indiana48: is your book out inthe stores Phoebe?? Reeves Phoebe: know and everything that is told to us. HOST EBK Shadow: I think we're seeing a trend toward metaphysics in all HOST EBK Shadow: speculative venues, lately. Reeves Phoebe: There are no hard answers. The more you Reeves Phoebe: know, the more you don't know. Indiana48: exactly Reeves Phoebe: You can certainly order it through the stores. Indiana48: ok thanks Reeves Phoebe: Barnes & Noble online, Amazon, and Borders. HOST EBK Shadow: Would you classify your work as "dark", Phoebe? TAMirabile: The internet seems to be deconstructing the way many people have looked at the world. Reeves Phoebe: Absolutely, it's dark -- but with redemption. TAMirabile: Ahhhhhhhh Shadow's kind of books. T83BIRD: What sort of redemption? HOST EBK Shadow: LOL T83BIRD: LOL HOST EBK Shadow: I'm the Dark Prophet, here. Indiana48: LOL BLR WIZ: Redemption sounds like returning a late library book. Reeves Phoebe: The way I would describe it is like "meeting grace" T83BIRD: Or like S&H green stamps, BLR. Reeves Phoebe: despite tragedy and tragic flaws. Indiana48: as in grace from god? BLR WIZ: Most of the best characters have tragic flaws. Reeves Phoebe: No, not in grace from god -- catharsis externalized. Indiana48: oh ok T83BIRD: Weaknesses in character or errors in judgment, Ms. Reeves? Indiana48: i guess i just need to read your book Reeves Phoebe: Both, being able to come to grips with the Reeves Phoebe: aloneness of your own life. HOST EBK Shadow: So...your protagonists are part of the cult of the HOST EBK Shadow: individual? BLR WIZ: It sounds like I will not be reading your book in an evening......... HOST EBK Shadow: No Deus ex Machina? T83BIRD: Ms. Reeves, if you have read Arthur Miller's essay, "Tragedy and the Common Man," what is T83BIRD: yhou T83BIRD: your position? T83BIRD: Please pardon the typoitis. Indiana48: me either WIZ Reeves Phoebe: Shadow, yes! The Reeves Phoebe: There is no Desu ex Machina! Reeves Phoebe: Sorry, T83Bird, I can't speak on that one. T83BIRD: ::::irreverent pun: Jesus ex Machina:::: Reeves Phoebe: I haven't read "Tragedy and the Common Man." TAMirabile: T T83BIRD: Thanks anyway. Indiana48: its ok neither have I HOST EBK Shadow: You must have felt very pleased to have stood among HOST EBK Shadow: the other nominees for the Bram Stoker award. HOST EBK Shadow: ou were in very good company. T83BIRD: Thwap accepted, TAM. I had it coming. HOST EBK Shadow: ou=you. TAMirabile: Reeves Phoebe: Yes, I was thrilled -- particulary to be in the Reeves Phoebe: same category with Kim Newman, Stephen King Reeves Phoebe: and Michael Marano. Indiana48: man i bet Indiana48: how wonderful Reeves Phoebe: The Stoker awards are very cute. They're in the HOST EBK Shadow: Do you plan to deal with any of the characters in THE HOST EBK Shadow: REVENANT again? Reeves Phoebe: shape of a haunted house -- a goofy haunted house. Indiana48: hehe Reeves Phoebe: The Revenant is part of a trilogy. It has sequel BLR WIZ: LOL Any fangs on the house? Reeves Phoebe: and a prequel! Indiana48: all right Indiana48: !!!!!!! T83BIRD: In medias res with a vengeance, eh? Reeves Phoebe: What ties it together is the fact that all of the Reeves Phoebe: characters are part of an extended family whose Reeves Phoebe: histories overlap. OnlineHost: REGENTIC has entered the room. HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, REGENTIC! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer T83BIRD: Hi REG HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. REGENTIC: Evening gang E cat s: Hi REG BLR WIZ: Hi REG Indiana48: hihi REG HOST EBK Shadow: THE REVENANT deals with ancestry as a central HOST EBK Shadow: theme. Do you feel that modern society has lost touch HOST EBK Shadow: with its heritage? TAMirabile: Hi REG T83BIRD: :::wondering if REG wants to know if any of her characters wear leather::: REGENTIC: LEATHER!!!!! OnlineHost: Araiused has entered the room. T83BIRD: Heyla Ara Reeves Phoebe: Nope, I think that modern society is very much Araiused: Hallo HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, Araiused! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. TAMirabile: Hi Ara Reeves Phoebe: questing for its heritage. The difference is BLR WIZ: Hi Ara E cat s: Hi Ara Indiana48: hihi Ara Reeves Phoebe: that whereas before -- people accepted their Reeves Phoebe: heritage at face value -- now people question Reeves Phoebe: and make demands on their heritage -- Reeves Phoebe: and struggle with the answers. OnlineHost: CCSign has entered the room. Reeves Phoebe: The answers are complex rather than right or wrong. T83BIRD: Hi CC REGENTIC: Hi Ara BLR WIZ: Hi CC CCSign: Hi TAMirabile: Hi CC E cat s: Hi CC Indiana48: well ive got to go T83BIRD: My own heritage is three-way and has raised lots of questions right along. REGENTIC: Hi CC Araiused: Hi CC T83BIRD: Nite Indy Indiana48: a pleasure to meet you E cat s: Night, Indi Reeves Phoebe: One of the exciting and strange things in TAMirabile: Night Indy HOST EBK Shadow: I feel like I've been monopolizing our guest. Does HOST EBK Shadow: anyone else have a question about magic realism, THE HOST EBK Shadow: REVENANT, writing, or publishing, for Ms Reeves? CCSign: Gee I really feel wanted now Reeves Phoebe: The Revenant is that Nenut (main character) gets HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, CCSign! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. Reeves Phoebe: pregnant by her two dead boyfriends. T83BIRD: Yes, Shadow. Is the title in some way symbolic? Indiana48: Phoebe and ill definetly be buying your book Reeves Phoebe: Her baby is the product of both men. Indiana48: TTFN all OnlineHost: Indiana48 has left the room. Araiused: Nite, Indi REGENTIC: two and they are dead? That's quite a feat I think TAMirabile: That's pretty magical. Reeves Phoebe: Thanks for coming, Indi BLR WIZ: That just prooves that you can't keep good men down. REGENTIC: Dead boyfriends....One of them isn't named L Ron by chance? REGENTIC: Just kidding E cat s: LOL Reeves Phoebe: Ha-ha! HOST EBK Shadow: So, the child's heritage includes the living and the dead? Reeves Phoebe: Oh, definitely! All the ancestors. T83BIRD: Re's: Is the title in some way symbolic? Reeves Phoebe: Everybody returns for a big roast at the end. CCSign: Nother Dupe Araiused: It is a neat title. Reeves Phoebe: Revenant means a ghost or a person who returns HOST EBK Shadow: Yes. An evocative title. Reeves Phoebe: after a long absence. It refers to the lead character. Reeves Phoebe: I got the title from one of my composition students CCSign: Where do I get a quick overview of book BLR WIZ: I was worried. I thought it was a Revener. I was starting to dismantal my still. Araiused: Would you say it's a ghost story or a thriller of some sort? Reeves Phoebe: in Freshman English. (Unfortunately, she went on Reeves Phoebe: to fail the class) She was a revenant -- she had HOST EBK Shadow: Once again, let me put up the URL and ISBN for HOST EBK Shadow: anyone who missed it earlier. Reeves Phoebe: a long absence and only returned at the end Reeves Phoebe: of the semester! HOST EBK Shadow: Xlibris Corporation HOST EBK Shadow: 436 Walnut Street, 11th Floor HOST EBK Shadow: Philadelphia, PA 19106 HOST EBK Shadow: 1 (888) 7XLIBRIS or +1 (215) 923-4686 HOST EBK Shadow: books@xlibris.com HOST EBK Shadow: http://www.Xlibris.com HOST EBK Shadow: The Revenant HOST EBK Shadow: (ISBN 0-7388-0148-8, 265 pages, HOST EBK Shadow: $14.40 Softcover) T83BIRD: Sounds familiar, Ms. Reeves. I'm a retired associate professor. BLR WIZ: afk HOST EBK Shadow: Would you call THE REVENANT a mystery, Phoebe? Reeves Phoebe: You get your best ideas from your students Reeves Phoebe: and then you have to retire because, T83, it's Reeves Phoebe: overwhelming! T83BIRD: LOL REGENTIC: Is there a certain point in the process when you title it or it is whenever it happens to REGENTIC: present itself? Reeves Phoebe: Yes, it's a mystery. The lead character is obsessed Reeves Phoebe: with solving the mystery of her mother's brutual Reeves Phoebe: and that mystery drives the whole story -- that, T83BIRD: Yes, Ms. Reeves, it is overwhelming, especially after my more than forty years Reeves Phoebe: and her obsession with her art. T83BIRD: of college teaching. Reeves Phoebe: Hah! I'm just a baby -- I only have 15 and 15,000 Reeves Phoebe: drafts of compositions. HOST EBK Shadow: Yes, Phoebe...as REGENTIC asked, when did the title HOST EBK Shadow: occur to you, in the course of the novel HOST EBK Shadow: 's evolution? Reeves Phoebe: The title of the novel occured to me about two thirds Reeves Phoebe: of the way through the book. Reeves Phoebe: I wasn't happy with the original title and when Reeves Phoebe: "that" student used the word revenant -- I latched on to it. HOST EBK Shadow: Ahh...it's such an evocactive title, I wondered if you HOST EBK Shadow: didn't feel the urge to write a novel for *it*. T83BIRD: Curious. What was the original? Reeves Phoebe: It used to be called "The Mute" which means a Reeves Phoebe: whailing female mourner. HOST EBK Shadow: evocactive=evocative. Araiused: Happy it didn't become THE MUTE HOST EBK Shadow: In what order will you write your prequel and sequel? Reeves Phoebe: I'm happy that people didn't confuse it with an Reeves Phoebe: autobiography of Harpo Marx (if I had called HOST EBK Shadow: LOL Reeves Phoebe: it The Mute) -- honk, honk! Araiused: LOL T83BIRD: LOLOL E cat s: LOL Reeves Phoebe: Honk! REGENTIC: The Mute brought the TV remote to my mind....but that's just me Araiused: No voices there, REF? T83BIRD: That was a rather remote attribution, REG. Araiused: REG, ahem HOST EBK Shadow: LOL Reeves Phoebe: Sometimes finding a title can be the hardest part. TAMirabile: REG needs a mute for the voices Reeves Phoebe: I like the TV remote image :-) LOL Araiused: LOL, TAM REGENTIC: The voices are preoccupied tonight. Araiused: A good thing they don't honk all at once, TAM. TAMirabile: LOL Ara true HOST EBK Shadow: I agree, about the title. The title often dictates the HOST EBK Shadow: success of a book or story. REGENTIC: That way I could present coherent and ensightful questions for our guest without having to T83BIRD: Ara, Clarabell on Howdy Doody *honked* too. REGENTIC: run for the fire extingusher every 3 seconds Reeves Phoebe: LOL HOST EBK Shadow: THE REVENANT just sounds...surreal. REGENTIC: afk E cat s: also, French T83BIRD: Thank you for replying to my queries, Ms. Reeves. Younger son Tony is on phone. 'Nite all. HOST EBK Shadow: Night, T8. Reeves Phoebe: I just found out that it's the name of a video game E cat s: Night, T TAMirabile: Night T Reeves Phoebe: now. Nothing to do with my book! Araiused: Nite, T! HOST EBK Shadow: LOL...there you go. Video games always have great HOST EBK Shadow: names. OnlineHost: BLR WIZ has left the room. Reeves Phoebe: T38, Good night. Thanks for coming. TAMirabile: Maybe some of the gamers will buy the book on the basis of the title and like the story. T83BIRD: It was a privilege. OnlineHost: T83BIRD has left the room. REGENTIC: bak OnlineHost: CCSign has left the room. Reeves Phoebe: Same here, I salute you -- T83! TAMirabile: Fire extinguisher working OK, REG? REGENTIC: LOL yep HOST EBK Shadow: How regimented are you in your writing, Phoebe? HOST EBK Shadow: Do you feel the need to allot a certain amount of time HOST EBK Shadow: to writing on a regular basis? Reeves Phoebe: I write in bursts -- regularly -- in great big bursts! HOST EBK Shadow: Or...do you just plunge in as the muse (not mute) HOST EBK Shadow: strikes you? HOST EBK Shadow: How about editing? Do you edit as you go, or do you Araiused: LOL, Shadow. HOST EBK Shadow: edit at the end? Reeves Phoebe: Yes, I do need to write regularly -- Reeves Phoebe: but before I write, I have to be thinking REGENTIC: I glued some of them new dollar coins to the floor and told the voices they could have them REGENTIC: if they could put them up with only thier hands. They're still trying. ' Reeves Phoebe: about what I'm going to write -- ALL the time! TAMirabile: Good dodge, REG. HOST EBK Shadow: SCROOGENTIC. REGENTIC: LOL E cat s: LOL Araiused: How many drafts do you usually write? TAMirabile: So you essentially have it in your head, and it's just a matter of getting it "on paper"? Reeves Phoebe: Regentic, they are definitely one of the characters Reeves Phoebe: in one of my upcoming books. REGENTIC: Cool, that will thrill them to no end, thanks! OnlineHost: BLR WIZ has entered the room. Araiused: Re's BLR BLR WIZ: Re All TAMirabile: wb BLR REGENTIC: Re's BLR HOST EBK Shadow: LOL...watch out for what they have to say about you, HOST EBK Shadow: REG. Reeves Phoebe: I write gobs of drafts. Want to hear another E cat s: re's BLR Reeves Phoebe: juicy section from my book? HOST EBK Shadow: Sure, Phoebe! Araiused: One of REG's voices in a book? TAMirabile: Sure Araiused: Be glad to! Reeves Phoebe: This is in part from a prior fairy tale myth that E cat s: definitely Reeves Phoebe: the lead character's father forces her (Nenut) to Reeves Phoebe: look like her mother (ie. hair and appearance) and Reeves Phoebe: treats her in an uncomfortably incestous way -- Reeves Phoebe: while punishing her at the same time. Reeves Phoebe: He also has sundown syndrome. It's a form of Reeves Phoebe: Alzheimer's where people become completely Reeves Phoebe: terrified of the dark and freak out. Nenut was Reeves Phoebe: always buying lightbulbs to light every corner Reeves Phoebe: and shadow that the house produced -- Reeves Phoebe: until she got that magical Egyptian light bulb with Reeves Phoebe: the "ra" wattage! Reeves Phoebe: * HOST EBK Shadow: Thanks for the Ra footage. Reeves Phoebe: I like that pun! OnlineHost: REGENTIC has left the room. BLR WIZ: Leather works better... HOST EBK Shadow: Who are the writers you admire most, Phoebe? Reeves Phoebe: Shakespeare, Margaret St.Clair, Rad Bradbury and Reeves Phoebe: Roald Dahl. Reeves Phoebe: And an oddball -- Patricia Geary. Reeves Phoebe: Oh, and Bonnie Reynolds. OnlineHost: BayhighBand has entered the room. Araiused: Hi Bay HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, BayhighBand! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. BayhighBand: <~~~~~~crying E cat s: Hi Bay TAMirabile: Hi Bay BLR WIZ: Hi Bay HOST EBK Shadow: That's quite a broad, divergent group. BayhighBand: <~~~~~crying OnlineHost: REGENTIC has entered the room. Araiused: Re's REG HOST EBK Shadow: But...from their convergence, I can see that you admire HOST EBK Shadow: the masterful use of language. TAMirabile: wb REG Araiused: Never fear, Bay, REG is here ") REGENTIC: Re's all. I heard powertools E cat s: re's REG BLR WIZ: Re Reg Araiused: What's the matter, Bay? BayhighBand: my g/f died in a car crash Reeves Phoebe: Yes, all "cross over" people! OnlineHost: RAWoodward has entered the room. Araiused: Condolences, Bay Araiused: Hi RAW! TAMirabile: Hi RAW E cat s: Hi RAW OnlineHost: BayhighBand has left the room. HOST EBK Shadow: Yes, Bay. Sorry to hear that. :/ BLR WIZ: Very sorry, Bay. Stay here a bit. Misery shared is Misery halfed. BLR WIZ: Hi RAW HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, RAWoodward! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. Reeves Phoebe: Wow, Bay, is that true? REGENTIC: The voices asked "Sundown syndrome? You mean he plays like Gordon Lightfoot?" Araiused: Ouch, REG REGENTIC: Just can't keep them at bay I guess. HOST EBK Shadow: Do you feel that "genre" is unfair to a writer, Phoebe? HOST EBK Shadow: LOL, REG. Reeves Phoebe: Reeves Phoebe: Yes, it's quite unfair. OnlineHost: Patterner has entered the room. RAWoodward: Hi, Patt BLR WIZ: Hi Patt Reeves Phoebe: The way genre gets used, a lot of books don't E cat s: Hi Patterner Araiused: Hi Patt! HOST EBK Shadow: REG just likes that part that goes o/~ In a room where HOST EBK Shadow: you do what you don't confess...o/~ Patterner: Hi folks! Reeves Phoebe: get published and don't get read because of genre REGENTIC: Hi Patt Araiused: How's the con, Patt? HOST EBK Shadow: Howdy, Patterner! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're talking with magic realist writer HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe Reeves, author of THE REVENANT. Reeves Phoebe: limitations. REGENTIC: LOL Shadow OnlineHost: ER257 has entered the room. TAMirabile: Hi Patt HOST EBK Shadow: Well...even those works that seem to defy genre get HOST EBK Shadow: pegged with a term. Araiused: Hi ER E cat s: Hi ER HOST EBK Shadow: Hi, ER257! Reeves Phoebe: My own writing crosses boundaries & catergories -- HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to O*W*C SF chat! Tonight we're HOST EBK Shadow: chatting with guest author Phoebe Reeves HOST EBK Shadow: about the shadow-zone of speculative fiction. ER257: hi:O)...has anyone read dinner at the homesick restaurant by anne tyler??? Reeves Phoebe: it's not just magic realism, just sci fi, just horror . . . Patterner: I don't think that's science fiction, ER. Reeves Phoebe: It's hard to explain where people die but I won't read Reeves Phoebe: stories about serial killers. HOST EBK Shadow: Publishers seem to have a need to quantify and HOST EBK Shadow: categorize. I think it comes from demographic HOST EBK Shadow: marketing. OnlineHost: ER257 has left the room. Reeves Phoebe: Hi Patterner. Reeves Phoebe: Dead has to be interesting and intriguing -- not Patterner: I do think there are publishers who are more open to cross-genre material. Reeves Phoebe: gross and borinly gratituious. HOST EBK Shadow: So...if you write something that falls outside the HOST EBK Shadow: traditional venue, they assign *it* a venue. HOST EBK Shadow: "Slipstream", for example. Reeves Phoebe: I think if you're lucky they will -- most of the HOST EBK Shadow: And now, "slipstream" is a quantifiable sub-genre of HOST EBK Shadow: speculative fiction. Reeves Phoebe: time they just won't publish it. That's because Reeves Phoebe: it's too much work for them to figure out how Reeves Phoebe: to sell it. Araiused: I'd rather call it midstream, Shadow Reeves Phoebe: LOL HOST EBK Shadow: I read a midstream book about equine genengineering, Reeves Phoebe: I think that Slipstream has come about because of HOST EBK Shadow: Ara. HOST EBK Shadow: "Changing Horses". Reeves Phoebe: electronic publishing and cyperpunk works. Araiused: Sounds more like "changing genes" Araiused: "Changing genes in slipstream." TAMirabile: ow Shadow HOST EBK Shadow: Speaking of cyberpunk...do you like it, Phoebe? Reeves Phoebe: We need to give credit to Dolly the clone sheep. Reeves Phoebe: Yes, I do like cyberpunk. My favorite cyberpunker HOST EBK Shadow: Since it's a romantic (in the Victorian sense), attempt HOST EBK Shadow: at turning cybernetics into metaphysics. Reeves Phoebe: is Bruce Sterling. Spider Rose is a fantastic short Reeves Phoebe: story of his. Another writer, John Kessel, is sort HOST EBK Shadow: Sterling accepts the monicker, at least. Reeves Phoebe: of Slipstream. Another is Michael Fwanwick. HOST EBK Shadow: He doesn't rail about being pegged a punker. One of HOST EBK Shadow: the problems with being one of the parents of a geenre, HOST EBK Shadow: I guess. Patterner: When I was on Amtrak, going through the old brick buildings in Chicago's industrial area, .. HOST EBK Shadow: I love Kessel. Patterner: I thought of Swanwick's Iron Dragon. BLR WIZ: Was Slipstream the basis, however loosely, of the Movie? HOST EBK Shadow: Downtown Chicago looks very Gibsonian, true. REGENTIC: Perhaps cross genre material needs a multifaceted regional marketing campaign instead of a REGENTIC: national one Patterner: Volunteering, REG? HOST EBK Shadow: To whom do you market cross genre material, REG? BLR WIZ: To a mad vampire? OnlineHost: Plmckissic has entered the room. Patterner: Cross-gender people? REGENTIC: Perhaps play up different themes in different areas Araiused: Hi Plmc! E cat s: Hi Plmc Patterner: Hi Plm! BLR WIZ: Hi Plm Plmckissic: Hi, BLR,Ara,Ath,TAM,REG,RAw,Patt, E,Shadow, and Ree HOST EBK Shadow: Hello, Plmckissic! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: Tonight we're chatting with Phobe Reeves, HOST EBK Shadow: author of the Bram Stoker-nominated novel HOST EBK Shadow: THE REVENANT. HOST EBK Shadow: Phoebe, thanks for taking the time to visit with us HOST EBK Shadow: tonight. BLR WIZ: Thanks for chatting with us Phobe Patterner: Phoebe, thanks for coming! Reeves Phoebe: Thank you for having me here. You all are an REGENTIC: Yes, thanks so much HOST EBK Shadow: For those of you interested in purchasing a copy of HOST EBK Shadow: THE REVENANT, I'm going to run the URL and ISBN HOST EBK Shadow: one more time. Reeves Phoebe: interesting and enjoyable group! HOST EBK Shadow: Xlibris Corporation HOST EBK Shadow: 436 Walnut Street, 11th Floor Araiused: Thanks, Phoebe! HOST EBK Shadow: Philadelphia, PA 19106 HOST EBK Shadow: 1 (888) 7XLIBRIS or +1 (215) 923-4686 HOST EBK Shadow: books@xlibris.com HOST EBK Shadow: http://www.Xlibris.com HOST EBK Shadow: The Revenant HOST EBK Shadow: (ISBN 0-7388-0148-8, 265 pages, HOST EBK Shadow: $14.40 Softcover) E cat s: Thank you for coming, Phoebe! BLR WIZ: Lying through your teeth, Phobe Reeves Phoebe: I'll drop by again some time. We'll do Naked Lunch. :-) REGENTIC: Please come back sometime, anytime Plmckissic: How can you say that Phoebe, I just got here! Patterner: LOL HOST EBK Shadow: Thanks again, Phoebe...and please, come back and HOST EBK Shadow: visit us when your next book comes out! Plmckissic: or sooner! Reeves Phoebe: Thanks again! You're all so kind! HOST EBK Shadow: LOL...it's a date! OnlineHost: Reeves Phoebe has left the room. REGENTIC: afk Patterner: I'm pleased to say that people still do what I tell them to do. HOST EBK Shadow: So...now it's the dreaded "open topic". Patterner: I wasn't sure command voice worked anymore, since the kitties don't obey. Araiused: They do, Patt? E cat s: How so, Patterner ? Plmckissic: Why dreaded? HOST EBK Shadow: LOL BLR WIZ: Topics are only there to be ignored REGENTIC: bak HOST EBK Shadow: Oh...*I* don't dread it. I just use the same macro aver HOST EBK Shadow: and over and watch TV while y'all talk about whatever HOST EBK Shadow: you want. E cat s: Always nice to get to a con and try out the old social skills, eh, Patt? Plmckissic: LOL Patterner: Yep, E. :) Got to meet a lot of people I only know online, and.. BLR WIZ: Watching the classic movie. The Crawling Eye staring Forest Tucker Patterner: I ended up doing a lot of the running of the volunteer desk. E cat s: Sounds like fun HOST EBK Shadow: Sounds like they whacked you with a guilt trip. BLR WIZ: As long as you could run sitting down....... REGENTIC: The voices got the dollars up....gnawed them with thier teeth swallowing a few. Patterner: Right, which was how I got that gig, BLR. Araiused: Quite a staring eye, BLR REGENTIC: "Well you said we could keep them right?" Patterner: No guilt trip, but the person really in charge isn't very organized. Patterner: We have rasff party in about half-an-hour. BLR WIZ: Entropy wins agian? HOST EBK Shadow: By whose standards? HOST EBK Shadow: But...is it fun? Araiused: Have fun, Patt! Patterner: Well, most anybody's. The conchair gushed when I told her I'd sortof taken over. Araiused: afk Patterner: Sure, I like being in charge. Patterner: We had Ask Dr. Mike in opening ceremonies -- that's John M. Ford -- Patterner: and he takes questions from the audience and does standup. Good standup. HOST EBK Shadow: The GROWING UPWEIGHTLESS guy? Patterner: Yep. HOST EBK Shadow: Economy of spaces. REGENTIC: LOL Patterner: Never know when you need more spaces. BLR WIZ: LOL HOST EBK Shadow: I have boxes full. HOST EBK Shadow: Remember the last seen in RAIDERS OF THE LOST HOST EBK Shadow: ARK? HOST EBK Shadow: Seen=scene HOST EBK Shadow: That's my warehouse full of spaces. BLR WIZ: yep Patterner: LOL Araiused: Oh no, Shadow has the dreaded Ark. Patterner: afk REGENTIC: "Look at all this economies of scale!" is all the voices could say at the weight loss clinic BLR WIZ: There house, There wolf, There Castle. E cat s: afk OnlineHost: Athanor IX has left the room. REGENTIC: Scales are NOT toys I had to tell them. HOST EBK Shadow: LOL...so many. You can have the scale of the century. TAMirabile: bak TAMirabile: Hi Plm Plmckissic: Hi,TAM! OnlineHost: DrAnathema has entered the room. BLR WIZ: So you are a Pisces REGENTIC: BTW, Hanson exclusive at keyword: TeenPeople, go visit DrAnathema: Hello everyone Plmckissic: Hi, DrA RAWoodward: Time for me to go ... BLR WIZ: Hi DrA RAWoodward: E cat s: Hi Dr. TAMirabile: Hi, DrA BLR WIZ: Bye RAW Plmckissic: Bye, RAW REGENTIC: Night RAW TAMirabile: Night RAW DrAnathema: Night RAW E cat s: Night, RAW HOST EBK Shadow: Hello, DrAnathema! HOST EBK Shadow: Welcome to the Other*Worlds*Cafe SF chat! HOST EBK Shadow: We're discussing time travel in science fiction. Plmckissic: nuh-uh Araiused: Hi Dr E cat s: LOLOL HOST EBK Shadow: LOL...now *that's* time travel. HOST EBK Shadow: I landed in last week. REGENTIC: LOL DrAnathema: Time travel has always been a great sub-field in SF E cat s: we've dropped into a sub-field DrAnathema: Better than a mine field RAWoodward: HOST EBK Shadow: Yup...we've sub-let the genre. REGENTIC: LOL HOST EBK Shadow: I thought you were gone, RA. Araiused: RAW came back through a time portal, Shadow. E cat s: When you sub-let us TAMirabile: RAW is trapped in a time vortex? HOST EBK Shadow: I s'pose we could talk about Time Travel for the last 14 HOST EBK Shadow: minutes. After all, I *do* have a macro left over. Patterner: bak OnlineHost: Kakaze has entered the room. Patterner: LOL Patterner: Hi Kak! HOST EBK Shadow: Yo, Kak. DrAnathema: David Gerrold wrote an intersting time travel novel called The Man Who Folded Himself Plmckissic: Kak!!! E cat s: Hi Kak Kakaze: Hi all!!! OnlineHost: RAWoodward has left the room. TAMirabile: Hi, Kak Plmckissic: Youch! Kakaze: Pat!!!! Shadow!!! Plm!!! Tam!!! REGENTIC: Hi Kak DrAnathema: Did RAW have trouble finding his way out?? Araiused: Hey Kake Kakaze: Reg!!! Kakaze: Arae!!! BLR WIZ: Hi Kak Kakaze: Wiz!!! HOST EBK Shadow: Yup...it was a very good time travel novel. It almost HOST EBK Shadow: makes me forgive him for THE WAR AGAINST FANS DrAnathema: Hello Kakaze HOST EBK Shadow: WHO WANT TO READ THE LAST CHTHORR NOVEL. BLR WIZ: Thats a good one, Dr. DrAnathema: LOL Shadow TAMirabile: REG's voices chewed holes in RAW's exit routine TAMirabile: Shadow last year would have been fine Kakaze: Dr!! HOST EBK Shadow: BTW, Kak. No ciscernible topic, at the moment. Patterner: One of the questions for Mike was: What do you think of smart guns? BLR WIZ: David Gerrald, Quit rewriting the darn thing and publish it BLR WIZ: so we can get on with our feble lives. HOST EBK Shadow: discernible, either. Patterner: He replied, they can't be very smart, they haven't learned pacifism yet. REGENTIC: LOL Tam Kakaze: Wasn't there supposed to be a guest tonight? DrAnathema: If you could go back in time to OBSERVE something (no changes) where/when would you go?? HOST EBK Shadow: Done and gone, Kak. E cat s: LOL, Patt HOST EBK Shadow: You missed it. REGENTIC: I can't say online, this is a family service after all DrAnathema: If you could go back in time to CHANGE something where/when would you go?? HOST EBK Shadow: Actually, there's a fair amount of "observer"-type time HOST EBK Shadow: travel in SF. Araiused: You're late, Kak. Kakaze: How long was s/he here? DrAnathema: C'est vrai, Shadow, but I wanted people's ideas Plmckissic: crucifiction, parting of the Red Sea. Hanging Gardens of Babylon.... Araiused: For 1 1/2 hr, Kak BLR WIZ: Just let me jump ahead to get the lottery numbers Araiused: I'd rather preserve the Hanging Gardens, would you. Patterner: LOL Plmckissic: Yes, Ara HOST EBK Shadow: But...hmm...I think I'd want to see Cleopatra enter HOST EBK Shadow: Rome....or, maybe...attend Julian the Apostate's HOST EBK Shadow: coronation. TAMirabile: You only need an hour or so for that BLR BLR WIZ: Yep Kakaze: Yes! Watching Zhaan kick some bootie on Farscape. Patterner: LOL See you when I get back, guys! TAMirabile: I would like to get a good look at Celtic society BLR WIZ: Bye Patt HOST EBK Shadow: Night, Patt! REGENTIC: Night Patt, have fun Patterner: Night! TAMirabile: Night Patt safe home Araiused: Nite, Patt! DrAnathema: Why, TAM??? OnlineHost: Patterner has left the room. HOST EBK Shadow: You can do that in Boston, TAM. Plmckissic: Any play by Shakespeare at the Globe BLR WIZ: Woodstock would be fun........ E cat s: Night, Patterner Plmckissic: nite, Patt TAMirabile: DrA because we really don't know that much BLR WIZ: Or to listen to Lovely, Lovely Ludwig Van conduct an orchestra...... TAMirabile: about it . And There were women rulers and red REGENTIC: I might go back to Watergate, find the missing 18 minutes, auction it on Ebay and then TAMirabile: heads supposedly REGENTIC: retire rich! TAMirabile: Shadow HOST EBK Shadow: But, I wouldn't mind seeing a Minoan celebration. Araiused: Mercenary, REG Plmckissic: OOOOHHHH, BLR, that's a GOOD one!!!!! HOST EBK Shadow: Redheads? That sounds good. TAMirabile: Ahhhhh the ladies' dress DrAnathema: That would be greatm BLR BLR WIZ: to watch Stonehedge or the Pyramids being built....... HOST EBK Shadow: No...you market it 6 minutes at a time, REG. Like HOST EBK Shadow: Lucas and Star Wars. REGENTIC: LOLOL DrAnathema: So, you can go back and change ONE event. Which one?? BLR WIZ: To browze the Library at Alexandra. TAMirabile: Maybe 3 minutes at a time even BLR WIZ: Listen to Homer recite the Illiad....... HOST EBK Shadow: The one in which I decide to buy a used car and not HOST EBK Shadow: Microsoft stock. DrAnathema: That would really drag out those (expletive deleted)s Plmckissic: Watch di Vinci , Ruebens,Ver Meer, Michalangelo, paint BLR WIZ: More good ones, Plm TAMirabile: If I could change something----I'd organize a TAMirabile: brigade to snatch as many things from the Library TAMirabile: at Alexandra as possible just before and during the TAMirabile: fire Kakaze: If I could change one event...I would stop myself from ever picking up my first cupcake. Araiused: That Kakaze: :::sigh::: Plmckissic: LOL, Kak Araiused: 's a good mission, TAM. BLR WIZ: TAM, just think what a few good fire extinguishers could do? HOST EBK Shadow: Why not just turn Cleopatra over to her brother? That HOST EBK Shadow: way the library doesn't have to burn. REGENTIC: Go back to the Garden of Eden and say "Don't touch that Apple, you'll be happier with a PC" REGENTIC: BLR WIZ: LOL DrAnathema: I'd try to prevent the destruction of the Library. Think of the boost that era could hafve HOST EBK Shadow: LOL DrAnathema: gotten Kakaze: Quel Horrible! Apples are better. HOST EBK Shadow: You'd need a library card, TAM. TAMirabile: BLR I would worry about what making the fire not TAMirabile: happen would do to subsequent history. I kinda TAMirabile: like me like I am BLR WIZ: Eve used an Apple and Adam used a Wang. REGENTIC: LOL Plmckissic: ew DrAnathema: What about preventing the ship that carried the Black Plague from landing in HOST EBK Shadow: Sa Cray Blue. Plmckissic: Oh, computer, right, got it! BLR WIZ: TAM, you could slow down the fire to save more. DrAnathema: Marseilles in 1347. BIG rewrite of histroy TAMirabile: lol Plm BLR WIZ: Thats an old computer joke told by old computer users. TAMirabile: BLR that is a good idea HOST EBK Shadow: Oh...I'd like to see the English fleet beat the HOST EBK Shadow: Armada...and I'd like to be in a hot air balloon over HOST EBK Shadow: Agincourt...or in a speedboat at Actium. E cat s: I'd kind of like to see Thermopylae. BLR WIZ: To see the Arcropolis or the Coluseaum in their glory. HOST EBK Shadow: Yeah...I'd like to see the Spartans hold that pass, too. BLR WIZ: Yes E. Just make sure they know you are not a Spartan Kakaze: I'm audi. TAMirabile: I'd like to see if I could get the Hindenburg tied Kakaze: night all. TAMirabile: down and emptied before it burned We could Kakaze: Slan slan! TAMirabile: still have that form of travel, likely. HOST EBK Shadow: Night, Kak. Plmckissic: The first Olympics OnlineHost: Kakaze has left the room. E cat s: Night, Kak Araiused: Nite, Kak DrAnathema: Anyone read Turteldove's Guns of The South? Interersting time travel book Plmckissic: I wonder how impressed we'd be? DrAnathema: What isn this slan stuff?? Araiused: Yep, E, all those athletes competing in the buff BLR WIZ: To see if Helen was really worth launching a thousand ships for....... HOST EBK Shadow: Have you read HOW FEW REMAIN, Dr? TAMirabile: Plm it would be interesting what Ara said E cat s: :/ Araiused: Just a phrase, Dr REGENTIC: "There must a strong breeze down on the field today" DrAnathema: I've been working thu that series - not really impressed Plmckissic: Well, I was talking about their athletic abitlity, but maybe we'd be impressed after all.... HOST EBK Shadow: That's the sequel to GUNS OF THE SOUTH. DrAnathema: Alternate history SF should have SOME connection with our world, IMO TAMirabile: BLR I suspect she was short, pockmarked and stinky BLR WIZ: LOLOLl HOST EBK Shadow: Uh-oh...look at the time. HOST EBK Shadow: Well...it's post PM here, and that means that it's time HOST EBK Shadow: for the uniformed help to retreat! Y'all are welcome to HOST EBK Shadow: stay and chat if you'd like. If you have trouble, HOST EBK Shadow: remember to squeal, mill around, send smoke signals, BLR WIZ: Shadow is running over. Having too much fun. HOST EBK Shadow: and use Keyword: NOTIFY AOL. DrAnathema: Don't think so, Shadow. How Few series starts w/Lee beating McClellan in 9/62 & taking REGENTIC: Go back and tell Joan of Arc that voices work best with a chat room DrAnathema: Washington E cat s: Thanks for the chat, Shadow. Great guest! BLR WIZ: Thanks for the chat. REGENTIC: Night Shadow! TAMirabile: Night Shadow Thanks Araiused: Thanks, Shadow! E cat s: LOL REG DrAnathema: Voices??? Plmckissic: Thanks, Shadow Araiused: LOLOL, REG HOST EBK Shadow: Actually, HOW FEW is the novel of the second civil war. HOST EBK Shadow: In the same milieu as GOTS. Araiused: REG's famous voices, dr. DrAnathema: REG is an impersonator?? HOST EBK Shadow: Night, all! E cat s: Night, Shadow DrAnathema: Good night, Shadow TAMirabile: REG has voices that live in his head, DrA