Today is June 1st. According to my big list of holidays, it's Dare Day. Fitting, I suppose. It's also three months, exactly, to the release of Rosemary and Rue, which means it's probably two months to the actual physical production of Rosemary and Rue, and time to start the giant "When will Seanan have her first nervous collapse of the year?" betting pool. (Much as I'm complaining about convention season, it's actually a very, very good thing. Convention season keeps me focused. True, what I'm focused on is primarily "get in and out of the next convention alive and without being brought up on murder charges," but any focus is better than no focus. I flail a lot when I have no focus. I flail a lot regardless of focus; it's just that focused flailing is less destructive and more amusing for the people around me.)
I keep looking at the numbers on my "countdown to book release" and thinking "that can't be right..."
In case you were curious, the date on the short story that marks the first-ever appearance, in any form, of October Daye, is...Friday, June 27th, 1997. So if I seem a little flipped-out about Rosemary and Rue coming out, just remember that from where I'm sitting, it's been a long, long journey. A long, long journey that is, in a very real way, just getting started.
1) Molding it (it's likely pressed into shape and cut) - likely big machinery, though it could be done by hand...except for.... 2) Most of the corn I've seen is lightly panned with caranuba wax and sugar to set that nice light shell and that IS big machinery.
The rest is sugar, water and a wee bit of corn syrup. Flavoring could get particularly fiddly, and even stray into BPAL-like taste testing, but what a way to go. ^^
When I win the lottery and buy that twenty-room manse in the country.
stunned
June 1 2009, 19:05:08 UTC 8 years ago
If this is Dare Day, can it be mutual? (As in if I dare you, will you dare me?)
June 2 2009, 14:36:29 UTC 8 years ago
June 2 2009, 16:05:28 UTC 8 years ago
1) Molding it (it's likely pressed into shape and cut) - likely big machinery, though it could be done by hand...except for....
2) Most of the corn I've seen is lightly panned with caranuba wax and sugar to set that nice light shell and that IS big machinery.
The rest is sugar, water and a wee bit of corn syrup. Flavoring could get particularly fiddly, and even stray into BPAL-like taste testing, but what a way to go. ^^
When I win the lottery and buy that twenty-room manse in the country.