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I've got just a few more queries pending.  Considering I haven't gotten so much as a partial request, (]let alone a full, offer of representation, publishing contract which could be a matter of years), I'm not likely to get one any time soon.  This book is NOT going to be thrown in the ocean.  I enjoy it, friends enjoy it, an exacting critique group enjoys it and so do 500+ subscribers who've heard the first three chapters.  I hope  that making this available to even one more person can make them feel alive…….and BE alive.  The proceeds are going directly to cancer research.

With the worst/best timing, Jennifer and john had already been planning to visit me so they've taken on the grunt work while I dictate my needs.  We're setting this up as a softcover, e-book, and audio book.  I'm not sure how much of the audio I can do but Will Ross has already volunteered to do some ass kicking.

Jennifer's got the video blog announcement on her computer and we're ironing out Lulu.com's counterintuitive formatting issues.  The book will be available for purchase at Lulu.com–in which case a greater percentage of proceeds will go to research–Amazon and it has the capability of being purchased for brick and mortor stores like Barnes and Noble, just get into the store and make the request.  I understand if you want to read the book first before putting in that effort so just email us and we can send a larger sample.

Jennifer  is the head of our street team and the go-to girl for those who want to help so we'll post her contact info ASAP.  For now, send anything to mine, she's got accsss to it.

If you have any promotional ideas, let us know!  Some ideas so far

- press releases in local (to you!) stores

-print out your favorite quote with the website address and stick it inside a book or games or movies etc  that might relate (7th Son, Heroes novels, X-men books or comics, Iron Man stuff, TMTNT, Blade

-Get creative–draw the characters, make a diorama of a scene, be eye-catching a fun, make pins

-Challenge people…..whose side are you on?  The doctors or the patients?

-Write fanfiction!  I'll feel like I've made it when there's slashfic on fanfiction.net ;)

-Go around videoblogging…. ask people  what they'd do if  their touch killed people but so did their reputable doctor?  What other questions could you ask?  Go for tings that are open-ended

-Send us your creations so we can post them!!

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  By Destiny, December 28, 2010 @ 5:05 am

  Several years ago Zellie posted on the Holiday Wishes community on LJ to ask for people willing to read, edit, create, etc. for what became Lightning Spliced (at the time she called it Judgment). I saw her post and volunteered to help out, and went through the entire novel as it existed then, fixing quotation marks and homonym trouble, and e-mailing the fixed copies back to her. I was intrigued by it (and really enjoyed it!), but busy with college, and I forgot about it for several years.

  Tonight I looked her name up, only to discover what had happened. :( But I am now reccing it to everyone I know, and have an idea I think she’d have loved:

  Yuletide is a fic exchange for rare fandoms. I participated in it for the first time this year. Next year I will request fanfic for Lightning Spliced and see if someone writes it for me (as well as promote it everywhere I can). Won’t be on Fanfiction.net, but on Archive of Our Own instead. I think she’d have loved that anyway. :)

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  By Madeline, January 4, 2011 @ 6:10 pm

  Hey Destiny- I don’t know if you’ll see this- but I am really sorry you only found out now :(

  When we were setting the book up on Lulu and were discussing what copyright she wanted, she chose a creative commons one so people could write fanfic- in fact, if I remember correctly, she said having fanfic would be really awesome. :)

  She still had a lot of homonym troubles throughout haha- most have been fixed in the new copy. We figure, if there’s any more mistakes, it’s just the spirit of Zellie.

  Let me know if you can get it fan-fic’d! I would me more than happy to post it.

  Thanks for responding- if you have any questions, please let me know and you can email me any time at spiersjph@gmail.com
  <3

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