OK, this is the big one.\u00a0 Since the book is out in the UK, you folks need a spoiler space in which to discuss, right?\u00a0\u00a0 A reminder of the Spoiler Space rules:<\/p>\n
1) If you do not want to see spoilers, DO NOT ENTER OR READ ANY COMMENTS.<\/p>\n
2) All discussion of Echoes<\/em> must stay within a SpoilerSpace thread (if it gets too long, I’ll open another later.)\u00a0\u00a0 NO discussion of the book’s comments should be on any other thread; they will be deleted when brought to my attention.\u00a0 If someone goofs, DO NOT add to the problem by commenting.\u00a0 Email me and I’ll disappear stuff.<\/p>\n And here we are in the big ballroom with the refreshments tables along three sides,\u00a0 crepe paper streamers and balloons in place for The Launch Party.\u00a0 This is Spoiler Space.\u00a0\u00a0 Here Spoilers are OK.\u00a0 You can talk about any part of the book you want, in detail.\u00a0 You can love it, hate it, wish this bit here had been different, etc.<\/p>\n However, discussion should be respectful of the opinions of others (and if possible, of\u00a0 Writer) and there will be no personal attacks or Writer\/Moderator will regain her book-writing Empress of the Universe costume and blow the offenders out of the thread.\u00a0 (Er…erase all such posts.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 If\u00a0 someone’s getting heated about something and one or two responses don’t cool things down…don’t add to the problem.\u00a0\u00a0 Back away from the person in the mood to pull the pin on their personal grenade.<\/p>\n IOW: Discussion is good, disagreement is OK,\u00a0 name-calling and outright fighting is not OK.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Not that I expect the usual denizens to do that, but I’ve been a few other places on the Internet lately that were…toxic.\u00a0 Let’s not be toxic, and let’s show newcomers what kinds of behavior are acceptable.\u00a0\u00a0 For the duration of Launch\u00a0 Season,\u00a0 I may ask people to let something drop–not that you’ve done something horrible, but just that–the way I’m reading the overall temperature and response–it’s getting too close to the edge.<\/p>\n Writer is really busy still and may not get to your comments\/questions every day, so if you see a problem developing, drop me an email (link on the main webpage, www.elizabethmoon.com.)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Help me out here.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A huge pile of stuff fell off the side table this morning and I still don’t have that sorted out (true, not fictional.\u00a0 I wish there were a guaranteed 2 weeks after turning in a book in which NOTHING was demanded of a writer but recovery and maybe shoveling out the mess that’s built up in the last year.\u00a0\u00a0 But that’s not how it goes.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" OK, this is the big one.\u00a0 Since the book is out in the UK, you folks need a spoiler space in which to discuss, right?\u00a0\u00a0 A reminder of the Spoiler Space rules: 1) If you do not want to see spoilers, DO NOT ENTER OR READ ANY COMMENTS. 2) All discussion of Echoes must stay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[114],"class_list":["post-1491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-spoiler-space","tag-spoiler-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1492,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1491\/revisions\/1492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.paksworld.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}