Facebook flog - Apr 2 & 3 2014

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Link: Apr 2 2014, 12:39
Disclaimer: This blog entry is verbatim, as originally posted on LKH's Facebook. Copyright belongs to Ma Petite Enterprises.

That moment when I try for a dramatic selfie & realize there is nowhere in my office that isn't covered in dog toys. *laughs*



Link: Apr 3 2014, 7:44

The ARCs of A Shiver of Light just arrived! June 3, 2014 and all of you will finally be able to read it for yourselves! The extra in the picture is my Sig Sauer P238, which I posted on FaceBook yesterday with a selfie, and I got a lot of comments. I tried to answer questions then, but my answers got buried, so here it is from the top. The Sig P238 is a .380 not a 9mm. I am looking at it as the new backup gun for Anita to carry, so I'm seeing how comfortable it is to carry under various types of clothing. For those who complained about the hammer being cocked, regardless of positioning of hammer, I was carrying condition 4. Condition 4 means chamber is empty & no magazine in the gun, which means the gun is as unloaded as it can get. I have been practicing carrying the Sig at different condition levels. Right now it's condition 1, round chambered, hammer cocked, safety on. At the moment the rounds are snap caps, so I can practice drawing and dry firing without endangering anyone, or thing, and not damaging the gun. I have Anita carry condition 3 a lot of the time, unless she's actively in a dangerous situation. Condition 3 is empty chamber, full magazine, and for me if the gun has an external safety that allows use without the hammer being cocked, I will put the safety on. It's just habit for me, if there's a safety on the gun I use it. I had the safety on the Sig yesterday when I took the picture, even though the gun was completely safe either way. Some guns will not allow the safety to be engaged without the hammer being cocked, this is not true of the P238, but one of the things I was testing was if the gun caught on clothing more with hammer cocked, or uncocked. Thus the whole no magazine in the gun while I tested the Sig in various holsters with it cocked, and uncocked. It actually made no difference on clothing, holster, or ease of draw for me yesterday. And before someone complains that a totally empty gun is useless, I had the extra magazine close at hand, and if a real bad guy had started coming up the stairs to my office, I am confident that I could pop the snap cap magazine out, and put the live magazine in ready for use before the villain got through the door. It's much the same thing that Anita does when she switches from lead to the more expensive silver ammo in the books.

Comments

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

That selfie. A gun and sunglasses. Really? REALLY?

[rodentfanatic.livejournal.com]

Oh damn, no way, that's faaar too out there. I mean, they're such different people! XD

[mocha-latta.livejournal.com]

You do realize that Anita has Black hair and LKH has Brown hair, right? Completely. Different.

[guardians-song.livejournal.com]

Heavens be praised, perhaps she's finally getting a sense of humor?

Aside from that... Oogh, gun wankery, but to be honest, I might care if she was an author I actually liked and had a sense of the "paragraph break".

She's chilled out a fair amount after finishing ASoL. I wonder why? (Honestly curious. She's gone from dramatically quoting herself to taking honest selfies and admitting to flaws. Whose blog am I reading, again? o_o

[jessica collett (from livejournal.com)]

It's the brand new deal at your nearest bookshop - buy a LKH book, get a free gun!

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

All the commentary on the different gun conditions she describes makes me wonder about her neighborhood, how paranoid she actually is and how it appears to me that she is violating the two cardinal rules about handling guns. Namely "do not point at anything that you don't want a hole blown through" and "treat every gun as if it were loaded." It looks like she's aiming at a wall (which a bullet can travel through) >_< At least she isn't resting her finger on the trigger.

Has that particular model of firearm appeared in AB yet or is it something to keep an eye out for in later books?

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

Wait... that's a real gun?
...I thought it was a toy=__=

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

Right? In the second picture, it looks very convincingly plastic...

[jeza-red.livejournal.com]

I thought it was cute until I read other folks saying it was realO_o

I was like "D'aww she got a sense of humour! Posing as 'badass' with a little plastic gun!"

...I thought it was a joke....

[rebootfromstart.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm coming at this from never having seen a gun IRL, but seriously, it looks like a toy gun.

I don't get self-described "gun nut" mentality either. But then, I'm a pacifist and I come from a country where civilians don't own guns unless they're farmers with rifles, so I suppose it's a completely different cultural thing. I'm certainly not criticising people who own guns, I just don't get it. It's a weapon. If you feel safer having it around, good for you! I don't get posing with it. It sort of feels... I don't know, cutesy to me, and I don't think weapons are something we need to cute-ify. It's capable of killing a person; I think that's something that needs to be remembered.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

There are such things as polymer guns.

That said, what a load of wank. I live amongst "gun nuts" and own some myself, and I would never imagine chuntering on like this about your chosen carry piece. Jeez.

[txvoodoo.livejournal.com]

Right? My hub's a gun owner. I don't use them because I have a crapton of visual issues so unless it comes down to hitting the proverbial side of a barn, I don't want to fire one.

But he'd NEVER post this kind of bullshit photo.

[magdalen77.livejournal.com]

She really looks stupid. Whenever she waves around guns this way it makes it seem like she's not such an eggspurt, but just another gun fetishist. And of course the whole purpose of the selfie is, "look at how badass I am.". Sorry, LaLa, an actual badass wouldn't have to try so hard.

[ladyniko.livejournal.com]

I looked up her address once out of boredom and she lives right near the dead Crestwood Plaza mall in south/west county STL (like right around the corner from where I work.)

It's not the best or worst neighborhood but it's certainly not gang banger central.

She's not living down in the state streets of South City - that's one of your truly gone to waste areas of STL. I had a friend whose van was stolen from one south city neighborhood Sunday morning and dumped down off Wyoming Street that same day where the crime rate was so bad apparently, one of the residents was walking down the street wearing a bullet proof vest.

She is just that paranoid, period. If she doesn't want people to know where she lives, she shouldn't have her land line listed in her name and have her address published, easily found for anyone looking for her but I think she wants the "fame" of having a stalker or someone unexpected come knocking on her door so she can show off her guns to them.

[perkyrusalka.livejournal.com]

"I am confident that I could pop the snap cap magazine out, and put the live magazine in ready for use before the villain got through the door. It's much the same thing that Anita does when she switches from lead to the more expensive silver ammo in the books."

Oh, well, if Anita can do it, I'm sure she'd be glad to teach LKH how. And I'm sure a woman who's too scared to walk across an empty parking lot by herself will be calm and level-headed enough to handle a magazine in a crisis.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

And the publisher had time to print ARCs for a change.

[lady-fellshot.livejournal.com]

No, they just had an excess of tears from the beleaguered copy editors so they decided to use them to make ink for an ARC run.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that's surprising to me. Dear Author got one and has been struggling with it.

[missingvolume.livejournal.com]

I saw that tweet and wonder which book she was reading. It hadn't occurred to me it could have been the new one.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Yeah, she confirmed it was Shiver of Light. She went on to say that she was ready to quit after two chapters and there's something about Merry getting to star in a reality tv show. I really feel for all the Merry fans that have been waiting so many years for a new book only to get...this.

[dwg.livejournal.com]

Behold the twitter conversation (https://twitter.com/dearauthor/status/451353547280379905).

[dagonista.livejournal.com]

"Here's Merry! Shut up about Merry, I want to talk about Anita!"

[point-earedpain.livejournal.com]

In a more credible author, I would in fact buy the 'trying things out to see what works and what doesn't', but with LKH, it's such a clear ploy for attention and street cred it's almost sad.

That said, in spite of the utter ridiculousness of the first selfie, I actually kind of liked seeing the dog toys? It doesn't look as staged, and it gives an indication that she has a life with pets she seems to care for and play with. I don't see how she could think that's a bad thing.

[duamuteffe.livejournal.com]

I really feel like her look-at-me-look-at-me-wait-no-I'm-always-right-about-everything-you-plebes-now-stop-criticizing-me attitude really makes it harder on the rest of us normal gun owners and collectors. There's educating, and then there's lecturing. This is lecturing, and it neither brings across useful information nor does anyone any good.

[plastraa.livejournal.com]

Whenever I see 'dramatic' selfies from anyone, it makes me lol. I can't help it, it's so teenager trying too hard. :-\

[suzycat.livejournal.com]

That shows how much I know about anything, because if someone pulled that gun on me I'd think it was a toy.

I think gunmakers should make their lethal weapons look more like lethal weapons.

[wanderingworlds.livejournal.com]

I'd expect the "BANG" flag or water to squirt out at me, personally.

[yaoihuntresse.livejournal.com]

Personally, I think that lipstick might be all wrong for her. Say, I've doing my own sporking of the Danse Macabre on a forum, is it ok if I post it here as well?

[desert-vixen.livejournal.com]

It's less wrong than some of the other colors she likes - she seems to always pick the harsh, bright colors.

[ditaykan.livejournal.com]

Eh, my personal opinion of lipsticks has always been 'if you like it, rock it'.

As for posting your spork, I'd love to see it!

[miss-maggpie.livejournal.com]

Yes, Laurell. This is a good idea. Pose with a gun.

Damn it, woman. Just put it away. Whenever I think of Americans, I always think of this kind of image: odd, paranoid and guns.

Why oh why is posing with a gun ever a good idea? It doesn't make her look like a badass. Especially not With the terrible shades. Urgh. Maybe if she were doing some cool ass karate moves. You know. something that requires the majestic use and systematic training of the human body. THAT would be badass.

Speaking of which, whatever happened to Anita learning all that stuff?unless you count her use of the vajay? Like vag-itsu or Vag-kwando