Elizabeth Barrette (ysabetwordsmith) wrote,
Elizabeth Barrette
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Fiorenza Update with Fresh Funds & Poetry

Thanks to a donation from Shirley Barrette, "Di Mezzo il Mare"  is now complete. 

There is also $124 in the general fund.  Below is the first poll for distributing those funds; I'll need to do a followup poll later depending on what you choose here.  Everyone is eligible to vote in this poll.  I will keep it open until at least Thursday afternoon.  If there's a clear answer then, I'll close it.  Otherwise I may leave it open a while longer.


With "Di Mezzo il Mare"  published, its two sequels "Faith as a Grain" ($48) and "Buon Natale"  ($39.50) are now available.  You can buy the pair of those together, as they will both fit within the available funds.  The remaining poems are "Her Crystalline Voice" ($56.50), "The Mystery of the Worn-Out Slippers" ($75.50), and "A Comedy of Craft" ($78).  To see where those fit in the series chronology, visit the page for Fiorenza the Wisewoman.  To see thumbnails, visit the unsold poetry post.

Poll #1893444 Generally Sponsored Epic Poll for January 2013
This poll is closed.
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 11

What do you want to publish first?

View Answers
"Faith as a Grain" AND "Buon Natale"
5(45.5%)
"Her Crystalline Voice"
2(18.2%)
"The Mystery of the Worn-Out Slippers"
2(18.2%)
"A Comedy of Craft"
2(18.2%)
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  • 3 comments
msstacy13

msstacy13

January 30 2013, 23:54:53 UTC 8 years ago

Since you seem to know people who like polls,
I've decided to change the surname of a character
(the war correspondent's girlfriend)
and will be asking people to vote on alternate surnames
starting just after midnight.
ysabetwordsmith

Okay...

ysabetwordsmith

January 31 2013, 00:00:17 UTC 8 years ago

Ping me when you post the poll, and I'll boost the signal for you. It would help to have the character's prior name, the project name, and a short blurb about the project.
msstacy13

Thank you.

msstacy13

January 31 2013, 02:04:14 UTC 8 years ago

It's tentatively titled
A Citizen of London;
It began as a 10,000 story about the V2,
but now looks as if it will 350,000 words before it's done.
The premise?
In April of 1940, with war spreading to Norway,
The Omaha World Herald sends a woman reporter to England
as a war correspondent.
She arrives in the midst of the Dunkirk evacution,
and meets a driver of the Women's Transport Corps.
The two soon become become quite close.
I'd originally called that driver Eleanor Bracken,
but have realized that there could be some confusion
with Brendan Bracken,
an associate of Churchill's.
So I googled historical census information about Shoreditch,
which is the area of greater London this character is from,
and picked out thirty surnames beginning with B.
And I got a bit confused with the post-dated entries;
they were set for midnight GMT, so they're already posted.
I could only fit 15 names in each poll,
so they're in two entries,
but both can be linked from this entry:
http://msstacy13.livejournal.com/2704878.html