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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:35pm on 08/11/2006
The last week-or-so has seen the publication of not one, but TWO Real Books with work of mine in it, my first real article and my first encyclopedia entry.

"Of Mills and Meaning" is in Wind & Water in the Middle Ages: Fluid Technologies from Antiquity to the Renaissance, edited by Steven A. Walton, is published by ACMRS.

"Technology in Middle Earth" is in the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia, edited by Michael Drout, is published by what used to be Routledge. (More information on how the volume ended up in quite the shape it did can be found here.
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posted by [identity profile] of-remedye.livejournal.com at 10:38pm on 08/11/2006
YAY! THat is wonderful news :) I have no doubt it is the first of many more.

(Were you ever involved in the Tolkien sessions at K'zoo? I have colleagues who did that.)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:42pm on 08/11/2006
I'm excited!

No, although I may have been to one or two of the Tokien at K'zoo sessions along the way. The encyclopedia article came out of my Discovery Channel piece on the subject back in 2001, not any other academic work I've done on the subject. (Although, of course, for the encyclopedia article I had to properly research it in a way I couldn't with three day's notice for the t.v. piece.)
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posted by [identity profile] a-d-medievalist.livejournal.com at 10:54pm on 08/11/2006
Torn between a huge *squee* and petty envy, which I know will go away if I just get off my bum and write!

So a giant w00t!! for you!

You deserve to be very excited :-)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 11:34pm on 08/11/2006
Thank you!

It's both exciting and anticlimactic - I haven't worked on either of these pieces in nearly a year!
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posted by [identity profile] my-tw0-cents.livejournal.com at 11:48pm on 08/11/2006
Congratulations!!! Both sound wonderful!
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posted by [identity profile] my-tw0-cents.livejournal.com at 11:48pm on 08/11/2006
Congratulations!!! Both sound wonderful!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:06pm on 09/11/2006
Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] haggisthesecond.livejournal.com at 11:53pm on 08/11/2006
hey, that's great! congratulations. I look forward to reading them.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:06pm on 09/11/2006
I have copies... Well, actually, I don't yet have a copy of the edited version of the encyclopedia article. I will probably have to track down the book and photocopy it to get that.
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posted by [identity profile] justinsomnia.livejournal.com at 11:59pm on 08/11/2006
Congrats! You're two steps closer to being the proud owner of a book-chapter-length CV!

;-)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 08:48pm on 09/11/2006
Every line counts!
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posted by [personal profile] gillo at 12:15am on 09/11/2006
A Real Author in Real Books! Yee-hah! Congratulations.

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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:03pm on 09/11/2006
I even have my own copy of Wind and Water, proving it really exists! (Now that the J.R.R. Tolkien Encyclopedia is effectively limited edition - and pricy in the first place - I will have fewer opportunities to encounter it.
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posted by [identity profile] pittenweem.livejournal.com at 12:39am on 09/11/2006
Congratulations!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:01pm on 09/11/2006
Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] jennybeast.livejournal.com at 01:22am on 09/11/2006
Hooray! go Shana!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:04pm on 09/11/2006
Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] dsgood.livejournal.com at 01:30am on 09/11/2006
Congratulations!
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 09:56pm on 09/11/2006
Thank you!
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posted by [personal profile] kake at 01:39am on 09/11/2006
Ooh, how exciting!

(That story about what happened to the encyclopaedia makes it sound hugely frustrating.)
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:00pm on 09/11/2006
(And makes me so glad that I wasn't editing it. I'm particularly sorry to hear that Routledge's encyclopedia unit has been shut down. Encyclopedias were primarily why I knew the Routledge name. They've done a whole series of medieval encyclopedias over the years which are excellent resources. The problems may mildly exonerate any errors which have cropped up in my article since I submitted it however... much as I'd rather there be none at all. We'll see...)
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posted by [identity profile] intertext.livejournal.com at 06:14am on 09/11/2006
Hey! Well done, you! That's smashing.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:01pm on 09/11/2006
Thank you!
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posted by [identity profile] oursin.livejournal.com at 09:43am on 09/11/2006
Yay! that is always exciting.
I must see if library will get Wind and Water.
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posted by [personal profile] owlfish at 10:06pm on 09/11/2006
The idea of encountering a book containing things I've written in a Library is quite exciting too!
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posted by [identity profile] ex-hedgies507.livejournal.com at 12:02am on 10/11/2006
You are just too cool for words, you know that?
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