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March 2005 -- Vol 6, No. 3
In this month's COUSINS:
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WHAT'S NEW
So. There I was, just walking down the street minding
my own business when, out of nowhere-
No, no.
Um.
It was just past midnight and I was up on Grouse Mountain star gazing-
Nah.
*sigh*
Truth is, family, I got distracted. Really really distracted.
But more on that later.
THIS MONTH'S FEATURE:
Last month we
looked at Marie-Françoise PEPIN and two husbands, Augustin GRENIER and
Jacques-Guillaume BOETARD dit St. Sévère.
This month we look at Pierre PEPIN, his wife Marie BEDARD, and their 9
children.
Pierre is the 13th child of II--Jean PÉPIN and wife Marguerite MOREAU.
He was born 29 Aug 1715, in St Joseph (according to René Jetté), and
baptised 30 Aug 1715 in Charlesbourg, Québec.
On 29 October 1738, in Charlesbourg, he married
Madeleine BEDARD, daughter of II--Bernard BEDARD and wife Marie-Anne-Thérèse
ROY dit AUDY. She was baptized 14 Feb 1714.
According to Tanguay, they had 9 children.
| 1. |
Marie-Thérèse PEPIN,
baptised 3 Jan 1740 |
| 2. |
Marie-Anne-Elisabeth
PEPIN, baptised 31 Jan 1741 |
| 3. |
Marie-Marguerite
PEPIN, baptised 19 November 1742 |
| 4. |
Marie-Joseph PEPIN,
baptised 24 December 1744 |
| 5. |
Pierre PEPIN,
baptised 21 June 1746; buried 9 Aug 1747 |
| 6. |
Louis-Pierre,
baptised 21 May 1748; buried 11 December 1748 |
| 7. |
Charles-Joseph PEPIN,
baptised 4 Nov 1753 |
| 8. |
Anonyme PEPIN,
baptised 3 June 1753; buried 3 June 1753 |
| 9. |
Marie-Thérèse PEPIN,
baptised 6 Feb 1756; buried 27 July 1756 |
If you can
add/subtract/change any of this, send it on via email.
RAMBLINGS
FROM THE EDITOR
So, now. The truth.
Early in February, I discovered that one of the major publishing houses took
electronic submissions. This is significant because a few months
earlier, I had printed out the 124,742 word ScienceFiction/Fantasy novel
I've been
working on since 1984. (Well . . . ya just can't rush these things.)
Starting on the last page and working my way forward (because all those
books on How To Get Your Book Published recommend it,) I had carefully gone
over the entire manuscript on a seek and destroy mission, searching out
typographical errors because I've made one or two in my life. I made
certain the page numbering was correct. Then, and only then, did I put
in the new ink cartridge, unwrapped the extra bright, 20 pound, high rag
content paper, put a short stack of it in the hopper, and pushed the print
button. Took three days. As I was packing it into a box to send
it off to TOR books, I noticed that the tops of some of the pages --where
the page number and all important author's contact info was-- was only half
printed. And as I went through page by page to pull out the worse
offenders for re-printing, did I discover that some how or another, there
were some 30 odd pages that simply did not get printed.
I then made full and creative use of my extensive knowledge of Old
Anglo-Saxon. Then I took all 734 pieces of printed-on, extra bright, 20
pound, high rag content paper, tossed it in the scrap paper box, and pouted
for a couple months.
Which brings us back to early February.
Searching the internet to see which of the folks who publish Science Fiction
and Fantasy had websites, I found Baen.
And not only did they take unsolicited manuscripts* from first time authors,
they prefer electronic submissions. I snooped round a bit on their
website, spent nearly two whole days reading through a delightful batch of
pages called Baen's Bar. Found a number of my favorite fantasy authors
(Robert Asprin, Holly Lisle, and Mercedes Lackey, to name but a few).
Then I sat down and re-read Baen's submission guidelines; the part that
impressed me the most was the part that said, and I quote: "Include, if
you like, your ideal cover treatment, including cover copy, a teaser page,
and whatever else you would like. (But don't try to "sell" the story
in a cover letter. It will stand or fall on its own merits.)"
I sweated through the dreaded synopsis and chapter by chapter outline,
re-wrote the cover letter I had written for TOR, and spent a couple really
late nights creating my ideal cover treatment and then the teaser page
(that's the bit usually put on the back cover to tempt you to buy it).
Then I attached the manuscript, cover, a map, the plot outline, synopsis,
and teaser to an email that was the cover letter and sent it off. That
was at 2:33 am on February 11. At 1:03pm Feb 11, 2005, I received a
canned email from Baen saying that they had received my email. The
earliest I will hear back is sometime between November and February; they
report back on manuscripts in 9 to 12 months.
I wandered round at lose ends for a week or more. Had no idea what to
do with myself, which is in part why I burned my finger on the bottom of a
wood stove.
I was distracted.
By what. . . ?
The next book.
It's been sitting on my hard drive, ¾ done, waiting for its chance to be
finished. I sat and read through what I had, wandered the Internet
researching obscure things for the sake of a single accurate sentence.
Between researching binges, I tried to do genealogy, I tried to keep up on
the Living History website, and I tried to participate in planning for the
upcoming Re-enactment Season and how we're going to work around the
heinously high fuel prices.
But my story kept calling back with its siren song of magic, word play, and
vile, conniving bad guys.
In fact it wasn't until I got and email from Exina Carriere, politely asking
after the March issue, that I realized I hadn't done one.
Merci beaucoup, Exina.
Sorry about the wait, guys.
* unsolicited manuscripts = manuscripts NOT sent by a literary agent
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