Oh, Lordy, the Writer Ran Away With Clankers Again

Posted on by Sarah A. Hoyt

Look, sad I was, unable to word I was. So I tortured the clankers for a traditional Ellyan Ballad “A swearing before battle.”

For those of you who HAVE read the book, the two mugs above (and in the interlude in the video) are the Lords of the Land of Karrash (the little one who frankly depending on what he as wearing could look like a woman if an unusually flat one) and the Lord of Erradi, who is tall and rough hewn anyway.

I’d apologize for stealing their likenesses, since they had a very normal swearing, not before battle, but I couldn’t get the clanker not to render horrors, then remembered I had made images of them. I couldn’t get it to make them both silhouettes, but that’s something else. Also I can’t get one to turn away at the end, without the clanker giving him…. a newspaper? That one I had to show Dan, because it’s inexplicable. (And it made him laugh.) In current state of play I couldn’t edit the newspaper out, so….

And because my mind isn’t QUITE right, I of course immediately realized that some glitzy singer in Britannia on High would get hold of the song and make her own to play in concert.
And so, A Swearing Before Battle, Britannia, Folk.


And now I do promise to leave the clankers alone and go work, like a good writer should. Words have been…. difficult. I don’t think I’m sleeping well.

Life is weird. But I’m going to try.

16 thoughts on “Oh, Lordy, the Writer Ran Away With Clankers Again”

      1. :scoffs: What DO they teach these kids?

        First baby comes when he comes. The others take the full term.

        (…. I am now actually checking over my shoulder because goodness I wouldn’t want to seriously annoy either.)

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  3. You need to incorporate these songs into your advertising for the book. Attach them on Amazon, tweet them, put them as links at the end of your other books (not sure that’s allowed, but it’s an idea).

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      1. I know you can put video links in a book entry… hmm….

        Ah. You used to be able to do that. Now they don’t let authors do it. But! Apparently customers can submit videos as a type of review?

        Not sure where to look for this info next….

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        2. You must be thinking of the “A+” offering. Yes, they’ve restricted it to “brands” since it first started. I don’t know whether just registering a trademark would let you into it.

          Hmm. Just looked. The USPTO says that “clankers” is NOT a registered trademark…

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  6. Wait, did Sarah *actually* title a chapter “The Many Perils of Ethnographic Collection”? She did, she did!

    This needs to be the name of a Pink Floyd song, perhaps right after “Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict.”

    Or…..maybe the name of a Culture spaceship!

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  7. Sarah, these lyrics are some of the most beautiful, evocative words I have read in a long time.

    Thank you.

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