Tuesday Has No Phones

Book! Book what I am in! Eeeee!

Hey y'all! Allow me to introduce you to Alleys and Doorways, a new anthology from Torquere Press. Per the TP website:

Do you like your fantasy urban? Do you want your magic real? Then look to Alleys and Doorways. Editor Meredith Schwartz brings tales of magic and mystery, all set in the cities of our realities and imaginations.

From magic users to elves, dragons to demon lovers, the stories as are diverse as they are heated. Authors like Sean Michael, BA Tortuga, Steve Berman and AJ Grant give us the experience of gay love and romance, and all the magic we can dream of!

And if THAT is not sexy enough, the anthology was edited by none other than stakebait and not only includes a story by yours truly, but by airawyn who is the next Joss Whedon in the making, just you wait and see.

But don't take my word for it. Have a taste of my story:

( There's a dragon. )

Still curious? Check out the great review by Chris Owen. Then stop denying yourself this fabulous bit of fantasy and enjoyment and give yourself a post-holiday treat by buying it for only $5.95.

Enjoy!

It is my pleasure to announce the publication of a new anthology, Sleeping Beauty, Indeed which contains fic from such spiffy people as stakebait and yours truly. It's an anthology of fairy tales, some classics, some rare, some totally new, all with a lesbian twist.

My story is called The Mute Princess and if you'd like a free sample: ( Here it is )

All that for the low, low price of $5.95. What's not to love? =)

The latest issue of Reflection's Edge is now online. stakebait is the featured author for this month (YAY!!) with her story Override. And yours truly covers Wicca/neo-Paganism for dummies with How Not To Be Turned Into A Frog.

And other people do other stuff too. But Mer! Me! What more could you want? ;)

[steps up to the microphone]

Ahem:

Torquere Press announces the release of Naughty.

What is Naughty? To some folks it’s the opposite of nice. To some people it’s pure raunch. In the Naughty anthology, edited by M. Rode, it’s something extraordinary. The stories in the Naughty nudge. They wink. They hide in dark corners and do things that no one would do in polite company.

These stories are bursting at the seams with sex, intrigue, and the occasional spanking. The characters will engage you and their actions will leave you gasping. All of the favorite Torquere Press authors are here, including BA Tortuga and Kathleen Dale, as well as newcomers such as AJ Grant and Alex Exley. Check it out today and have some Naughty fun!

That's right, it's a new anthology and in case you couldn't tell by my subtle use of bolding, yours truly is in it. I could not be happier or more squeeful.

The anthology itself kicks ass. I've read through it and the stories are hot and fun and fab. But of course this is the all about me journal so, just for you guys, a quick taste of the bit I did:

( Denial.... )

That's all! First one's free! As for the rest... hey, it's less than five bucks and all you gotta do is click this super-sexy link right here (go on, you know you want to).

There, self-pimping all done. Now I can go shimmy.

[dancedancedance]

As I continue to catch up...

wisdomeagle posted the results to the poll on Jossverse character preferences. There's some interesting data on who people relate to, who they like to write, who they're not interested in and so on. I was surprised at some of the findings. Go see for yourself. It definitely provides a useful perspective on discussions about which specific characters or types of characters are adored vs. ignored.

Yours truly has a piece in this month's Reflection's Edge. You'll probably be able to guess which one it is. 8)

Speaking of writing, before I left for Connexions flaming_muse said she'd break my fingers if I didn't stop bitching and moaning clear my head by writing something purely for myself. Time permitting, we'll see if that happens. The fun part is that the weekend of enforced time away from the computer did a lot to help clear the system... and get the plot bunnies flowing. So many ideas for Protocol, oh yes my precious.....

Sleep! Glorious sleep! Thanks to the wonders of cough syrup I was able to fall asleep and stay that way for hours and hours and hours. Ahh, bliss. Though bliss filled with at least 2 nightmares that I can remember. Sign of stress or inadvertant side effect of the medicine? Perhaps some from column A and some from column B.

The snow last night was very pretty and looks to be mostly melted now. I bet if I waited long enough I wouldn't even have to clean off my car. However I'm actually possessed of some energy and desire to get out of the house, so I think I'm going to go out for a bit and do some book shopping. triskellian has pimped the wonders of CSS to me and now my geeky heart wants to play. I've looked through some online lessons and have been quite happy to discover that it's not as complicated to pick up as I thought.

I'm always fascinated by the process of learning things. It amazes me how something can seem incomprehensible and impossible when you first look at it, but once it's broken down into parts it all clicks and makes sense. This is part of why I've made it a goal for myself to learn at least two new things a year. I may not end up liking said things and wanting to make a habit or hobby out of them, but it's good to learn and find out how stuff works. Or at least I think so.

Speaking of learning new things, I'd like to share my experiences in the publishing world by giving a word of wisdom to the rest of you: when sending things out for publication, particularly via online submission, something you're going to want to avoid doing is titling the piece something like - oh let's just make up an example - "Rejection". Because what's going to happen is that you'll hear back from said publishers and said publishers will be kind enough to include your story title in the subject heading of their email, and you will see said email and leap to a very understandable though fortunately incorrect conclusion about what the contents of said email are about.

Not that this has happened to me, of course. [makes mental note to never use another story title that does not contain the words "Accepted" or, perhaps "Allow us to give you large sums of money, you goddess, you."]

So how's your day going?