NOTE – I am no longer a part of the Night of the Working Dead publication from Blu Phier.
Make note, folks – listen to your inner voices! Do what the voices tell you to do. Generally, those voices are right.

I’ve done it again – I’ve put a forum on my website.
My reasoning was three-fold. A couple of us have courses we want to get going (I have three, possibly four totally unrelated to writing/editing/publishing), I’ve been frustrated of late with various writerly things and I’d been dying to try the SMF format for myself.
Anyone is free to join and post…however I expect adult behaviour. Toddlers walking around in adult bodies can go find somewhere else to play. On the flip side of that, adults walking around in children’s bodies …

I forgot to include the promised goal list in the newsletter. As with last year, I want to note that these are NOT resolutions, they are goals. I reserve the right to change them as I see necessary over the coming year, either adding or subtracting whatever needs it.
That said, here it is – the Jodi Lee Professional/Personal Goal Lists for 2008:

Writing Related Goals for 2008:
200K word count total
Finish majority of novels-in-progress
Minimum 12 shorts
As responses come in for subbed work, archive for editing/resub
Get contract for Samhain’s Call
Publishing Goals for 2008:
Courting …

Thanks to the gorgeous and damnfine writer, TL Trevaskis, I found out I/Thirsty have been nominated for Best Short Horror at the annual Preditors & Editors poll. This is the same poll but different category that I was in last year.
Again, I say – wow, just…wow. *beaming huge smile* Thanks to whomever nominated me/Thirsty!
If you’d like to vote, please stop over to the site: PredPoll – Short Horror Poll
Thirsty was published in the spring of 2007, in issue 11 of Night to Dawn magazine. It’s currently under consideration for a …

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Over the weekend Graveside Tales received an email from the HWA. It seems that Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths edited by Colleen Morris & Joel A. Sutherland has been recommended for a Stoker Award in the anthology category. This came as a complete surprise to everyone at Graveside Tales.
We also have received the proof copy of Fried! on Thursday and approved the proof over the weekend. Everyone is very pleased how the book turned out and we are confident you will …