So, I was having one of those weekends where I said (f) it all, and I walked away. Well, I walked away from parts of my daily routines; I didn’t do Myspace and Facebook things obsessively, I didn’t do forums, emails, editing, or Cubis (ok, I did some Cubis). I did watch Most Haunted and I did do my blog reading.
And, I went through all of my recently rejected material, set ‘em up for submissions and got busy with that. However – I gaffed. BIG TIME. At one of the …

Few things -
I don’t think I’ll be online much this weekend. I’ve had an emotional day and frankly, I’m wanting to get away from it all without doing more damage to the inside of my cheek…
I have some slush to finish up, wrap up a few other things and work on the giant Yule newsletter – so that should occupy my time.
I have some advertising space in the newsletter. Similar to last time, only I want shorter text blurbs, and non-animated banners. Just because I’m not sure I can make …

At last, NaNoWriMo winds to a close. I finished yesterday evening, and although the story itself is not complete, I verified my file. I am NOT making the same mistake as last year by putting it off until too late. I *did* finish last year, but when I got to the site to verify, it was just a bit too late. I think it was somewhere shortly after 1 AM…
*sigh* And it’s not going to be ready for the Delacorte deadline, but perhaps next year. Or not. There are a …

APEX Holiday Subscription Drive – Win free stuff!
(Re-post of the BorgDude’s post at Apex)
All right, folks…we haven’t done one of these in about 1.5 years. The time is ripe for a new subscription drive.
I want to increase our per word pay rate. To do this, we need more subscribers.
Here are the goals.
1) If we can get 100 new subscriptions in the month of November, I can raise the new rate to 2.5 cents per word.
2) If we can get 200 new subscriptions in the month of November, I can raise …

Introducing, The Courting Morpheus Authors
In no particular order, and no title spoilers:
M.R. Sellars
Jeff Parish
Brandon Layng
Louise Bohmer
Camille Alexa
Bruce Barber
J. Daniel Seffens
Donna M. Shelton
Nancy Kolodziej
Kevin J. Hurtack
David de Beer
Ann Tupek
Geoffrey Girard
Congratulations, folks – I look forward to months of whip…er…working with you!
Courting Morpheus – the tales of authors and their muses suffering the evil that is New Bedlam…or is it they themselves that have unleashed the evil on the town? Sleep is as elusive as the answers they seek…and the end word just won’t come.

Courting Morpheus – August 2008 – Apex …