…and welcome back to another issue of Writersphere, where I pimp not only Belfire etc. titles but also open markets, authors I adore and stuff in general. Please click through to see more… it’s a long post, but full of all kinds of things, including a movie trailer!

HA! The 12th Writersphere on the 12th!
(Updated to add Covey News!) My oldest daughter, she who does fantastic book trailers for Belfire, has had one of her other title trailers nominated for a New Covey Award: Crossed Out by Kim Baccellia/video by Ceilidh-Eilish Productions. Please consider her in your voting!
Belfire & Needfire News
Massive website update over at Belfire Press, with New Bedlam and Needfire integrations coming soon, possibly over the next week. Please let us know what you think of the new look!
And it’s been officially announced – the Kindle …

What’s this? A new Writersphere!? After what, an eleven months hiatus, I’ve decided to start sharing the news again. More to the point, I’ve decided to take the time to share the news, rather than pretend everyone already knows it.

Yesterday around this time, I was floored by the news that Jamie Eyberg, fantastic writer and every writer’s friend, had died in a freak accident. In attempting to rescue him, his wife Ann also passed. They leave behind two very young children.
There has been such an outpouring of love and memories, and support for the children. Jamie never seemed to pass up the chance to help out the rest of us, and was always there with encouraging words and applause.
I just can’t believe that he won’t be there again, …

No need to reply to that – I know it’s July. I know, because suddenly I have a lot of reading to do, and a lot of formatting/edits and what have you. Ya’ll are really pumping out some interesting stuff for TNBP and Necrotic Tissue!
And of course, with July comes JulNoWriMo. This year I’m doing a fan fiction cross-over to New Bedlam. The characters from my favorite PC video games (Thief, Thief 2) are coming to New Bedlam, or perhaps New Bedlam was always The City. I’m just over 12k …