When too tired to write a blog post about whatever it is I write blog posts about, I listen to the tiny voice in my head…
fngrrl, signing off…

ALTHOUGH Mars in your sign is a little more edgy than you would like, this cosmic bad boy is doing you a whole load of favours. He’s suggesting you have nothing to fear but fear itself and is pushing you further than you have gone before. Scary isn’t it.
Why yes, yes it is. I’ve never played well outside of my comfort zone (I usually follow, and rarely lead – even though I’d rather lead, but not really – oh, the brainpain!). Tomorrow, or later today really, is the first full …

I know this has nothing to do with me, other than I did the copy edits for Unwelcome Bodies and I want to be Jen when I grow up (I’m gonna suffer one hell of a case of DID, I’m tellin’ ya). Captive Girl managed to knock her previous stories from my ‘top shelf’ of shorts. It’s just downright heartwrenching and disturbing and amazing and… well, read on, straight from BorgDude’s blog:
2007 Final Nebula Ballot
http://www.sfwa.org/awards/2008/NebFinal2007.html
Congratulations to our own Jennifer Pelland! Her short story “Captive Girl”* made the final ballot.
It’s great …

*SQUEEEEEEEE*
I am awfully undignified sometimes.
This morning I received an email from Carole Spencer, owner of Lachesis Publishing, and the two imprints, LBF Books and Sinful Moments Press. She was writing to give me information on the duties of an editor in chief, along with an offer for the EiC position with the LBF Books imprint. Despite wanting to immediately just jump in and scream YESYESYES ala Meg Ryan, I took my time and thought it over.
Ok, not really. I pretty much replied right away, once I’d woken up (it was …

I just wanted to extend congratulations to several former clients who are now on the publishing roster for Lachesis/LBF:
TL Trevaskis – The Forgotten Disturbed (thriller)
Giovanna Lagana – Rickie Learns About Recycling (childrens)
Troy Saling – Again (bizzaro)
Ginger Simpson – Embezzled Love (romance)
Talk about a surprise blindsiding! LOL

Copied from the BorgDude’s blog, because my post wouldn’t post last night and now I’ve lost it.
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Apex Online February 08
It’s ALIVE!
Featuring Sara King, the author of the wonderfully depressing story “The Mouldy Dead” that appears in issue 11 of Apex Digest.
Also contains a story by…Jason Sizemore. One of my harsher horror pieces.
Interviews with Sara King, Jeremy Shipp, and David Wong (all by Jodi Lee, interestingly enough! Go Jodi!).
And a whole bunch of book reviews, including my take on McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men.
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I now firmly believe Jeremy is …

… now who will save the world from huge great whites with giant appetites?
More here.