And for once, I actually mean it literally. Temperatures soared overnight (steadily climbing since Friday) and as a stark contrast to Thursday’s temps (-47C w/windchill) it is now +1C.
o_O
That bearing in mind, I’d like to give a push to the Spring Thaw Fiction Contest we’re running over at The New Bedlam Project. Entries are slowly trickling in, and we’re getting really excited! You’ve still got time to enter, so put your thinking caps on:
General Information:
New Bedlam is celebrating its bicentennial.
The town has expanded their annual spring festival to include a …

2009 had amazing ups and downs for me, like a giant roller-coaster. I know it was like that for many others in the publishing world as well, from writers to editors right down to the very publishers themselves.
It’s been a long work-filled year, sometimes enjoyable, definitely exciting and often troubling. The new friends I’ve made have been – for the most part – a solid bunch, letting me help when I could, helping me when they could and just being an all around great bunch of people. They’ve made my …

So, here we are, just shy of a month before Christmas. You really wanted to be reminded of that, didn’t you? Have YOU finished your shopping yet? If you haven’t, I have some suggestions, if you have, has anyone told you lately that you’re an overachiever? Just kidding.
Sort of. Overachiever.
Yes, that has been my word for November. Overachiever. Some of my friends from NaNoWriMo and NaNoWriYe and their amazing NaNo word counts, some from really early on – overachievers.
Speaking of NaNo… I have officially given up for this year. …

(x-posting from The Pagan & The Pen, groups)
It’s been three years since the Courting Morpheus anthology was conceived, two since it was supposed to be in print and has been through two publishers. Finally, Courting Morpheus is being published!
Featuring stories by Geoffrey Girard, Camille Alexa, and Louise Bohmer, a novelette by Rowan Gant Investigations series author M.R. Sellars and introduction by Alethea Kontis, Courting Morpheus is a collection of 13 stories centered on the writing/artistic community in the town of New Bedlam.
Insomnia plagues the townspeople, and the monsters they usually …

I’m working on my NaNo this weekend, nothing else. I need the break folks, so bear with me.
Okay, there is one bit of work I’ve done – Courting Morpheus (the original anthology set in New Bedlam) has finally gone up for pre-order. Well, at least the hardcover limited editions have.. 😉
Pre-order Courting Morpheus LE Hardcover only at Belfire Press.
(Please forgive the Naruto AMV at the end. 😉 )