My dad isn’t turning in his grave in Arlington National Cemetery. He’s spinning 48X.For eleven years during the Vietnam War, Major then Lieutenant Colonel John J. Ward served as the registrar–or chief administrative officer–of Walter Reed Army …
Author: jmward14
Absentee Apologies
No, you haven’t been imagining things–or the lack of things, like responses to emails. *sigh* My mom’s youngest sister died on Monday, and I’ve been scrambling ever since. Greg and I are heading up to …
Oops! Mom Did It Again
The Amazing One-Eighty Old Lady has struck again.They call me Wrong Way Ward. My mom, on the other hand, is famous for her wrong way prayers. When hundakleptisis was so sick last year, qnotku and …
New Vanyr (sort of)
In a fit of temporary insanity, Samhain decided to unlock my cage and let me blog again. The ostensible purpose was to allow the print authors an opportunity to flog their new paper releases. I …
I am such a fan girl
I’m supposed to be working on With Nine You Get Vanyr promo. I’m supposed to be doing final line edits on a zombie story for Samhain. So what am I doing? You got it–staring at …
Win a Wishstone to Celebrate “Vanyr’s” Print Date & Poll Standing
This has been a heck of a day–in the best possible way. – The print edition of With Nine You Get Vanyr went on sale.– Preditors & Editors posted the results of their 2006 SF/fantasy …
Freebie Jeebies!
Free while supplies last–not one, but two amazing bookmarks! The first features Anne Cain’s luscious cover art for With Nine You Get Vanyr. The second–distributed by the Scott County, MN, Office of Environmental Health–sports an uber cute …
A big shout out
To Jim Butcher on the broadcast premiere of The Dresden Files on the SciFi Channel. WTG, Jim! Major congratulations to you and Shannon–you’re an inspiration to us all. Three cheers and a round of cyber-champagne …
Bloody Awful!
I was minding my own business, reading “Tacky”, Charlaine Harris’s story in My Big Fat Supernatural Wedding, when a sensory memory I’d repressed for nearly 24 hours bit me on the nose. Literally. The smell …
Thank you for voting!
The results aren’t final, but they’re still sweet. With Nine You Get Vanyr made it to #2 in the 2006 Preditors & Editors Readers Poll. WooHoo! Somewhere out there qnotku is grinning her face off. …