Blurb Heaven

WooHoo!  With Nine You Get Vanyr scored another stellar blurb, this time from Lilith Saintcrow:A long rollicking ride through fandom and fantasy.It don’t get better than that.  *big, big grin*  Thanks, Lili!

Cover Gush

Finally, it can be revealed–annecain’s gorgeous cover for With Nine You Get Vanyr.  Teri and I were blown away the minute she started showing us the preliminary versions, and it’s been so hard keeping quiet about it until Samhain officially...

Gay Rights

Taken from twisting_path and klgrem: “Why is it that ,as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands?” – Ernest GainesWe would like to know who really believes in gay rights on LiveJournal.  There is no...

Seeking Beta Readers for “Promo on the Cheap”

For my sins (which is usually how I get involved in these things), I’ll be leading a small seminar on promotion for the writers of Samhain Publishing in early November.  The purpose is to help Samhain’s writers focus on what kinds of promotion...

The blurbs just get better and better

I am so pumped!  Patty Briggs has this to say about With Nine You Get Vanyr:I had such fun with this story.  With Nine You Get Vanyr is an original romp sure to appeal to fans of Sherrilyn Kenyon and Lynn Kurland.First Carole...

WooHoo! First Blurb

And it’s a beaut.  This is what Carole Nelson Douglas www.carolenelsondouglas.com had to say about With Nine You Get Vanyr:Action! Magic! Love, war, and mirth! The reader’s cup of epic fantasy fun overflows in With Nine You Get Vanyr, a rousing tale...

Post DragonCon Posting — With Pics!

Finally flopping around on dry land after a total immersion weekend at DragonCon, my favorite summer camp for wayward adults.  And there were a lot of us this year.  *g* Got to meet LJ friends <quietselkie> (aka Nina Merrill) and...

Waiting for the Cable Guy

I love my cable modem. I really do. I don’t know what I did before Greg insisted we get one nine years ago.The lousy thing is this summer I’m learning. Our early summer storms and subsequent 100-degree days apparently fried something important in the...

Jumped the Decimal Point

On the galley printing.  Our local printer is now only comparable to Kinkos, vice lower than Office Depot and Staples.  But hey, at least I found out before I made any kind of commitment. Everything else still holds, though.  So it’s all...

Cool Beans

Well, something has to be cool in this heat wave.First, I mailed out the imps to the wonderful readers who won the With Nine You Get Vanyr part of the Samhain Readers Appreciation Contest.  Ladies, I’ll write more off-list, but hopefully, you’ll get...