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March 9, 2010
'Cos ebooks rock
It's Read an Ebook Week! And I'm celebrating by popping in for a chat at Samhaincafe with fellow author Josh Lanyon!
Here's my biased view of ebooks.
It doesn't seem to me that paper books are going away anytime soon, but I know that I personally have had a huge shift in my preference for electronic versus physical over the last couple of years. I blame the public library, physics, and my iPod. See, I used to buy books that I liked. I even spent a lot of money on them. And then when I started w...
Here's my biased view of ebooks.
It doesn't seem to me that paper books are going away anytime soon, but I know that I personally have had a huge shift in my preference for electronic versus physical over the last couple of years. I blame the public library, physics, and my iPod. See, I used to buy books that I liked. I even spent a lot of money on them. And then when I started w...
March 5, 2010
pins, resin and fake eyeballs
The road to the taxidermist's house was much scarier than anything in that basement. Even the walleye.
The taxidermist was very nice! See, you guys didn't need to worry ;-)
(Click to enlarge)
These are pheasant's feet. Animals who were recently assembled were pinned so that they'd dry in the correct shape.
The biggest eyes are for an elk. The smallest (black blown glass balls in a baggie just above the elk eyes) are for squirrel.
The fake parts look creepier than the real parts sometimes. Here's ...
The taxidermist was very nice! See, you guys didn't need to worry ;-)
(Click to enlarge)
These are pheasant's feet. Animals who were recently assembled were pinned so that they'd dry in the correct shape.
The biggest eyes are for an elk. The smallest (black blown glass balls in a baggie just above the elk eyes) are for squirrel.
The fake parts look creepier than the real parts sometimes. Here's ...
Creatures in all their glory
Last night I went to a lecture on identifying bird calls, figuring that it was 1. Free, 2. Near my house, and 3. Might teach me some interesting fact I could use in a novel.
One of the cool things I found out was that birds that live in fields (near the ground, in grass) have songs and calls that sound more like insects, so a lot of clicking and whirring bird noises are from these types of birds.
I was having a dream where I heard a "chit...chit...chit..." beside me and thought, "Aha! I know wh...
One of the cool things I found out was that birds that live in fields (near the ground, in grass) have songs and calls that sound more like insects, so a lot of clicking and whirring bird noises are from these types of birds.
I was having a dream where I heard a "chit...chit...chit..." beside me and thought, "Aha! I know wh...
March 3, 2010
I do prefer my animals alive...
...but a taxidermist makes for an interesting character!I've been working on this pair of stories for quite a while now. It started with a visit to a local state park where the ranger station has several dioramas of taxidermied local species. I find stuffed dead animals morbidly fascinating because they never look quite right. And if they are lifelike, they're actually all the creepier. Since the ranger didn't seem too busy I asked her a bunch of questions about the animals--in particular how...
February 27, 2010
Worst fitness book EVER
(click to zoom in...pay particular heed to the title)
February 24, 2010
Packing Heat 093: Ready the Red Pen
Preparation and Thought
I'm getting ready for NaNoEdMo — the next step after NaNoWriMo. You know: that 50,000 words of gobbledygook you wrote in November. (I didn't do NaNoWriMo this year, but I do have some shelved novels from prior years.)
The idea behind NaNoEdMo is to commit to putting in a big block of editing time and logging that time weekly. In order to complete NaNoEdMo, you must log 50 hours of editing time over the course of the month.
See www.nanoedmo.net for details. I just s...
I'm getting ready for NaNoEdMo — the next step after NaNoWriMo. You know: that 50,000 words of gobbledygook you wrote in November. (I didn't do NaNoWriMo this year, but I do have some shelved novels from prior years.)
The idea behind NaNoEdMo is to commit to putting in a big block of editing time and logging that time weekly. In order to complete NaNoEdMo, you must log 50 hours of editing time over the course of the month.
See www.nanoedmo.net for details. I just s...
February 23, 2010
Bo-ring
It's funny how telling someone you're a writer seems to make them want to know all about what you write. I wonder why that is? I know that I personally would grill a writer I'd just met because I'm interested in writing, myself. But if I weren't...I don't know, would I be quite as persistent as casual acquaintances seem to be with me?
I think that as an m/m erotica writer, my target audience is really specific. True, you never know who's going to turn out to be into m/m even though you don't e...
I think that as an m/m erotica writer, my target audience is really specific. True, you never know who's going to turn out to be into m/m even though you don't e...
February 22, 2010
Grab you a freebie
Moolah and Moonshine (Petit Morts #3) is up for grabs today at Wave's blog. Only nine people have thrown their name in the hat so far -- there's a good chance you could win!
Go for it!
Go for it!
February 21, 2010
Win a copy of Hue, Tint and Shade
Today you can win a copy of Hue, Tint and Shade on Wave's blog.Wave also just posted a review of Moolah and Moonshine where she says, "This book proved to be the most surprising and I really, really liked it because it was quite different from what I was expecting...I think [Petit Morts:] is one of the best short series I have come across in a long time" Yay! Thanks, Wave!
Val at Obsidianbookshelf.com also reviewed several of the stories this week. She said, "The contradictions that the auth...
February 13, 2010
Yum Yum, Petit Morts are here!
Just a quickie to say that you can read nice big samples or grab the stories now! (Excuse the state of my navigation bar. It looks lousy on a small monitor on IE and I'll just make it worse if I try to fix it tonight!)
#1: Hue, Tint and Shade by Jordan Castillo Price
Yellow is as yellow does.
#2: Slings and Arrows by Josh Lanyon
It's a fine line between "secret admirer" and "stalker".
#3: Moolah and Moonshine by Jordan Castillo Price
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