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NLA-I Awards CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS

Nominations may be sent to the contact email at awards@nla-international.com

(Columbus, OH) — NLA-International, a leading organization for activists in the pansexual leather community, is now accepting nominations for its annual writing awards for excellence in SM/leather/fetish writing for books, articles, novels and short fiction, which were first published between 1 January 2014 and 31 December 2014. The deadline for nominations is 31 January 2014. The finalists will be...

Well, would you look at that?

I’m on the front page of ARe Cafe today!

Here’s a link to the interview.

Seriously????

So, I have this habit of occasionally doing vanity searches on Google. I mean, I think everyone does it. Today, though, I found something I was not expecting.

This book.Steaming into a Victorian Future, by Julie Ann Taddeo, which is basically a study of literary steampunk.

Including the erotica.

Including Carnal Machines! (And, I might add, two of Circlet Press’ steampunk anthologies!)

Gee, I’ve never been a footnote before. Or a citation. Pretty nifty!

Nano.

I’ve been asked several times now. Am I doing NaNoWriMo this year?

And the answer is…. a definite maybe.

I’m working on edits for The School, and I have two short stories that need to be in by 11/15. But I also have a novel I’m DYING to work on, and the synopsis is done, so I’ll just be pouring words out of a bucket onto the page, really.

But we also have a trip coming up for Thanksgiving…

So…. maybe.

Still a win.

If I have to lose the Pauline Reage Award, I’m proud to lose it to Laura Antoniou! Congratulations for the win for The Killer Wore Leather! (Which is, by the by, a MOST excellent book, and everyone should own a copy.)

Market Day.

I am self-admittedly lousy at marketing. Especially when I’m in the middle of writing a novel, or working on edits, or doing the fifty-million things that need to be done around the house as a mom and domestic engineer (cough*housewife*cough). Which is my way of saying that I’d rather have root canal than do promotions.

Bad writer, no biscuit.

So…. here are the things that are currently available!

Most recently is Bi Magic, from Forbidden Fiction.I have two stories in this anthology: Fools Rush...

Cart before the horse.

I did something tonightI don’t usually do. I went out to dinner. (I’m gluten intolerant, which makes eating out a game of Russian Roulette.) But my sister and brother-in-law and the cutest nephew on the Eastern Seaboard are in town, and we went out to dinner with them.

Left Universal Citywalk in a monsoon, which passed just as we bought and donned ponchos. Wedrove out onto I-4 underneath a gorgeous double rainbow. It took forever to get home because we caught the storm on its way north (it’s n...

Finished

It’s all done but the title.

The short story/novella/how-the-heck-long-is-this-anyway? that I’ve been calling Berlin is now done.

It’s also now a short novel, at 46,000 words. (Yes, in romance writing, that’s a novel.)

I just need to come up with something better than Berlin as a title. Because the first one was House of Sable Locks, and the third one will beMen of Mortal Seeming. (Yes. May the Little Tin Gods of Artifice help me, I’m writing a trilogy.)

Titles usually don’t give me trouble. But...

To whomever just tried to hack my account.

Screw you.

That is all.

Life is what happens when you’re busy making other plans.

Back in May, I had this to say about my plans for the summer workload:

Looking at the list, it looks like there will be work on short stories over the next week and a half, thensynopsizing of Hidden Things over the summer (which is almost done — I was working on that when I got the “when can you have this to us?” email for The School).

I’ll need to see what’s broken in the synopsis of Holy Orders, but that can wait until I sell Heart’s Master. And I need to go through The Sea Prince and see wha...