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October 25, 2013
Bump In The Night blog tour – I’m up!
Hey y’all, today’s my first post in Riptide’s virtual blog tour for Bump In The Night. I’m over at the Under The Covers book blog with a deleted scene from my anthology contribution, “Flesh And Song“. Hop on over and comment for a chance to win a $25 Riptide gift certificate. Don’t forget to check out the rest of the blog stop and comment on those as well!
October 21, 2013
Bump In The Night blog tour — MM Good Book Reviews
Check out Brien Michael’s fascinating post on his writing process plus an awesome review of Bump In The Night over at MM Good Book Reviews! Be sure to comment for a chance to win a copy of a book by Brien. Also, comment on any post in the Bump In The Night blog tour for a chance to win a $25 Riptide Publishing gift certificate. The tour started October 14 and runs through October 31. I’ll have a couple of posts myself 
Not sure what dates they’ll be, but I’ll let y’all know when I do.
Here’s the full listing of blogs and dates for the tour:
October 14, 2013 - Words of Wisdom From the Scarf Princess
October 15, 2013 - Cup O’ Porn
October 16, 2013 - Sid Love
October 16, 2013 - The Saucy Wenches Book Club
October 17, 2013 - Book Reviews & More by Kathy
October 18, 2013 - LeAnn’s Book Reviews – Spotlight Stop
October 19, 2013 - All I Want and More Books
October 21, 2013 - MM Good Book Reviews
October 23, 2013 - That’s What I’m Talking About
October 24, 2013 - Pants Off Reviews
October 25, 2013 - Under the Covers Book Blog
October 26, 2013 - Top 2 Bottom Reviews
October 27, 2013 - Elisa -My Reviews and Ramblings
October 28, 2013 - 3 Chicks After Dark
October 29, 2013 - Joyfully Jay
October 30, 2013 - The Jeep Diva
October 31, 2013 - My Fiction Nook
Be sure to hit all the blogs! It should be a really cool tour 
Read excerpts from all the stories (and pick up the book!) here.
October 14, 2013
Bump In The Night is out!
The erotic horror anthology Bump In The Night is now available from Riptide Publishing. It contains my short story “Flesh And Song” and several other weird, wonderful, shocking tales of sex and terror. Mine is by far the tamest one of the bunch!
If you like your man-on-monster sex to keep you awake nights, then you have to pick this up. You will not regret it.
October 9, 2013
"Animating female characters are extremely difficult. They have to go through a range of emotions,..."
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Michael Lee on animating Frozen
So that’s their (blatantly misogynistic) excuse for scrapping all but two of the female characters; that they’re too hard to animate? Those emotional female characters, they’re all the same, right? Here’s a hint: their “femaleness” isn’t what’s making them indistinguishable.
(via moopflop)
I read this in the most whiny baby voice imaginable
(via kerly-fries)
An animator actually saying out loud that he thinks all women are the same.
Just like most storytellers who actually get their work funded in this patriarchal society of ours, he thinks women are just not worth getting to know for real. Men are easy to imagine all kinds of traits and differences for. Men are varied and rich with interesting thoughts and every kind of man is pleasing to see on the screen whether he’s big or small or dark or light or handsome or goofy or just interesting-looking. Women are only worth putting on the screen if they are young white blonde pretty things, and aren’t they all just the same??????
(via isympathizewithlinus)
i dont even give a shit about this frozen stuff but this statement makes me so fucking angry
(via yamatohatake)
things that are really hard to animate but worth investing the time and energy and creativity and technological innovation and money in to make sure they’re portrayed as close to life as possible:
all the fur on a bunch of monsters
all the feathers in a flock of birds
all the leaves in a forest
all the corn in a field
all the sand in a desert
all the bricks in a city
all the snowflakes in a blizzard
things that are not worth it:
women
(via ehjaybones)
September 10, 2013
epubagent:
quixoticfemme:
whiskeydaisy:
nonnegative:
barnacli...
Character Artwork by Makani
I’M LILY EVANS?
As expected, I’m Luna.
DUMBLEDOREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Neville, motherfuckers.
Dumbledore because I judge.
Lily because I’m an extrovert today.
I always knew I was Draco.
Luna Lovegood, because I’m an odd one… \0/
Wow! I’m Ron Weasley!
Unsurprisingly, I am Luna :)
archiemcphee:
Something awesome recently happened in Istanbul,...
Something awesome recently happened in Istanbul, Turkey. As a city with many hills, Istanbul is home to lots of long staircases that intersect its centuries-old neighbourhoods, enabling pedestrians to avoid streets filled with heavy car traffic.
Last week Huseyin Cetinel, a retired forestry engineer, decided to paint the stairs connecting the neighbourhoods of Findikli and Cihangir all the colors of the rainbow.
"He told the local news media that his original motivation for applying a fresh coat of paint to the stairs was not activism, but the desire “to make people smile.” Mr. Cetinel said he spent nearly $800 on paint and devoted four days to sprucing up the stairs, with help from his son-in-law.”
Public reaction to the colourful stairs was overwhelmingly positive. People turned out in droves to pose for photos on the cheerful staircase. Some decided it was a gesture of support and call for equal rights for the city’s LGBTQ community.
But then sometime strange happened. Just a few days after Huseyin finished beautifying the staircase, residents woke up to discover that overnight the city had hastily re-painted the rainbow steps a dull, disheartening gray. The gray cover-up was so secret and sudden that locals took it very personally. It was interpreted as “a sign of intolerance and a lack of respect for their right to claim public space.”
Speaking to Turkish television reporters after the stairs were painted over, Mr. Cetinel pointed out that all of nature — “cats, birds, flowers, mountains” — is brightly colored. “Where does this gray come from?” he asked. “Did we have another Pompeii and got flooded with ash?”
What happened next is what’s really awesome. Residents began to organize with each other via twitter and soon, not only were Huseyin Cetinel’s stairs returned to their rainbow glory, but - as a sign of solidarity - entirely different stairways all over the city, and eventually in other Turkish cities as well, were painted too.
Click here to view more photos of Istanbul’s new rainbow staircases.
[via Street Art Utopia and The New York Times]
September 8, 2013
Done and done!
Well, mostly. There are still a few tweaks I’d like to make, if I can dig up the right plugin/widget, but the bulk of my monster website has been moved from the old digs to this fancy-pants new WordPress site. Man, that was a HUGE job. Something on the order of 60 pages that could not, as it turned out, simply be copied and pasted from there to here. Yikes O_O That might not be a lot for some folks, but for me it was a tremendous amount of work. I think it was worth it, though. I like my new place. I hope y’all like it too
