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Writing Process Blog Hop/2014 C4 Lit Fest

Made it to the latter half of the C4 Lit fest – let’s just say that I’m getting tired and I’ll talk about it tomorrow. It didn’t seem as busy as last year, but we had Junos to compete, so my guess is that they won.

I got tagged by Rita Bay, and I tag Audra Middleton,Jenn Nixon, andI’ll tag the third person when they respond to my email.

The Writing Process

What am I working on?

Finishing up a sword and sorcery tale; sort-of started on this steampunk/horror short. And by short I mean I want it to...

Book Tours/Still hate this new computer

First world problems aside,I’ll stop whining when I can post this without a page being hijacked, and my keyboard actually responds. Until then, CAPSLOCK RAGE. Seriously though, if I wanted the cutesie mac stuff, I would have bought a mac. Windows 8 blows.

And me and a few other of the Burst Authors are doing a group Book Tour – I’ll hotlink later, here’s the banner:

I’ll let you know when I have more details – methinks I need to get more stuff under contract because I look like a total slacker...

Pants on Fire

I was very wrong about the short story contest being over for the C4 Lit fest - apparently I was looking at last year’s stuff (I didn’t know about C4 until the week before, and only because Ron told me) so if you’re from Manitoba, you have until March 17 to get your short story in.

And while we’re talking Canadians – I don’t think the new site is up (I haven’t gotten my usual email yet) but consider the Prix Aurora Awards. If you’re thinking you’d like to support more small science-fiction and...

So my book’s been out for a year now / What I’ve learned

Before I get too far – C4′s gearing up for the end of the month. It’ll be at the Norwood Hotel in Winnipeg – in the meantime, you can check out the lineup/authors and do some funvoting ahead of time here. Congratulation to the winners and runners up of the short story contest.

So my first book’s been out for a year as of February (blah blah blah no laptop, see last post). The eBook, anyway – I didn’t get my paws on to a hard copy of Tower of Obsidian until the last week of October, but given t...

Change is Good, which is why I drag my feet

I don’t know about the rest of you, but my February was a blur – I started the new job in January but I’ve been working both. That’s not why I haven’t been updating – my beloved Poochy-Poo spilled tea on my old laptop back in December. Now, I drink it black and the dog just got caught in the charger cord, so I was able to save just about everything important on my laptop before it went and died, which is mostly my books, short stories and pictures from a few weddings, but I lost my contact sh...

Kicking it Oldschool/ Squirrel of DOOM

So I stumble across free games from time to time – I found Heroine’s Quest through The Mary Sue. Let’s just say I suck at Adventure Games, but I can kind of wander through this one okay. If I can get through it, that means anyone who likes adventure/pick up items games will be fine. I love the norse mythos base and the color scheme is beautiful - so if you happen to be in the same deep freeze as the rest of most of North America, not a bad little freebie to play with while you avoid the outdo...

2014 Resolutions/2013 Hindsight

This is the longest I’ve been able to stare at a screen since Christmas Eve, so I might as well do my year-end now. Not a sympathy post – went to the doctor on Friday, apparently this flue is quite common right now but I’m on the mend.

Anyway, it’s time to do the “here’s what I did and what I plan to do next year” sphiel.

Last year, I wrote:

In 2013, I will:

1) Finish any lingering editing manuscripts that I was working on in 2012.

In a word: NO. I know I was writing back in the summer that I was...

Merry Belated Christmas!

I should have posted this two days ago, but let’s just say that on Christmas Eve after I saw the new Hobbit movie, my stomach/intestines decided something wasn’t agreeing with them. I spent most of Christmas laying down/trying to explain to the puppy that sick days are not ‘happy skippy oh boy you’re spending the day with me bestest best friend days’ while I periodically woke up with all manner of toys on or near my person.

Ah well – being a paramedic puts it all into perspective so it could h...

Champagne’s Online Christmas Chat TONIGHT

In about half an hour. I kind of suck with EST vs CST. Give me Zulu time.

Just go HERE. You don’t need a code, just a user name. My flaky self is on call, but I plan on being in attendance as much as possible (well, that and studying. I swear, as much as I love ongoing education sometimes… ahem. I’ll be the kid at the party studying).

Win a Print Copy of Tower of Obsidian/C4 Comic Con

I finally got the print version of Tower of Obsidian. To celebrate, I got a print giveaway of 5 copies. It’s open to residents of Canada, US, UK, and Australia. I’m not sure how much this’ll cost me, but eeeeh. I’ll pick up some overtime in November or December if I suffer that much.

Goodreads Book Giveaway


Tower of Obsidian
by L.T. Getty

Giveaway ends December 05, 2013.

See the giveaway details

at Goodreads.

Enter to win

While you’re at it, my sister threw together a 30-second trailer for the book....