My publisher, Torquere Press, is marking its fifth anniversary in September. To celebrate they’re having all sorts of specials and games, including a scavenger hunt.

Find the Scavenger Hunt button somewhere on JennaJones.com, collect buttons from the other participating authors, and you could win a Kindle E-book reader loaded with Torquere Press books.

At the end of September one winner will be randomly selected out all of the correct contestants.

Winners must be 18 or over. Please see the scavenger hunt central page for rules and a list of participating authors.

Current Mood:  chipper

I love shiny technology. I blame this entirely on my father, who loved coming home with new toys: we had a PC in 1982, for instance, back when floppy disks were actually floppy and the idea of a computer monitor with other colors than black and green was like something out of science fiction.

In my never-ending quest for new pretties, I bought myself an Asus Eee Surf this week. The Eee is a microcomputer: it’s about the size of a mass market paperback book and weighs two pounds, most of which is the battery. This particular model has only 2 GB of hard drive space but that’s easily expanded upon with an SD card or flash drive. It has a Linux operating system, and some of the newer models come with Windows XP. I opted not to go with Windows because files are easily compatible using OpenOffice software, which runs equally smoothly in Windows and Linux. It comes preloaded with OpenOffice, a PDF reader, Firefox, Skype, and a lot of other programs geared towards beginners and young students.

I have named it Kaylee. (Yes, after a character from ‘Firefly.’ I have mentioned the bit where I’m an enormous geek, haven’t I?) I am of the school of thought that you should name everything you spend a lot of time with, so I have named all my computers, my iPod, and my car. (Blueberry, for the curious.)

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Since today is pre-holiday-weekend slow, I’ve been compiling a list of as many retailers as possible, and it’s now up on the Publications page.

And can I just say how much it thrills me to see how many countries my books are available in. ‘Cause it thrills me a lot.

Current Mood:  accomplished

How are things going? Not so good. I got the Arcana in early but haven’t finished a thing since. I haven’t written anything longer than 15,000 words this year. The screenplay is still slow-going, particularly since I realized I was going about the framing device in an utterly wrong way and had to take out those scenes for redoing—which is also on hold while we try to find some more biographical information.

I have all my deadlines in a “days until” countdown widget in iGoogle, and while the number of days looks like a lot, when I think about everything I’m planning to do in those numbers of days I just deflate a bit. I need more time, I need more discipline, I need more words.

It’s almost September and I feel like I haven’t accomplished a thing this year, particularly compared to last year.

Current Mood:  gloomy

This is only a test post.

Edit: The good news is, the Livejournal/Wordpress crossposting plugin is much better than the last version I used, so I expect to use it far more often and keep these entries a bit more in sync.

The bad news is, there is no bad news. Or is that good news? Though I suppose if I use this blog more often as an actual blog and less as an announcement-only kind of thing, that might be bad news . . . if you find that kind of thing irritating, which some people do . . . I dunno, I’m just here to have a good time.

I’ve decided to remove the links to retailers from the books’ pages. I can’t keep up! But all three of my books are available from numerous sources beyond Torquere Press directly.

I may make a retailers master list at some point, but I’m still making up my mind about that.

From Rainbow Reviews. Thanks, Jan!