Visit Torquere Press’s Road of a Relationship board and click on Day 20 to read my short story, “Vows.”
Also as part of the anniversary celebration, Torquere Press has released a collection of Wedding Sips, the profits and royalties of which will be donated to the Lambda Legal and other GLBT legal funds.
Torquere Press has moved its books and press site to their own servers, which means URLs have changed all over the place. I’ve updated the URLs for my books on their publications pages and will catch them in blog entries at a later date.
I will also be working on the layout for jj.com today, so expect things to be in flux a bit.
Because apparently I can never have too many side projects, I’ve started something I’ve been wanting to do for a long time: started an e-zine. Rumbullion Magazine is a non-genre-specific literary magazine, and is now accepting submissions for the first edition.
Details are at Rumbullion and feel free to ask questions, as I’m figuring things out as I go.
The smell of fall is in the air, the weather is turning colder, there’s snow on the mountain tops . . . must mean it’s time for Nanowrimo.
I’ll be participating this year. This will be my fourth year NaNoing: both Chiaroscuro and Something Beautiful’s rough drafts were NaNoWriMo projects. My first year was a fanfic novel that is still unfinished. (Which is, believe me, for the best.) Last year I did not because I had a deadline in December and didn’t feel I could do both and give either the attention they deserved. But this year . . . ah, this year :D. I have plans. I have a few different plots to choose from for when it’s time to sit and write. I’m so excited. (Really, this is me excited.)
I just cleared out my buddy list at the NaNoWriMo site of names I don’t recognize so if I need to add you back give me a pokin’. I am minorblue (though that may change if they implement the renaming thing they hinted at last year. Or not. I’m easily bored–I change names a lot.) And I will happily accept new NaNoBuddies, because it’s just more fun that way.
I may be doing another Thing in tandem with NaNoWriMo, but that’s still a decision I need to make. So more on that later. Or not.
The t-shirt they have for this year, celebrating NaNoWriMo’s tenth anniversary, is pretty nifty, too. I love commemorative t-shirts.
calmAngela Bendetti has a post about wanting the Shiny New Idea Joy, and whoo boy, do I hear that.
Continue reading Shiny new toys
contemplativeI’ve added a calendar utility to the website. I’ll list things like release dates, contest deadlines and events like hosting the torquere_social community on Livejournal there.
It’ll be bare for a while. I’m just writing this month. (Twelve thousand words on the next San Francisco novel, kids. I’m thrilled to bits.)
Part of Torquere Press’s anniversary celebrations is the Road of a Relationship board game. Like our Advent calendar in December, click a new tile every day for a story, anecdote or recipe, special offers and clues for the scavenger hunt. Have fun!
sleepyMy 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.
chipperI 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.)
Pictures below the jump.
Continue reading confessions of a gadget geek
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.
accomplishedHow 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.
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