Happy Holidays 2010

Here is the track listing for 2010: 1. Christmas Name Song                                    The Young Americans 2. December ’63 (oh what a night)                      Four Seasons 3. Santa, Santa, Santa                                         Gene Autry 4. Christmastime in Tinseltown                        Big Bad Voodoo Daddy 5. Every Time it Snows                                     Olivia Newton-John (featuring Jon Secada) 6. The Man…

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This Just In

My 2020 Visions anthology contributor copy has arrived! (Featuring my high school reunion revenge story “Pocket Full of Posey.”)  Here it is, next to some lovely gratuitous Christmas decorations. Once again, I love this freaking cover. Tweet

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Princess Alethea’s World-Wide Tiara Birthday Spectacular!

The votes are in, and everybody agrees. Mark your calendars! What: Princess Alethea’s 35th Birthday Spectacular When: January 11, 2011 Where: Your blog (or facebook page) Who: YOU, wearing a tiara! As discussed previously,35 is my mother’s favorite number. I’m only going to turn 35 once. As it happens, that happy event will occur in less than a month,…

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The Birthday Dilemma

Okay, guys. I need your help on this one. My sister and I were once discussing our favorite numbers. My mother pondered aloud what her own favorite number might be. Without missing a beat, my sister and I immediately spouted “35.” It’s always been 35 with my mother. “I have told you 35 times to empty that dishwasher” or…

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Pass It Along

Pass it Along: In which I find out about cool stuff and pass it along to you. Please feel free to pass it along to others! ******************************************************* Author friend Steven Saus is running an interesting contest over on his site: Create an inspirational poster that inspires you to go out and kick ass. Sound cool? I know I’m certainly…

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What’s Your Address?

‘Tis the season for awards nominations and holiday card mailing…have you moved this year? Do you have a new address? Now would be the time to go into all those places — especially all those lovely writing associations you belong to (HWA, SFWA, RWA, SCBWI, YARWA, OMGWTFBBQ). People are going to want to send you things, and I know…

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Gone, and Better

I won’t be around much today — I have to get this second wave of Xmas cards to the post office and start on the next round of edits for SUNDAY (not necessarily in that order…I was getting up in the middle of the night to write down passages and ideas, stupid busy brain). I hope you all have…

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What I Was Up To Yesterday

Because: 1.) I miss Janet and Ornament Gulag 2.) Making ornaments is fun 3.) Artwork is relaxing 4.) All of my Christmas decorations are still in Tennessee, and I can’t afford (and don’t really want) to buy a bunch more stuff 5.) I wrote about 3000 words on my story and thought I deserved it 6.) Nutcrackers are awesome…

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2020 Visions Now Available!

Hooray! The 2020 Visions anthology, edited by Rick Novy, is now available on Amazon! This volume of near-future SF stories (so near that you’ll actually be around for them when they happen), includes my story “Pocket Full of Posey.” I can’t wait to get my hands on my contributor copy. I love this cover. Get 2020 Visions now, in…

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