October 29th

Sahra was on the opposite side of the station to Ore Processing when it blew up.

COMING SOON

Or, more accurately, as soon as I can get my dear Beta-Readers to get any found mistakes back to me.

If I can get all edits done by the 25th of October, I can publish on the 29th - just in time for All Hallows’ Read.

IF YOU VOLUNTEERED TO BETA-READ, NOW IS THE TIME TO GET BACK TO ME ABOUT WHAT, IF ANYTHING, YOU FOUND.

‘Cause I’m publishing on the 29th, come hay, hell or high water.

I just want it to look its best when it gets there.

Next fics in the queue:

Recycled Souls  An XME Kurmanda fic in which both are reborn again and again into different times and places.

Flotsam   Sara Louise comes into the MovieVerse to rescue a toad and turn him into a prince.

Don’t Pity Me   A rare finished fic, that also happens to be darkfic. Contains child abuse, rape, hideous things happening to good people, evil people and generalised nastiness. You have been warned.

I’m still taking requests?

Progress report of a sort

Okay, so I finally got off my divot and transferred my soon-to-be-released free book into MSWord 7 ‘cause that’s the only editor that exists for the nice folks at Smashwords 9_9

Now I’m just waiting for @xotxot to get back to me about the cover.

I’m getting nervous. As I usually do when my success at a plan is entirely dependant on someone else. I’ve had plans of mine fail purely because someone I was depending on couldn’t/wouldn’t/didn’t feel like doing me a favour.

The question I put to you is:

Should I concoct a cover in my typical Suck-O-Vision limited Inkscape skills, just in case? Or should I have faith that it will all work out somehow?

An announcement

Firstly, I would like to thank Neil Gaiman for the idea that wound its way into my head and did what ideas do best: mutate into near cthulu-esque proportions.

See, the kind and apparently flamingo-like Mr Gaiman came up with/publicised All Hallows Read, an event in which people who celebrate Halloween [and even those who choose not to] can give away a spooky book to friends, family or complete strangers.

So I wrote a completely new story. From go to whoa, it took me two weeks, including piddly editing details that are now my new definition of Purgatory [Sorry, Mum].

I did try to write spooky. Almost all atmosphere and the world-gone-wrong and big hairy things jumping on the hero(ine)… but it still wound up as comedy. Le sigh.

I’m giving it away for free anyway.

So watch my Smashwords page come October 4 [Though since I’m Australian, most of you will see it Oct 5…] as my special birthday present to everyone who cares to read my shit stuff is a free short story.

I would very much like it if the folks who took the time to read said free story paid some real money for my other works, but that’s just icing on the cake as far as I’m concerned.

What I really want for my birthday, is to be read.

Have fun.