Friday, August 11, 2006

I am closing this blog...

and moving to Livejournal. I much prefer thier interface and site design. In the future you can find my blog here: Avaron Dale
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Thursday, August 03, 2006

Save the Quiet Kitty ~ An Author's Charity

Created by Margaret Riley, aka Shelby Morgen, of Changeling Press, Save the Quiet Kitty is a registered charity in the state of West Virginia focuses on supporting authors in crisis. Their initial goal is to raise $6000 for an oxygen machine and current medical expenses for author Camille Anthony, who suffers from a debilitating lung disease. Long term, they want to make help available for other authors in crisis.

Since authors have so many problems acquiring health insurance, this charity may be a big help to many - so donate a buck or two - you never know when you may need it yourself.
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Wednesday, July 12, 2006

A New ePublisher opening up...

Discovered on the internet, thought I'd post it here in case anyone's interested:

Stephanie Kelsey, formerly Editor-in-Cheif of eXtasy Books, has started a new publishing house. They are starting out as e-publishers at first, but will expand into print later. You can read all about them in their first press release: New Erotic Book Publisher Has Mojo. The company's called Mojocastle Press and will be releasing their first books later this summer... they are currently open for submissions, so take a peek at their temporary site here: Mojocastle Press.
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Sunday, July 02, 2006

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream

Those are one of the more famous quotes from The Bard, from Hamlet, I believe. Well, me, I'd settle on just sleeping. I have discovered, the hard way, that it's impossible to be creative when you aren't getting more than a handful of hours of sleep in a night. I've written several really strange paragraphs as a result of the lack of sleep - including the strange event of lovingmaking between someone who had six hands, no eyes, and five legs. It was on that note I decided that writing should wait until I've managed to get some rest.
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Sunday, June 25, 2006

A website...

After much discussion, and listening to even more advice, I've created a "start-up" website for myself and my works. It's very basic at the moment as I have nothing to promote yet, and much of my "status reports" are done here at the moment, but it's out there. It's currently hosted at FreeWebs, which was the most recommended host, until I can afford to purchase the domain name and independant hosting.

Who knew webhosting was so damned expensive?

Don't answer that.

Anyway, you can find my site here or use the link on the sidebar. Meanwhile, I'm going to get back to worldbuilding. I'm almost ready to set pen to paper on the project.
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Tuesday, June 20, 2006

Back to Worldbuilding...

I was wrong... I'm working up what I would call a parallel world. It's the standard modern world with the addition of vampires and their fuedalistic courts. My focus will be on the Prince of Delmarva, the master vampire ruling over the states of Maryland, Virginia and Delaware, and his personal court. Now that I know all about him and his closest associates, I need to find a really good and powerful enemy to go after him.

Anyone got any suggestions?
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Sunday, June 18, 2006

Changeling Press Rumours


Changeling Press, known for thier outrageously hot and spicy, to the edge, erotic romances, is not... I repeat NOT, closing at the end of the month. Somehow, someway, a rumour was started on the internet mailing lists which claimed they were, to the point that Barnes and Noble stopped selling their print books because of it. Can we say - stupid? The president of Changeling Press, Ms. Margaret Riley, posted this message to their email loop & newsletter loop...

We've had several notifications from readers attempting to order our paperbacks
from Borders saying they were told we're going out of business. News to me.
We've just officially opened our new office and are ready to start on the next
wave of paperbacks. We're not going anywhere! Obviously I'll be spending Monday
making many interesting phone calls. Sigh. Pray for me that I don't get arrested
for choking someone through the phone lines...

All Wrapped Up is NO harder to get than any of our other books. All any
bookstore has to do is order it. From the number of sales, I'd say most
bookstores aren't having ANY problem doing just that.

Margaret Riley
Changeling Press LLC

Seeing as that came directly from the company owner, I'd believe them. After all, she should know, right?

I, personally, believe the rumour about Changeling began because Inara Press, also know for short serial fiction, is closing at the end of the month. Since both did serials, it's not too difficult to see how such a rumour could be started.

Get it right though - it's not Changeling... and now, off to buy more Changeling stories.
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