I am just popping online to do a few very important (for me) things.
One, I want to thank you all for your wonderful congratulations, and for buying the e-stories. This means a lot to me, to start the main part of my writing career with the help and support and cheering section of my marvelous and wonderful friends. I cannot say enough how thankful and blessed I am.
On that note, I’d like to announce that there are now other places where my stories are available to buy, if you don’t like Mobipocket. The best is the Drollerie Press Website, where if you register, you’ll be able to access a shopping cart. The titles are on sale, 50% off, so if you are snagging them, this would be the best time.
Also, tonight, at 9 pm EST, I will be at the Drollerie Press Chatroom with many of my fellow authors. This is my first official appearance as an author, and it might be a neat thing to go just so you can say I did when I’m J.K. Rowling. Just go here and look at the sidebar for a link to the open chatroom. Just a user name…could be anything…is required, no registration is needed. Also, if you are ever considering becoming a published author, networking is always good.
Now, for Mister Potter. I did, indeed, read the book. I finished at 2 am last night…I cried, a lot, and I was mostly happy, except for a couple things I will not relay here.
Oh, and the Gmail thing? Still no joy, there.
July 23, 2007
My short stories are up for sale at MobiPocket.
I received an email with my books in them, and when I opened “Rubies”, I got very emotional. In fact, I’m a bit teary now.
I am a fiction author, darlings. Officially.
This would have been the most extraordinary event in a pleasant week. In a hellish week such as this (I dreamed that someone stole my day runner last night, and ripped out the pages where I cribbed my passwords, and on top of it, the day runner was also my check book, and they stole some of the blank checks, and I couldn’t prove to the bank that it was my account, and all my money was gone.) this is…beyond my powers to describe.
Now, I shall show you my covers! Deena Fisher is amazing. I love her art so much.


July 21, 2007
Hello!
I am happy to tell you that Drollerie Press is going to publish one of my short stories!
I’ve written short stories since college. I’ve received…at first, flat out rejections that slowly became “I loved your story, we just can’t publish it.” hand scrawled on rejection slips.
I decided that short story magazines are impossible to get in to, so decided to try my hand at anthologies, and now, finally…success! She’s even interested in more stories, she was really filled with wonderful words about my story. Which is fabulous…but part of me now worries about the others disappointing her!
And that is the lesson for you. Keep trying, and keep trying everything. You will probably fail more than you succeed, but you have to have those failures to get success.
To celebrate, help me pick my next Ren Faire costume, which I will sew over the summer?
May 27, 2007