Yes, It Is All My Fault!

It’s been far too long, but I realized that if I was going to keep working on Continuous Coast it was worth putting at least a tiny bit of maintenance into my personal site as well. So to start 2009 off right, I updated the “My Writing” section to include links to the various CC sites currently active (I also just had a CC story go up on the site, whee!), though Kit made a couple of suggestions for reorganizing the categories that I’ll probably re-do within the next day or two, so check back!

I thought it might be good to start putting up some of my own, non-CC work here as well, so I included links to two flash fiction pieces that I’ve had out circulating for over a year. I decided to retire them from circulation and just post them here. My writing has changed and improved enough over the past year that these pieces may not be exactly indicative of where I’m at now, but I still enjoy the heck out of both of them (at least in a writing sense; “Rorrim” in particular is a bit uncomfortable to actually read) and would rather share them and concentrate on writing and sending out more new pieces. Though, if I don’t get some more cheerful free fic up here soon, people might start to get a skewed notion of my style…

Still obviously learning the finer touches of my Phone of Awesomeness, but here’s the cover of my copy of the anthology with my first pro story sale! (Click on the picture to see the full-size version.)

Well, so far our attempts to take a picture of my own contributor’s copy of the Unspeakable Horror anthology have resulted in not enough lighting.  You can use the handy Amazon.com link here, though I see that it is listed as temporarily not in stock.  I will try to find out if there is an in-stock link available for folks before the holidays, if I do I’ll post it here.

In the meantime, the maids have just left, the house smells good and looks great, and the hot tub is warm and with a new filter.  It’s a great day for socializing with friends while lounging around the house alternating with bouts of creativity.  Perhaps some of our long-absent friends will decide that today is the day to end their sabbatical away from our awesomeness.  If not, ah well, there’s plenty of awesomeness to keep us busy regardless.

In other news, laundry is much less of an onerous chore when it’s in-house.  There’s the typical 10 loads to do, but amazingly, not having to haul it across town just brightens my mood about the chore right up.

Hey everyone, it’s been a long, mostly internet-free month for me.  My shoulder has been freezing up/acting up so painfully that I haven’t been able to spend very much time working on the computer.  It’s been stressful since this was NOT the time to have less online time, too much to do!  especially on CC fun stuff.

However, I bought a super-sexy G1 Google phone, which I expect will make it easier to stay connected even if I have bad shoulder ick return.  I stayed comfortably near the back of the pack as far as following phone technology, the past 10 years.  It was completely worth it to wait for a phone that is at least approaching all the various things I want my phone to do; I had no problem adapting to the interface and sound like a total dorky geek when I talk about it.  And my goodness does the querty keyboard make text easier to type on a phone.  Fidget-monkey heaven: it has buttons, and a trackball, and a touchscreen, and a fold-out keyboard.  As soon as they figure out the app to send and receive video phonecalls, the science-fiction feel will  be complete.  Oh, and I’m insanely jealous of the armband attachment I saw at Best Buy for the Apple 3G, if anyone knows where I can get one for mine, I can’t avoid those little cyborg cravings.  Strapping it on is a good interim substitute for jacking in, eh?

Check out my next post for a picture from my new phone; I got my contributor’s copies from Dark Scribe Press for the Unspeakable Horror anthology.  I’m so excited!  Keep pre-ordering, the official release date for the anthology is December 1.

Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows Of the Closet is now available for pre-order!  I haven’t received my contributor’s copy yet but the proofs looked great, and I’m really excited about this anthology.  You can find it on Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0981863205/unspeakableho-20 if you’d like to reserve yours before release!