My Alter Ego Rules

So not only do I need to buy the Wyrdsmiths a round of coffee for my German deal, but now my alter ego came home last night to an e-mail informing me that "SHE NAILED THE STAKE THROUGH HIS HEAD: TALES OF BIBLICAL HORROR," which is being published by Dybbuk Press (editor Tim Lieder) seems to have accepted my short story "Jawbone of an Ass."

I'm only not entirely sure because when Lieder sent the acceptance e-mail, heasked if the story was a reprint or not. I gave him my same information I had when I sent it in (which is "kind of," since it appears in our self-produced, limited edition chapbook New Wyrd), and it's not clear if that's cool or not. I'll keep you posted.

I'm kind of excited because I really, really like this short story of mine (unusual for me. Ask any Wyrdsmith, the short form is usually not my best.) This is not a AngeLINK story, but it does (perhaps obviously) have a religious overtones. Here's a blurb if the story had one: What would it be like to know that God is absolutely *not* on your side? “Jawbone of an Ass” is a modern day retelling of the story of Sampson’s first wife (known only as the woman of Timor), who slowly comes to realize the horror of knowing she, through no fault of her own, is on the wrong side of the wrath of angels.

Go me!

Happy Full Moon

If I didn't have a book to write, you would find me tonight over at the Eye of Horus doing their full moon ritual with them. But, alas, I have ten thousand words to write in the next few days (not actually humanly possible for me, but I have to give it the old college try.) I'm trying to finish up the second draft of HONEYMOON OF THE DEAD so that it will be ready to hand off to any Wyrdsmith who might be willing to look at it. (I'm really hoping Naomi Kritzer will volunteer, as she has the awesome ability to see the themes of my books and help me draw them out better.)

But, hey any of you pagan-types out there who might be saluting the Goddess tonight, lift a libation for me, will ya?

German Sale!

For all of you German speaking folks out there, I bear good tidings! My agent just informed me that the German publisher VGS publishers want my first four books (Tall, Dark & Dead, Dead Sexy, Romancing the Dead and Dead if I Do for a paperback original publication under their imprint LYX.

Cool, huh?