July Update

In good news, it's been a very busy month for me!

My portal fantasy -- which now has a name, which is a secret for the moment, in case it gets changed -- got finished, and then a good friend had a look at it, and now it's no longer finished, because she made some suggestions that were just to good to ignore, so it's in edits again. But I think it should be done (again) this week, and then sent off to the submission mines. (The kinkster in me still gets a little giggle every time I "submit" a story, even though I've been doing it for years. Apparently I am more easily amused than I once thought.)

ANYWAY, that's already 20K+, and set to get longer, and is a f/f, well, portal fantasy. Portal fantasies, for those of you wondering what I mean, are stories like the Chronicles of Narnia. Characters start in one place (generally our Earth) and cross some sort of portal (a fancy word for doorway or entrance, and related to the words port, porch and portcullis, for example), to wind up somewhere else, having adventures.


I also wrote, and sent off a couple of nights ago, a submission for Torquere Press' annual Charity Sip drive.  It features Jacob and Nicholas, two naval pilots/astronauts, and is set a little bit into Earth's future. Jacob is recovering from an injury that's left him with frequent vertigo and near-constant nausea, neither of which are doing anything to help his restless mood. Nicholas, however, is just glad that his husband is recovering, and is happy to be there for him while he does. It's 4K long, light sci-fi, and has just a sprinkling of kink.


PS: A word about the August update: that will probably go up on the 2nd, as I have Things To Do on the 1st.

Lifts the furniture covers, blows away the dust, sweeps out the cobwebs... And I'm back.

I have updated my website, and it's frankly past time to update the blog. So what have I been up to in the meantime? Mostly writing, plus generic life stuff. I can't talk about all the writing, but I have published a new short story, "Summer Storm", with Torquere Press.

I've also rounded up my backlist, tidied it up a little, and put it up on lulu.com. So if you missed A Hope in Hell or my Corvo and Ardán series, fear not! They are available once again. Reviews for both can be found here.

As for the blog, well, it would seem I am not much of a blogger. One a week was clearly far too often, but never is even worse. I've decided to aim for the first of the month, as a sort of bloggy new resolution. So I'll see you in July, and tell you a little bit about my latest project, currently living with the terrible name 'portal fantasy'.

News, and Going Dim

But not going dark -- more on that below.

News first:

The BIG news is:
Brown: Grisaille in Sand and Sunset is out from Torquere Press!

In smaller news:
1.) Pentimento: Poppy is now available from All Romance Ebooks.
2.) Gray: Grisaille in Stone and Sky is written, and has gone off to the editor.
3.) I am Torquere Press' Featured Author until May 7th.

In not-fun news, this blog is going dim for a while -- it's not because I haven't been putting up something new weekly, though it's for the same reason:

I'm in pain, and an awful lot of it. Getting Grisaille in Gray done was excruciating, and I've learned that voice-recognition does not work for me, for writing fiction. It works (when it works, which is not all the time, either, for other reasons) for posts and email.

So I'm going to be taking time away from the computer, not just typing. There may be odd posts occasionally, but I will not be trying to update weekly. I apologize for this, but it's largely out of my control -- the only part that I do have control over is trying to heal, and I have to take responsibility for that.