First, I found this fantastic review of both House of Sable Locks and Tales from the Arena: Opening Gambit. I particularly like the reference to the House as “a… Victorian BDSM Disneyland.”
Then… I found out that House of Sable Locks is a finalist for Best Bisexual Erotica in the Bisexual Book Awards!
(Is it petty for my second reaction to be “Take that, RITAs!” Second reaction because my first was “Holy crap, I finalled!”)
Today is a wonderful day. The sun is shining, the birds are singing, and I just was informed that the signed contract has arrived at Circlet Press.
Wait, what signed contract?
I am pleased, proud, awed, and still more than a little gobsmacked, to announce that the audio rights to House of Sable Locks have been acquired by Audible.com.
Yep. I’m going to have an audiobook.
Now, I’ve never done this before. So I know NOTHING about the process. This is going to be a learning experience for me, and I’ll post what I can as we go.
Breathe, Liz! Breathe!!!!
Yesterday was a real up and down day. I found out that Philip the Foole, a well-known BDSM expert and a long-time net friend, had passed away unexpectedly on Sunday the 14th. I have known Philip (virtually, anyway) for so many years not that I’m not even sure I can put a number to it, and the last time I spoke to him, it was through Laura Antoniou’s Facebook page, where he told me (and everyone else) how much he liked “Oh, Promise Me!”
Hard to get my brains around the fact that he’s gone. I’d always hoped to meet him in person.
A few hours after I learned about Philip, I got the email from Pagan Writers Press that they were interested in the novella I sent off to them a few months ago. The sale of From Dusk ’til Dawn is therefore a little bittersweet.
Coming soon (as in, the end of this month!!!)
No Safewords: Fan Fiction from The Marketplace
I found out when I opened my email this morning that Princes of Air has finaled in the Passionate Plume contest — the published contest of the Passionate Ink chapter of the Romance Writers of America!
Oh… me…
This is a big deal for me. Not only is this contest judging the best of published erotica in the RWA… but Princes didn’t even make the cut last year, when I entered it as an unpublished manuscript in the Stroke of Midnight (the Passionate Ink unpublished contest).
Do I care if I win? I don’t think so. Finalling is a big enough deal for me! I’ll find out the end of July, though. (Now I really do wish I could go to Nationals! Can’t afford the trip to Anaheim, though.)
Circlet Press released the titles of the nineteen stories that made the cut for the upcoming FANTASTIC EROTICA: The Best of Circlet Press 2008-2012.
A Vision In X-Ray And Visible Light by Nobilis Reed
A Woman of Uncommon Accomplishment by Elizabeth Reeve
At The Crossroads by Monique Poirier
Catch And Release by Sunny Moraine
Devil’s Masquerade by Michael M. Jones
Enslaved by Kierstin Cherry
Fences by David Hubbard
Ink by Bernie Mojzes
Lawman by Angela Caperton
Mirror by Clarice Clique
Navigator by Kathleen Tudor
Ota Discovers Fire by Vinnie Tesla
Rescue Wounds by Kal Cobalt
The Beauty of Broken Glass by Frances Selkirk
The Dancer’s War by N.K. Jemisin
The Many Little Deaths of Cicilia Long by Shanna Germain
The Pirate From The Sky by Sacchi Green
The Succubus by Elizabeth Schechter
Wood by David Sklar
I am so pleased and proud to be a part of this elite group! Thank you all for voting!
(I just realized I’m sharing a TOC with a Hugo Nominee!!! How cool is THAT???)
For the record, this is just so amazingly cool!
Tonight I had my very first professional interview. Check it out!
Man, you should SEE my Kermit arms right now!!!
EEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!OMFG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!KERMITARMS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!EEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!
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That is all.
>The missing teen has been found!
