I uploaded it to Youtube and we’ll try it with the old style embed code and see if that works. (For those who missed my earlier post: I launched a Kickstarter! Please help me put Daron’s Guitar Chronicles into a paperback edition! Full details on the Kickstarter page here: http://kck.st/IlE7Bi)
Posts under ‘writing news’
I’m an NLA Writing Award finalist! Woo!! Complete list of finalists:
FINALISTS ANNOUNCED FOR NLA-I WRITING AWARDS (Columbus, OH) — National Leather Association–International (NLA-I), a leading organization for activists in the pansexual SM/leather/fetish community, announced today the finalists for its annual writing awards for works published in 2011. Named after activists and writers Geoff Mains, John Preston, Pauline Reage, Cynthia Slater, and the groundbreaking organization Samois, [...]
NLA Writing Awards now open for nominations!
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CALL FOR NOMINATIONS (Columbus, OH) — NLA-International, a leading organization for activists in the pansexual leather community, is now accepting nominations for its annual writing awards for excellence in SM/leather/fetish writing for books, articles, novels, and short fiction first published between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2011. The deadline for nominations [...]
The Prince’s Boy wins Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards!
Squeeeeee! The Prince’s Boy (vol 1) has won Honorable Mention in the Rainbow Awards in “Best Gay Fantasy”! These are the annual awards arranged by Rainbow Reviews, Elisa Rolle’s fabulous review blog. Full results on all the winners and the comments from the judges are on LJ at: http://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/1462385.html (That is, if the DDoS attack [...]
The Romance Reviews Year-End Splash (YES!) Party
I’m one of a passel of authors taking part in “The Romance Reviews” year-end splash! It’s going to be a month long extravaganza at the TRR website with giveaways of tons of free ebooks and gift certificates every day, November 1-28. Here’s where to bookmark:
Magic U crossover with Amber…
So, Deb Atwood (aka Tryslora on LJ, DW, etc…), a terrific writer and one of my beta-readers on the Magic University books, wrote a crossover fanfic story in which Alex from MagicU meets up with Random from Roger Zelazny’s Amber books. Zelazny was one of my early and persistent influences on my writing, and I’ve [...]
Magic U 4 finally available for Kindle, Nook, etc…
I just realized I tweeted this, and linked it on Facebook, but I never actually did a blog post saying Magic University: The Poet and the Prophecy is AVAILABLE! My last blog post was about how the ebook had been delayed! Well, delay over, and the propagation of the ebook is underway. It is currently [...]
Good news & bad news about Magic U 4… (another excerpt)
So the bad news about The Poet and the Prophecy is that it’s delayed a day or two because the publisher discovered a mistake in the ebook files, so they have to be re-done. Oops. The good news is that I decided that means I should publish another excerpt! Below. Also in today’s news, I’m [...]
Magic U book 4 Excerpt! (Prepublication Teaser)
This is the second “teaser” chapter I’ve posted. The first one, if you missed it, is here: http://blog.ceciliatan.com/?p=677 Here’s another… in which Kyle finds himself standing outside the Boston Eagle, an infamous gay bar in town. (The book should be going live most places on Thursday or Friday!)
Poems About Magic and Love from readers
So I’m celebrating the imminent release (this week, they say) of Magic U book 4 (“The Poet and the Prophecy“) and over the weekend I ran an “extra credit” assignment — anyone who wrote me a poem about love, magic, or preferably both, would get their choice of either Magic U book 1 or Spellbinding [...]
