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January 30th, 2008Added part 2 of Rezan by Windstar and Zee Announcement Intaglio Publications, Inc. is proud to announce the release of The Trouble with Murder by Kate Sweeney. Available now at www.bellabooks.com and StarCrossed Productions www.scp-inc.biz After a three-week photo assignment chasing wild mustangs in the heat of South Dakota, Kate Ryan wants nothing more than a quiet week at her log cabin in the woods. She decides it should be "girls only" and invites her sister Teri, Aunt Hannah, and Maggie. Her nice quiet week turns out to be anything but. The trouble is, Maggie brings a friend along, and Kate is more reluctant to acknowledge any feelings she might have for Maggie. However, Kate finds a champion in Aunt Hannah, who is determined to see her sarcastic niece and the elusive Kate together at last. Yet, something more troublesome is happening on the lake: a violent storm that leaves them isolated; a body washes up on the beach; too many suspects and no way out - that's the trouble with murder.
January 29th, 2008Added part 4 of Little Disquietude by Rysler January 28th, 2008Added part 36 , part 37 and part 38 of Double Play by Cruise January 27th, 2008Welcome to the Academy, L. Hall! Debriefing the Rules by L. Hall [alt/Mel & Janice/complete] Oh, and by the Way by Vilia Kinell [Über/alt/complete] Added part 3 of Little Disquietude by Rysler January 25th, 2008Added part 2 of Little Disquietude by Rysler January 24th, 2008Announcement Joan Opyr was born in Raleigh, North Carolina during the reign of Lyndon Baines Johnson. She is half-Ukrainian and half-Tarheel. It's a toss-up on any given day as to which has the upper hand, but as Opyr is the Ukrainian word for vampire, it's probably best to catch her on a Tarheel day. A graduate of N.C. State University, Joan remains stubbornly ABD for her PhD in Old English from The Ohio State University. For some years now, she has been a very opinionated opinion columnist for a number of newspapers and magazines, most notably New West (www.newwest.net) and Stonewall News Northwest (www.stonewallnews.net). Because of this, her name has been taken in vain on right-wing blogs all over the World Wide Web. Go on. Run a Google search on her. It's scary. Her first novel, Idaho Code, won a 2007 Golden Crown Literary Award for Best Mystery. It was short-listed for a 2007 Lambda Literary Award in the same category. From Hell to Breakfast is her second novel. It will not be her last. From Hell to Breakfast Wilhelmina "Bil" Hardy is at loose ends-and in the small college-town of Cowslip, Idaho, that's a mighty short length of rope. After a long struggle with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and an even longer struggle with the law, Bil's brother Sam has died. Bil is devastated, but she has no time grieve. Her sisters, Sarah and Naomi, seem to be dating the same cowboy, but neither knows they're sharing. Her girlfriend Sylvie is having mother troubles. Her role model, lesbian separatist and commune-builder Captain Schwartz, is having ex-husband troubles. And, worst of all, Bil's parents have sold the family home and bought 200 acres on a remote hillside from a notoriously crooked businessman. Bil's mother, Emma, is looking forward to evicting local drug dealer and Sam's erstwhile pot supplier, Jake the Snake, from a run-down shack on the hillside, but someone beats her to it-with a shotgun. Who killed Jake? What's the unwelcome news from Captain Schwartz's ex-husband? Who is pushy preacher George Knox and what does he want? And, most puzzling of all, what do Bil's sisters see in bow-legged two-timer Buck DeWitt? Bil must answer all of these questions and more while trying to keep her relationship with Sylvie from going AWOL. Holy Cowslip! It's business as unusual for Bil and her crazy Idaho cadre. Look for From Hell to Breakfast in late 2008! January 23rd 2008Welcome to the Academy, Rysler! Little Disquietude by Rysler [alt/über/unfinished] January 22nd, 2008Divorcee by Artemis Callaghan [original/alt/complete] Rezan by Windstar and Zee [unfinished/alt/sci-fi] Announcement Last reminder! Although there is rarely a dull moment at the Xena Convention, there are quite a few minutes spent waiting in lines. Multi-task! Read a book. We will accept personal checks or cash. Sorry, no credit cards. Claudia Calling all authors attending the XenaCon in Burbank, Jan 25-27, 2008 Join Susan X. Meagher (Brisk Press), KG MacGregor (Bella Books), Mary D. Brooks (PD Publishing), and T.J. Mindancer (Mindancer Press) and let Bedazzled Book Peddler sell your books as you enjoy the Convention. All you have to do is drop your books off to our vendor's table, along with bookmarks, flyers, catalogs, and any other promotional materials. We'll display and sell your books and host autograph sessions. We also will be at the Bards Banquet Sunday night. If you're interested please contact us at bookpeddler@bedazzledink.com for details or drop by our booth at the Convention. See you there! January 18th, 2008Welcome to the Academy, Alwayzdreamin (kd jones) Thanksgivings [alt/über/complete] A Day in the Change of Life by Cheyne [alt/classic X&G/complete] January 16th, 2008One Woman Too Much by IseQween [classic/alt/complete] January 14th, 2008PD Publishing Announcement: Kim Pritekel's 1049 Club and Connection.
We are proud to have them in our schedule and look forward to having these books in our catalogue! Please go to our website (www.pdpublishing.com) or the author's webpages (http://www.pdpublishing.com/adriandrake.html and http://www.pdpublishing.com/pritekel.html) for more information regarding these new acquisitions.
January 13th, 2008A message from Ladyhawke I'd first like to congratulate Del on winning this year BC. YEAH! Secondly, thank you to all the readers who took the time to read and to vote and also to go that one step further and send us feedback to keep us going.
Thank you also to the other bards who gave us a run for our money. All the stories were outstanding this year, and I can’t imagine how hard it was for the reader to choose.
Last but not least the whole Academy team. Thank you all for the time you put into keeping this page going. Our unsung heroes. I am over the moon to be an Honourable Mention. Thank you All.
Ladyhawke x
Added part 2 of The Dark Soul by Altilicious Talking In Your Sleep by TwinkerHell [classic/alt/complete] Only In My Dreams by TwinkerHell [classic/alt/complete] Honeymoon by Artemis Callaghan [original/alt/complete] Happy New Year Y'all...well the BC #18 is now history. This last Challenge generated the most votes we've ever had cast in a challenge. It was amazing. Just like the stories. All are destined to become holiday classics like the storylines they represent. L-Book.com™ is proud to announce the grand opening of its Lesbian Fiction online eBook and Listening eBook store. http://L-Book.com L-Book™ is a listening eBook. L-Book's are Lesbian Fiction narrated by a computer generated voice, L-Book’s very own Samantha, or Sam for short. L-Books are in standard .mp3 format and can be played on most sound media players, computers and handheld devices. L-Book.com™ eBooks are presently downloadable in eReader™ and iSilo™ formats but will soon be available in Kindle™ and MobiPocket™ formats. L-Book.com™ has 30 to 45 minute listening excerpts of each story as well as an excerpt in each reader format for download to test-drive the format, author, and story before buying it. The long excerpts are around 5,000 to 8,000 words starting with chapter one. All L-Books and eBooks and your personal library cards of your purchases are immediate downloads at affordable prices with no shipping and handling. L-Book.com™ is so pleased that our first four authors are such outstanding talents. One author was just awarded The Athenaeum’s Story of the Year for 2007. Normally The Athenaeum does not give that award for the stories removed from there site, but this time they made an exception and we are very pleased and thankful for that decision. Another L-Book author came in 6th place in the Top 100 and the Top 25 for 2006. Still another author is an established published author that happens to believe in the future of electronic books, both reading and listening books. Now, if you haven't guessed who the authors and stories are yet … L-Book™ is privileged to ePublish the latest stories and we hope future stories of: Fran Heckrotte offering the complete six-book series of The Illusionist, Jae and her Backwards to Oregon, Glenda Poulter and Coming Home, and another author everyone knows, RJ Nolan with her mystery, All Gone. L-Book.com has on staff a submission board, cover artists, proofreaders, copy-editors, sound-editors, computer and sound engineers, technical and research specialists to insure the quality of each book and to meet the electronic advances of the future. L-Book is a company looking to the future of electronics listening and reading devices and formats. L-Book’s Technical Research and Development department is working on the next generation of electronic Listening Book right now. Stay tuned for the future release of the S-Book™. Samples of the S-Book™ will be posted on the Free Handout web page in a couple months. Please join us at L-Book.com and stroll through the website’s many pages. Join the L-Book mailer for updates. There is a new Yahoo group Lesfic_ebooks, http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Lesfic_ebooks for those interested in interacting with others interested in eBooks, L-Books, and updates on L-Book.com. We look forward to meeting and getting to know you. Roxanne Jones, and staff If you are an Author or Publisher interested in selling your books to a new market and the market of the future, let L-Book publish your electronic formatted books that will be sold on L-Book.com and other online book stores. Check our submission guidelines. Are you a Publisher that does not have the time and resources to devote to electronic books using the newest and popular technology of today and keep up with the future technologies, but you have your authors’ electronic rights? L-Book ePublisher can be your ePublisher and publish market and sell them for you. Announcement
Liz Friedman, of House, Hack, The O.C., Numb3rs,
Hercules: The Legendary Journeys, and Xena, Warrior
Princess will have lunch with the winning bidder. Liz
has been, at various and sometimes overlapping times,
a writer, producer, Hollywood executive, and gay
rights activist. She was played (as a badass, of
course) by Hudson Leick on two episodes of Hercules -–
"Yes, Virginia, There Is a Hercules" and "For Those of
You Just Joining Us," and was described in Doris
Egan's blog as "the most dangerous writer among us."
You'll need to be in the LA area.
Current Bid: $173.77 (Robbie R.) -- Place a bid!
Bidding ends 11:59 p.m. EST Thursday, January 10th
Liz says "The lunch would be in LA; I could always do
it the Friday before the convention.
http://www.fans4writers.com/auction/
Miracle by Fingersmith [alt/original/complete] Added part 10 of Cage Undone by Roselle Graskey Announcement From 6 p.m. to midnight, on January 27th, at the Burbank Airport Marriott
Hotel & Convention Center, many of our favorite bards will be attending the
Bards Banquet, a nonprofit charity event and I invite all the fans of uber
and fanfiction to join us in thanking the bards. Thus far, the following
bards will be in attendance: Akiela Xal, Cheyne Curry, Crow, D, DJ Belt, JA
Bard, KG MacGegor, LM Townsend, Llachlan, Mary D. Brooks, Mindancer, Missy
Good, Planet Solin, Ralene, Red Hope, Ri, Susan X. Meagher, Texbard, Trish
Kocialski, Vada, HRH and Verda H. We'll also be joined by WHOOSH editor Kym
Masera Taborn, UberAbode's Rachel Pena and so many others that have made the
realm of the fanfiction and uber tales so amazing. For further information
and future updates about the banquet and the accompanying silent charity
auction, I encourage you to visit our website at: http://bardsbrunch.com/
Note from OZ: Welcome to the Academy of Bards, Korkyra Penance [alt/classic/complete] Added part 3 of Letting Go by Bobbie Halchishak Announcement from Katherine Fugate - BATTLE ON, XENA: We've had Battlestar Galactica Day. Star Trek Day.
Joss Whedon Day. And now... it's Xena Day! In the ongoing
Xenaverse Refreshes Campaign, Xena Fans from around the world will
join writers, actors, producers and crew members of the popular TV
series, Xena: Warrior Princess on THURSDAY, JANUARY 24th, 2008.
Alameda Gate at Disney Studios. 11 - 2 pm. Currently scheduled to
attend: RJ Stewart, Steven Sears, Liz Friedman, Katherine Fugate,
Renee O'Connor, Adrienne Wilkinson and more to be announced. Costumes
highly encouraged! Madison by Vicki Stevenson [original/alt/complete] Announcement The four acclaimed and gifted writers showcased in this New Year's issue
have captured the wonder and imagination of good speculative fiction that I
love so much. Check out these great stories at: Happy New Year and Good Reading! Happy New Year! Greener Pastures - A Horse Tail by IseQween [general/classic/complete] |
