a Publisher, in possession of a signed and initialed contract, refuses to revert rights in violation of said contract. They have had a year and a half of pleading, arbitrators talking to them, copies of the legal contract, etc... and they are basically saying "buy all of our remaining stock (that we are holding in our warehouse and wont sell) and ( Read more... )

PSA to all my writer friends ( Read more... )

my friend upstart-crow has informed me that the book she co-edited with Catherine Lunoff is finally out in print and available as an ebook!

"Hellebore & Rue, the anthology of stories about lesbian magic users which I co-edited with Catherine Lundoff is finally out in print. Lethe Press has produced the print edition while Drollerie Press did the e- ( Read more... )

having nothing to do with anything else.....

look, if you make and sell ANYTHING, but *especially* if its writing or artwork, please go read  haikujaguar and her articles that are tagged "the Three Micahs"
here are some of her recent ones, but they go WAY back

http://haikujaguar.livejournal.com/933463.html ( Read more... )

so ( Read more... )

After the November 5th post on Guy Fawkes day and the whole cooking copyright infringement case
(http://fabricdragon.livejournal.com/290153.html )

i had a request for me to actually write a fan fic story about Paula Deen, Martha Stewart, and the Disney lawyers in a warehouse. with shivs. ( Read more... )

Since i KNOW i have a ton of authors and cooks on my flist:

there is a fund raiser to help cover some folks medical bills
the people involved are connected to literature, fandom, etc. details at the link.

owing to various reasons, it was decided that a cookbook was a "good thing tm" (well, we fannish folks do eat)
also they are doing a short story ( Read more... )

my good friend (and fantastic author) Danielle Ackley McPhail passed this on.

There is a  SF themed short story, poetry, etc contest coming up.  limit of 5,000 words or less, must use the contest theme title
"No Visitors beyond this Point"
details HERE

winners to be published in the anthology.
you wanted your chance? here it is.

Every dog must have his day,
not  sun nor rain shall interfere
and so it seems that this meme may
be unleashed for all to hear

So prose must yield its normal sway
for horrid puns and cants appear
and dogs may howl and dogs may bay
'round prose and syntax's mournful bier

oh mourn ye all, let none be gay
whilst hopeful poets make it clear
that long the minutes ( Read more... )

Entirely too cool! 
An entire stocking pattern in rhyme!!!!
The url is: http://www.onceuponapattern.com/custom/stockingpoem.html

or in case you can't get to the url,

A Stocking in Rhyme
To knit a stocking, needles four,
Cast on the needles and no more;
Each needled stitches eight and twenty,
Then one for seam stitch will be plenty.
Four twenty rounds ( Read more... )