Good news, Great news, and Excellent news :-)
Sold another short story! This one to Nightfall Magazine, a new imprint of White Cat. Here's their facebook page.'The Local Number Nine' will appear in March 2014 :-)
My friend Rachel Caine, rachelcaine, and at Facebook, has decided to produce her own web series for her long-running, multiple NY Times YA Bestseller series, Morganville Vampires. Buffy's Amber Benson will play Amelie, the town's vampire founder! The project funded yesterday, but there are still plenty of great contribution levels if you'd like to help out one of LJ's own Whedonverse fanfic writers made good :-) I can't believe I read the first Morganville book in first draft... what? Ten years ago? Amazing where it's taken her!! Morganville Facebook. Here's the KICKSTARTER campaign for the series if you'd like to contribute in any way, even a dollar :-)
I've spent the spring healing from flu the entire month of January, an abdominal surgery on 1/28 to repair a hernia and muscle separation, and then, of all unexpected things, breast cancer, which, thankfully, thanks to the quirkiness of the universe, was caught early. Mammograms work! It was two different types and in multiple locations, so necessitated losing my ta-tas (I WISH I'd had a choice there, but three different very well-qualified surgeons in three different locales said no, no choice on that one :-/, but the results are most excellent, and I will not be required to undergo either radiation or chemo and the long-term use of tamoxifen is more risky than beneficial at my age, so none for me!! YAY, YAY, AND YAY! Pick your poison and treat yourself in celebration with me :-) I had Haagen-Das Chocolate-Chocolate-Chip ice cream for the first time in, like, seventeen years after leaving the medical oncologist's office last week :-) (And yes, it was delicious :-) And why, yes, I AM still allergic to dairy, lolol- but it was worth it :-) My hubby is the best!)
I'm five weeks out from the last surgery and I have one more final reconstructive surgery to go (dreading- narcotics and I do NOT play together well) and then I will be left alone to heal up and get back to working out so I can, eventually, ride again. Don't know if Third Level will still be there for me by then and my horse is seventeen, so... IDK. But I just want to ride again before the end of the year without killing my poor torn-up chest and pecs and pits :-) I went to the barn for the first time today since late May and haven't ridden since March (at the walk and little bit of painful trot because of the abdominal surgery :rollseyes:), so yeah, chomping at the bit to get back to it. It's been a VERY LONG seven months.
I'm going to close comments, but I know I always want to know where peeps on my flist have disappeared to when they go quiet, and I'm a walking book on breast cancer now, so if anyone on my flist or their families or friends need a sounding board for their own battle, I have experience and resources and people to point them towards, whether they are lucky like me or in for the whole, hot mess. Just PM me if you need the info and I'll tell you what I found most useful. With breast cancer, I rapidly found out, staying sane throughout is all about connections and talking to or even just *knowing* that peeps just like you have been there in the dark, and that's why I decided to share :-)
My friend Rachel Caine, rachelcaine, and at Facebook, has decided to produce her own web series for her long-running, multiple NY Times YA Bestseller series, Morganville Vampires. Buffy's Amber Benson will play Amelie, the town's vampire founder! The project funded yesterday, but there are still plenty of great contribution levels if you'd like to help out one of LJ's own Whedonverse fanfic writers made good :-) I can't believe I read the first Morganville book in first draft... what? Ten years ago? Amazing where it's taken her!! Morganville Facebook. Here's the KICKSTARTER campaign for the series if you'd like to contribute in any way, even a dollar :-)
I've spent the spring healing from flu the entire month of January, an abdominal surgery on 1/28 to repair a hernia and muscle separation, and then, of all unexpected things, breast cancer, which, thankfully, thanks to the quirkiness of the universe, was caught early. Mammograms work! It was two different types and in multiple locations, so necessitated losing my ta-tas (I WISH I'd had a choice there, but three different very well-qualified surgeons in three different locales said no, no choice on that one :-/, but the results are most excellent, and I will not be required to undergo either radiation or chemo and the long-term use of tamoxifen is more risky than beneficial at my age, so none for me!! YAY, YAY, AND YAY! Pick your poison and treat yourself in celebration with me :-) I had Haagen-Das Chocolate-Chocolate-Chip ice cream for the first time in, like, seventeen years after leaving the medical oncologist's office last week :-) (And yes, it was delicious :-) And why, yes, I AM still allergic to dairy, lolol- but it was worth it :-) My hubby is the best!)
I'm five weeks out from the last surgery and I have one more final reconstructive surgery to go (dreading- narcotics and I do NOT play together well) and then I will be left alone to heal up and get back to working out so I can, eventually, ride again. Don't know if Third Level will still be there for me by then and my horse is seventeen, so... IDK. But I just want to ride again before the end of the year without killing my poor torn-up chest and pecs and pits :-) I went to the barn for the first time today since late May and haven't ridden since March (at the walk and little bit of painful trot because of the abdominal surgery :rollseyes:), so yeah, chomping at the bit to get back to it. It's been a VERY LONG seven months.
I'm going to close comments, but I know I always want to know where peeps on my flist have disappeared to when they go quiet, and I'm a walking book on breast cancer now, so if anyone on my flist or their families or friends need a sounding board for their own battle, I have experience and resources and people to point them towards, whether they are lucky like me or in for the whole, hot mess. Just PM me if you need the info and I'll tell you what I found most useful. With breast cancer, I rapidly found out, staying sane throughout is all about connections and talking to or even just *knowing* that peeps just like you have been there in the dark, and that's why I decided to share :-)