I’ve received my first ever award nomination for original fiction!

The 2013 eFestival of Words Award Nominations are out, and Storm Chaser Shorts has been nominated in the Best Short Story Collection category. In addition to that, the anthology My Funny Valentine, which carried a humor piece by me, received a nomination in the Best Anthology ( Read more... )

It's been a busy month and it's getting busier, so I almost missed this: I won a fanfic writing award for my Buffy the Vampire Slayer fic, "She Would Be Thirteen":

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Yay, and thanks!  "She Would be Thirteen" has already won other writing awards; I get the feeling people like it.  ( Read more... )

I'm coming into a busy time now (when am I not?): Jillian graduates high school in less than one month! The Cancer Society Relay For Life is the same weekend as graduation (It's not too late to donate, if you wish to see me bald!) This weekend is the last show choir event (The Spectacular) for Jillian's high school show choir career (pictures ( Read more... )

Happy (um, very belated) birthday to aurey09, and (slightly less belated) to mygothangel!!!! And -- got this one in on time -- happy birthday to athenamuzeI'm having another busy weekend -- more about that in another post -- but I wanted to drop by to say my Buffy fanfic "Profit and Loss" has been nominated at the "No Rest for the Wicked Awards" in the category "That Old ( Read more... )

Happy -- ahem -- late birthday to agdhani (Hey, I wasn't online!) and happy on time (for once) birthday to enigmaticblues!!!!! Finally, happy early birthday -- because I don't expect to be around over the weekend -- to nmissi. Hope your week has been snowless ( Read more... )

Happy birthday this weekend to eternal_shalott, scythia_helicon, wheelinventerAnd, since it's apparently become tradition to have a group of birthdays and an award nomination at the same time, "She Would be Thirteen" has been nominated again -- this time for "The Scoobie snack Award - Best Ficlet (under 1,000 words)". It's at the UX (Ultimate Xander) Awards: Read more... )

Okay, still trying to get caught up. Two important things: First of all, hope you had/are having/will have a very happy birthday this/last week to bethnolastname, irish_injun, raemcn, psubrat, trysts, darsynia, ourchimera, oldgreymare, eternal_shalott, and femmenerdIt's not as long a list as it seems -- in some cases two of those are the same people -- but clearly a good several days for LJ'ers. Sorry I wasn't here for most of it; it's ( Read more... )

Haven't had a chance to write much of anything the last momth or so, except for the one short story I'm working on. However, I do have a bit of writing related news. My story "Profit and Loss" got nominated over at the Rogue Poet Awards (http://awards.rogue-poet.com/) for Best General ( Read more... )

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My story "House Call" tied for third place over at still_grrr, for prompt #67!


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