I journeyed for far too long through far too much snow and traffic, leaving early to arrive late at Capricon, where I was scheduled to guide whoever showed up at my table in the Midwinter Faire through the mysteries of acrylic painting ( Read more... )

Perhaps I should say D is for extendeD Deadline for the Torn World critter contest (May 1st), but really, I should have done C is for Critter Contest yesterday. Never mind that I did a C post here and then a second C post over on DreamWidth (C is for Coyote)  I meant for the Coyote bit to cross-post, but apparently in the muddle of resetting ( Read more... )

Win some books from my overstocked library!  Details here:  http://wyld-dandelyon.livejournal.com/190392.html

Here's a picture of part of the library.  I have a big old Victorian house, of the vintage that has two parlours. My Angel and I turned the gentleman's parlour into a library, with as many bookshelves as we could stuff into it and still ( Read more... )

Torn World is having a new contest! There are four categories: Art, Poetry, Fiction, and Meta-fiction, and Ellen has made some suggestions for possible topics of all of the above, though those are far from exhaustive. The ones in the announcement are to help get people thinking, not to limit your options!

The announcement is here: http://torn-world. ( Read more... )

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Halloween is a lot of fun. You wander around, in a world of fairies, witches, and vampires, and there's candy (and scary ghosts and spiders) at every door. You never know what you'll come across next, and life's an adventure ( Read more... )

http://jongibbs.livejournal.com/217907.html

It may win the writer only a meagre puddle of limelight, a story, and an un-grammatical mug, but a meagre puddle is better than no puddle at all to make a splash in.

You can go vote, if you've been reading. Or you can use the poll to hop from story to story, reading and then vote.

http://mad-docs-of-lit.livejournal.com/28205.html

There's just 13 stories, and the one that wins will make it into the Re-Vamp anthology, which will be published on  Halloween this year.

Re-Vamp is holding The Monster Makeover Short Story Competition, and my story Monster Meal is entered. You can stop by here: http://mad-docs-of-lit.livejournal.com/26730.html to read the story, and you can go to their "recent entries" to read the other contest entries that have been posted so far.

Voting will take place September 11-17, and the ( Read more... )

All of the polls listing titles entered into the Meagre Puddle of Limelight contest for best short story title are now open. I have titles in rounds 1, 3, and 6. Here's a link to the poll that includes Monster Teeth and Art Glass; there's links to all the other polls there too, as well as a description of the prizes--which I must admit seem ( Read more... )