Swankivy tuned me in to tektek.org where you can make cute avatars, with a billion little accessories to decorate them with. I wish I had the time to look at all of them, because there's some really great stuff there...but that'd take forever.

Anyway, here are the Queenschair avatars I've created so far!


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A couple of days ago, I was relieved and ecstatic to find out that I'd survived to the quarterfinal round in ABNA, the final 500. That jubilation was tempered by the knowledge that my good friend Swankivy (and, no matter if she doubts it, the only reason I was able to be in the competition at all) did not make it with her novel Stupid Questions. ( Read more... )

I'll start off with a tangent (wait, does that make sense? Since the real topic hasn't even been established yet, doesn't that make the tangent the real topic and the other stuff the tangent? But I digress...wait, so the digression is a tangent off the tangent which isn't really a ( Read more... )

As I struggled with my plotlines for J.C. Fann's A Kingdom Apart: Volume II of the Queenschair Saga: A Fantasy Fiction Series Coming Soon to a Kindle Near You-Tentative Title All Rights Reserved, I recalled something I once discussed with Swankivy in an e-mail a long time ago (like 2012). I think I was making fun of a forum post I'd seen somewhere ( Read more... )

I only heard about this series from the sporks on Impish Idea, looked it up out of mild interest, and promptly lost most of that interest when it turned out to be a Twilight-ish paranormal romance/whatever novel ( Read more... )

Despite the initial positivity after the first round cuts, and some people (with wishful thinking) commending everybody for being good sports and not sore losers...we've started to see some bad apples.

http://www.amazon.com/forum/amazon%20breakthrough%20novel%20awards/ref=cm_cd_pg_pg1?_encoding=UTF8&cdForum=Fx6TTNZ0V5TDQ5&cdPage=1&cdThread= ( Read more... )