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Substance is still seeking a publisher. Bloodis still out there.

That is all.

Catherine

Delirium Press invited me to submit a couple of books proposals to them. The sample chapters, outline, and notes for Substance of Shadows went out to the very kind assistant editor who scouted me at Wiscon. Apparently, that kind of thing does happen on occasion!

At any rate, now we wait. David says he’ll look at it at the end of this month, so I’m just going to play it cool, get the next book proposal, Blood is Thicker than Wateraround, and try not to be a writer egg on pins and needles.

Nah. Come on. I’m a Ph freakin’ D polished professional. I can do this. Sure.

🙂 🙂 🙂

Catherine

So, the thing is Jools and I have been putting together Crystal’s anthology, so I’ve been working, not dead.

Are you interested in helping our friend Crystal? She has breast cancer, and you can support her by buying this volume of fiction from our writing group. Where can you find it? Well, I’m glad you asked!

http://www.cafepress.com/crystalsvision

Twenty dollars, and it’s yours. My kid vampire hunter story is in it, as well as stories, art works, and poems from authors of my acquaintance. Who knows? If any of these authors make it big, this could be a collector’s item in future years!

Meanwhile, I’ll soon begin working with a friend who did the cover art of Crystal Vision on something faerie like, and I’ll be looking into the world of artists cooperatives and small press. More to come!

Catherine

Last night I finished putting in the vampire story for the anthology. Tonight will be tightening it up and cutting it down to anthology size. Most of the remaining work on this will be with editing, printing, etc. Our goal is to have some to sell at Wiscon.

Alas, for a little bit, my writing time must belong to Dr. Catherine, as she needs to get an article submission put together for second language writing journals. But then, I’ll be right back at it, slogging along on something creative.

A friend who is an artist and I have decided to go to Faerie Con in Philadelphia in October, and I’d like to have something ready for that with her powers of illustration, so I’ll slide that up in the cue, and alternate Empty Horizon with it until it’s done. Then it’s back to the business plan.

Hope you’re all doing well out there. Rest assured, I won’t bore you with snippets of Dr. Catherine’s research.

Catherine

I’d like to thank Mark for the shining new upgrade!

Right now I’m on spring break, and I’m diligently finishing up some projects in my other going concern–sewing. However, my next writing project will be a story for Crystal’s anthology, of which I will post a snippet here. I am also tinkering with the idea of trying to send out a project to an interesting company that specializes in faerie things, but that idea is sort of brewing right now, so I’m not sure where it will go.

At any rate, welcome to March. I’ll be back shortly.

Just in case you’re reading this site through one of its RSS feeds, this post is to let you know the site has been upgraded to the latest/greatest version of WordPress. If you’re reading the site through the site itself; you probably guessed that when you noticed the new theme on the site. Besides the new theme, all the big changes are on the backend of the site which will affect Cath more than anyone but it’s all shiney goodness for her!

Chapters 1 and 2 of The Empty Horizon are out there, being read, RIGHT NOW by my writing workshop friends. It’s probably at this point that I should interupt myself and work on the anthology.

I’m working on an anthology for a deserving friend who has cancer. I hope it will be full of good stories and art from my writing friends, and it will be available to you if you want it. More details to come.

Catherine

Chapter One completed and into Chapter Two.

Ear infection slowing us up…no!

Also, have decided to put together a benefit anthology for friend with cancer to sell at Wiscon.

Needs to be a story about a woman character. Any requests on whom I should write about, those of you who know my stories? Ten page maximum.

Catherine

We revise…this’ll be all you get for a bit, but we are on task!

My mother passed away at night, just before an angry storm broke. The priest came in the evening to anoint her forehead and her feet, to send her ready to God. I listened to her breath rattle, and I watched her eyes dim as the fire dwindled to nothing but coals. When she was gone, I folded her arms over her chest and kissed her still warm cheek. I stepped outside into the wind, not sure where I was going. I thought I was going to go to my uncle’s home, to tell them that she had finally died, that, after days and nights of nursing her illness, her end had come.

Continue reading “Here’s Something”

Yesterday, I finished my research for the Mercedes beginning section of Empty Horizon. I think I have amassed enough information to lie successfully now. I also learned all sorts of great spinning words like “scutching,” and I understand how flax fibers are separated out to make linen.

Quite a bit of what I have written as a first attempt can now be made valid and real. I don’t know how much it will change what happens. Mostly what I need to change are atmospherics, so to speak.

So, this weekend I begin to write. 🙂