Cheyenne/Bristlecone Press launch events

Cheyenne Publishing and Bristlecone Pine Press are having a promotional event with lots of great prizes TODAY!!! to introduce Hidden Conflict Tales from Lost Voices in Battle and to re-launch and Speak Its Name

For full details on where to go and to find out more, please check out Mark's blog HERE.

To read excerpts from the two anthologies, watch the book trailer, or to get details on how to enter the drawings to win some really cool prizes, visit the Kindle boards (http://www.kindleboards.com/) or the Speak Its Name Group:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SpeakItsName/

Bristlecone Pine Press will give away a free eBook of each title, and Cheyenne Publishing has a brand new paperback of Hidden Conflict with a bookplate signed by all four authors, and a paperback copy of Speak Its Name with a bookplate signed by all three authors. Everyone who enters the drawings will be eligible to win Hidden Conflict bookmarks. Come on by for full details on how to enter.
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Satchmo Strikes Again

Do please pop along to Jessewave’s Blog for my column this week.  I’m discussing the Hero. We love him on the page, but would you REALLY want to live with him?

Come along and share your heroes and the reasons why you’d DEFINTELY not move in with him (or whether you would!)

In other news, the novella (Tributary) is getting there.  I would say it’s “almost done” because it IS, in a way—but it’s only half written.  As usual I’m writing it in rather a jigsaw fashion; the main bulk of the book moves forward, but I work on scenes that may or may not make their way into the whole thing, and of course, I’m writing the end. Meant to do it yesterday but felt too much like crap. Better today, thank you!  Still got a nascent cough and a snuffle, but nowhere near what I was expecting after yesterday.

What' I’ve realised is one of my characters has to have a name change.  His name is Louis and his lover’s name is (surname) Armstrong.  Is this my subliminal guilt that all my characters are white?

Have a small sniplet:

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Spammy today

I apologise for that, but I feel quite upbeat today, and that’s the first time in weeks. Think the Birthday squashed me a bit, together with TMI health issues. But the sun is out the sky is blue and it’s a lovely Autumn day. This time last year, a lot of the country had snow. Not ME, naturally, that goes without saying, that’s because I WANTED it. The cold is staying at bay, nose is clear, and the cough doesn’t seem to be getting worse. This is good.

When I watched Springwatch Unsprung earlier in the year I developed a real crush on Martin Hughes-Games. (I mean, honestly, who can’t love a man who’s passionate about wildlife with a name like that?) (Actually Chris Packham doesn’t get a pash, because he’s too interested in animal poo.  You know that if he was in Jurassic Park, he’d be the one to stick his arm in the Triceratops dung and he wouldn’t use a glove, either)  But now on Autumnwatch all has change.  it appears that I wasn’t the only one to fall for Mr Hughes-Games charms. He’s obviously had a stylist in, and gone is the grey wispy hair, and it’s all styled and Dead Poet wavy (OMG did you see him in the Byron outfit?) Sigh.  WANT!!!!!

 

I’m afraid I’m becoming like the elderly ladies who work in the Post Office advert, swooning at Roger Moore.  (No, I don’t swoon over RM, but I’d swoon over MHG.) btw – I ADORE Sir Rog for doing this advert. (under the cut for my LJ friends)

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