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Cecilia Tan's _Daron's Guitar Chronicles_ wins R&B for fiction

Submitted by Karen on Tue, 03/02/2010 - 11:29

Tell the truth, since the Rose & Bay Awards are by popular choice, I didn't think I stood a chance with heavy hitters like MeiLin Miranda and Alexandra Erin in the running.

Still, it was an honour to be nominated at all -- only 20-odd works were, out of hundreds on the Net -- so thanks again to Valdary for that. PA received enough votes to make a respectable showing.

Thanks very much to all who voted for it.

Last chance to vote for Rose & Bay!

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 02/25/2010 - 04:53

Voting is open until Sunday for the Rose & Bay Awards.

If you have a LiveJournal account, it’s very simple: just log in and go here - http://community.livejournal.com/crowdfunding/164346.html - click on the link that goes to the poll (Poll #1519758 Voting for 2010 Rose and Bay Award: Fiction) then click on “Fill out poll”.

Semana kra - no C pic on reading page

Submitted by Karen on Mon, 02/15/2010 - 08:03

But there were enough chalk votes that obviously I've got to do more images of him somewhere, and not just my image gallery. I will ponder upon this. Thank you for voting.

Oops - comments fixed

Submitted by Karen on Sat, 02/13/2010 - 09:14


After Friday's heavy cliff-hanger post I expected comments. Possibly death-threats, but at least comments. When none came in I figured none of you loved me. Even enough to want to kill me. Then I noticed viewing the post that there was no "Add new comment" line and checking the settings, I found comments were disabled.

I have no idea why this happened. With all my other posts they've been automatically enabled. Cyber-brownian motion, I guess.

That's now fixed, so if you would like to make a comment on 219, death-threat or otherwise, it's now possible.

I have to make money at this

Submitted by Karen on Wed, 02/10/2010 - 10:45

I guess I'm saying this as a heads-up. I keep talking about premium content and not doing it. I actually have two fairly hefty pieces now that I could offer as bonus stories. I want to set up a "backstage pass" subscription option too, where you'd have to go to get into character chats, author chats, and other inside info. And donations... heck, I haven't even set up the page for that yet. Maybe today. This site is set up to use a points system, so I have to do research on that.

Here we are on the new site

Submitted by Karen on Mon, 02/08/2010 - 21:17

As Chevenga would say: What are the chances that something like this could go off perfectly?

(Mind you, if this were like his life, there would only be major, scary website f'ups on Fridays.)

I have an email in to my webgoddess MeiLin asking about the "latest" page which, as I understand it, should show teasers for recent content, most recent on top, but doesn't have PA post 215. I'm posting this in part to test that. Will it work on this but not PA? Rrrrr.

It will appear that the vast majority of the comments are gone, but not to worry.

Another outdoor adventure: dogsledding

Submitted by Karen on Sat, 01/30/2010 - 07:30


It was the quintessential Canadian experience. One slice out of time epitomizes the extreme Canucktivity of it: Shirley leans over in the sled and grabs up a used Tim Horton's cup that someone has dropped. She's picking up litter, it's from a coffee and donut chain founded by a deceased pro hockey player, and she's on a dogsled. It's -20 Celsius, or -4 Fahrenheit. You can't get more Canadian than that.

Shout-out to Anticipation

Submitted by Karen on Sat, 01/23/2010 - 14:42

(riginally posted Aug. 8, 2009)

Hello sff fans at this year's WorldCon in la belle ville de Montréal!

Alas, we were going to do another four-legged turkey soirée as we did at Ad Astra, but the turkey shipment was lost when the single-wing scout got caught in a storm, the turkey-cart flipped over and broke open, and dinner-to-be scattered in all directions. They can't fly, but, All-Spirit, the little shen-eaters sure can run.

PA nominated for Rose and Bay Award

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 17:13

We had been talking over at weblit.us about founding an award for weblit so as to make the public more aware that not only is there reading available for free online, but good reading, good as what you'd find in a bookstore. Now we don't need to, because Elizabeth Barrette (Ysabet_wordsmith) and associates have founded the Rose and Bay Award.

I quote:

Christmas dinner

Submitted by Karen on Thu, 01/21/2010 - 17:03

Burnout hit me like a ton of bricks last Friday (Dec 18) and the following weekend. It's a feeling sort of like my head is full of cotton but there's also a kind of mental weight dragging me down, a lack of energy and a need for more sleep (I have been napping during the day a lot). Nasty emotions go along with it too, of course: feelings of desperation, inadequacy, demoralization, etc. I started feeling it on and off back in the summer, but never as bad as last week.

But the hiatus is helping.

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