Minneapolis is a great place from what I can tell from my trip this weekend, sort of like a really big version of the east side of Milwaukee spread out. The architecture was fun and obviously folks here really take their visual and performance art seriously. I had a great brunch at Catherine Lundoff’s home with several folks from the area and had a great time. I wish I lived closer.

The readings were disappointing though. The reading was supposed to be at 2pm on Sunday but we found out later the May Day parade was happening so the reading was rescheduled to 5:30, a message that obviously didn’t get through to all the promo sources. We decided just in case to run two readings, one at 2pm and one at 5:30, we got three people at each.

At the first reading it was a local artist and a kid there for a school assignment with her mother. During the second reading it was two friends of my co reader and a customer at the store that found out about the reading at the last minute. Disappointing, but Linda and I still read and did our best to keep those there entertained. I’m hoping to make another trip back to True Colors Bookstore on a day there’s not a big local even going on to see if we have better luck with a group reading.

One another note my son and I went to see Wolverine Origins tonight and it was intense. Sure much of it isn’t part of canon I’ve seen dealt with but it wasn’t have to settle into the story as once possible way things could’ve happened. It certainly helps that I’m a big fan of the character Wolverine to begin with, and of action movies. Action was something this movie had no lacking of. It would’ve been nice if a far less of the cool characters introduced in this movie got killed off, but then Logan friend are known for having very short life spans.

Now, I admit there were a few other things I had issue with during the movie, and I may talk about those another day when there’s less chance of spoiling things for my friends who haven’t seen the movie yet. High art this movie isn’t, but then high art isn’t what most of us who are super hero movie goers want from Marvel and their associates. Lots of characters have cameos, some who even survive to be allies of enemies later. I could easily be convinced to see this again.

My release date for Nashoba’s Hope is being moved up my nearly a month which is really exciting. This means for those of you who were hoping to nab a copy in May, now you’ll be able to download you own in mid April. Hmmm now I need to find places willing to do reviews of f/f ebooks (unless Shadowfire handles that, they seem pretty on when it comes to promo stuff. :)

( Coming April 17th from Shadowfire Press  )


 

I’m trying out unicreatures since dragon cave is down so much lately.

     

Oh and as a reminder, con_or_bust  is still running auctions, so there’s time to donate something, or buy, buy, buy! For those who do not know, con_or_bust  is an online auction to raise money to help POC get to WisCon this year.

Whew, been writing my fingers off. It’s hard core snowing lately, so being the home body I am during the winter, it’s a good time to work indoors. I’m still waiting on and answer about the lesbian cowgal anthology (I am still hopeful  ), and I’ve finished four more submissions in the meantime. One story is a light fetish piece for the RAW theme sheets Phaze is doing. Another story is for a charity anthology in support of Lambda Legal fight against Prop 8. The third story is one for the Queer Wolf call that was a ton of fun to do. The last one I just completed today is another charity piece for the most recent Coming Together call. I also heard back from a horror anthology I submitted to saying they misplace my submission and would I please resend. Of course I did, so hoping to hear good news from them, too.

Next project is either an attempt at the “Creamy” theme call Ellora’s Cave is holding, and/or the Summer sensations theme story for Total-e-bound. Both I’m not certain about, one because neither seemed interested in f/f or f/f/m, and the fact I have a submission still in with EC that’s been there for nearly a year and I know they are very backlogged. I’m not sure what that means for the anthology calls. Maybe those are separate editors and don’t take as long. We’ll see what the muse says to me when I sit down to write tomorrow.

On a side note, two of the four foster kittens were adopted out this weekend, and a family is interested in the other sister too, it seems. Both home are very good people with possitive energy to them. It's very exciting!

Peace out all!

Whew. Just sent out my Queer Wolf and Phaze RAW theme sheet submissions. Wish me luck on those. Not I have some charity stories to do to for anths supporting the fight against prop 8 to get cracking on. I need to remember to get my word count into the Nano verifier tomorrow. Snow and kids hope messed up my to do plans a bit today.