One Hot Mess

In other news, the Sneak Peek for issue six of Ethereal Tales is up now! Go take a look to see what the haps are. As well as my story, Breaking Down, there's also fiction by my housemate and platonic lifeparter, chaostheory , my fellow Girton writer rjpayne , and my fellow Damnation Books author, yolandasfetsos . What more could you ask for? 

For the curious, I'm the one being eaten. By life.

Last week was an incredibly unproductive week writing-wise. I managed a grand total of 2k on SILVER KISS, most of which was done last night under the influence of peanut M&Ms. I'm pretty please with how the story is progressing, but it needs to progress faster! So this week, I am totally laying the smackdown. No socialising, no showerig, no eating. Just hardcore, graphic, extreme-close-up, unadulterated, writing. No, okay, I will shower and eat.

Although, of course, Watchmen is out on DVD this week, and chaostheory  and I have been planning our glorious viewing of the director's cut for months now. I was very amused to see a review of the DVD in a men's mag this weekend that cautioned that "this film does have a naked blue man in it." Like Dr Manhattan's penis might somehow threaten the moral integrity of the male viewer.

Oh, and also, Ethereal Tales' July issue is out now. Featuring me! So if you'd like to read a story about dying angels and warehouse fires, go grab a copy. Go now!

So, first of all I'm excited to announce that my short story Burned will be appearing in this month's Ethereal Tales. Yay! I love short story writing, so I'm always pleased when I actually get something published, and I'm especially pleased in this case because it's a Scarlett story. Scarlett and her gang of werewolves, necromancers, lost gods, and pyschics being my first writing love and all that.

Anyway, I've seen this on a few people's blogs, butkazdreamer  is encouraging everyone to do it, so here we are.

'I wish you were coming with me tonight.' - SILVER KISS (which is rolling along nicely, thanks!)

A fire storm was brewing. - Wonderland (which has stalled because I'm too lazy to work on the much-needed worldbuildling).

She ran through the forest, the metallic tang of blood in her nostrils - Wild (which one day I will finish rewriting because I love it, damn you).

The vampire slunk through the dead leaves and damp earth, a parody of the woman it had been in life - Death for the Born (don't really have any witty comments for this one).