Might add all the fiction linked on the right, in collapsible categories so it’s not overwhelming, and move the friends & time wasting links to a links page. I do have more than four friends; I just never bothered to update the site. Probably won’t change any more until early next week.

Please let me know what you think!

http://www.vylarkaftan.net/

Eugie Foster did the work, and I’m very happy with it. Let me know what you like, or don’t, or if you find things that are broken. We’re still tweaking a bit.

If you like the work, she’s available for hire. Very reasonable rates and she’s great to work with. She also did the Transcriptase site and her own home site as well. I’ve worked with her on two different sites now, and both times I’ve been extremely impressed with her skills.

And I finally have the new website I’ve wanted for months. Yay!

Site update coming either this weekend or next. I probably won’t post much until it’s ready.

Since it’s a new market, I thought I’d put in a plug for Brain Harvest from a writer’s perspective.

5 cents a word for flash fiction, fast response time, prompt payment. A good experience and I recommend them. I think they’re buying a lot right now because they’re new and building inventory.

Send them your stories! I love flash fiction and I’d like to see this market growing.

This description is even worse than that Viking Warrior book that gets passed around Clarion West.

Break your brain by reading it.

A quote: Her hair had the sheen of the sea beneath an eclipsed moon. It was the color of a leopard’s tongue, of oiled mahogany. It was terra cotta, bay and chestnut. Her hair was a helmet, a hood, the cowl of the monk, magician, or cobra.

And it gets better (worse). It’s from a published book too.

Just signed the contract for “Fulgurite” to be printed in Sybil’s Garage 6. I love the magazine and I’m happy to be there again.

Here’s Sky and Sea, a flash story at Brain Harvest.

Just back from a gaming convention, which was lots of fun. Very tired now. Sleep beckons.

The 25 stupidest outfits you will ever see. Work-safe.

Question for editors, since I know a few of you read my blog.

When I e-sub a manuscript, I follow standard formatting. I recently learned that the Zoom function, which shows the manuscript at different sizes, stays with the file rather than the computer. Which means that when I work at 150% like always, and submit the story, it’s still at 150% when you open it.

Is this distracting? Do you notice? Do you care?

I’m wondering if I need to remember to size back down to 100% or if it’s no big deal. Thanks.

My flash fiction story “Sky and Sea” will be up at Brain Harvest on Sunday. New flash fiction market, pays 5 cents a word for stories between 100-750 words.

Attention all ye writerly ones. Send them a story. Sit down tonight and write something. 750 words is very doable.