R.I.P. Farrah Fawcett & Michael Jackson

Today the world lost two icons.

Michael Joseph Jackson – August 28, 1958 to June 25, 2009
Michael Jackson, the show-stopping singer whose best-selling albums — including “Off the Wall,” “Thriller” and “Bad” — and electrifying stage presence made him one of the most popular artists of all time, died Thursday, CNN has confirmed.

Farrah Leni Fawcett – [...]

Deirdre Knight on RWA’s e-publishing position

Agent extraordinaire and author, Deirdre Knight who is published both in New York (print) and with Samhain (e-publishing) has written a fantastic response to RWAs latest position in regards to e-publishing on the ESPAN blog today.
Please spread the word and let people know about her terrific post.
It’s past time that RWA caught up with what’s [...]

MayNoWriMo

cross posted from my livejournal
Well MayNoWriMo was not as successful as I hoped. I did get some pages in. But I had to stop and do a lot of plotting, outlining and worldbuilding.
So I made progress, in a way, just not word count progress.
I think that’s one of the hazards from starting MayNoWriMo so late. DTAL [...]