What's New?

Forward to November 1999...

10-30-99

NEWSFLASH!

Happy birthday to my friend Reverend Nice! :-)

Belated but hearty congratulations on your weddings, Caroline, and Myke! :-) Weddings to other people, of course, not each other. *grin* Only now am I catching up with the events of this late summer.

And now, I'd like you all to welcome a brand new member to the NAW: Steven desJardins. I know, I know, we are a fixed group. But -- now and then we will allow new members. Now -- before the floodgates open, we have already decided for now, and please don't nag, okay, dearies? *grin* So, please go visit Steven's page, and get to know this fascinating writer. :-)

10-27-99

NEWSFLASH!

If you missed it, here are the details of the funeral service for Marion Zimmer Bradley. She had selected the readings herself when she was still alive. In a way, this service is her final creative work.

I know, I know, life goes on.

Yes, and so it does.

On a brighter note, happy belated birthdays to Kurt Roth, Diana Rowland, Christy Hardin Smith, and KyttE Burke, who all had their days this last week. What a great week for those Libras -- love them all. :-)

Huge congratulations to Stephen Leigh for winning the Spectrum Award -- or did I already say that earlier, and am repeating myself? Sorry, if I had. :-) Blame it on senility, and the memory of a fruitfly.

Oh, and Diana, way to go, Cop-Babe! :-)

I got my hardcover signed limited edition copy of THE AGE OF REASON. Looks sharp! :-) And it feels amazingly weird to hold a hardcover book with my work in it. This is my first hardcover....

You know, I am in an all-around lull. The hectic shit part of this year is growing to a close, and things are slowly straightening themselves out.... Too many to mention. Finally, just finally, a routine might be in sight.

I haven't been writing at all lately, ever since I had stopped in the middle of that one story when MZB died. I do look forward to resuming my novel work soon however. Besides, fall, my favorite season, is at hand, and creative tingles start gathering inside....

One thing I don't have the slightest desire to do, on the other hand, is re-design my web page. I know everyone is constantly doing it, and doing amazing gorgeous things with theirs. But not me. :-) I don't know what it is about me, a stodginess? But once settled on a design, or a furniture layout, or an arrangement of anything, I pretty much stick with it... forever. Does that cross over to the way I relate to people? Maybe. :-)

Maybe I'm just lazy.

*grin*

10-17-99

NEWSFLASH!

Today was Marion Zimmer Bradley's funeral.

A moment of silence.

Now -- I know I've been gone for a long time, and some of you have been worried if I'm okay. :-) I've been busy actually, and doing lots of things to catch up, and some new things to get my mind off the sadness of MZB's passing.

Some time on Friday, my journal counter turned over 15,000. I handn't planned to commemorate this, and in fact hadn't even noticed it, but then our Toby Buckell e-mailed to inform me that he was visitor 15,000, and asked me what does he get for that wondrous honor.... Okay, Toby. You get a signed copy of THE AGE OF REASON, that's what. *grin* Congratulations, you SF Age sale-making bastid! ;-)

As for me, I got my one and only submission to SWORD AND SORCERESS #18 rejected. That really bummed me out hard. But, at 5,300 words it was a long shot, and it had been rejected last year by MZB. The only reason I sent it in at all was because I was so emotionally messed up by Marion's death that I couldn't even complete a new story, and this was the only thing I had. And I just had to send something in.

You know, for old time's sake.

For the last time.

Oh well, the rejection counter goes up one. But I could care less about that. Really, it was a very nice rejection, and Lisa Waters had held on to the story until the final cut. It's just the fact that this is the last Marion submission, that's what really hurts.

Well then....

Have you heard of mp3.com? It's an internet based musical super-community and has its own music format. In their own words,"MP3.com is the ultimate source for digital music downloaded from the Internet. In an average day, we have 200,000+ visits to our downloads area for diverse musical genres ranging from alternative to traditional. We've successfully delivered millions of songs to listeners from around the world and continue to enhance our site daily."

Well, I've always dreamed of having a band -- haven't you? :-) But now, I just went ahead and did it. I dug up some old demo tape recordings I had made, souped them up, converted them into the correct mp3 format via n-Track Studio software, and voila...

Introducing...

Normal Conquest.

Yup, that's the name of my one-woman band. At least, that's how it is for the moment. Go and check it out here:

http://www.mp3.com/NormalConquest

Or if the above link doesn't work, then here:

http://artists.mp3s.com/artists/58/normal_conquest.html

You may need an mp3 format player, and I highly recommend you get MusicMatch Jukebox 4.2 software, so go and download it first.

Then, please, pretty please, go and listen to my songs! Every download or streaming play gets me higher on the charts! Oh, and after you listen to my songs, please check out these two Musical Stooges whom I blame for my involvement with mp3.com: first and foremost, Jim Bailey's band Obsession Tree, and secondly, our beloved Kurtis Roth, two excellent music acts also up on mp3.com.

September 1999...

August 1999...

July 1999...

June 1999...

May 1999...

April 1999...

March 1999...

February 1999...

January 1999...

Archive - 1998 News...

Archive - 1997, 1996 News...