Nice Mommy~Evil Editor

I have no ebook releases from Samhain this week, but I did have four books release in print yesterday, so I’ll share covers and blurbs of those instead! The Princes of Anfall by Ciar Cullen Buy it on Amazon Read an Excerpt The greatest Elven Wizard fights to free Anfall of an ancient evil, and [...]

I’m excited to announce that the following books have been chosen for the fall anthologies. There were so many wonderful submissions for the I Dream of Dragons anthologies, that I ended up choosing not three, but five books, to be packaged in two print anthologies. Those books are: Dragon Knight by Summer Devon Ethereal Foes [...]

Talking about pop culture references in writing and how I feel on them. Once you’ve read that post, come back and read the rest of this one. After the jump I’m posting the “translations” for the pop culture paragraphs I used in that post, as well as a few samples of other paragraphs that Shannon [...]

One of the Samhain editors, Imogen Howson, did a fabulous post today on the Samhain blog about why she’s been converted to realize the importance of a good synopsis. I hope you’ll all go over and check it out, she makes her point well!

I did an interview with Jane of Dear Author and it’s posted today. Go check it out if you’re interested.

I’m still playing with the site colors, now that I’ve mostly got the header worked out. If you see anything that looks funky, please let me know and I’ll work on changing it (like the black search box with black text. Huh). And the footer at the bottom of the blog that matches the original [...]

If this were a real post, it would hopefully be a lot more interesting. Via the comments at FerfeLabBat’s blog, I snagged a plugin that will cross-post my posts to my Livejournal. The one that I’ve previously not posted to, except for a place holder post directing people here, because I’m far too lazy to [...]

I’m updating my version of WordPress. If I blow my blog up or it disappears for awhile, you know why. Of course, only those of you with blog feed will see this post if I completely muck this up. And I’m sure it’s a great idea to do this while sick and not thinking clearly. [...]

I’m going to be doing Free Book Friday on my blog, at least for the next couple months while I get through conference season and training new editors (they’re wonderful but reading 6 other people’s work in addition to my own takes time!). Normally, on Free Book Friday, I’ll be giving away your choice of [...]

That’s right!! Samhain Publishing got the email today. We’ve been given RWA recognition. Just a year after we first started releasing books, we’re joining the ranks of recognized epublishers. Crissy called me right after receiving the email and I’ve been waiting for her to post to the Business group so I could tell everyone!! I [...]