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Women in Horror Recognition Month has a new website and holy crap I love it! I just requested permission to use the seal for the second Iron Maidens Anthology (which will need an awesome subtitle to reflect the genre change I am currently incapable of thinking up).

... I'm a little worried though because I haven't had nearly the number of submissions for the current anthology I had expected. I still have the stories promised by the people I queried but so far I've only short listed one story. Boo. Boo boo boo.

It should go better with horror though, I know more people and have more connections. Plus getting the seal means that WiHRM will help promote.

Speaking of genre changes, I've decided that "Jenna" and thus this journal will be all about my horror work. I've recently been playing with more fantasy work (including The Novel) and think I might switch to a pen name for that. Not entirely committed yet though I do have a facebook fan page up just in case as well as yet another livejournal. But I'm not really posting there so we don't have to worry about it.

Other than that? I'm working. Slowly. Slowly slowly. One day at a time.

Issue 14 of the Lovecraft eZine is available now. It's the one with Now She Preys Through Endless Days. So read it! And stuff.

I'm going to edit another story today and finish writing something else. Go productivity.

And while we're on the subject of e-reading Fionah Jameson has some ebooks/stories for free out for today and today only. Deadline: A collection of moments, Liam Malone, and The Worm Lady are all available for the low low price of nothing. You can read them on a reader or on a computer and acquaint yourself with the works of Ms. Jameson

As I said at the source, Iron Maidens Anthologies has a Facebook fan page. I've had a couple people Like the page that I think might just be fans of Iron Maiden. ... I hope they're not disappointed!

I also announced that Moira J. Moore (moiraj), Phil Brucato (satyrblade), and J.A. Pitts (bravado111) have agreed to write/donate a story for the collection. This makes me very happy!

Now I'm thinking about promotion. When I first came up with the idea I figured I would throw the anthology up on Duotrope but they've changed their policies and aren't allowing first time anthology publishers to advertise. That makes sense and I can't really fault them for it but it's caused a massive brain fart on my end when it comes to getting this in front of potential writers. If anyone has any suggestions I'd be happy to hear them!

Other than that I've been writing (as always) and... uh... not much else. Which is probably how it should be.

I got an acceptance email today! Now She Preys Through Endless Days was accepted for The Lovecraft eZine! It will be in the women and Lovecraft themed issue, I'm not sure when it will be out at this point but when I get more information this will be the first place I update!

Iron Maidens was sort of officially announced at Norwescon (if by "announced" you mean I mentioned it to people. I'm counting it) It's a special project I've been thinking about and over for a long time. And it's open for submissions. So... there you go.

I know I've been really quiet over here. Silent even.

It's been a rough year for me, personally more than anything else and that got in the way of writing. I haven't been submitting anything. I only have two submission worthy stories right now but I'm not sending them out. I have some more I'm going to start editing soon but not quite yet.

There's a light at the end of the tunnel however and I'm hoping to have something big to say soon. Some of this news will concern my own writing, some of it will concern a project I'm thinking up where I will probably be reaching out to others. So... think on that for a while.

Until then... Uhm watch this (yeah, it will probably hurt your head but it's totally SFW)

I applied to Clarion West. Hope they accept me. Really, really do.

Thinking about OryCon this month. They said if I show up and buy a badge they'll put me on panels. I can do that. I won't have a schedule which sucks on the one hand and is kind of nice on the other.

We finally have a date for Vaginomicon in February. The 24th. We also have a location, the Jewelbox Theater! It's small and nice and works. Now comes the planning and stuff.

So Vaginomicon wanted to do a promotion at zomBcon this year. We were told "sure!" then never heard back. To the point that we all gave up on it. Well on TUESDAY we learned that we ARE scheduled! For the Thursday preview night! Yeah. Two nights to get ready. Rad huh?

I wanted to have a new Día de los Muertos monologue ready for zomBcon but it was taking more research than I had anticipated so it was a no go. In fact, the only undead we have is Frankenstein's bride in Pink Heaven. Oh well.

If you have time, if you're in Seattle and if you can get tickets, come to zomBcon's preview tomorrow night (or tonight for you people who don't count the next day as "whenever the hell I wake up in the afternoon" like I have been) Details on the specific event can be found here.

So while in LA I was asked to do a reading at the film festival in Portland! Yay! That's where I'm going to be this weekend. Look! I'm on the site and everything! See? And on the schedule! Here! Go me!

I rewrote Now She Preys Through Endless Days and it's way better now. I have two people looking at it right now. I read it in LA and I guess I'm going to read it in Portland. When it's been looked at and stuff and I get it all ready I guess I can start this whole submission thing all over again. That... probably should happen.

Finished another unnamed story today. Go me! It's super creepy, I think it's pretty clever myself but we'll see how that goes. It's in a super rough draft right now but that's to be expected what with the whole finishing it today thing, huh? Yeah, yeah.

In other news? I have a new plan for stories. Like writing them and stuff. Which will hopefully make me more prolific, better at writing and a host of other things. This is sort of important what with my whole not doing much else right now. Good luck to me!

And that? Is life right now!