It's a Book! For Real!

I'm so happy. No, really. Just got my first copy of SLIPSTREAMS, from DAW. I'm in this lovely anthology, along with a host of fabulous people (including writers I've enjoyed and admired for years, such as Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Robert Sawyer, and Jane Lindskold.) The book is supposed to be out on or around May 2nd, so get ready. I took a few pictures of the book to prove it exists (hey, until I saw the actual finished product, I still half-suspected it to be a cruel joke perpetrated by a capricious universe...)

I apologize for the crap nature of the pictures, but it was spur of the moment with a crap webcam. :>


Note my name. And my many fine colleagues.


Mine's the Nick St. Claus story. I get 'story mention!'


Half of the cover.

Go buy the book! Tell your friends. Am I shameless enough? I apologize, but this is my first -real- published story. And hopefully the first of many. :>

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/075640357X/sr=8-1/qid=1144820675/ref=pd_bbs_1/103-5872452-9383035?%5Fencoding=UTF8

Audiobook!

Defying all expectation and rationality, here's a 2nd post in the same day.
Yesterday and today, I went up to DC to visit family and see my old high school. To make time move faster, I took along an audiobook. LOCAL CUSTOM, by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller, as read by Michael Shanks and put out by Buzzy Multimedia.

Can I just say how much I absolutely adore the Liadan books? They're so much fun. This one is... well, I want to describe it as a science fiction/space opera romance of manners. And with Shanks doing the narrating, you really get a view for the near-Shakespearian word/interplay between the main characters as they court, fight, duel, and connive, all with words as their weapons. Lee and Miller are awesome; the audiobook only enhances my enjoyment.

I love audiobooks. Next up is GRAVE PERIL, written by Jim Butcher, as read by James "Spike" Marsters.

Go here: http://www.buzzymultimedia.com/
Buy audiobooks.
Be happy.