With a mad dash to the finish line, my novella Dues Ex Machina is off to the publisher — 1/4 of the Women of the Apocalpyse project due to be released October 31st at the World Fantasy Convention in San Jose (which I will be attending). What’s the Women of the Apocalypse? I’m glad you asked:
Four women, four shooters, four destinies to save the world from the Apocalypse…
The four horseman are coming. And so the four Archangels find the perfect champions to save the world — fighters, warriors, soldiers. All brave men ready to fight for humanity against end times. All these warriors have to do is drink a shooter — a caustic mix of booze and divinity that would imbue them with the strength to battle the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.
Except these male warriors didn’t drink the shooters. Because of fate, or chance, or call it what you will, but four women (who have no plans for saving the world) drink the divine concoction — thereby signaling that they are taking up the mantel of champion…
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Below is the opening pages of The Nameless, a novel I completed a year ago, and am readying it for the Fresh Blood contest presented by Chizine (my favourite e-zine) and Dorchester Publishing. Chizine focuses on the disturbing, the unclassifiable. As if staring at life through a cracked mirror. Such is the Nameless: What if you had the power to change one terrible event…remove it forever as if it had never happened? What if that event didn’t want to be forgotten?
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Many jet planes, actually. The first stop is Vegas for my Mom’s retirement party. September 23rd-27th. The second is San Jose for October 29th-November 1st for the World Fantasy Convention. Much like the World Science Fiction Convention in Montreal, I’ll be trying to network, network, network as well as to launch my book Women of the Apocalypse.
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The webpage is up and running: womenoftheapocalypse.com. Excerpts, bios, etc. Still a work in progress but check it out. Let me know what you think. Brian Garside did the banner, and the guts of the site are a wordpress design called Connections Reloaded (with a little bit of a hack job). Still working on getting the PayPal stuff up and running (for pre-orders and to sell the groups first book Seven Deadly Sins).
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The 2009 World Science Fiction Convention attracted thousands of geeks from around the world. The full hierarchy was present, from the higher functioning, to the merely breathing (and non bathing) geek. Where do I fit in? I’ll let you decide (I’d like to think that I’m higher functioning…able to slide in with the jocks when need be, but knowing full well that I don’t really belong).
I shacked up with Eileen Bell – my writer friend from Edmonton (she has coattails…and I’m riding them on the Women of the Apocalypse project) and luckily for me, has become a veteran of the literary conventions.
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