Well. Been a crazy bit of time. Travel for work. Travel to Balticon. More travel for work.

Balticon was fun, met some new cool people, saw some old friends I haven't seen in too long. Vodka may have happened.

Got copies of a book I have a story in (A Bard's Day Knight, ed. Michael Ventrella, available in PB and e-book). This is the third ( Read more... )

Tomorrow, I head south (and west) to Baltimore for Balticon 49. My panel schedule is fairly light, and mostly late night. So, if you're down for Balticon, drop in and say hey.

FRIDAY

11:00 PM - Tack (50 minutes)
Rule Thirty‐Four of the Internet: Everything Is Sexy. EVERYTHING
Jay Smith (M), Bernie Mojzes, Nobilis Reed, Alessia Brio

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Totally on topic: I came across this courtesy of Caitlin R. Kiernan.

http://www.usbtypewriter.com

The Flesh Made Word was released yesterday. We're almost at the end of our mini-excerpts. Today's is from "Paper Skin" by Sasha Payne.
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It was a bitter morning, dark and biting, and I cursed the moon for her disloyalty as she hid her face behind the ( Read more... )

I'm very happy to announce that, at long last, The Flesh Made Word, erotic stories about writing, is available. It's available as an e-book from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Smashwords, and of course, at Circlet you can select your preferred format - epub, mobi, or pdf - or get all three, as well as read an extended excerpt of A.C. Wise's story, " ( Read more... )

The Flesh Made Word is slated to come out tomorrow, May 5th. Tomorrow, there will be a proper book launch page with a longer excerpt of A.C. Wise's "All the Spaces In-Between," and it'll be available from Amazon &etc., but for now we'll have to settle for the Circlet Press Books for Sale page.


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Today's mini-excerpt is from "New Year's Sun," by Nadine Wilmot, which appears in The Flesh Made Word from Circlet Press.

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Sandrine stood in the center of the dimly lit room, transfixed. It was the lantern-light that did it, capturing her attention and hold- ing it while temple attendants removed her garments. She stared half-lidded at the lamp in ( Read more... )

Today's The Flesh Made Word mini-excerpt is from Trish DeVene's "Words are a Dangerous Thing."

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We are words. May we kiss your clean brow where black hair parts in its sleek cascade? You sing. You are a soulful singer, using your words to caress and carry. But who sings you?

As you stand in queue for your coffee, sweatshirt lounging loose, body ( Read more... )

Today's wordypr0n mini-excerpt, Rival Pens, is an epistolatory story, written as letters between two rival playwrights. We have to cut it short, here, as it gets explicit fast, and we don't want to trip the puritan-filters.

Rival Pens Benji Bright

M.,

I do all my best writing in whorehouses. Boys, girls, it hardly matters. As long as there are ( Read more... )

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Wordypr0n news: today, A.C. Wise's story from The Word Made Flesh, All the Spaces In-Between, went live in podcast form over at Nobilis Erotica: http://nobilis.libsyn.com/episode-324-all-the-space-in-between-by-a-c-wise. For obvious reasons, this is one you might not want to play over the PA system at work, especially if you work at a high school ( Read more... )