I have had my second short story accepted and have a third out in the aether being judged. The third one is for a paying site so I am extra nervous on that one. It is a tier I haven't reached yet. I have had to write a third bio already and was asked if I had an author's page. I didn't expect this problem. I am a pretty small fish and frankly ( Read more... )

I had my first short story accepted, as I probably mentioned. It was supposed to go up in the May Rogues' Gallery for Firbolg Publishing. I was waiting to hear more, but finally visited the site ( Read more... )

I guess I have a lot of ground to cover. Today is wonderful and terrible, joyful and shocking. I'm starting to feel like a character in a book! But it's not as good a read since a lot of it is internalized. Today was a good day for sales at the store, which was uplifting. I got a piece of the Procyon puzzle figured out and another chunk done ( Read more... )

Today was the Grand Opening of our store. We were going to have an event anyway and we had been dreaming of doing something big for 12-21-12 for a long time since our main mascot is a quetzalcouatl. So we went for it ( Read more... )

It has been awhile since I posted here and I miss it. My days are busy as I did get my store opened. Unfortunately, it is not doing well at all, however, the conventions have been fantastic. But relying on the conventions to keep the store afloat is like gambling. One bad convention and the house of cards comes tumbling down. But I have a ( Read more... )

It has been a long time since I have posted. My husband and I are about to get our first storefront! I wasn't expecting to do that this year, indeed, after the fiasco of trying last year and getting turned down for a loan (right at the August 2nd debt ceiling crisis), I had shelved the idea for awhile ( Read more... )

So I am in the middle of cleaning and a touch of packing right now. While clearing a table I came across a poem I wrote right around Thanksgiving/Early December. It's called, "Beware, I carry a loaded pen". It is still in a pretty raw state, but I like it. It is full of fun and power so it is hard to pick it apart as much as I should. But hey ( Read more... )

I still have nightmares about the stupid dentist. I think I preferred the one I had the other day about trying to get Stevie Wonder's autograph and missing my chance. C'est la vie I suppose. The weirder thing was that a few days prior I dreamed I got Barack Obama's autograph and saw a poster saying Stevie Wonder was coming to the college campus ( Read more... )

Well, Rob and I got the minimum amount we were told we needed to get an SBA loan. I copied all the paperwork, filled out all the financial forms. I SPENT $10 just on the photocopies and that did NOT include our 28 page business plan. But in the meantime, our advocate, Ryan Curtis, left Comerica. We liked him, he knew us, he knew our business ( Read more... )

Well, I have been tied up a lot with conventions and whatnot and thus have not updated for awhile. What's new? Well, I've just finished up vending at Michicon and will be at JAFAX next I believe. The tax return got used to get the bills caught up instead of going directly to getting the store front. That was a painful thing to do, but it will ( Read more... )