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April 27, 2009
There's nothing better than when a weekend falls into place and Sunday I went with my brother and mom to Bingo to celebrate his birthday.  He won $200 and shared.  Yes, a very nice weekend.  Now, here's the news I received to pass on to you this week:
 
From author Marilyn Baron:  Nine Petit Fours and Hot Tamales bloggers will launch a new “Group Novel” called Aspen Exposé that will start serializing Sunday, May 3, 2009, and every Sunday after that for the next nine weeks. Our Sunday April 26 blog post, “Book on a Blog,” explains how the process worked. We hope your readers will stop by  enjoy reading it as much as we enjoyed writing it. So log on every Sunday, starting May 3, 2009, as the writers of Petit Fours and Hot Tamales shake things up with their unique spin on an original serial thriller that starts with a rollicking charade of espionage, suspense and intrigue, twists and turns and romance that’s almost too hot to handle. (You can read about it here)

From Zinta Aistars, Managing Editor of The Smoking Poet:  THE SMOKING POET's SECOND ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST  The Smoking Poet is a literary ezine, established in 2006, and published online on a quarterly basis. TSP’s first annual short story contest is open to all writers, whether they have been past contributors to TSP or not, and in any genre.  Judges will be Zinta Aistars, managing editor of The Smoking Poet; J. Conrad Guest, fiction editor of The Smoking Poet and author of January’s Paradigm. And, we are thrilled to announce - the honorary judge of TSP's Second Annual Short Story Contest is Bonnie Jo Campbell, author of "American Salvage,"  Submission deadline for the contest is May 31, 2009.  We look forward to reading your best work! (Get all the details here)

From Sheila English, CEO, Circle of Seven Productions:  Christine Feehan's book trailer for Dark Curse won an EMPixx Award for CGI affects.  (Congrats Christine and you can see the video here)

From author Cherry Adair:  Many of us have been affected in some way by breast cancer. (just the words send a nightmarish shudder up my spine!) My mother Petal died in 1974 of breast cancer. And while treatments and medical breakthroughs have improved enormously since then, the dreadful anticipation of breast cancer still hangs over our heads. A close friend died of cancer last year, and two dear friends are going through treatment right now. Just the word cancer is terrifying to most of us.

Many of us have been touched directly and deeply by breast cancer, and this year I want to do my part in something that has nothing to do with writing. Something bigger and way more important.

This year I'm going to walk 60 miles to raise money for the Susan G. Komen Foundation's annual Three Day Walk for Breast Cancer.

In this crappy economy everyone is struggling to find their financial footing. I understand that only too well. And charities, no matter how well deserving, are feeling the brunt of everyone cutting back in a big way. I get that most of us don't have disposable $$ this year, so I'm going to match all donations up to $5,000 for this truly worthy cause!  (Good Luck Cherry, my nieces did the walk last year.  You can donate here).


From author Robyn Carr:  Robyn invites women to nominate their sweetie, brother, cousin, son, uncle, nephew, pal, dad -- anyone who has served or is serving in the U.S. military. The idea is to ask women to nominate heroes who remind them of a specific hero in Robyn's series--and to send a photo of the man they've nominated. One hero will be selected for each month in the calendar. This is a contest to honor our military heroes, not a hunk calendar contest. Although the men will undoubtedly be hunky in their own right, it's shirts on for these photos!
 
Initially the calendar will be online, but there is discussion of doing a print version as well.  Robyn's husband was in the military; her son is a surgeon in the military. Those men in uniform are near and dear to her heart!
There will be no charge for the calendars.

From Jodi Rosoff of Associate Director of Publicity:  Berkley Books, the publisher of #1 New York Times bestselling author Laurell K. Hamilton is pleased to announce a partnership between Hamilton, and IFC (The Independent Film Channel) to create an original television movie based on her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series of novels.   This is the first original made-for-television movie from IFC. The film is scheduled to air summer of 2010.

I love this video so much on YouTube that I've watched it dozens of times and sent it to others (something I don't normally do).  Let me know if you make to the end without singing along.




Bottom Line:  Let's start at the very beginning...a very good place to start...
 
 

Posted by Barbara Vey on April 27, 2009 | Comments (23)