August already, what the?!

Hi lovely people!

Once again, I find myself telling the world I haven't perished!  Dreadful.

BUUUUUUT, I have been busy!

Not only have I been working the day job, carting the offspring around (not the band, the children) and generally having a good 'ole time with Mr Sparky Lock, but I have been writing!

I've subbed two stories in the last ten days, and my excitement knows no bounds!

(That's a lot of !'s I note.  That's how pumped I am.  !)

So, Serendipity (Virtue Alliance) is off, as is a really shorty one about an urban mythical-creature hunter.  Wahooo!

Next comes one called Break at the Bend, a mystery rom com with rocky beaches, a hot Shakespeare-touting man and an elderly aunt with a concerning internet habit.

Two more Virtue Alliance stories are knocking at my brain, so I'd better let them loose soon, too.

The gorgeous and very hard-working Anna Hackett has been going GANGBUSTERS!  Head over to her blog to see the awesome things she's been up to.  It's quite amazing!

Big smooches to you all,

Em xx

It really is concerning how often I need to tell the internet I'm still alive and kicking.

Hello, lovely people!

Long time no see!  Sorry about that.

I could tell you all about it, but it would be dreadfully boring.  I would like to sum up the past year in a haiku:

Kids have to play sport
Tall pile of dirty washing
Em is distracted.

I do hope you enjoyed that.  It took a lot of tapping syllables out on my fingers, but I feel like I got there.

So, what's been going on with you?  Loads of cool stuff, I imagine?

Some of my news isn't really mine, sadly, but happily for my CP, Anna Hackett, it's great news!  Anna's been kicking sci-fi action romance butt and taking sci-fi action romance names.  She's recently become a NY TIMES BESTSELLER and won a PRISM Award.

I am in awe.

If you go to her blog, you'll learn all about her epic awesomeness, not to mention find out how to get a few of her book FOR GODDAMNED FREE!

And the best things in life are free, people.

I've been getting back into my writing.  To keep myself ignoring the washing pile, I made a widget (It's on the right.  It's red.  You can't miss it).

I've been working on another Virtue Alliance story (Liberating Clemency was published in the very marvellous Sci-Fi Romance Quarterly Magazine.  Find it here).  This one belongs to Seren, also known as Serendipity.

It's taken a little while, as I had a few K down, and then changed the setting after a Twitter discussion with Anna and the very clever Lindsay Buroker, after which I changed my mind about my setting.  Oopsy daisy.   Serves Emmeline right for not planning her schizz a little better.  But, I'm very happy with the new vibe, so that's noice.

I had been reading some (well, ALL) of Lindsay's books (including her pen name Ruby Lionsdrake), and I was GOBSMACKED and FLABBERGASTED to find that Anna and Lindsay had conducted a fabulous podcast chat about SFF Marketing.  It was stellar, and I've also enjoyed many more podcasts from Lindsay and her friends and guests since.  I get it on my iPhone, but you can totes watch it on 'Tube.

I can feel by the increasing tempo of my heart beat and a impending sense of dread that it is nearly... time to pick the OFFSPRING up from school (I love them dearly, I really do), so I shall leave you with one thing.

This is Hew, who is going to be Seren's squeeze if he'd just chill out a bit.

I found him here.

Until next time, happy reading and writing and kid-wrangling and cooking and clothes washing.

Emmeline.  xx