Fans of my BDSM romance Slow Surrender have been spreading the word to help the book find new readers! Right now SS is only out in ebook but the paperback comes out in August from Hachette (one of the “big six” publishers). I’m not waiting for that, though! I’ll trade a special bonus scene from James’s point of view to any reader who recommends the book to friends/followers/family/fans on the Internet and sends me a screencap of the recommendation. That includes Amazon and Goodreads reviews, tweets about the book, Tumblr or LJ or blog posts about it, Facebook updates/statuses, Yahoo mailing list recs, and so on! Check out some of the recs people have made, including email, starting “buddy reads”, Twitter, Tumblr, etc…!

If you want the scene, email a screencap of your rec to ctan.writer AT gmail DOT com (or photo reply here!) and I’ll email the bonus James scene right back to you!

electricsundials:

notpossibleoswin:

elkane:

Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

Then Inception happens

electricsundials:

notpossibleoswin:

elkane:

Jack Dawson… Penniless artist who wins a ticket onto Titanic in 1912, attends a first class dinner, develops a taste for the finer things in life, pockets the Heart of the Ocean, survives the sinking, pawns the diamond, spends the following ten years building his wealth and in 1922 moves to West Egg as Jay Gatsby… Millionaire with a shady past and fear of swimming pools.

IT ALL MAKES SENSE.

Then Inception happens

Finalist for two Bisexual Writer Awards
By the time you read this I will probably be on my way to Balticon for the weekend, but I just got the news that <em>WOW! YES!</em> not only are the first annual awards for bisexual writers and books happening NEXT week (Sunday June 2, 6:30 pm at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, NYC) but I have two nominations! One of my books is a finalist, and I’m a finalist myself! THE POET AND THE PROPHECY aka Magic University Book Four is a finalist in the sf/fantasy category. Kyle, the hero of the Magic U. books is not only bisexual, he’s had to prove it in order to pass his classes in sex magic. Book four is his senior year, and not only is he trying to graduate, he’s dealing with fulfillment of a prophecy and the fact that not only are the binds that hold the magical world together starting to unravel, the magic that holds the person he loves together are unraveling, too. I’m very excited that the book received a nod. And I am a finalist for the Bi Writer Award. I’m in very excellent company, check out who else is nominated!

<strong>Bi Writer Award </strong>finalists are:
Brit Mandelo, Erynn Rowan Laurie, Janet W. Hardy, Cheryl Burke, Basil Papademos, Catherine Lundoff, Mykola Dementiuk, Annette Lapointe, Cecilia Tan.

The full list of books nominated in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, erotica, and sf/fantasy can be found in a post in the BiWriters Livejournal community here: <a href=”http://biwriters.livejournal.com/92710.html” target=”_blank”>http://biwriters.livejournal.com/92710.html</a>

For more info about the Bi Writer Awards, and the BiLines reading and celebration that will take place prior to the awards ceremony, have a look at this post with all the details on who is performing, etc. Admission $10: http://biwriters.livejournal.com/92446.html

jhameia:

killingforsport-eatingthebodies:

potato-skins:

killingforsport-eatingthebodies:

michaelshiatusbeard:

scarfshipping:

yours-truly-calliope:

This is a useful resource…

i’ll be the most creative murderer the world has ever seen

two types of people

Now I don’t feel as bad as thinking “wow this array of knives is a useful reference the next time I decide to gut somebody”
Although wtf is the sheep’s foot knife used for?!
(also boning knife hehehehehe I’m twelve years old hehehehehe)

June! You are Chinese. You should only need a big meat cleaver and a small knife for peeling vegetables.

What! Meat cleavers are only useful for chopping through bone/joints really, for most everything else they’re too heavy and unwieldy to use properly. Like dicing or getting thin slices of stuff for cooking. So, useful for butchering whole animals/parts of animals, but not helpful in the actual food preparation. I actually only use a mid-sized utility knife (that I think is older than I am, we’ve had it for AGES) and sometimes a smaller fruit knife  for chopping smaller things like herbs and shit. Anybody who can cook using only a meat cleaver in the food prep I will seriously deeply pei fu. 

I gotta have the French chef one for mincing garlic. Can’t be happy with the results otherwise.


 
RE: the comment on chinese cooking needing only a meat cleaver. A meat cleaver and a chinese cooking cleaver are two separate things. Nothing depicted above is a chinese cooking cleaver. And yes, a trained chinese cook can and will use the cleaver (which is smaller, lighter, and curved differently from a meat cleaver) to do just about everything, in much the same way a trained western-style chef will use their chef&#8217;s knife for almost everything. Crush and mince garlic, strip bone, slice vegetables, chiffonade shallots, trim beef, slice chicken breast, etc etc. I&#8217;d give you a quote here from Martin Yan &#8220;Yan Can Cook&#8221; except I&#8217;m not in the kitchen right now, I&#8217;m on a train posting with Wifi&#8230;

jhameia:

killingforsport-eatingthebodies:

potato-skins:

killingforsport-eatingthebodies:

michaelshiatusbeard:

scarfshipping:

yours-truly-calliope:

This is a useful resource…

i’ll be the most creative murderer the world has ever seen

two types of people

Now I don’t feel as bad as thinking “wow this array of knives is a useful reference the next time I decide to gut somebody”

Although wtf is the sheep’s foot knife used for?!

(also boning knife hehehehehe I’m twelve years old hehehehehe)

June! You are Chinese. You should only need a big meat cleaver and a small knife for peeling vegetables.

What! Meat cleavers are only useful for chopping through bone/joints really, for most everything else they’re too heavy and unwieldy to use properly. Like dicing or getting thin slices of stuff for cooking. So, useful for butchering whole animals/parts of animals, but not helpful in the actual food preparation. I actually only use a mid-sized utility knife (that I think is older than I am, we’ve had it for AGES) and sometimes a smaller fruit knife  for chopping smaller things like herbs and shit. Anybody who can cook using only a meat cleaver in the food prep I will seriously deeply pei fu. 

I gotta have the French chef one for mincing garlic. Can’t be happy with the results otherwise.

RE: the comment on chinese cooking needing only a meat cleaver. A meat cleaver and a chinese cooking cleaver are two separate things. Nothing depicted above is a chinese cooking cleaver. And yes, a trained chinese cook can and will use the cleaver (which is smaller, lighter, and curved differently from a meat cleaver) to do just about everything, in much the same way a trained western-style chef will use their chef’s knife for almost everything. Crush and mince garlic, strip bone, slice vegetables, chiffonade shallots, trim beef, slice chicken breast, etc etc. I’d give you a quote here from Martin Yan “Yan Can Cook” except I’m not in the kitchen right now, I’m on a train posting with Wifi…
Anyone coming to Balticon?

If anyone’s coming to Balticon, please say hello!

And if anyone’s coming among my Harry Potter loving followers, any interest in having a Hogwarts Alumni Dinner one night? I’ll totally bring my robes…! (Yes, I’m packing for the con right now, why do you ask?)

fishingboatproceeds:

#sass

Haha, yes.
Reblog if you love to write.

Whether it be fanfiction, original stories, drabbles, songs, poems, books, or anything that has to do with creative words, then reblog. Let’s gather all the writers of Tumblr together.