… is the new title for Brian's story (though, thank you BJ for suggesting "Brian's Thong" as an alternate title.  That's really… um… sweet of you).  It's been accepted by DSP for their Advent Calendar, which is where they release a story a day for the entire month of December (great concept!).  The story actually is a short novella, and the editors informed me it will be getting an alternate (again with the alternates) cover, rather than the cover all the short stories will be getting.  Which is kind of nice cuz I'm not really crazy about the "Naughty or Nice" cover art.  Not to be snotty or anything, but I don't really like most of the cartoon-style art some of the covers have.  Not to my taste.  Anyway, I don't know what the new cover will look like.  As a novella, it will only be offered in e-format anyway.  But I am PSYCHED that they bought it!!  I just love the affirmation that gives me, since I'm so nervous about my writing anyway.

My friend Jill, who also goes by the names Jamaica Layne and Jay Hughes and Marissa (this is Normal where I come from), posted a great quote about the writing life from Moliere:  "Writing is like prostitution. First you do it for love, and then for a few close friends, and then for money."  So very true.

Nice review from Eureka Pride for Finding Zach.  I know it's been out now for five months, and it feels good when I still get reviews on it.  Makes me feel like it's got legs.  http://www.eurekapride.com/talk/showthread.php?p=146508#post146508  It means a lot when the story gets good feedback from the gay community.  There's a lot of political baggage around the concept of straight women writing about gay men, which I understand but don't agree with, obviously, so when I get positive feedback from a man, it's another affirmation.  (The whole political issue is a subject deep enough for a whole 'nother post or maybe a series of posts, but I have to be at work in 12 minutes so it's not going to be this one.  Let's just say the issue for me goes all the way back to college in the '70′s, when books written by women were ghettoized under "Women's Studies," while "Literature" was almost exclusive Dead White Males…)  Anyway, thanks, Amos Lassen, for the really nice review (I wanted to post a comment but it requires me to sign up and I didn't have the time to do that and get this post done before the Library calls my name.  Maybe later…)