Sharing the News

My flist has been busy recently and I just wanted to share a bit of what I've noticed, just today. If you're on my flist and I somehow missed your most recent achievement, please accept my apologies in advance and feel free to tell us about it in the comments.

janni's most recent book, the YA Bones of Faerie, is scheduled for release on January 27, 2009 and the reviews are already coming in. janni has been posting links to the reviews, as she becomes aware of them and you can read about them in her posts: A Review!, Another Review, and More Reviewage.

asakiyume has been sharing her love for the animation her daughter, littlemetaldrop, made to celebrate Queen's song, "Don't Stop Me Now," and has created an icon set, available to all. (See this post's icon for a sneak preview.) If you haven't seen littlemetaldrop's animation, I highly recommend it. In fact, even if you have, I recommend it, as it's good for multiple watchings! 8D

jpsorrow tells us you can preorder the paperback version of The Vacant Throne. The first two novels in the trilogy, The Skewed Throne and The Cracked Throne, are also available. The hardback version of The Vacant Throne (Throne of Amenkor) is currently in stock at Amazon, but they've only got two copies left, as I write this. (They say they'll get more in, but do you want to take the chance?)

In a recent post, cloudscudding announced that she has published the first few chapters of her novel, Serenade of Blood and Silver at HarperCollins' authonomy^TM. What is authonomy? According to the authonomy FAQs, unpublished and self-published authors are invited to post their work, which visitors to the website can read, and then recommend and comment on; the recommendations and comments are then used by HarperCollins to rank the books (and the reviewers who consistently spot the best books), and the best rated books will have the opportunity to be published traditionally.

Semaphore Magazine has just published an anthology which includes sartorias' story "And Horses Will Fly With Eagles’ Wings". You can also read her story in the archived March 2008 issue (PDF).

jimhines' new book, The Stepsister Scheme is scheduled for release on January 6, 2009 and to celebrate, he's been having contests over at his journal. The submissions for the photo contest are now in and now you can vote for your favorite until December 5, 2008. The prize is a copy of The Stepsister Scheme.

Congratulations on your achievements. You're all amazing and wonderful. :)

Also, while not specifically mentioned here, many of my friends participated in nanowrimo, picowrimo, or Write Nonfiction in November. Congratulations to all of you, too. Regardless of the actual number of words written, you did hard work.


ETA: janni just posted a link to her December story (she posts one of her previously published short stories at her website each month) along with the news that her third Valdemar story, "What Fire Is," is now out in the anthology, Moving Targets and Other Tales of Valdemar .