What if?

A little challenge for you all.

Can you come up with a one paragraph plot/outline for a story ending which deals with the situation below. It can be any genre you like but has to deal with the situation in a logical manner. i.e. no deux ex machina
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The man who has been by your side, and whom you've fallen desperately in love with throughout the novel, turns out to be a woman in disguise.



Have fun, I'm looking forward to seeing your ideas!

Cya on the Cyberwaves!

S.J.

Remi-nissing

You know, it's been something like five years now since I took over the Webmastership of Crescent Blues and it feels kinda weird to see it winding down.

Odd too, since I'd never really wanted the role in the first place. My true love at the time had been a fiction ezine I'd just started called The Elven Wolf. The poor Wolf died in infancy since I couldn't manage both sites in parallel and live my other lives at the same time.

This year though, starting with my extended ill health (several months in the ICU), plus the fact my writing career has finally started--not to mention that CB's editor, live journal user jmward14, and assistant editor, live journal user qnotku, own writing careers have exploded, it was decided all round to wind CB down to archival status. At least for now.

So how do I feel about CB retiring?

Relieved and nostalgic. I remember the fun times I had, like the occasion I became part of the team to net the interview with Terry Pratchett and my wonderful interview with the intensely funny Neal Barrett Jr. not to mention the times I was trounced by irate readers for reviews they considered to be overly harsh.

Yes, I admit it, I'm part demon with a mission to destroy authors everywhere. There, I feel better now my confession is out. Remind me to get some wax to polish these horns.

So, in many ways CB has been fun. Am I sad? No, not in the sad sense of the word. Matured I guess is how I would describe it. It's time to move on from CB to, hopefully, better things.

CB gave me a chance to stretch my wings and opened up vistas I'd never thought I'd reach. Vistas that culminated late last year in my first novel being published (ebook only alas but, hey, it's a beginning.) Cyberius III also, knock me dead surprised, won the eCataromance award for best first romance ebook for 2005. An amazing accolade and one I certainly didn't expect.

So with a new year, another book sale (this time one that will go to print), hopefully new health and a new here-to-stay-for-a-long-while granddaughter (who thinks her grandfather is nuttier than a Payday bar and as clueless as a fashion designer on a naturist beach.) I feel like CB, I'm ready to close my old life and start anew.

So, au revoir, Crescent Blues. May the Force Live Long and Prosper!

Like the Phoenix, I am born anew!



Hey, watch where you put that blowtorch…

:)

Cya on the CyberWaves!

S.J.

A littul pome

Rain

Misty visions,
long overdue,
that shift within the silver rain.
Remind me of
my time with you
and all the joy we gained.
And so the rain
so soft and warm
holds no fear for me.
Each vital drop
so precious, rare,
is a special memory.

Have fun on the CyberWaves!

S.J.

S.J does that little happy dance!

And why does S.J do that little happy dance?

BECAUSE SAMHAIM PUBLISHING HAVE JUST ME SENT A CONTRACT FOR POSEIDON VII !!!!!!!!!

Not that I'm really excited or anything. Not even a tadge delirious. Honestly.

*Screams from a roof top and does a dozen gable cartwheels.*

So phew Yay! PIACT rides again!

S.J.

The Oh My God it made it on a Monday Update

So this week is going to be a really good week. Why? Because I said so. No more filly-fallying around by our guardian angel. She and our fairy queen are going to give us a big boost in some way or other. So I have decreed and thus it shall be.

Of course we're stuck with the usual doctor's appointments many of which, I hate to say, are going to be rather painful for lj user qnotku. Here's hoping a few cream pies and a barrelful of tlc will help her cope with that.

I've also been whacking through a new short based on the "philosophical question" I posed for y'all last week. Isn't it interesting the odd things that produce a story?

In the meantime, it's kicking writing butt time and this coming week will see major improvements in my writing counts--fingers crossed. Until then take a gander here for twenty good reasons to catch that one-way bus to nowhere.

1. Double D.3 reports - Matriculating, and developing.

2. Alien abductors found setting up fake independent bookstores and inviting local authors to signings. Indications are that the aliens are getting desperate...

3. Poseidon VII - I've bitten my fingernails down to the knuckles but, hey, I know I'll hear from the editor one day...

78,818 / 60,000 (131.4%)

4. Note to self: Do not comment or criticize any comment made on any of my novels on Amazon.com.
Note to other self: You don't have anything on Amazon.com
Note to first self: I didn't want to make it hard advice to follow.

5. Valencius Covers His Tracks Moving on, I can taste the final chapters coming.

71,474 / 100,000 (71.5%)

6. Quillion Dreams Scaringly new.

3,791 / 5,000 (75.8%)

7. Much trauma this week over which of granddaughters myriad boyfriends she's deciding to keep. **User giving up life and moving to a monastery.**

8. Huw's Entappathe Whorled - awaiting new life.

34,477 / 100,000 (34.5%)

9. We will boldly go where no man has gone before.... Sleep. Man that's a short commodity at our house. Investing in a few barrels of brandy, for medicinal purposes.

10.There is a new Dictionary out for culinary literature with such gems in it as Eggsellent, Flantastic and Majordoughmo.

11. Terras IV -- will true love be nudged in line by a talking lizard?

12. Red Balloon/Red Dragon, Blue - Dang, heartburn again!

3,739 / 100,000 (3.7%)

13. More web page stuff for lj users qnotku's and jmward14's web page coming soon. Check it out here

14. Swansong - simply thrilling.

2,211 / 100,000 (2.2%)

15. Here Be Dragons Sweet little fellas, ouch!

0 / 25,000 (0.0%)

16. Come on! There's never a snake 200 feet long--

17. Dante I -- percolating.

18. A Fashion Guide for Romantic Heroes aka The Quirky Eye for the Romantic Guy read it here


19 Love You To Bits falling to pieces.

3,413 / 80,000 (4.3%)

20. Quote of the week: In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author



Well all good news and passing time, so been great to chat at you again my friends and will let you know as soon as Quillion Dreams is done. Until then, cya around and have a good week.

Cya surfing on the Interwaves.

S.J.

The Oh My God it made it on a Monday Update

So this week is going to be a really good week. Why? Because I said so. No more filly-fallying around by our guardian angel. She and our fairy queen are going to give us a big boost in some way or other. So I have decreed and thus it shall be.

Of course we're stuck with the usual doctor's appointments many of which, I hate to say, are going to be rather painful for lj user qnotku. Here's hoping a few cream pies and a barrelful of tlc will help her cope with that.

I've also been whacking through a new short based on the "philosophical question" I posed for y'all last week. Isn't it interesting the odd things that produce a story?

In the meantime, it's kicking writing butt time and this coming week will see major improvements in my writing counts--fingers crossed. Until then take a gander here for twenty good reasons to catch that one-way bus to nowhere.

1. Double D.3 reports - Matriculating, and developing.

2. Alien abductors found setting up fake independent bookstores and inviting local authors to signings. Indications are that the aliens are getting desperate...

3. Poseidon VII - I've bitten my fingernails down to the knuckles but, hey, I know I'll hear from the editor one day...

78,818 / 60,000 (131.4%)

4. Note to self: Do not comment or criticize any comment made on any of my novels on Amazon.com.
Note to other self: You don't have anything on Amazon.com
Note to first self: I didn't want to make it hard advice to follow.

5. Valencius Covers His Tracks Moving on, I can taste the final chapters coming.

71,474 / 100,000 (71.5%)

6. Quillion Dreams Scaringly new.

3,791 / 5,000 (75.8%)

7. Much trauma this week over which of granddaughters myriad boyfriends she's deciding to keep. **User giving up life and moving to a monastery.**

8. Huw's Entappathe Whorled - awaiting new life.

34,477 / 100,000 (34.5%)

9. We will boldly go where no man has gone before.... Sleep. Man that's a short commodity at our house. Investing in a few barrels of brandy, for medicinal purposes.

10.There is a new Dictionary out for culinary literature with such gems in it as Eggsellent, Flantastic and Majordoughmo.

11. Terras IV -- will true love be nudged in line by a talking lizard?

12. Red Balloon/Red Dragon, Blue - Dang, heartburn again!

3,739 / 100,000 (3.7%)

13. More web page stuff for lj users qnotku's and jmward14's web page coming soon. Check it out here

14. Swansong - simply thrilling.

2,211 / 100,000 (2.2%)

15. Here Be Dragons Sweet little fellas, ouch!

0 / 25,000 (0.0%)

16. Come on! There's never a snake 200 feet long--

17. Dante I -- percolating.

18. A Fashion Guide for Romantic Heroes aka The Quirky Eye for the Romantic Guy read it here


19 Love You To Bits falling to pieces.

3,413 / 80,000 (4.3%)

20. Quote of the week: In matters of truth the fact that you don't want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it. Gilbert K. Chesterton 1874-1936, British Author



Well all good news and passing time, so been great to chat at you again my friends and will let you know as soon as Quillion Dreams is done. Until then, cya around and have a good week.

Cya surfing on the Interwaves.

S.J.