Dwelling in Probabilities

 Other Me (Emily L. Byrne) has her first novel out! Medusa's Touch is a fast-paced sexy lesbian science fiction romance and you can read more about it here. Emily has had a very good week, seeing as it also included the acceptance of her story "Rainbow's End" to Best Lesbian Erotica of the Year Vol. 3, the acceptance of "Nights in Red Satin" to Rose Caraway's anthology The Dirty Librarian's Dirty Thirty Vol. 3 and the reprint of her story "Phone, Sex, Chocolate" in Rachel Kramer Bussel's reissue of Candy Lovers.

In short, Emily is currently having a better writing year than Catherine, but we're working on. Catherine is finishing off pirate submissions and sending out a bunch of rejections (sorry!), but will be moving on to acceptances soon. SOON. I promise. 

Otherwise, I'm off to WisCon tomorrow. If you'll be there, please one and hear me on the Beyond Batty Old Ladies panel and come to the Murder on the Titania party on Sunday night. It will be fun!

I'll also be adding a new event in June - updates coming soon.

 The Con or Bust Auction is up and running until 4/22 and you can bid on fabulous items, including, but not limited to things I have posted. These include:

• Queen of Swords Press print package including Murder on the Titania and Other Steam-Powered Adventures by Alex Acks (currently getting many fabulous reviews), Silver Moon (Rainbow Award winner) and Out of This World: Queer Speculative Fiction Stories by Catherine Lundoff
• A steampunk butter keeper, with story card, made by acclaimed fannish potter Peri Charlifu
• 2 previously unworn James Tiptree Award t-shirts
• A stack of sundry feminist sfnal titles

Lots of great stuff out there with low or no bids! Check it out and support a fine cause!

In other news, 
I FINISHED A DAMN NOVEL! Again! Specifically, I finished the 4th and final draft of Medusa's Touch by Emily L. Byrne and sent it for copy edits and cover art. It's a romantic sf novel with a lesbian relationship at its core, or #spacelesbians. This is the novel that Ellora's Cave tried to sign me for (a fate I avoided by astutely hiring a lawyer to review the contract). There are spaceships, double-crosses, cyberpunk/space opera elements and two women who've been through some bad crap finding each other and healing. It will be out from Queen of Swords Press just before WisCon and available in a new Pride month StoryBundle shortly thereafter. More info coming soon!

i feel good, but exhausted. And have a lot of other stuff to do. Full steam ahead!