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Unexpected Interruption

Sorry for disappearing on you guys today.  Remember the great escape from yahell?  It just so happens that they still “owned” one small thing.

The domain itself.  Which expired last night.  So my entire site was GONE this morning. 

Well, the good news is that it wasn’t “gone” just not getting the correct domain pointed at it!  A frantic scramble led me back to yahell and I took back my domain with them for one more year.  It’s such a scam — next year they’re going to charge me nearly 4 times more for the same service, basically because I don’t host my site with them any longer.  What a bunch of caca.  Needless to say, I’ll be working with Deena before then to ensure my domain is moved elsewhere.

So, not a lot of writing accomplished this morning.  Over lunch, I ran to Wal-Mart for a wireless USB adapter for the monsters’ desktop (That Man stepped on the old one and broke it.  Hmmm, gee, why was it even on the floor, girls??), and then cursed at it while dinner was in the oven because it wouldn’t work.  After installing and uninstalling three times, I finally tried it without the USB cable between the adapter and the computer, which fixed whatever difficulty the old dinosaur thought it was having. 

I don’t know that my domain e-mail is working fully yet, so if you need to reach me, try the gmail addy.

Gah.  Some days I really, really REALLY hate technology.

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Freebies, Contests, and More

I’ve already blogged about how much I loved Larissa Ione’s Pleasure Unbound — and how I can’t wait to earn my reward by finishing Revision Xibalba so I can read Desire Unchained!  I even picked Pleasure Unbound to win it all in DABWAHA and was thrilled to see my first author blurb in Desire Unchained!  How cool is that?  Here’s your chance to win some freebies from Larissa by spreading the word.

I plan to give away the entire Demonica series when Shade’s book is out, so stay tuned!

Smart Bitches and Dear Author are sponsoring Save the Contemporary.  Spread the word to win a copy of the latest Lisa Kleypas release.

For more blogosphere contests, check out Paperback Writer’s post.

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Linkage

March Madness is here!  Check out the 64 book tournament DA BWAHA.  Set your brackets, vote, and win fab prizes!  I’m cheering for Larissa Ione’s Pleasure Unbound myself!

Don’t forget the Passionate Pen Anniversary — March’s prize is a copy of Microsoft Office Professional 2007!  Details here.

The new issue of Membra Disjecta is now live with lots of cool fiction and articles.

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Drollerie Press Blog Tour

This month our Drollerie Press blog tour theme is “origins.”  Please welcome Angela Cameron!

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Hello everyone in Burkhart land! *waves*

Angela Cameron here. As a part of the Drollerie Press author blog tour, I’m stopping by Joely’s to share the story of my beginning as a writer. I always think it’s so interesting to hear how others started out. We each have our own twisted tale of how we either embraced what we were from the beginning—or fought it back with a stick like I did.

 Mouth of the South

In all honesty, I knew that I was a storyteller from a young age. I rattled on so much that my parents and aunt literally nicknamed me “Mouth of the South”. In grade school, I wrote stories for my friends and journaled every day. They were often a little dark for my age. I blame it on my dad who is a huge fan of horror and vampires.

I didn’t publish anything until high school, and that was only because my English teacher threatened me into entering a poetry contest. I won, and that victory was almost tempting enough for me to abandon my chosen career as an artist to try writing.

 Me…a tech geek? Nah.

But life jumped in my path. I married early on and had a daughter, giving up any hope of ever being the next Stephen King or Anne Rice, who were my favorites. Then, in 1998, I found a guilty pleasure that started that dream right back up—Vampire: The Masquerade. I was such a role playing geek, but I really kicked some ass online. *smiles*

That level of character creation and writing really started an obsession. Still, I fought it and worked as a website designer until 2005, when I went back to college to finish my degree in psychology.  I’d done little more than outline a vampire story until 2006, when I finally gave in and sent off a few pieces of flash fiction. They were accepted and published, which started the whole crazy obsession with becoming a novelist.

 Regrets?

The next year, I wrote a novella that sold to Drollerie Press and published under the title Nocturne. Of course, it was a vampire story. By the end of this year, I should have four novels and two anthology stories with my name on them. I’m so ecstatic. I’ve never been happier, now that I’ve allowed myself to follow this path. I haven’t “arrived” by any means. No, there are still a whole lot of rungs on that ladder above me. My only regret though is that I’d have done this a long time ago. Seeing your name (or pen name, as in my case) on a published piece is the greatest feeling in the world.

For more information on Angela Cameron and her stories, check out Angela Cameron.