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A Holiday Gift: New Novel Serialization

2009-12-24T21:31:44Z

I'm just out the door to visit my family for Xmas, but before I do, I want to thank you for your support this year and in appreciation to you and all my readers, the first three chapters of a new novel serialization are up on Friskbiskit:

http://www.friskbiskit.com/2009/12/new-novel-serialization-all-the-colors-of-love-or-where-it-all-began.html

Warm wishes!

Announcing LIBYRINTH

2009-07-07T14:11:51Z

Hey everybody, my new young adult science fiction novel LIBYRINTH, written under the name Pearl North, comes out today. Woo hoo! To help me celebrate, Steven Harper-Piziks (spiziks ) has posted an interview with Pearl North on his LJ here.

Currently, Amazon has LIBYRINTH discounted to just $12.23, a pretty good deal for a hardcover, if you're interested. Finally, to find out more about Pearl North and LIBYRINTH, you can go to my author website: http://pearlnorth.com.

My heartfelt thanks to all my friends for your support during this project. You guys are the best.

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Still Yet More Regendering

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Regender Your World

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Filament Magazine: A Gaze of Our Own

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Author of the Last Unicorn Starts Subscription Plan

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The Mud-Grass Horse Defeats the River Crabs

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It's Cassidy's Birthday!

2009-03-12T03:25:44Z

Happy Birthday cass1969 !

Chapter 2 of Accidental Creatures...

2008-12-11T16:33:22Z

...is up on Book View Cafe's front page starting at noon today. You can still read the prologue and Chapter 1 from my bookshelf.

Plus there's this news:

BOOK VIEW CAFÉ EXPANDS ITS REACH

The new fiction website, Book View Café (www.bookviewcafe.com) is expanding its internet reach with two new partnerships.

Book View Café has teamed up with PortableReading to make stories by its team of veteran authors available over the iPhone and iPod touch via their TextonPhone application (www.textonphone.com). Not interested in leaving the world of print behind, the work of Café authors will also be available on the AnthologyBuilder site
(www.anthologybuilder.com).

“These are extremely exciting partnerships,” says Book View Care Project Manager, Sarah Zettel. “The Book View Café authors are committed to bringing first rate stories to readers where and how they want them. TextonPhone and AnthologyBuilder are leaders in their fields. Our partnership will allow our audience to customize their access to the best fiction available today.”

Book View Café
bookviewcafe@gmail.com
www.bookviewcafe.com

Accidental Creatures Live on BVC

2008-12-05T00:29:40Z

The first chapter of my second novel, Accidental Creatures, is up on the front page over at Book View Cafe:

In a near-future Detroit, the living polymer industry has the city in its grip. While vat-divers struggle to organize, the GeneSys Corporation works on making human workers obsolete. An escaped mutant, a con-artist and a techno-geek team up to unravel corporate blackmail, deceit and murder. One thing is certain: the city and the world will never be the same once the latest R&D development is unleashed.

Book View Cafe and iPhone

2008-12-02T22:44:37Z

Book View Cafe is delighted to announce that we will be partnering with PortableReading to distribute works by Book View Cafe authors over the Apple iPhone, iPod Touch and the popular social networking site Facebook.

“Millions of readers worldwide are turning their cell phones into e-book readers,” says Book View Project Manager, Sarah Zettel. “This is an unparalleled opportunity to bring our work to this audience.”

Since its founding, PortableReading has been a leading developer of e-reading applications. “Their commitment to make more books accessible to more readers made them a perfect partner for Book View Cafe,” said Zettel.

Book View’s reading lists with TextonPhone and Facebook will not entirely duplicate the library available through the Cafe’s website. Authors will select from among their new and classic works to create lists which compliment and support each other. Both will provide material exclusive to the venue. As with the main Book View Cafe website, the Book View TextonPhone reading list will be updated on a regular basis.

For any questions, contact bookviewcafe.com at bookviewcafe@gmail.com

Hope

2008-11-30T19:06:55Z

Scientists: "Fish technology" device could power the world

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/11/29/211611/05/508/667679

This is why it's vital we don't neglect innovation because of the economic slowdown.

Introducing Book View Café

2008-11-20T14:29:29Z

I'm pleased to invite you to check out a new website where more than
twenty professional authors are experimenting with new publishing
paradigms and taking advantage of the internet's many resources in
order to bring our work directly to readers online. It's called Book
View Cafe:
http://bookviewcafe.com

This project started six months ago as a discussion on a pro women
sf/f writers list, and we've been working hard on it ever since. Much
of what is offered on Book View Cafe is free, over time, some authors
will offer some of their work for a fee. Book View Cafe includes
romance, mystery, science fiction, fantasy, young adult, and horror,
and more genres are likely to appear as we grow and explore.

We are: Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff, Brenda Clough, Kate Daniel, Jessica Freely, Laura Anne Gilman, Christie Golden, Anne Harris, Sylvia Kelso, Katharine Eliska Kimbriel, Sue Lange, Ursula K. Le Guin, Rebecca Lickiss, Vonda N.
McIntyre, Nancy Jane Moore, Pati Nagle, Darcy Pattison, Irene Radford,
Madeleine Robins, Amy Sterling, Jennifer Stevenson, Susan Wright, and
Sarah Zettel.

We hope you will come and browse our website, read our stories, and
give us feedback.

Friends with Books!

2008-10-20T00:24:46Z

Two of my buds have books out, neither of them fiction.

Rick Lieder is an artist and photographer who has found fascination and beauty in his own back yard. AERIAL ACROBATS is a collection of phenomenal photos of birds in midflight. These images capture life on the wing in a way that is unexpected and illuminating. Check it out.

Kris Spencer's book, FILM AND TELEViSION SCORES, 1950-1979 is packed with history and analysis, not to mention some very groovy visuals. Kris combines his encyclopedic knowledge of music and pop-culture with a playful sensibility and a love of kitsch. Check it out.

A Reminder about Syndication

2008-10-07T20:11:02Z

First of all, I want to thank everyone who's friended me lately. I appreciate it!

You'll find I don't post a lot here, or on my other lj, jessica_freely. That's because I do most of my blogging on my typepad blog: http://friskbiskit.com.
If you want to keep up with my regular blog posts, you can do so right from LJ. Just friend my friskbiskit syndication page here:
http://syndicated.livejournal.com/annesible_feed/

I welcome comments any way you care to leave them, but I don't get notification of comments on my syndication page and sometimes I don't catch them. If you want to be sure you get a response, click through to my blog using the link at the top of every post and leave your comment/question there.

Thanks again for staying in touch.

Stay. a sequel to Hero, is now available!

2008-04-18T17:45:54Z

Hey everybody, Stay, the sequel to my first Torquere story, Hero, is up on the Torquere site! Both are available here.

Woohoo!

To celebrate, there's a blurb and excerpt below (mildly nsfw.)

And be sure to stop by my blog. I'm thanking everyone who made Hero a success by offering an exclusive freebie story only available at http://friskbiskit.com.

Stay Blurb: Seth and David are back in this sequel to Jessica Freely's
popular story Hero. Waking up the morning after saving David's life is the best thing that's happened to Seth in a long, long time. He knows it can't last, knows David will toss him back out on the street, but he revels in their time together anyway.

David doesn't understand why Seth is suddenly so nervous. He wants his new lover to stay, to share his life, but will he be able to convince Seth he really means it?

Excerpt:

Seth's first awareness was of being warm; his second was of clean, soft sheets against his skin. He was in a bed. The last time he'd
slept in a bed was back in-- No! His heart pounded. Frantic, Seth forced himself up out of sleep.

How in the hell had he wound up back in that place? He'd sworn he'd die before he went back. He pushed himself up and blinked, taking in the unfamiliar surroundings. Books. So many books, lining the walls on every side of the tiny room. Beside him in the bed, the cutest little
blond guy he'd ever seen was sacked out, lost to the world, face open and innocent and breathtaking. David. Oh. Right. Seth's heart rate slowed and he sank back down on the mattress. He was at David's place.

Gingerly, not wanting to wake him, Seth sidled closer to David, so that the lengths of their bodies touched. David sighed and turned
slightly, draping a warm arm across Seth's chest. Seth's morning erection pulsed back to life after that initial, rude awakening, and
pressed into David's hip. David smiled in his sleep.

Seth felt overwhelmed by the feelings he had looking at David; love, protectiveness, lust, admiration, gratitude. David was kind,
intelligent, generous, loving; everything Seth had always thought he must be, ever since that first day when David had seen him dumpster diving behind the bookshop and gave him his leftover Thai noodles. The fact that Seth had been able to save David from getting gang raped last night; that was… Well he knew David was grateful but what David didn't understand was that being able to do that for him was the best, most useful thing Seth had ever done in his life. It made his existence no longer pointless.

The last twelve hours here with David were the best Seth had ever known. It would be over soon, he realized. Soon, David would wake up, and then he'd have to go to his job, and Seth would have to go back to living on the streets. At least he'd have the memory of this night to keep him warm, not to mention the clean clothes and the meal David had made for him.

And maybe they could get in a morning fuck before this interlude came to an end. The recollection of the things they'd done together last night made Seth's groin tighten and his head swim. And he noticed that

David's own morning woody was poking him in the thigh. Seth couldn't help it, he ran a hand down between their bodies and caressed David's silken length.

Jessica Freely hosts Torquere's Live Journal Today

2008-04-12T13:08:21Z

My alter ego is hosting Torquere Press's Live Journal today, so stop on by for excerpts, contests and mayhem.

E-reader Recommendations?

2008-04-08T22:15:57Z

Hey everyone,

I'm planning to blow my "economic stimulus package" from the government on stuff I'd never buy otherwise (I'm so patriotic!), which puts me in the market for an electronic book reader. I know, I'm in print saying they're stupid. That was before I started reading a lot of e-books. *eats crow*

So, I'm looking for recommendations. Do you have one? Which of the current models do you think is best for someone who wants it to read lots of e-published m/m romance?

Guest Blogger at Friskbiskit: Steven Harper-Piziks

2008-03-19T14:13:34Z

Hey everyone, just wanted to let you know that my friend and colleague Steven Harper-Piziks (a former SHU mentor) is guest-posting today on my blog: http://friskbiskit.com. So come on over and heckle the hell out of him... er, I mean, ask him thoughtful questions about the craft and discipline of writing.

Cheers,

Anne

Well that explains it

2008-02-23T21:41:13Z

Ganked from misericorde:

Excentric Aristocratic Title Meme

2008-02-12T02:44:32Z

I'm

<table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" cellspacing="8"> <tr><td valign="middle"><img src="http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/minicrest.gif"></td><td valign="middle"> <font color=black> My Peculiar Aristocratic Title is:</font> <br> <font size=4 color=black> Her Most Noble Lady Anne the Sardonic of New Invention </font><br> <small> <a href="http://www.masquerademaskarts.com/memes/peculiartitle.php">Get your Peculiar Aristocratic Title</a> </small> </td></tr> </table>

And Steve is

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Jessica Freely's Debut Story!

2008-02-08T20:01:24Z

My first story under my gay male erotic romance penname, Jessica Freely, is up at the Torquere Press site. I am very pleased and excited about HERO, the first in what will hopefully be a long and entertaining series.

In HERO, David lives through books. His real life is boring and nothing ever happens to him, that is until he's attacked on the way home from work. Aid comes to him from the most unlikely of sources; a young homeless man named Seth. In return David gets a chance to become in real life what he's only read about before; a hero.

Here's a short excerpt:

Slowly Seth came forward and took the eggs. He set them down on the counter and,
giving David every opportunity to back away, he lifted one hand to David's cheek. David
couldn't move. He was mesmerized by Seth's eyes, looking at him so tenderly. His thumb
caressed David's cheek and David felt a twinge of pain. He gasped. The cut. They'd cut him.
How had he managed to forget that? How was it he only felt it now, that Seth was touching him? He drew in a deep breath. He hadn't even looked in the mirror. "How bad is it?" he asked.

And if you're interested in the story behind this story, there's more at http://friskbiskit.com

Top Ten Controversies about Slash

2008-01-27T19:10:21Z

My top ten list has sparked some action over at http://friskbiskit.com.

What The Hell Happened Last Night?
LJ Username
What did you drink?
You wake up in the morning next to:	the_z
...who is wearing:	an air stewardess uniform
...and rolls over to you to say:	My God, you're supple!
...and then:	chloroforms you

This fun quiz by joneccleston - Taken 1026 Times. </a>