Crawling back to health

[ellenmillion]

This flu kicked my butt.

But I kick back, and my ears are mostly equalizing again, the coughs aren't enough to keep me up, and my energy is gradually returning.

The Girl Nest Tiger Next Door is only $0.99 for a few more days - the price will be going up this weekend, so grab it now!

I'm also pleased to announce that Two Mates for the Dragon includes my short story THE NEIGHBORS MIGHT TALK, written as Elva Birch. This is a charity anthology, with benefits going to OutRight Action International. It is MMF, aka a threesome, and it contains explicit content, just so there are no surprises.

I've gotten VERY little writing done this month so far, but I still have ambitions to finish Dandelion Spring before October. Cross fingers for me. It's at 14k now, and I anticipate adding about 20k.

Still not much to report for art, but I've done a little sketching, and have some ideas. This is better than where I was a month ago!

Comments

[kelkyag]

That flu sounds really awful. Glad you're finally on the mend, and hoping you can send it packing real soon!

<reads anthology description> Umm. My my my ...

[ellenmillion]

This story is a big reason I created the pseudonym. I had no plans to write for this anthology, but then got caught up by the idea for the story. But it DEFINITELY wasn't something I could release under my own name.

[kelkyag]

<giggles> Having Ms. Guppy find it as a teenager would probably lead to an awkward conversation or three. That said, this is an unlocked entry under not-your-pen-name, so it's not as if she can't.

It wasn't that particular story so much as the "and a dragon!" part of the anthology theme that made it seem ... rather narrowly focused. Decidedly somebody's thing, though. :)

[ellenmillion]

It was a very specific prompt, and I didn't originally plan to write anything for it. Then, IDEA.

And I'm not sure I mind if teenaged Guppy finds me out; I'm braced for the conversation. But I want it to at least be obvious that 'Hey, this is something a little different than the big fluffy unicorns and various light fantasy stuff.'

[kelkyag]

Ideas are very dangerous that way. :)