Tuesday, 3 March 2009

The News This Week...

Lots of news ...

The biggest bit is that my short story collection Dark Enchantment is out TODAY west of the Atlantic. So if your appetite was whetted by all those excerpts in January and you've been seething with frustration, you can buy it now on Amazon US. Yippee! (And if you missed the excerpts, just scroll down the right-hand bar on this blog and click on the January archive.)

Next, I've had a couple of short stories accepted for future Black Lace anthologies. My story "Michelanglo's Men" is going to be in Sexy Little Numbers. The BL editor said: "I loved the female narrator. You do positively evil minxes so well."

Evil minxes? Moi? ;-)


And my story "The Icing on the Cake" is going to appear in the anthology Misbehaviour. It's a very messy story indeed: the editor describes it as "probably the closest Black Lace has come to splodge." Yeah ... we're talking icing and and anal!

And last but not least, Jade magazine (who named me their Writer of the Year) have asked to do a feature on me for a future issue. Isn't that great?

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9 comments:

  1. Anonymous3 March 2009 at 03:43

    Hi Janine -

    Just blog-hopping and ended up over here. :) Congratulations! And I also just read the entry you linked to about being named Writer of the Year by Jade. Wow!!! Congratulations!!

    :)

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  2. EllaRegina3 March 2009 at 04:11

    Hello Janine!

    I echo Emerald's wow!

    Congratulations!

    Congratulations!

    Congratulations!

    Congratulations!

    (In that order). :-)

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  3. Janine Ashbless3 March 2009 at 09:03

    Woohoo! I'm online (briefly)!Thanks, Emerald and Ellaregina!

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  4. Craig Sorensen3 March 2009 at 10:24

    Hear, hear!

    So many things to congratulate you for, I need to get my copy of Dark Enchantment to celebrate!

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  5. Sekrit Shoppa3 March 2009 at 20:34

    Wahey! 'Evil minxes', eh? Can't wait to read it.

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  6. Erobintica4 March 2009 at 00:33

    All sorts of wonderful stuff. Congrats!

    "The Icing on the Cake" - it certainly is. ;-)

    Love it.

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  7. Janine Ashbless4 March 2009 at 09:25

    Aintcha all lovely?
    Argh, I want to blogchat. Can't. Will have to find displacement activity...

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  8. Neve Black5 March 2009 at 01:09

    Hi there,
    Better late than never.

    Congratulations! This is fabulous news!

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  9. Charlotte Stein aka The Mighty Viper5 March 2009 at 13:12

    I cannot *wait* to read the splodge. I want splodge now! Am I saying something really rude by mistake when I say that?

    Congrats, Janine. Not that you need it. I told you so!

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