This is the handout for my Web Serial Toolbox workshop, which I’m teaching today at Readercon at 6pm. I’m posting it here as a reference document for those who don’t pick up the physical handout, or who lose the piece of paper, or in case I didn’t bring enough copies, or if a paper-eating nanotech…
It’s launch day for Spellbinding: Tales from the Magic University! This collection of short stories include seven by me–two never before published and new for this edition–and ten by other writers exploring the world of Magic University! POEM CONTEST! To celebrate the new book, which is in paperback for the first time, I’m holding a…
This giveaway is over now! But you can still enter the poetry contest until July 17 to win a copy here: https://www.ceciliatan.com/archives/2427/ Only four days left on this Goodreads giveaway! The book launches on July 9 and we’ll be drawing the winners then!Book is launched and winners have been picked! Congrats to Gwen B., Emily…
I just got word from Doctor Charley with the books that made the finalist list in the Golden Flogger Awards and am excited to share them here! I see several of my favorite authors (Tiffany Reisz, Annabel Joseph, D.L. King, Cherise Sinclair, Raven Kaldera!) have made the list and I am betting the ones I…
Last night we went seeking the wonders of the world. And we found them. I had read on Twitter early in the evening that a “geomagnetic storm” was going on and that there would likely be amazing auroras to be seen, but corwin and I both had to work until 9pm and I didn’t even…
A delicious summer pie: strawberry basil pie with balsamic vinegar! It’s farm share season again, and so it’s time once again here in New England to grab all the best of the seasonal fruits and vegetables as they come. corwin recently called to say he was coming home with several quarts of the first strawberries…
First time in paperback! I’m so excited to bring you the brand new cover design for SPELLBINDING, the anthology of stories set in my Magic University universe, some written by me, many written by other authors and fanfic writers whom I invited to come play in my sandbox. The stories are very erotic and very…
Oh my goodness, just got the fabulous news that SLOW SATISFACTION, the culmination of the Struck by Lightning Trilogy, is a finalist in the Passionate Plume Awards! These are the annual awards given by the Passionate Ink chapter of the RWA, the specialty chapter (originally founded by Sylvia Day!) for writers of erotica and erotic…
I was so glad I got to catch one of the We Need Diverse Books panels at this year’s BookExpo America. I am a fast typist so I am able to capture a lot of what was said, but nowhere close to everything, so please do no take this as a “transcript.” It isn’t. It’s…
One of the cool things about BookExpo America is that there are seminars aimed at authors, publishers, and so on. For the past few years there has been a whole track of programming about the digital space and using digital tools for marketing and commerce. Fauzia Burke (of FSB Associates) opened by explaining that agent…
