http://davidwriting.com David Sklar Sun, 18 Apr 2010 16:26:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've largely discontinued this blog, but... I do post regularly at LiveJournal http://thunderpigeon.livejournal.com/ And you can find me at Facebook http://www.facebook.com/david.a.sklar?ref=profile And sometimes Goodreads http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1643477.David_Sklar http://davidwriting.com/where-to-find-me-online/ <cross-posted from my LiveJournal> Hello, all, and welcome to another installment of the Drollerie Press blog tour. I've sat out the last couple of months, because real life has been a lot of work, but I'm back in again this month because I just couldn't resist the topic: dangerous writing. You can find ... http://davidwriting.com/drollerie-blog-tour-anna-the-piper-on-dangerous-writing/ Well, now the contract's been signed and sent back, so I can say that "Tears in the Sea" will be published next month in the January 2010 online edition of Cabinet des Fees. "Tears in the Sea" is part of a larger project, The Skin We Wear, which is a ... http://davidwriting.com/upcoming-publications/ Drollerie Press has recently released the long-awaited anthology Straying from the Path: New Tales of Little Red, which includes my story "Behind the Tower," about a transgendered individual's journey to wholeness after hormones and surgery don't quite make her who she is inside.  A disturbing read in many ways, "Tower" ... http://davidwriting.com/straying-from-the-path/ All Drollerie Press e-books are on sale this week and next for $1.99 or less.  Including my Shadow of the Antlered Bird and the 2 anthologies I'm in: StereoOpticon and Needles & Bones. The anthologies usually retail at around $10, so if you read e-books, this is a ... http://davidwriting.com/129/ I can’t listen to music when I write, save for on rare occasions…if there is one song that’s perfect for a scene, or some classical or instrumental music, turned low, that I’m not overly familiar with, those are things I can listen to while I write.  But mostly, I can’t ... http://davidwriting.com/drollerie-blog-tour-cindy-lynn-speer-talks-about-music/ New news! I will be coediting an anthology with Sarah Avery for Drollerie Press.  The details: Drollerie Press is seeking entries for a pair of short anthologies. Trafficking in Magic deals with the sale and transport of magical goods and services, including magical beings, artifacts, fortune telling, communing with the dead, and other ... http://davidwriting.com/call-for-submissions-trafficking-in-magicmagicking-in-traffic/ I didn't think to take my password with me, so this blog didn't get updated the whole time I was on vacation. A few updates did appear on my LiveJournal. My final schedule for Pi-Con is now up on the Appearances page of this Web site, as well as some vague ... http://davidwriting.com/updates-to-appearances/ And hey!  A Celebrate Chocolate Day bonus! In addition to a discount on The Chocolatier's Wife, you can also celebrate Celebrate Chocolate Day with some free prose from me! Back before Sarah was born, I went and banked some blog posts, figuring that for a couple of weeks when I was too ... http://davidwriting.com/because-nothing-goes-with-chocolate-like-excess/ In other news, I've recently found out from the good folks at Drollerie Press that today is Celebrate Chocolate Day. And to celebrate this day, they're giving a 20% discount on The Chocolatier's Wife by Cindy Lynn Speer. And they're giving an incentive to spread the word: If you pass word ... http://davidwriting.com/celebrate-chocolate-day-20-off-the-chocolatiers-wife/