An appropriate picture for some odd news:

...Double Dragon eBooks is responsible for the publication of eBook titles in a variety of genres. By far this is the largest division under the DDP umbrella with over 200 titles in eight different formats with a global distribution network that spans North American and the United Kingdom.

Acquisitions Editor (Fantasy, Science Fiction, SF)
Lazette Gifford


Yes. That would be me. The new fantasy and sf acquisitions editor for Double Dragon.

You can see it 'for real' on the DDP Staff Page.

We had been discussing this long before I took over the daily running of Forward Motion. And if I didn't have such a great Tech Team for that side of things, I wouldn't have taken this on since I would have been spending far too much time just trying to figure out the tech side of things, let alone running them. But as it is, Foward Motion is moving along quite well. The data access shows that we're already back up to where we were before the move as far as posts and access goes. We have lots of new things going on, and new boards for marathons, Back to School for Busy Writers, and lots more. It's been really fun!

Becoming the sf and fantasy Aquisitions Editor for DDP is starting me along a path I had wanted to go for a long time -- the publishing side of fiction. Three years at Vision has shown me that I didn't really want to try my hand at running a fiction ezine, though. And I certainly wasn't going to start an ebook publishing company. This, however, allows me to work within the framework of a larger company.

I am so looking forward to this!

This is a picture from Ashfall, a place about 80 miles west of here. Very neat. Haven't been there for a couple years, though.

And of course I'm going crazy trying to get caught up on work now. Notes spread out everywhere on my desk. Papers stacked up on the side table. WIPs... well, they aren't open at the moment, so I better get to it pretty soon! I did do some written notes on one story, though, so that's good. It should help me get that one finished, finally.

Other than that, it's just been crazy. Not at all helped by the fact that I'm almost constantly tired. And even if I went to bed, I wouldn't actually sleep. I've tried.

Thunk...

Well, time to get some work done...

IMPORTANT NOTICE -- Many of the pictures on the site are now gone. I'm not going to go back and edit out all the links. The server that they were on has been permanently removed, so I no longer have my photo sites.

But, in other news...

Okay, the writing madness is passed for the moment. I'm back to work on Glory -- only 227 pages to go. I think I have a chance of finishing it soon! There have been times when I thought I would never get through it all, and I suspect I'll feel that way again in the last couple hundred pages -- but at least it's moving.

Glory and Badlands are going to be my two big projects, I think, for September.

40,047 words in three days.

Vision up, corrected, and running.

Back to School for Busy Writers going well.

So tired I can hardly sit up straight

But I did well, I think!

Thunk...

21,635

It's a good place to pause -- a bit over what I needed for the day -- and get some work done on Vision again. I have it virtually done, but I had to make a couple late minute changes. I've also opened up the pages for Back to School For Busy Writers. I'm very nearly ready for September, too.

I'm obviously running out of steam here, though.