Got an acceptance letter for a story today! Awesome! Details to come!

A bottle opener from my etsy shop was featured on That’s So Boss as part of their “boss valentine’s Day gifts for guys” feature. Huzzah!

Found a review that mentioned my story, “Keeping Things in Order,” that appeared in the Oct. ‘07 issue of The Harrow:

Stephanie Scarborough brings the next story, Keeping Things in Order, which is one of the strangest stories I can remember seeing in this magazine. Strange in the sense that it is a not terribly well-written story, structured like a B-movie, about a walled-off town populated by B-list actors and plagued by radioactive zombies. The protagonist is Mary Beth, a “troubled teen” actress and the town’s only unicorn-riding zombie hunter, who has to deal not only with the (not very scary) zombies constantly erupting from the cemetery but also with the “Z-listers” of the Save The Zombies Alliance. It really is as silly as it sounds. I suppose this is all deliberate, that the B-movie structure and style is a metaphor for the shallowness of Hollywood horror films (or something), and that the quality of writing, far from being poor, is in fact perfectly crafted to simulate the shaky dialogue and info-dumping of most zomcom fare. I suppose I just didn’t get the joke. Sorry. My bad.

My writing confuses and confounds another critic! Success!

Uh, I guess it eventually got positive. The story was, in fact, structured to be ridiculous, like an old ’40s poverty row flick.

The review is is from a site called Web Whisperin’. I’d link to them, but their bandwidth is exceeded, so the site doesn’t work.

Oh, and check it out. A concert review I wrote is up on West and Clear. Hopefully I’ll be writing more for them in the future!

And, CROQ #12 is in production right now, and will have zine reviews and a how-to article by me. Sweet!

Also . . . Cerveauxxx Quatre (#4) is now available for purchase at Gimme Brains Distro. Click on “my zines” and scroll down to find it. A flash piece of mine about zombie love appears in it.

That’s all for now. Time for my nose to get re-acquainted with the grindstone.

The 3-Day Novel Contest Winners have been announced. Alas, I’m not one of them, but there’s always next time . . .

Where did I disappear to? Computer hell, mostly. The iBook spent 2 weeks at the Apple repair depot, and two days after I got it back it had a nuclear meltdown (shutting down at random, kernel panics, failing to boot, weird grinding noises). So, I took it back Sunday and today I finally got it back. The first time around they replaced the logic board, which fixed nothing. This second time, they fixed the hard drive, the thing that you plug the power cable into (sorry, I don’t know computer lingo), and some other thing. It’s working fine so far, but I’m not going to get too happy about it yet. I’m super glad I bought the Apple Care extended warranty for this thing. Otherwise, I’d be screwed.

On the writing front, I’m still laboring away on the NaNo novel. My major project for the year (major projects are something we do in the writer’s group I’m in) is to finish and revise my NaNo novel to the point that I could actually send it out to some agents and/or publishers for consideration. Wish me luck. Also wish me luck that my computer doesn’t crap out again.

Oh, and while I was without a proper computer, I had plenty of time to update my Etsy shop. So take a look at that, if you have a minute.