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07:31 pm: Keeping Busy
 I wrote an interesting description today.  I'm rather proud of it.

A landscape from a dream emerged from the syrupy fog of dawn, accompanied by the invasive rumbling sound of a shallow river hastening through craggy rocks.  The trees curved heavily over the water, while their laden branches dropped fat chestnuts into the water.  Strengthening pillars of sunlight slashed through the green canopy, striping the water and glistening from dew-flecked leaves, while through the whole the mist twisted like insurgent tentacles grasping for something out of reach.  Lovely but lethal the place was; a fair warning, I suppose, to any who happened upon it.

I don't know what it's the first paragraph TO, but it's leading me somewhere.  I have an idea for a new series of stories and one which will require a LOT of world-building.  I'm going to see where it takes me.

I also posted the Mscelina's Lexicon of Rule for Young Writers on my blog.  I feel almost productive. :D

12:26 am: Slaving and slaving some more
 I've been doing way too much for someone who is supposed to do nothing all week.  I had a procedure done on my back at the beginning of the week.  Allow me to just say this:

OUCH.

The upside to this is that I've had the week off.  So, I've been able to catch up on my promo work and get some writing done.  It's always a good thing.  Hopefully I'll have some reviews for Asphodel soon.

Until then, I'll bide the waiting by slaving.

Tags: celina summers, promotion, the reckoning of asphodel

10:54 pm: Writer's Fantasy World
Progress.

Maybe.  I hope so.  Asphodel is out on mobipocket.com and hits fictionwise on Monday.  I think that tomorrow I'm goingt osend out some more press releases and try to get some web presence going. Unfortunately, I actually had to live my life this week instead of living in my writer's fantasy world.

*grin*

Boy, it would be nice to live there permanently though.

If I did live there, maybe I wouldn't be so peeved by stupidity.  I think I've turned out to be allergic to it lately.  Stoopid people are SOOOOOOOO getting on my nerves.  But then again, being a nasty, patronizing bully I should be used to that. ;)

At any rate, I have managed four chapters on the Darkshifters rewrite.  I'm hoping to get half of the book done by September 1st. Arbitrary deadline? *wink*  yeah, sure, of course.

More later.  Peace out.

03:46 pm: My Book's Out1
Release day!  

I decided to start this Livejournal for two reasons.  First off, it's a good way to chronicle what hapens now that my first novel is released.  Second off, because an old irritant of mine is squawking about me and her LJ blog turns up on Google Blog search  *sigh*  Will she never learn?  Probably not.

So at any rate, despite being a mean, patronising bully I have a new book out!!!  The Reckoning of Asphodel is the first book in a four-book epic fantasy series and it was released today by Aspen Mountain Press.  I am very excited; even more excited than I would be by sheer random nastiness. ;)  If you follow the link, you can find out more about Asphodel and read an excerpt.

So, anyway, let's see where this journal leads me.  It will NOT lead me into a flame war, so don't even try it.  For the moment I just want to bask in the jubilation of hitting the ranks of the published...and then tomorrow I go back to rewrites on book two.  Such is the life of a writer I suppose.

Cheers!

Mscelina

Tags: aspen mountain press, book release, elves, flame wars, mscelina, mythology, the reckoning of asphodel