Alder's Grove

Better late than never.

Gifts of the Giraffe, an e-book compilation of the December 2011 Giraffe Call, is now available in pdf.

(If you have a good program you have used for converting to epub, please let me know).

If you donated to the December 2011 or January 2012 Giraffe Call (if you don't remember, and I don't fault you that, I have records), or if you have donated $50 or more to Giraffe Calls in the time between then and now, this .pdf is free for the asking.

If you have not donated, it is available for $1.33.

Gentlefolk, I am pleased to announce Tales for the Sugar Cat.

This collection of short, flash, and micro stories span genres and universes, from scifi to fantasy to romance. Most of the stories here were written in response to prompts from an online audience during the eight-hour writing marathon, the Drakeathon.

I entered into this live-writing marathon to raise funds to help defray the costs of my cat Drake's recent diabetes diagnosis, hence the title Tales for the Sugar Cat.

In this book, you can explore new planets and find hidden corners of earth, meet strange creatures and stranger humans; the twenty-five stories here consist of a sampler pack of my fiction.

Donors to the Drakeathon, I will e-mail you a "free" coupon for this e-book within the next 48 hours.

And that is the last of the prompts given from the Drakeathon, written!

(My parents donated and have not prompted, but everything I've actually gotten a prompt for has been written).

All together in a document, it's just under 14,000 words, 27 pages of 8.5x11 with no intros and little formatting. I plan to add to this a couple already-written things, where the prompt was "please continue this story."

Next step(s): editing and formatting for the e-book. I know at least one story needs polishing - Lost Princess of Paradisia. I'll have to read through again to see about the rest of them.