Interview and chance to win

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I was interviewed today at Anne K. Albert’s blog, talking about a variety of things, including my road to publication and my electronic release of my paranormal romantic mystery, Magic, Murder and Mircrocircuits.

Comment to be entered in a drawing for a digital copy of Magic, Murder and Microcircuits.

http://anne-k-albert.blogspot.com/2012/02/magic-murder-and-microcircuits-by-karen.html

Year of the Dragon

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This is the Chinese Year of the Dragon.  I don’t really know enough about Chinese culture to understand the significance of that to them, but given my love of dragons, I’m taking it as a good sign for me!

I have a couple of new dragons to add to the collection, courtesy of my wonderful critique partner, Elysa Hendricks.  I’ll try to get them posted soon.

Look how much he’s progressed!

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For those of you who’ve followed the adventures of my grandson and his abrupt, premature entrance into the world – here he is now, technically almost four months old, but just a month and a half beyond his original due date. Isn’t it amazing?  He’s now over eight pounds, kicks,coos, and smiles at his mother.

Corporate Buzzword Story

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As a former corporate bureaucrat and IT type, I like to keep up with that world even though I’m no longer part of it (and the only piece of it I miss is the paycheck).

I’m newly enough recovered from it that when TechRepublic ran this story on corporate buzzwords, I nodded in agreement with each of them:

http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/career/most-despised-corporate-buzzwords/3703?tag=nl.e101

(I don’t know if you have to register to see that or not.)

My favorite part of it, though was one of the comments:

“In one meeting I said “Bingo!” rather loudly.  In the meeting where I spoke loudly the meeting’s leader hesitated a bit, then pointed to me and said, “See, he gets it!”  Clueless… and a priceless story to tell people.  That project failed miserably.”

Credit to TechRepublic member DFO_REXX for a spectacular story

 

A Vampire’s Christmas Carol is now available!

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A few weeks ago I got the official notice of return to me of the rights to my Christmas vampire story, A Vampire’s Christmas Carol.  This novella originally appeared in the Beneath A Christmas Moonanthology published by Cerridwen Press.

I decided to go ahead and re-publish it on my own.  Converting an edited file for Smashwords, Nook, and Kindle isn’t really hard, just a bit painstaking.  But I followed the directions closely, created my own new cover for the story and posted it.

Here’s the blurb for it: Can Christmas Eve get any more fun? On her way to her family’s home, Carol Prescott’s car slides into a ditch in a deserted area with no cell phone signal. The only available shelter is already occupied…by a vampire. To Michael Carpenter, Carol is the bait of a trap.

In an effort to hold onto his soul, Michael has resisted the urge to drink human blood for almost a century. Now he hovers between human and vampire. If he doesn’t drink from a human before the night ends, he’ll die. He’s desperately thirsty, but Michael has seen the soulless monsters vampires are and he prefers death. Carol is pure temptation to him, the Christmas present from hell…or is it from heaven?

I’m thrilled to say that it’s now available in most e-formats.  Better yet, it’s only 99 cents on Amazon and Barnes and Noble and free on Smashwords.

Links:
Amazon Kindle
Nook
Smashwords

Read an excerpt here

My Christmas present to you!  But hurry, it’s only free for a limited time. When the year turns to a new one so also will the price for the story.