To the GeekMobile!

In a rather exciting turn of events, I am now writing for Comic Booked.  It's crazy awesome!  If you pop along there, you can catch all the reviews and articles I've done so far.  As well as that, you can keep up to date with all of the latest comic book, gaming and movie news.

See, I told you it was exciting...

Here are some links to my most recent articles:

Peter Jackson's New Hobbit Post Production Video Blog

The Hobbit: New TV Spot

Review of Top Cow's Artifacts #22

Top Cow's Talent Hunt and What it Means for Fans

Happy reading folks!  Be sure to share these when you're on each page.  Each one can be Tweeted, Liked and Google +.

Em

NaNoWriMo word count: 40,796

Been There, Done That, Got the FREAKING AWESOME T-SHIRT

Can't believe how long it's taken me to do this post, but I guess it's appropriate this weekend.  Anyway, exciting announcement...

Thanks to @deadbunneh, you can now get this awesome and exclusive Glitter and Trauma t-shirt!

I freaking love this.  It's a fantastic piece by a fantastic artist and I really feel that you should grab this tee while you can.  I've already got mine and wear it so often that it has tried to crawl off me on more than one occasion.  Ewww, that made me sound minging.  The point is that I love my tee and am extremely thankful for such an flattering and brilliant interpretation of my work.

So, here's a wee pic of me wearing it.  I'll warn you, I'm afraid that all the comics behind me are not mine.  I was actually standing in Forbidden Planet...at the Batman section...because I'm that cool.

Anyway, get your tee and enjoy the rest of your weekend!

Em

Of Fan Fiction and Digital Reading...

First up, Glitter and Trauma is coming along nicely.  Still selling, slowly but still selling.  If you haven't read it yet, be sure to give it a try.  It would be great if anyone who has read it could leave a review.  I'd really appreciate that.

Downloaded a few eBooks on my iPod to support indie writers.  It's damn hard this whole self-publishing thing.  Never realised that until now.  Am going to ensure from now on that I put up reviews of books I read, too.  So over the next week I will be putting up reviews for the variety of Pill Hill and Static Movement books I've read over the past 2 years and never reviewed.  I feel a bit evil now.  Please review the books you read, folks.  The writers, editors and publishers need your support!

In other news, I've started dabbling in fan fiction.  Some Buffy the Vampire Slayer and DC nonsense.  Will try to put some online soon.  Fingers crossed it goes down well!

Better run now.  True Blood marathon!  Yaaaaay!

Freebies For All

Just updated the Free Stories page and the Glitter and Trauma page.  Enjoy!  In the Free Stories page you will find "Clowns All Around You", one of my favourite stories.  And in G+T, you will find a free extract.

In other news, the blog will be getting a revamp very soon.  So please keep checking by.

In other awful news...I am about to watch the Wicker Man remake.  Holy shite...

Lotsaluv, Em

Tweet-Twoo

I have finally given in and joined the social networking crowd.  Eugh.

Follow me on Twitter at https://twitter.com/#!/GirlofGotham

I know, I couldn't get VampireBunny or anything like it.  So I had to go for my next favourite obsession: Batman.  Hence GirlofGotham.  I also caved and got a phone that does more than make calls, so I should be able to update the twitter account more frequently than the blog.

Apologies for the big gaps in posts.  I've been crazy busy but I'm trying hard to get stories out again.  I'm sending a few away today so fingers crossed.

"The Other Side" is coming along slowing.  Hoping to have more news on it soon...

So bunnies, hop along to twitter and add the GirlofGotham.

Can't believe I did this.

Lotsaluv, Em

Whoosh!

Wow Glasgow is windy today. I have had absolutely no sleep since it all started at 3.30am. Oh Gods I am so tired. On the up side I am sending Simple Twists of Fate off to another publisher so fingers crossed.

Also going to start tidying up The Other Side. Changing the main character's name is the first step. Don't know if that's a good thing or not.

Anyway, in other news, I am now totally addicted to Monster High. I am a grown woman, what is wrong with me?

Lotsaluv, Em

Happy 2012

Way-hay bunnies. Happy 2012. I promise you many great things. The boys have asked me tp rrcommend www.twitter.com/thebloodaxe check it out and you will be onto great things. I promise a book this year bunnies. Peace out bunnies. I love and miss you all

lotsaluv, Em

The Other Side

Hoping to have the new novel nearly finished by the New Year.  Fingers crossed guys.  It's needing a lot of editing but at least I've pretty much got a first draft done.

However, I've just ordered 2 Batman cross stitch patterns :S  Uh oh, going to be a bit distracted.

Two weeks tomorrow and I'm finished work for Yuletide.  Woop-de-doop.

Lotsaluv, Em

Success! Nanowrimo 2011!

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaay!  Done with 2 hours to spare!  Booyah!  Sitting at 50057 words at the end of November for my new novel "The Other Side".  I've still got a fair chunk I want to do but I'm so proud that I did all that in November, and with my crazy job, too!  That was including not getting home until late on Mondays and a day where I had to pull an 11 hour shift!

Keep your eyes peeled folks and I'll keep updating on my novel's progress.  Shouldn't take long to actually finish now.

Woohoo!  Can't believe I managed this!

Lotslauv, Em

At Last...

I am very pleased to report that Simple Twists of Fate has just been submitted to Wicked East Press for consideration.

Finally!

After 6 crazy weeks of my new job, I finally had a day to sit down and gather my thoughts.  Completed my submission package 20 mins ago and I have literally just hit the send button on the email to Jessica Weiss.  So excited!!!

I'm pretty pleased with how it's looking so far.  While I'm waiting for news back I'm just going to keep reading and rereading my stories in order to edit them to their best possible version.  Even the reprints have had a major overhaul.  Pretty damn pleased with this.  Seriously.

I'm aware that there's been no free story for September.  This will be uploaded over the weekend.

In other news, here's the previously promised pics of my new wee minion: Dexter (as in Dexter Morgan!) the Chinese Dwarf Hamster.

Awwwwwww!  He's freaking awesome and a little crazy.  Suits me just fine then!

Be back soon!

Lotsaluv, Em

At Last...

I have moved out into my own wee flat and I finally have the internet back. Hazzah! And, even better, K Bargie and I got a cootchie wee chinese dwarf hamster. He is AWESOME!!! Pictures to follow. Good to talk to you again bunnies.

Lotsaluv, Em

Of Stepford Wives and Strange Devices

Beautiful day.  Sitting in the kitchen typing this as the sun streams in through the French doors.  Unfortunately, they are firmly shut and locked as the dog is being a little shit and keeps barking at the kids playing in the lane beside my garden.  Shall attempt to ignore him but he's a bloody pest.

Typing up the last story for "Simple Twists of Fate" right now.  Then it's on to the final edit.  Really excited.  Tomorrow is going to be a total work-a-thon and I'm just going to blitz this book.  All of the stories need a read-through and tidy up but "Swampblood" needs a lot of work.  I suspect that is what'll eat up most of my attention and time.  Not long now though.  Want to have my sample stories ready to go by the end of the week so fingers crossed.

In other news, K Bargie and I got our wee flat :)  Sooooooooo happy!  Not sure quite when we move in yet but I'll keep you posted.  The down side to this is that I'll be without internet access for a while so blog posts may be few and far between throughout August.  However, a couple of my fave pubs do free wifi so I may just drag my laptop into either of those.

While I type this I can hear K upstairs, faffing about with my guitar.  He's in the process of teaching himself "Let her Dance", which is the closing track of "Fantastic Mr Fox" - a film he loves to a stupid degree.  I'm going to attempt to make a pecan pie for him today.  What has become of me?  Moving in with a man-creature and baking him pies?!  What would the Pankhursts say?

Anyway, I better get back to this story.  And apologies to Paul and Andy, whom I left a very daft post about on Thursday night.  If you didn't see it guys, it was just very dopey - praising Paul's blog and describing Andy reading a Charlotte Roche book to my dog.  Cocktails and the internet DO NOT mix well!  Swiftly deleted this.  Hope you both don't mind!

Got to go now and enjoy the rest of this bright Sunday.  Have a good one, bunnies!

Lotsaluv, Em

Eeeep!

K Bargie and I may have found our dream home.  I am so excited.  K keeps reprimanding me for lurking on furniture websites.  Apparently I am not allowed a table which pulls out like slices of pizza (from Next.co.uk)

Damn him.  Scouting out Batman prints and posters already. Skweeeeee!  Fingers crossed.  It's even going to have a little office/library to write in.  Woohoo!!!  More news to come...

I am aware that this is supposed to be a blog about my writing and I have descended into some Stepford Wife-type creature but screw you, I'm happy.  Writing tonight, I promise...

Lotsaluv, Em

Busy week!

No time for anything this week. K Bargie and I are flat-hunting at the moment so we've been rushing around the city like mad folk. On top of that we've got a birthday and a wedding this week AND I quit my job on Sunday.

I don't know when my brain will stop spinning.

In good news...Adam has agreed to do the cover for Simple Twists of Fate. Yaaaaaaay!

Lotsaluv, Em

Captain Hook

Typed up a big chunk of SToF and taught myself to crochet (with Mum's help). Apparently I sound like Herman Munster when I make a mistake. Ah well I do like the Munsters...

2 stories left to type up and then it's on to the editing, rewriting and re-editing stage. Awesomeness.

Remember to check out the free story for July!!!

Night night bunnies. Sweet dreams and dreadful nightmares.

Lotsaluv, Em

Raven on My Shoulder...

Wow, been a while again.  I'm terrible at keeping up with this.  Apologies.  Anyway, this little post is a major update...

Only 20,000 words away from finishing Simple Twists of Fate.  Woohoo!!!  And to top that off, I've got 3 and a half stories sitting in front of me right now, lurking in notepads, waiting to be typed up. (3 and a half because I didn't get a chance to finish the 4th one in work today.)  Pretty pleased with these ones and they fit in with the rest of the collection well.

On the whole, the book is shaping up brilliantly.  Really really pleased with it.  However, during the week there I removed an erotica piece called "Salt Skin", which just didn't really feel right with the other stories.  Anyway, it's a mermaid tail and I've already got 3 mermaid pieces in the book and I don't want it to drown it with siren stories (har har sea humour).  Although, Brianna Stoddard is running an erotica book over at Static Movement so I may send it swimming her way and see if she bites (okay, I'm through with the puns now I promise).

Have noticed that quite a few of my newer pieces have been in the same vein as my story "Moth Touch", which was published in Creepy Things: An Anthology of the Creepy-Crawly, Spooky & Silly, published by Static Movement.  By that I mean mini character portraits capturing one scene, a la the prologues in The Canterbury Tales (which I was obsessed with when I was about 17).  Pretty happy with this as it keeps in tone with my "Simple Twist of Fate" theme.

This collection will also include my brand new novella, "Swampblood", which I originally wrote as a short story for a different collection.  However, even when I finished the original short story, I new there was much more to this tale and decided straight away that it would be much better suited as a novella.  It tells the tale of the sheriff of the small Louisiana town of Swampblood and his search for his girlfriend, a newcomer to the town.  So excited about this piece.  It's one of my favourites!

Once I type up these stories tonight, I'm spending the next week doing read-throughs, edits and rewrites.  This will ensure that everything is perfect.  Hopefully should have the whole book completed within the next few weeks.  Fingers crossed.

And now for something completely different...  Little plug here for a fellow blogger.  I urge you all to go check out A Cinephile's Journey, which is a freaking awesome blog.  My most cinematically literate and sharply dressed mate Paul Costello has started an epic project.  He is watching every film he owns in alphabetical order and reviewing it.  So far, he's 15 films down and not even out of the As.  This makes my film collection look pitiful.  I think it will even overshadow my film-obsessed partner-in-crime K Bargie's vast DVD horde.  Paul has already covered some awesome films, including Ace Ventura and The Adventures of Prescilla, Queen of the Desert, which is one of my faves.  Prescilla is sheer Aussie genius and Paul's review of it is spot on.  So, fair bunnies, I implore you, join one man on his journey through his DVD shelf ( or shelves more like if his room is anything like K Bargie's).

That seems to be us all caught up now!  I better beat it and finish typing up these stories and get closer to that goal of completing Simple Twists of Fate.  Not long now...

Farewell, bloody bunnies...

Lotsaluv, Em

New Project!

Noticed post over at Wicked East Press advertising an open call for single author collections and now that I'm finished with uni, this is my new main focus.  Eeeeep!

My collection is entitled "Simple Twists of Fate" (a spin on my fave Bob Dylan song) and it's shaping up goooooooood so far.  Just finished collating the reprints that will be included and they finish up at 30,000.  I'm aiming to hit 90-95,000 in total, so that should give you an idea of how much brand new material will be crammed into this tasty feast of fiction!

Reprints featured are:

Chasing Rabbits (Daily Bites of Flesh)
Death and the Maiden (Pandora's Nightmare)
Another Girl’s Paradise(Daily Flash)
Time (Daily Flash)
Clowns All Around You (Dusted)
Starry Eyed (Moon Washed Kisses)
Dark Wings (Daily Erotica)
Pride and Joy (Flash!)
The Hunt (Howl)
Loss (Cedar Chest)
Glitter and Trauma (The Shadow People)
Moth Touch (Creepy Things)

I'm pretty certain that I won't use any more reprints other than these.  Glitter and Trauma takes up the bulk of it but it's mostly flash as you can see.  Very excited about the new pieces.  Got about 3 or 4 to type up tomorrow and once I get to work on Saturday, I know I've got a notepad in there with a few pieces in it too.  Should be awesome!!!

As with my vampire collection that I wrote before, I'm doing this in a NaNoWriMo format, writing as many words as possible every day and then I'll get to the editing process later.  Determined to come up with at least 60-65,000 words of brand new fiction.  At the end of every post throughout the next month, I'll stick a progress count so that you can keep up to date with the collection.

I'm also aware that I owe about 3 reviews.  Will have at least 1 of these up by tomorrow morning, I promise!

Wish me luck, bunnies!!!!

Lotsaluv, Em

Current word count on new stories: 9,641 words :-) Fair start.

Why Adam is Awesome

 Posters for The Shadow People, done by my very talented mate Adam Turner.  I really appreciate him doing these and they are absolutely amazing.  Hope you all like them.  High fives all round for Adam. I'll be plastering these ALL OVER Glasgow as soon as I can.  Awesome!!!!

All this done because this book features my first novella "Glitter and Trauma" - check it out bunnies!!!

Lotsaluv, Em

Revampire Bunny

Given the old blog a bit of a make-over as you can see.  Apologies for the pages at the top, which are all currently under construction, but as soon as I can, I'll fill these up with awesome things.  Expect lots more changes soon, as I'm determined to fix that sidebar!  Again, I'm really sorry that it's still a bit of a mess, you'll have to bear with me for the time being.

Catch you all soon.

Lotsaluv, Em

The Shadow People Update

Say What?!?!?!?  Is that Emma's novella in a book and on sale on Amazon now?  Indeedy it is!  The Shadow People is now available on Amazon. AAAAAAH!!!  Excited!  Even more exciting is the product description, which reads:

She turns her hands over. Once. Twice. On the third time she still can't see anything wrong with them. What had she done? She'd made the shadow disappear, for one thing. It's rather a relief to know that she can make them go away. But what had she done to make it go? What the hell was that stuff coming out of her hands? This is weird, even for Sarah. -excerpt from Glitter and Trauma by Emma Kathryn

I'm so over the moon with this.  This is going to be freakin' awesome.  As soon as the book hits Amazon.co.uk I'm throwing a Glasgow launch party for all my chums and co-horts.  Complete with Millie's cookie cake and all.  By then I'll do a full promotional blog about out, complete with an exclusive extract and soundtrack listing (I always write my stories to a soundtrack which I put together during the writing process).  This post will also include the posters that my mate Adam - of Ferocious Bloodaxe fame - is doing for me.  The stuff he's done for Bloodaxe has been ubercool so I'm extremely excited to see what he's going to come up with.

Anyway, I'm going to scoot now.  I'm far too excited!!!!  Eeeep!  Hope you're all ordering your copies right now!

Lotsaluv, Em