friday fun

friday fiction? all-month fiction!

You may have noticed the lack of Friday Fiction today.

No, I didn’t forget (though such a thing is not unheard of!).

But instead of one story today, I’ll be giving you several all month long. I have 5 more fairy tale prompts to go. One is written, one is planned, the other three have been delivered to the muse to transform into story. Keep an eye out for them as the month goes on.

And if you find this project entertaining, it’s not too late to get into the action. I have space for two more prompts, so go ahead and leave me a fairy tale character & random concrete noun below.

For those of you who follow the usual friday fiction, I have a question: Shall I continue the story about the out-of-work mage from last time, or come up with something else for when I resume?

WANAFriday: friday funnies

I haven’t done these blog prompts in a while (see my last post for why), but today’s is too easy not to miss (plus, it was my idea, so…).

Besides we can all use a chuckle at the end of our work week, right?

Period Speech, from xkcd:

Updated with links to other friday funnies:

Friday Fun: Pacific Rim Trailer

Guys, guys! Have you seen this?

Alien invaders! Giant robots! *swoooon*

Now, story-wise this might be a pretty pathetic movie (*cough*Transformers*cough*), but I’d go just for the special effects. And the robots. Must not forget the robots.

via SF Signal

newsletter, plus friday fun video

1. I recently moved my email subscriber list from Feedburner to MailChimp. Let me know if you have any problems with the way the posts are showing up in your Inbox. And, as always, it’s easy to unsubscribe if you need to–and I promise never to share your email addresses or spam you in any way. You get no more than what you signed up for.

2. If you look at the sidebar on the right, you’ll find that you can now sign up for my newsletter. This is a low-frequency newsletter that goes out only when I have a new release, along with a Smashwords coupon code. I haven’t decided if I should do any newsletter-exclusive content–maybe a free short story once in a (very great) while? What do you think? What do you like in an author newsletter?

Once again, I respect your privacy and will never share your email address with any other person or entity, or spam you.

3. Check out this fan-made parody trailer of a non-existent Magic School Bus movie. Carlos, Dorothy Ann, Arnold and the rest have grown up and moved on from their crazy adventures with Miss Frizzle.

But the Magic School Bus has one last field trip in store for them…