And now for a rejection

Note back from Clean Sheets rejecting the excerpt from Pulling Strings, for reasons which I fully agree with. :-) It's a novel excerpt, which is always tricky, and it's an sf novel, which is also tricky for them. I wasn't that hopeful when I sent it in, for precisely those reasons, but I prefered to let the editor reject my submission rather than rejecting it myself. It was, however, a "please keep submitting" -- and some of the people reading this should note that they'd still like to see more m/m literotica submissions.

Thanks to everyone who beta-read the submission package for me. I may well look around for somewhere else to submit it once I have decent net access again.

Contest

Kayelle Allen is running a contest to promote her new m/m romance and m/m romance in general, with a prize of a very nice package of m/m ebooks as an incentive to fill out a survey. Yours truly is one of the prize donors, so here are the details:

Enter to win 15 free books from MM Romance authors Evangeline
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One winner will receive a book from each of these authors! Five more
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What?

Okay, does anyone have any suggestions as to why the log for my website has a bunch of hits yesterday from search engines for people searching for "jules jones" and "A Trifling Affair"?

(Just in case anyone is still searching, and it really is me they're looking for, the short story is on my website here - http://www.julesjones.com/fiction/trifling.html )

ETA: one possibility has just dawned on me - could be someone's used the story as one of the trivia questions in a contest on one of the romance loops. It's that sort of pattern of hits.

Cat vacuuming again....

There is a meme going around the writing-orientated corner of the blogosphere whereby people describe the process of writing a novel. Because I have been more or less offline, the first one of these I saw when scrolling through several days' worth of LJ flist was Chaz's, here:
http://desperance.livejournal.com/37321.html
but there are sundry other examples around.

Now, I don't think I'm going to get around to churning out a long, witty screed on how I write or fail to write novels while this meme is still current, because the chances of me getting enough uninterrupted time at the computer to do so are somewhat miniscule. However, I might be able to manage a related cat-vacuuming activity that pops up on my fanfic LJ's flist every so often. This is the one where I invite people to ask me more about the genesis/background/whatever of a particular story I've written. So if anyone wants to know more about one of my stories, feel free to ask. (But keep it to the things that have been published as profic, please - if you have a burning desire to know more about one of the fanfic pieces, ask about it on the fanfic LJ.)