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June 29, 2010 in awesomeness, cake!, champagne, holidays, rogue | 5 comments

Some awesome stuff has happened over the last few days…I’m going to pretend it’s all in honor of my birthday…some of it straight up is…the rest is a stretch… :)

1. Tara O’Connor, writer and artist extraordinare (and aka gingercurls) did an AWESOME original sketch for my birthday of Rogue with her costume nice and zipped up…something I’m sure most of you are aware is a serious pet peeve of mine.  Thank you Tara!  Check it out!  FYI – you can commission original work from Tara here.

I love the sound effect!

2.  There’s been some serious movement on my book…the revision is locked and we’re preparing to sub to publishers. Slow and steady wins the race let’s hope, but I do hope to have some solid updates soon.

3.  I did a fun birthday bit on She Has No Head! yesterday.  And already Matt Southworth is helping my wishes come to fruition.

4.  5 Minute Marvels did a special “Kelly Birthday Post” drawing of the Tiny Titans – they look awesome. Thanks guys!

5.  I also got a fantastic birthday sketch from my artist friend Ross Campbell…but I can’t show you guys that one yet as it relates to my novel.  Perhaps I’ll post a teaser as things start to develop on that front.  :)

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6.  There were a few of my favorite things…namely…comics, cake, and champagne (all c’s…weird) to be had at my house…not to mention the beginnings of Season 5 of The Wire since the weather was hideously gross and I had no desire to leave the house…but really…what could be better than all of that?

All in all…not too damn bad.  Thanks everyone for the birthday wishes – and presents!

300,000 Hits!

January 16, 2010 in anniversaries, awesomeness, blog-o-versary, blogging, champagne, the jilted league | 4 comments

So we just cruised past 300,000 hits here on 1979 Semi-Finalist, and it’s kind of a big deal.  Not that 300,000 is some magical number or anything, but a mere 6 months (ish) ago, in July 2009, we celebrated the two year anniversary of this blog – and the fact that we were closing in on 150,000 hits…that’s right, in a little over six months the traffic to this blog was more than what it was in the first TWO YEARS.  And that is some mother fucking progress!

So I wanted to offer up a huge thanks to all of you that have made that happen – and to encourage you to stick with me here – as we’re only going up it seems!

Someone uncork the champagne, you all know I’ll use any excuse to drink some champagne (more accurately, an entire bottle)!

The girls have offered up their congratulations below…and maybe it’s just me, but their enthusiasm seems a little…uh, well…begrudging…if not full on sarcastic.  I mean…look at that sign!  Pitiful.

Then again, maybe they’re just punishing me for using them to continue testing out my Wacom Tablet…clearly, it’s going to take me some time to get better at using it…I may have to find some other less grouchy guinea pigs…

Yes Thank You, I Think I WILL Skip Query Letter Hell

June 16, 2009 in acceptance, agents, awesomeness, books, champagne, my book, short fiction, short fiction rejections, short fiction submissions | 10 comments

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So, instead of having to go through the horrible process of sending out massive amounts of query letters to agents for my novel (and likely receiving massive amounts of rejections) I got incredibly lucky and had two excellent agents from big agencies competing for my book over the last week.

I’m not going to go into specifics here for a variety of reasons but basically one agent came to me via a query I actually sent last year (long crazy story that worked out beautifully) and one agent came to me through a connection.  It was a brutal decision (one I never imagined I’d have to make) deciding between these two fantastic individuals, but I finally did make a decision this week and I’m proud to say that I’m officially working exclusively with one of the agents on my book.

We’ll be doing revisions for the foreseeable future – I have no idea how long, but I hope I can get it done quickly so we can continue moving forward – but I thought you’d all like to know about this great moment of happiness and success in the deluge that is usually REJECTION!

Please pause of a moment of pure happiness:

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Now if only I can get some of these damn short fiction pieces published.  In fact, just to keep my ego in check…let’s do a status update on those.  It’s not looking pretty folks…

Phase III Updated Stats:  6 of 10 Rejected.  4 still out there.

Sidenote:  this is tagged ‘champagne’ because I will be drinking an entire bottle of it on my own tonight.  Whee!

#81 ~ Rabid Lamb Comics

February 14, 2008 in cartoons, champagne, comic of the day, comics, holidays, relationships, technology | 9 comments

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Hee hee.  This is surprisingly accurate.  I’ve had to clean up Adam’s ears like 50 times already since June. 

To his credit, this would drive anyone nuts, especially someone so well versed in computers and someone that spends so much time on line.  It’s a horrible situation.  We’re (and by we’re I mean “he, and maybe I’ll chip in for his birthday”) saving up for a new machine for him.  It will be a great day for both of us when he no longer has this internet disconnection issue.

Happy V-Day to everyone.  I wish I had a special V-Day strip for you guys today, but it just didn’t happen.  I do have a slightly naughty post V-Day strip for tomorrow though…so make sure to tune in.  Hopefully most of you are doing something nice for yourself or your loved one on this most corporate of holidays.  It’s funny, I hated Valentine’s Day when I was single, and now that I’m not, it’s really not that much better, just corporate pigs, feasting on our poor needy little carcasses.  It’s so sad. 

Yet I still hope I get some Sees chocolate though…I’m a sheep, what can I say?

#49 Comic of the Day

January 1, 2008 in champagne, comic of the day, comics, entertainment, whores | Permalink

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There really aren’t words to describe this. I highly suggest looking it up on youtube, as there has got to be something out there on it…certainly by 6am…the world will know the glory of CATHOUSE…THE MUSICAL!!!!!!!

I’m off early today to try to catch There Will Be Blood, after the snafu yesterday. Happy New Day to everyone out thre…hope you’re making the best of it…for most of us it is the last of the paid office holidays for months and months to come…I hate this part. :)

Sidenote: Adam has a ‘greatest quote of all time’ while watching this “musical” – “these women aren’t just whores, they’re attention whores” never have truer words been spoken my friends.

Update:  here’s a youtube clip, though I must say the clip contains what I thought was one of the better performances…by far.  Adam didn’t agree, but I found this one to be one of the least embarassing/funny/sad.  Have a look.