A Reformed Druid Cross-post!
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 7 days ago 
From Yahoo list RDNAtalk--This article from the San Francisco Chronicle caught my eye and I just had to share. Have a good laugh! Stacey
Kiss my druid, death metal viking! How do you find your niche in an ocean of wonky weirdness?
By Mark Morford, SF Gate Columnist Wednesday, November 4, 2009
There I was again, just another typical workday cruising Weblandia for nimble ideas with which to stimulate the senses and better illumine the human experiment, feeling a bit more anxious and antsy than normal, but not really sure why. What could it be? What was this deep need, this itch craving a rusty, rough-hewn scratch, a needful void I couldn't quite name but which nevertheless had, I quickly recognized, a certain tang, a grubby, ancient stink of what I can only describe as stale beer meets hoary facial hair in a pile of really old meat served to me on a flaming sword by a dozen buxom whoremaidens on a creaky wooden ship in the pre-dawn mist in the year 975, gruntingly? Do you know that feeling? Of course you do.
Suddenly, like a lightning bolt made of gold bullion, rotted teeth and musty stone tablets covered in worm slime and virgin's blood, it hit me. There it was, right on the Metalsucks.net website I just so happened to stumble across for the first time; it struck my retinal core like the smoke of dry ice, traveled down my spine like a rum Kundalini and settled deep in the genitalia, where it proceeded to blast 10,000 raunchy power chords well into eternity.
It was a big, silly, wonderful ad banner for something called Heathenfest America '09, which, upon closer inspection, turns out to be some sort of cartoonish death metal microtour featuring a handful of hilariously unpronounceable metal bands -- Belphegor, Eluveitie, Vreid, Kivimetsan Druidi -- who all share a similar obsession for scallywags, hoisted mainsails, Celtic lore, beer, drawing mystical rune symbols on their hoodies with a purple Sharpie while completely stoned, and/or worshipping the giant rock vulva that is Stonehenge. Or, more likely, all of the above. In other words, Heathenfest -- not to be confused with Paganfest, apparently a nearly identical, rival tour with a gaggle of nearly identically themed bands now making metalheads belch and parents groan across America -- is one of what must be dozens of similar microfests stomping their way across the land right now and keeping the underground metal scene thriving. As Metalsucks says, Heathenfest promises to be "one of the best/dorkiest/drunkest shows of the Fall," unless you count Garth Brooks in Vegas.
Here's the curious thing: whereas most music festivals focus on broad genres -- say, all electronica or bluegrass or indie or whatever, Heathenfest et al go far deeper, are all about micro themes, parsing and sub-dividing your tastes into oblivion. Not just metal, not just black metal, not even speed black metal, but cartoonish speed black death metal about pirates and druids and beer. In a word: Awesome. But also entirely strange.
(BTW, my insta-favorite among the Heathenfest lineup has to be Alestorm, perhaps one of the best-named metal bands of all time -- a storm of ale! A tempest of fermented hops! Metalsucks calls them "a superior pirate metal band," which I can only take to mean there's more than one, which is a minor epiphany in itself.)
And it's all thanks to the Internet, methinks, to the constant and never-ending subdividing of the culture into cliques and interest groups and micro-niches to which the Net so happily caters, creates, enables. Is it not true? We've apparently reached a point where, not only can you enjoy any configuration of quirky offbeat special interests you desire, along with many you never even imagined, but are actually sort of encouraged to do so, to see how bizarre and recombinant you can get because, well, what's stopping you?
What are you into, mate? Latex frog farming? Blood paintings by menstruating asylum inmates? Star Trek: The Next Generation pastry-making classes? Large-format reptile taxidermy photography? S&M salsa dancing? Build-your-own-eco-friendly-coffin workshops? A wine club for macho gun-loving phallocentric paranoids? The Net shall provide. For better or worse.
To me, it all highlights the classic chicken-and-egg problem with Web life: Is the Net merely a wondrous connector of people with bizarre, curious interests, our most astonishing reminder yet that there are always individuals with shared hobbies and lifestyles, and it's merely a matter of hooking them up so they can all feel less alone and foster myriad new forms of micro communities? Or is it the treacherous mechanism by which cultures splinter and subdivide in the first place, and the Net actually does us all a huge disservice, fracturing us to the extent that we no longer relate on a broader scale, everyone so into their little self-important subset, their zealous micro-club that no one can speak a common language of shared humanity anymore?
The answer, of course, is that it's both. As in Heathenfest, the Net both creates a million weird and wonderful sub-genres, as well as providing respite and refuge for outcasts and freaks who think they're alone in their love of them. This is why it terrifies so many parents; kids can get exposed to some insanely disturbing s--t these days, the most extreme porn, the most outrageous racism, the most ridiculous and stupid and debased intellectual slime that human nature has to offer (hi, anonymous commenters!)
At the same time, there is astonishing beauty and diversity and range of experience, a way to reach out to others in ways unprecedented and downright magical. And as the truism goes, few things can make your average suicidal loner teen in Kansas feel less alone than finding a Web community of like-minded loners who share his love of country punk, Victorian dolls and Jell-O enemas. Or whatever.
I'm reminded of Dan Savage's amazing sex advice column, where it seems not a week goes by that he's not hit with some variant of the time-honored "am-I-alone-in-my-weirdness" query, almost always related to some bizarre kink or gross turn-on that the letter-writer is half-ashamed, half-titillated to be talking about in a public forum. After cringing deeply, Savage's advice to Disturbed Pervert is almost always the same: check craigslist. Check Google groups, Yahoo groups, etc. No matter your kink (well, almost), you can almost always find someone -- or multiple someones -- willing to engage in the same bizarre sub-sub-fetish as you, and maybe you can date them or pay them to let you tie them up and pour dog urine over them while someone massages your testicles with a pine cone. Mmm, wacky.
Where does it all lead? What does all the sub-fracturing and micro-niches tell us? Or is a cigar just a cigar, pirate metal is just pirate metal, and we should hoist a mainsail, draw down the keg, crank the riffage and lighten the hell up? I'm not exactly sure.
After all, as the druids say, "Niets gaat buiten alles om!" Dude, you can totally Google it.
Original posting: http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/...
Comments: 0 Views: 27 Group: General Tags: druid, nature, mythology, art | Special Samahain treat!
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 22 days ago
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This is a link to where I have uploaded the latest issue of the Druid Inquirer, a free offering from the Reformed Druids of North America.
Mike put it in a members-only Yahoo group, RDNAtalk, instead of the usual place, but I'd like to get it to more viewers.
The occasion is that 1) Mike the Fool's website is migrating away from Geocities this month so they aren't available there until his new 'org' site is established,
2) it's damn good, as usual, and pertinent to some of the ethnocentric squabbling I have been stepping in at Usenet's alt.religion.druid
3) Dark Roast Press went into the erotic romance end with
Samhain's Embrace by Jesse Fox,
as well as the all-ages horror business with Chris Newman's
Tales from the Uprising,
and AP Miller's
All Hallows Eve.
So I am in the mood to share.
http://www.darkroastpress.com
What would the ancestors want? is one timely question that arises in us now. They mainly want us to keep our DNA going, I reckon. But what else?
That has been tossing like salad in my head as I reread George Orwell and the Stargate Chronicles of McMoneagle. And I hope it won't be too costly to inter what is left of me when the time comes. I do want to be recycled.
Comments: 0 Views: 13 Group: General Tags: druid | Happy Autumnal equinox from the Great Pacific Garbage !
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/09/fbi-nsac/
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog... The Environmental Holocaust, by talented Myspace writer friend Paula, aka Insane pug from Hell...
 Mabon loves you.
If you are in the UK, ORGAN passes along a very timely celebration of the landmark protests against land-grab vs. hallows at Solsbury Hill.
http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog... Famous Peter Gabriel song about it, seed of future more successful struggles.
 Time to get the carrots into the cellar and the old ladies into the house.
Comments: 0 Views: 54 Group: General Tags: nature, inhumanity, druid | Labor day
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http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/this...
In 31 states it is legal to fire someone because of their sexuality.
In 39 states it is legal to fire someone for being transgender.
As you can see, the number of states that currently offer protection for America's LGBT workforce is relatively few. That is why supporting ENDA legislation is so important, especially during volatile economic periods.
Most recently, a story surfaced of a woman from Pennsylvania who was asked for a picture of her genitalia so that she could return to a job that she worked perfectly well in before it was made known that she was transgender. (for link to that story go to the original post--h.)
This is just one story among literally thousands of incidents of discrimination against LGBTs in the workplace. Make no mistake, it does happen, it is happening and it can ruin lives. People reading this may know how hard it is to get a job today. Imagine if your were LGBT and facing the extra hurdle of employment discrimination possibly cropping up at every interview you attend.
But the Employment Non-Discrimination Act can change all that.
http://www.care2.com/causes/civil-rights/blog/this...
The moke of stridnight is Here Is the Fuman Race Hucked Ask Low Much Honger, America 90.90.90 www.nationalautism.com #999 #Autism
Enjoy your holiday.
Comments: 1 Views: 39 Group: General Tags: inhumanity | Lughnasadh and the flame in us
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 108 days ago
This is the time of the harvest of first fruits. This is the time of burning. What is the connection?
The connection is to study the ur-form of all things living at an esoteric level, as Goethe did the plant world. Plants are amazing creatures of earth which transform water and air into the flame of life. They display their flame at the tops as flower, their sexual organs.
We are also living beings who flower and fruit and reproduce in our season. As we reach this time of first harvest, the hot zenith of the year cycle, the soil is dry and thirsty for extra nourishment because of all that has been expended in fruiting. Gardeners if they are wise water well and apply side dressings of compost. But for our ancestors this often meant sacrifices and ashes.
The most easy sacrifice is songs and dances of thanks.
Once harvesting was under way, feasting, choosing, raiding, trading also began.
The time of Lugh master of all trades and crafts, humanity strutting its multiple accomplishments before potential partners, is upon us. View ye the line of eligible partners swaying and giving voice to the fullness of their flowering. Build up the bonfires that rid us of chaff and sprinkle upon the fields the straw and the ashes, to keep the harvest coming.
From my roots I drew what I needed to grow into the shape I am now. And behold I am of good shape and accomplished. With my skills I forged many fine creations which I now exchange with you. I sing and you hear me and draw near to my heart, filling it to overflowing. Our fragrance fills the night as incense. This is the flowering time. This is the burning time. Dross becomes fuel becomes soil for the future.
Here is a link to more scholarly exigesis of the cross quarter festival also called Lammas
http://www.astrologycom.com/lammas.html
Comments: 0 Views: 33 Group: General Tags: mythology, nature, art | Eclipse transmission
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 124 days ago
http://www.towleroad.com/2009/07/watch-longest-tot...
Eclipse to Me :
my darling hush
for you
have lived to be old
still wear
your rainbow crown
streams still flow
pains dissolving risen remain
and there will be
places to see
people to do
first fruits to pluck
wicker men to burn
and stories
http://www.astrodispatch.com/2009/07/27/solar-ecli...
Comments: 0 Views: 64 Group: General Tags: mythology, nature, art, druid, romance | So you do not burn out your eyes---
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http://mashable.com/2009/07/21/solar-eclipse-onlin...
HOW TO: See the Longest Solar Eclipse of the Century Online
Comments: 0 Views: 22 Group: General Tags: nature, mythology, humanity | Carbon footprints
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 127 days ago
I strongly suggest not using the term PUSSY here.....
Just because cattle fart and beer drinkers fart we do not eliminate burgers and beer
alt.pave.the.earth. on Usenet for example were visionaries in that respect, imagining the 'Mad Max' future for us.
Why shouldn't our species perish in our own excrement like a yeast? Might serve us right.
Comments: 1 Views: 66 Group: General Tags: inhumanity, druid, humor, mythology, nature | druids use satire!
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This not-so-wise woman heartily recommends her, and anything she might have to say.
http://laraowen.com
Comments: 0 Views: 31 Group: General Tags: romance, art, humanity, mythology | Pagan is trendy now
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Comments: 0 Views: 78 Group: General Tags: mythology, humanity Midsummer on the way!
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 162 days ago
The above is an all-ages ritual that is highly seasonally appropriate.
I recently joined this initiative:
http://thepaganandthepen.wordpress.com/
Connie, one of our members from Down Under, reminded us that for her it's Midwinter. The shortest day is approaching instead of the longest.
Comments: 0 Views: 54 Group: General Tags: fiction, nature, romance, art | The Lord's Army from Hell
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 168 days ago
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eZCiAGTbCk
At the link is an eighteen minute report on the 'army' that abducts people, especially children, in Uganda and Sudan.
Africa is not a fun continent right now except on the coasts.
And oh spit, the Tamil Tigers have been doing it too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8121441.stm
http://stopchildslavery.com
Comments: 0 Views: 45 Group: General Tags: inhumanity, politics | Is it Beltane yet?
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 203 days ago
Nowadays Beltane, the main bonfires of spring, about which Stravinsky enthused in music for the ballet, is conflated with May 1. May Day, International Workers of the World Day in many places, has no correlation with the full moon, but then, neither does Halloween. Still, since it's only first quarter at the moment, I say let's have Beltane for another week! Let us circle our May poles with wreaths and weave our ribbons. This year I have been circling threads so much with my wee crochet hook I sprained my thumb. Let us eat our soups of the first chives and nettles and dandelions, garnished with cheerful boiled egg. Let us munch on violets and smell jonquils and plum and cherry blossom. I hear that the smart Pagans down under have moved their Beltane to October and are having their Samhain now, as well they should. For are not our fortunate grocery stores full of the harvest of South America? Never mind what this Druid did privately to celebrate, unlike the wild citizens of Edinburgh with their RedMen and WhiteWomen flirting all over the streets round the May Queen. For all ages I prepared the kettle of dandelions de luxe. It goes very well with North American 'soul food'-- our cornbread was in the shape of a heart, also very seasonally appropriate, though no Green Men died for our celebratory rites round here. I like to start with either good olive oil or bacon fat, supplemented by a couple cloves of miced garlic for sweetness, and two or three cups of finely sliced cabbage as well. Dandelion is a bitter green, though not as potent as mustard. My front yard yielded an easy quart of young leaves. When they come up through mulch they are specially tender, and it's important to get them before the plant flowers, after which they toughen up. And float them in a basin of water before you chop them! no matter how I try to pick cleanly, there are always flower buds and grass and dead leaves lurking, not to mention sand. Two-inch lengths cook up well. Once the cabbage is braised to your liking, begin to add as many dandelion greens as the kettle will hold. You will need to add water each time you add more greens in order to get them to steam and wilt down. The dent de leon is thirsty. That is why it is such a good tonic for the liver and kidneys. And once you have stirred down the final batch of leaves, it is important to fill with water to the level of the leaf mass as well. They will continue to absorb more water as they cook. I like to poach eggs on top of the greens, but discriminating presentation frowns on this because the egg turns brown. You have heard of dandelion coffee, have you not? That is why sliced boiled eggs are the garnish for company. And they will turn a quiche brown too, like this: 
Tastes good though, even with very little salt. Save it for the BBQ ribs. I find myself craving barbecue at this time of year, and many cook-offs for BBQ trophies take place in the spring. I have heard that paradoxically, swine are immune to swine flu. So perhaps consuming pork products is a way of boosting one's immunity? It's worth a try anyway. http://www.myspace.com/blackpigbordermorris  Here is a great link for more information about this holiday.
http://planetaryenergies.net/2009/04/28/planetary-... Peace peace peace!
Comments: 0 Views: 45 Group: General Tags: nature, romance | Easter spam
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Comments: 0 Views: 43 Group: General Tags: mythology, nature, romance, politics, art | I am a woman giving birth to myself...
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And it HURTS! However I have promised to live until I have got the hang of enjoying it.
Comments: 1 Views: 104 Group: General Tags: humor, art, mythology, romance | How quickly the world owes us something
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 259 days ago
Comedian Louis CK, brought to you by my fellow author Daisy Dexter Dobbs. Her original blog here http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog... An author recently sent me a file my computer couldn't get open. Turns out it was in a format that used to be a journalism standard- .qxd. Reminded me that when I was in high school when we wanted to use the computer we had to punch holes in a stack of paper cards first. We were told to learn Fortran. Typing was done on huge vibrating loaves of machine with a little leaping ball of letters, or more slowly on a smaller machine with many levers and an inky ribbon on two spools. Nowadays I don't even need pieces of paper! New century, longer lives, less muscle. We are used to sitting in chairs and flying very fast through the air, or down ribbons of asphalt macadam. Thank goodness for compost. Otherwise we might think that all waste goes away down pipes or in trash trucks and that's it. The ancient New Year that starts at vernal equinox is approaching. Us folk bred farther from the Equator don't relate in our guts to the Chinese New Year that begins a cross-quarter sooner. My son outgrew his bed and is receiving a new one. Dirt is beginning to show through the snow. Already they are enforcing 'savings of Daylight', which it turns out was invented in Britain. In Sweden, nobody quits using their headlights to drive no matter what the time of day. Eggs and baby animals and brave bulbs blossoming. And I am telling you this in signals that travel though space and back, and are recorded in the virtual realm where you can see them even after I leave again. And I am still cutting up old socks into rings and weaving them together into potholders the way I did when I was seven.
Comments: 0 Views: 71 Group: General Tags: humor, nature | My new favorite astrologers
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 265 days ago
I have two new favorite cheer-ups in the stars department. One is Christopher Witecki at Soulgarden, who is handsome and has endurance and the common touch. http://www.soulgarden.tv/ also reposted at youtube if it's not working smoothly The other is The Great Fernando, of http://turnwise.blogspot.com/ The Turnwise Almanack, where you may also follow the prognostications of Lady Anaemia Asterisk. Just let me share with you this wonderful advice from the most recent edition of WOSSNAME, the newsletter of the Klatchian Foreign Legion: Lesser Umbrage 19 Feb - 20 Mar
Peoples often ask Fernando how he stays so calm, cool and collected
at all times. For Fernando, this is easy, because Fernando has the
very, how you say it, "laid back" personality. Except for the making
of love, where Fernando is moltissimo hot-blooded. But for
Umbragians who wish to be more like Fernando, the stars say that
your self-improvement is the ancient Laotan mystic art of yoga. You
too can learn to breathe through your third eye. And for those who
do not have the personality for yoga, never fear, for the stars have
the answer: the ancient art of tantrum yoga. If you can't stay calm,
let your tantrums work for you to give you the great power and
endurance in the obstacle race of life. Then you will be as relaxed
as Fernando.
I too shall learn to breathe through my third eye. Btw, if you think I might be a bit of a skeptic regarding the power of the stars, let's just say that my thinking is much like my Myspace friend Melodee Aaron's here; http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog... The doctor in the delivery room has more impact on your personality than a distant planet-- but how exactly did you get that doctor attending? Not being born yet...
Comments: 0 Views: 77 Group: General Tags: humor, mythology, romance | Something excellent and free
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 277 days ago
Now that we have all made it to the other side of Valentines Day the great marketing of romance phenomenon, which in the old days was called Lupercalia and involved ripping hearts out, I have to exult in two things. Thing one: the band Lamb of God has made their entire new album, WRATH, available to listen for free! at Myspace. http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=us... 
Thing two: 
http://www.darkroastpress.com I am now officially a published romance author, not just a fanfictioning and editing wannabe. The anthology My Dark Roasted Valentine, released on Valentine's Day 2009, contains 25 percent Helgaleena romance in the form of my short story, Heartseeds.
Comments: 0 Views: 181 Group: General Tags: mythology, romance, fiction, art | Imbolc-- Bridget's bathwater
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 288 days ago
Bathing in Moonlight by *jmulcahy on deviantART
There is a legend that holy Bride the threefold goddess of the domestic arts could turn her bathwater into beer. I think that is wonderful.
It is also the season when the maple sap begins to flow, ready for tapping, and the ewes are with lamb. It is the season for St. Heikki festival in Finland, when all the gods of the Kalevala visit the towns, and carnival before Lent.
Comments: 0 Views: 82 Group: General Tags: mythology, romance, art, nature | Space Program rant Update in honor of NASA
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 312 days ago
My romance- sci-fi author friend at Myspace Melodee Aaron combs the newsfeeds and comes up with some excellent ones. NASA wants citizen input on what the Space Program's 'civilian' goals should be. TELL THEM FOR GOSH SAKES! click on the link. http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090113/sc_space/wa... I asked them to shoot down giant asteroids please. Below is a repost of my earlier blog on the space program and why we need it. Nature is Good. But if we can keep from being incinerated or boiled off into the vacuum, that is a bonus...  Look here, all--
Star Wars geeks may think of ourselves as nerds but actually we are escapists. The real action is in the Real World in Actual Outer and Inner Space. Thank you to the NERDS for this crucial reminder. On the whole I would say that the non-Star Wars sci-fi parts of my friendsbase at Livejournal have a much higher IQ overall, and know what the Real Nerds with Science Jobs are toying with lately. Whether it's giant particle colliders or Chandra or polar monitoring stations, they are better to spend time eavesdropping on than we 'Jedi' standing around cyberspace waiting for the next Lucas product to spend our grocery money on. Having shaken my heavily splinted index finger at you all I give you the link. <a href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/200... It's from scifi author Jay Lake, <a href="http://jaylake.livejournal.com/">http://ja... a great provider of regular helpings of 'link salad'. I advise you to read each and every comment in the thread because the posts are NOT by the braindead. Then form your own opinion on whether or not you think humanity is worth perpetuating in the best interests of the planet we parasitize. Tailor you citizenship practices accordingly. New Years update ! If you click on the following link, there's a great commentary by sci-fi author Melodee Aaron, and a huge and interesting quote of JFK (deceased president John f Kennedy, for the younger crowd) regarding the USA space program. http://blogs.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog... That is all. 
Comments: 0 Views: 142 Group: General Tags: politics, mythology, nature, star wars, romance | It's that time--- tell me what a great editor I am! with adult exerpt
Posted by:helgaleena helgaleena healing line 316 days ago
This is a repost from the group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/MMRomancereadersandW... .... For those who may not have gathered this info yet, I am the chief
editing Sith at Dark Roast Press. My public persona is a dreadlocked
Hutt, as I began my love of M/M romance with Star Wars fanfiction and
still have not fully left that phase of my evolution behind. There's a
pretty comprehensive collection of links to my Star Wars work in all
genres at the Myspace profile.
http://www.myspace.com/helgaleena
What I learned from that incubation was that I could get equally as
much satisfaction from beta reading and mentoring new writers and those
whose mother tongue was not English yet chose to write in it. My
masters in South Asian linguistics wasn't quite as useless as I thought!
In 2007 I followed a brave cadre of fanfiction writers into the world
of e-romance publishing, under the banner of Aphrodite's Apples Press.
I was priveleged to work with over fifty different authors at all
levels of expertise during that time, and count many of them as friends
still, though when the Apple Tree fell, our editing children had to
scramble for new homes.
Worst off was the Aphrodites GLBT line, scheduled to be born on
Valentines Day. Instead, the whole press went down. Rhiannon Rhodes
stepped in and made us a home-- Dark Roast Press. http://www.darkroastpress.com I am so gratified
that we are getting such kudos at the P&E Poll. And my work there with
all our writers has meant so much to me, and will continue to do so.
Adrianne Brennan is a former SW geek, yea one among many, whose paranormal romance novel
Blood of the Dark Moon has now been reissued by Freya's Bower at last,
and also her short Blood and Mint Chocolates, an F/F title in the same
universe-- both works are my satisfied editing clients. A vote for her (yes non-M/M
titles, sorry) is a vote for moi. And the books are doing well there at
P& E, http://critters.org/predpoll also at the LoveRomances Cafe poll. http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LoveRomancesCafe/
But that's not all! Claudia, my boss at Loveyou Divine Alterotica, has
been nominated for a CAPA! You know them; Carol McKenzie and Bryn Colvin and Nix Winter all the other cool writers are there. Over there I got to do an M/M edit called One Night Stand. It's a paranormal
with plenty of kink. Do check it out.
http://www.loveyoudivine.com/index.php?main_page=d...
EXERPT: When their lips parted Arda whispered, "You'll appreciate
tonight. You'll see." He touched Greg's shirt and drew his finger down
his forearm. That feels nice. "I want to seduce you."
No kidding. "I realize this. But first, I want to get to know you."
"What do you want to know?"
"Anything...just talk to me."
He shot Greg a bewildered glance and shrugged. "I'm just like you.
Well, almost. I enjoy good food, mostly earth food...Italian...some
Chinese. But I also enjoy food from other planets...like Klingdon
cuisine. Occasionally I drink a glass of fine earth wine." He raised
his glass in a wordless toast. "I have all the emotions you humans
experience. I have many enjoyments and many dislikes. I like to play
the piano and I can sing. I like to paint nudes in oils and belly
dance."
"Art?" He is toying with me...lying maybe. Greg shook his head and
rolled his eyes.
"We have things in common, don't we? Actually, if you got to know me
better, you'd find we have a lot in common. Unfortunately, we don't
have time to form a relationship."
He slipped his hand around Arda's neck and pulled him into a kiss. When
their lips parted he murmured, "Tell me about your being a Demi-Lord,"
wanting to get to know the situation better.
"I'm royalty of Dezcartia of Ghod ZoHepez. I'm in line to take the
throne and rule with the Uba Thaph, which is much like the Congress
that you know. I'm risking all that and death to be with you because
I'm not to mix with anyone, except the servants the Uba Thaph provides."
"That's not fair."
"No, it's not."
"I'm sorry."
"It's all right." He paused in thoughtful silence, then added, "There's
not enough time, Greg, to tell you all of it. I'm sorry."
"You're risking death to be with me?" He's totally obsessed! I'm
impressed with his defiance.
"You're going to be my sexual entertainment for this evening. You'll
love it. It'll be different for you." He raised a hand. "Usba Echu?
Come here. It's time to prepare Greg for the rack."
While the servant stood nearby, Arda's eyes elevated and lazed over the
lowest point of the V in Greg's shirt, where a few sprigs of chest hair
showed. Taunting Greg, Arda fingered his own sex through his clothing,
running a finger up and down the outline of his bulge and down the left
leg of his pants, showing Greg his formidable length, maybe ten inches
or so. On second thought, maybe I'm the obsessed one.
He switched his attention to Greg's crotch and took his hand off his
own pants, reached over and brought Greg's hand into his lap.
Feeling him for himself, Greg relished the intimate touches that he
gave to Arda's cock, even though it was through fabric. Arda's member
pulsed under his pressing and plying palms and fingers. Greg began
squeezing it gently, causing Arda to squirm and moan as he lay back,
his eyes closed. Greg felt the old familiar, hard pang of his own
erection; he teased him until his organ engorged and ached.
"You have no idea what you do to me, love. All night I've been half-
hard in anticipation of this intimacy. Sweet, blissful agony." An
appreciative gaze twinkled in his eyes. "Let's get undressed and go to
the shower," Arda urged. "There's more to come. Much more."
"What will you do to me?"
"You'll see, my precious."
http://www.loveyoudivine.com/index.php?main_page=d...
I don't know what promo has been done for it, but I was told I
went 'above and beyond' on this one. Most of the other works I do at
LYD are het.
And someday, SOMEDAY, I am going to let another editor see the little
story of a blow up doll who comes alive, my first try at original
fiction that came out of November's NaNo WriMo.
So, am I Best Editor in the universe? Maybe not, but I have lots of fun
trying. Vote here.
http://critters.org/predpoll
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