Wow!  Um… didn’t expect to actually get followers that fast, you guys are awesome!  Anyway, I wanted to share some news.  I may have mentioned it on my normal tumblr, but now I have a few more details.

I wrote a short story that’s going to be featured in an upcoming Daily Dose for Dreamspinner, a really cool gay romance publisher.  It should be out in June  :)  The way a Daily Dose works, from my understanding, is that there’s a story for every day of the month.  You can either purchase the entire set of stories, or just purchase one or a few, whatever you want (I’ll of course post links when it’s available).  

This is a great lesson in thinking outside the box.  The prompt was something sports themed, so I decided to write a story that involved video game tournaments  ^^  Because, you know, those tournaments are serious business.  That isn’t sarcasm, mind you, I really mean it.  They ARE serious business.  Thousands of people competing, the amount of training that goes into it: learning a character’s techniques, combos, flaws and strengths, how to fight against others… and you can’t possibly predict how other players will go into a match.  I couldn’t help but make the “sports” comparison, so that’s what I did.

I enjoy video games, I always have since I was about 6.  This was back in the 80s, so video games were still this sort of newish thing.  They’ve come a very, very long way, and sometimes I have this cool feeling of having seen them, well… grow up?  We’ve come a long way from classic Nintendo, Mario, and Duck Hunt.  The whole “sports theme” idea got me thinking about video games because there’s people who still see them as this huge waste of time.  There’s still this awful stigma with them that is completely untrue.  I really do see them as offering the same entertainment value as like, sports, and movies, and books, and all that stuff.  There’s just as much work that goes into them, and people get just as involved — and there’s nothing wrong with that :)

Today I finished my biography for Dreamspinner, so this really is going to happen!  I’ve never worked with a publisher before, so this is a good learning experience.  I do plan on writing more things to try and get published with them, because I really like how their team works.  They seem very patient, and encouraging (I’ve submitted a few times last year but nothing made the cut, but they were always encouraging in wanting me to keep trying, and were actually willing to go through what could be improved).  So, come June, I’ll have a geeky, gay romance story out there.  I hope you guys are looking forward to it  :)