i don't think I'm too good!

... just busy.

Thanks guys!

*crosses fingers!*

The top 100 semifinalists have been announced for the Amazon novel contest I'm in, and I'm ecstatic to report that my entry has made the cut!

Woohoooooooo!!!!!

Thanks to everyone who's given it a gander, and if ya haven't, it's here...

"The Gutter & The Stars"
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0011ZCAEC ...

The scene early on in Cloverfield where Hud whirls around, and right behind him tanks and hummers and army dudes are careening down the street with rockets and gunfire toward the monster.

My jaw hit the floor.

My friends! Reviews please! :-P

Booyah! Via the contest, my full novel was reviews by Publisher's Weekly, and here's the review...

"In this modern re-telling of Dante’s Inferno, orphaned brothers Jake and Chris Dunton are the only family that they have in the world. After an accidental fire and near death experience for Chris ...

I rated it a 5 in my own personal voting thing (I wasn't sure how to leave stars without writing a review - and I didn't want to write an entire review, see below - other than rating it for myself so I hope that counts) because I think you've worked hard on it and I know how much work goes into ...

I swear! It exists to this day... and in my new place!

Sweet pad, low rent, decent location... and then the dreaded catch: flippin' DIAL-UP for flips sake.

Ugh.

So... go check out my chapter and write a nice review so I'll win the contest, get my book published, get rich, move to a better place ...

Hey! I get around here as much as I can! College, work, and the pain of dial-up severely limits my internet fun time these days.

Will do! Much appreciated!

Howdy fellow CM-ers, been way too long--but the toot is back, amigos! ...and I need a favor: a biggie.

A novel I've written has recently made it to the semi-final round in a break-thru novel contest being put on by Amazon, and I could desperately use some thumbs up posted on the "user reviews ...

"I'm just standing in the rain"

"I'm just standing in the rain."
as the words cross my lips,
and I shiver in the cold, I wonder if it's true.
the waves of clear diamonds crashing into me
like tears from God ready to wash it all away

and I wonder why I can't cry
as I lick my cheeks,
and wish I ...

here's the edited, finished version of what i popped up a week or so ago...

“too years”

coming back to this page
so blank-- a ringing in my ears

as pen crashes into paper
and my tears fall
as thick black dots
washing this dark white in waves

and I can't remember her face
or her name--the ...

this just came out. LOT on my mind...


coming back to this page
so blank-- a ringing in my ears

as pen crashes into paper
and my tears fall
as thick black dots
washing this dark white in waves

and I can't remember her face
or her name--the ringing, so loud now
and I become silent
as it washes ...

it continues...

Chapter Fourteen

“Turning Out Just Fine”

“I don’t want to talk to a shrink.”
As I said the words Cassandra just looked at me the same way she’d been looking at me the entire drive up there.
“Doctor Peters isn’t a ‘shrink,’ Jake; he’s just someone that wants to help you work ...

Chapter Thirteen

“Back When I Was Happy”

As I lay there—holding my breath, still, flat on my back on my bed—I could fell my chest rising and falling, rising and falling, as I took slow, shallow breaths in and out. Breathing so deliberately I couldn’t help but find myself thinking back to the ...

The story continues...

Chapter Twelve

“A Stained Glass Masterpiece”

Cassandra had drug me to this place a handful of times, but for the first time I had come of my own free will. It had been three days since the last call came through in my bedroom apartment. It had been three days since my dead ...

whoa.

saman wrote:ahhh this brings back memories

I know! ...mostly bad ones!

Go! Listen! It'll rock your 90' memories upside-down!!!

http://www.soundthesirens.com/articles/ ... 61,0,0,1,0