I'm thinking about trying to write a story for the Back To School competition, but all the responses to my idea for a PFH short and whether it would fit the rules basically came back "Sure! If you change everything you planned to do and write a completely different story that has nothing in common with your original idea."

I'm sure this is no news to most of you here, but it still has to be said: getting depressed sucks.

I'm still sorely lacking in reviews on Dear John on Amazon. And by "sorely lacking" I mean there ain't none.

We here in the Closet don't often give our editors the credit they deserve publicly, and that's something that I'm hoping to correct here, not only because I feel she deserves it, but also because I think that there are a few of you who might appreciate how her work has helped me.

The overall article is interesting, but page 3 has my favorite listing: Jeph Jacques.

I was reading up about obsolete electronics today, as I am wont to do, when I started looking into SCART connections. It specifies that these were primarily a European thing, and I've honestly never seen one in the US, but reading about them it's obvious they had superior video quality to anything available here in the US prior to component, though for the life of me I can't seem to find information on WHY they didn't pick up in the US.

So, anybody know why? I'd like to know, if just to sate my curiosity.

Melanie E.

Dear John is now live on the Kindle marketplace in English.

USA:

Yes, it's *another* blog about the OC rewrite.

After a 3000 word binge of writing (the most I've put down on a single thing all in one sitting in quite a while) Part 1 of the Oh, Cheers rewrite is done done DONE!

Whoo, what a slog this has been so far! Nevertheless, I'm only about 10 pages away from finishing Part 1 of the revamped "Oh, Cheers," or "Phoenix Soars!" as it will be called in its final Kindle release.

What started out as a 42k 3 part story is already at 33k so far, and diverging greatly from the source material. I'm literally at a point where, for parts 2 and 3, I'll be going through and making notes of a few key parts I want to keep, but for the most part both parts (as opposed to my initial plan for just part 3) will be almost entirely new material.

Due to somewhat underwhelming sales in its first week even by my own meager expectations (2 copies,) I have slashed the price on my Josie's Con book from 1.49 down to .99 americans.

In the past two days I have had two quite different TG-related experiences.

For the possibly two people actually interested, I figured I'd post a progress report on what I've been working on recently.

I added links to the bottom of my Halloween contest entry for the other stories in the "universe," if you will, of Henry Harrelson's Custom Fit Boots, in case anybody is interested in reading the other stories set there.

I'm working on getting things together and edited for publication! This is exciting!

I wanted to write today.

I TRIED to write today.

Okay, I did write, a bit.

But not nearly as much as I wanted to.

Hiya peeps!

It's me again, and like always, I'm in search of validation of my meager writing skills.

Or, no, wait, that's not it at all for once!

That is what I have written today.

In terms of digital writing stuff (at least related to TG fiction) this is the most I've written in the last several months.