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I've been really busy lately, dealing with a lot of RL issues and other things so I haven't been doing a lot of posting anywhere.

The big news is I had a release at Torquere Press again this month. Beneath an Emerald Sky, a cyberpunk m/m came out earlier this month and I have another release, Pearls Like Rain, a fantasy m/m coming out on the 26th of June. I just finished the edits on Pearls Like Rain today.

In other news, I have the edits from Dreamspinner Press for The Prince He Loved a scifi m/m novel which will be coming out sometime later this year. I don't have a release date on it yet.

I also did the edits for Distance of Memory, my one and only f/f/m fantasy story which will be appearing in the 'Big Damn Heroines' anthology from Storm Moon Press. I think it's supposed to be coming out later this summer too. Again I don't have a solid release date.

In other news, Auburnimp had to shelve the sword and sandal book we were writing on, mostly because we just can't get a tight handle on the characters. Good news though, we're working on a paranormal Old Western m/m and it's flying along smoothly. These characters are speaking to us clearly and we're making a lot of progress. Even better, this has series potential rather than being a one off.

That's it for now.

Current Mood: chipper
Current Location: working from my bed
Current Music: TV-DVD-Some Old Western
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Sorry about the very long silence, but things have been more hectic than usual around here. My cousin, who I live with, fell down the stairs and badly injured himself. He's only now getting back to working full time--it took several weeks for him to recover--which meant I was doing a lot of running around with him to doctor's appointments and driving him to and from work.

He's gotten over that, and then I caught what I thought was a cold which turned out to be a mild but persistent form of the flu. I'm finally getting over that--no thanks to all this late spring snow--and hope to be back to writing full-time again soon.

In writing news you can drop by my domain and see the great cover art for the Storm Moon Press anthology Big Damn Heroines which will feature my story 'Distance Of Memory'. I really need to sit down and write another one in that world setting soon as the folks at Storm Moon really liked it.

I'm working on a spy/assassin/cyberpunk/paranormal m/m that's kicking my butt right now since the characters decided they wanted a far more complex plot than I'd planned. The story is already 5000 words longer than I'd originally planned with what appears to be at least another 10000 words to go.

I have some deadlines looming on the horizon too, so I may have to set this story aside to work on a couple of those.

Speaking of stories, 'Beneath an Emerald Sky' comes out on May 8th from Torquere. The cover art for it is also up over at my domain and I think it's one of the best covers I've ever gotten. Go by and check it out.

I'm working on a weird historical/fantasy m/m with Auburnimp too. It has more in common with those old sword and sandal movies than it does actual history, but we're having a blast writing it.

Now if it would only stop snowing... We had actual blizzards on Monday AND Wednesday. Talk about annoying. There wasn't any food in the stores on Tuesday--when we were able to get out of the house to shop--because trucks couldn't get through. Gah! But we did manage to get some stuff last night so we won't starve.

In more writing news...I have a couple more stories in the works for Torquere, so keep an eye out for future remarks about new work. Plus 'Pearls Like Rain' is slated to come out shortly also.

And speaking of work... I'm off to try and get some writing done.

Current Mood: cold
Current Location: on the bed writing this
Current Music: TV-DVD-Some old John Wayne Western
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To hear back from the publisher I sent 'The Prince He Loved' off to this month. I have heard back on 'The Strongeest Magic' and it passed the first reader. I'm now waiting to hear from an editor.

I'm hard at work on another story--more m/m for a special call at one of the publishers I have work with already--and Auburnimp showed up so we're working on Sakura Blades. We already have book 1 cleaned up. We wound up adding a much needed 5k which expands several key scenes. We'll be starting on book two's clean up next week.

Current Mood: accomplished
Current Location: on the bed writing this post
Current Music: TV-DVD-Fearless with Jet Li
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An Open Letter to the Fans of Hajiri's Pet/Midnight Rain and other cowritten works by Auburnimp and Michael Barnette:

I thought I'd post a letter regarding Auburnimp and why she is no longer writing since I still get email about the situation with our unfinished series, especially Midnight Rain/Hajiri's Pet.

Auburnimp was hospitalized back in October of 2010 with a life threatening infection of ...
her lower leg. She nearly lost her leg--and her life--at that time.

On her return we discussed all the series books we had in the works, most of which were mid-story arc. While she wanted to finish the stories, she was simply too ill to do so. She explained that, in view of her deteriorating health, she wished to spend more time with her family rather than writing.

I was uncomfortable leaving our readers hanging, so I undertook to finish one of those series on my own, Dragon & Fenyx. Dragon & Fenyx was completed last year and the final two books have already been released through Shadowfire Press.

As far as the others--Midnight Rain (Hajiri's Pet) and Sakura Blades--those are being retooled as solo works and will make their reappearances as soon as I'm able to complete the work on them and find the two series a new home. (The contract on Hajiri's Pet ends in Feburary 2013.)

For those of you who were following Auburnimp's solo series of books--Fallen Angels, Angels and Demons, her Vampire books and Sweepers--when she retired she requested all her solo books be removed from sale. I do not know why she made this request, but I honored her decision and these books are no longer available. For those of you left hanging, I don't know what to say other than I'm sorry she chose to do this and unfortunately I can't give the books to you due to copyright issues.

For all our fans, thank you for being so loyal and patient and please forgive me for not making most of this information known before now--except in limited venues. I'd hoped Auburnimp would change her mind given adequate time to recover from her illness, but this has not been the case.

Thanks to everyone who bought our books and supported us. Keep an eye out at my domain for information on the completion of the Midnight Rain and Sakura Blades series.
http://www.michaelbarnette.com/

Current Mood: contemplative
Current Location: at my desk working
Current Music: none
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It stormed here yesterday. Well there was lightning by the droves, but not a freaking drop of rain, which did us no good. We're still under a 'red flag' fire danger warning in this entire area. Since the fire in Boulder there have been three others, one in Loveland, one in Fort Collins--the place where High Country Valentine takes place--and one in the Rocky Mountain National Park--where another portion of High Country Valentine is set.

On the writing front... I got about 100 words added to my paranormal old western. I'd just gotten rolling when the storm rolled in over us. Bleh.

I did do some editing of a new story from Kris Klein. We're trying to get it out in October. Gah, wish us luck on that one. I might try for November instead, because the time frame is very short.

We were going to watch some Venture Brothers last night, but technology conspired against us. We couldn't get it to show up on the projector right, so we gave up. Damn, I was really looking forward to it too. Maybe some other time.

I think tonight I'm going to go through my heap of DVDs--all 324 of them--and find something to watch in my room, or maybe on the projector. I just finished watching the Bourne Trilogy on Monday, and now need to select something else to watch. Maybe some anime...

In other writing news, Auburnimp and I are almost done with Dragon & Fenyx 6.5. Once it's finished we'll send it off to our editor and have it out--we hope--this December.

Oh well, enough for now. I'm going to try and get some other work done.

Dragon parade.