I probably should have been talking more about this before now, but oh, well – CMC is going to MarCon this weekend! We’re going to have a booth in the main hall, as well as running a panel. Our panel is 1:00 pm on Saturday, and will be about how our group operates with an emphasis on how to start and run one of your own.
For those of you in and around the Columbus, Ohio area, MarCon is Friday, Saturday, and Sunday of Memorial Day weekend (this weekend) at the Hyatt Regency downtown. The website for the con is www.marcon.org.
Hope to see you there!
Inanna
Oh, and CMC is also planning to do its regular Saturday meeting this weekend, but later than usual, after the panel, and not at our usual spot in Gahanna. We haven’t determined the exact location or time just yet.
OK, this post has nothing whatsoever to do with writing. Well, not with fiction anyway, and not my own writing. I guess, in a way it’s about something that was written… sorry, overanalyzing again…
Anyway, I just came across the absolute BEST bio I’ve ever read in my life. I checked out the website of Betsy Tinney, cellist extrodinaire, on little more than a random whim and as I’m sitting here in a coffee shop alone, I didn’t have anyone to share this with so, I figured, why not the whole world? Well, that tiny fragment of it that visits my website, anyway.
So go to Betsy’s site, www.stealthcello.com, and check out her bio on the main page. It’s just freaking hilarious. I think I want her to write my next bio!
My book is on Amazon finally! Hurray!
OK, admittedly, the cover image isn’t showing yet, but it’s there. As I was typing my name into the search box, I got about to Inanna Gab– and it filled in not only the rest of my name, but “Inanna Gabriel in Books” Woo hoo!
I have my box of copies for MarCon, and a box of copies of Chris’s book, Men of Five, plus all the remaining copies of the first CMC anthology ready to go for MarCon. We’ll be ordering our t-shirts and copies of the 2nd anthology volume today, so looks like we’ll be all set. Sadly, we’ve decided we can’t have copies of Title Goes Here: for sale, but Chris & I are both bringing our own copies of issues 1 through 3, so we’ll have some to demo, and flyers for the website.
So, now that the book’s done, it’s time to focus on my story for the 2010 CMC anthology. The theme isn’t publicly announced yet, so I won’t go into detail here, but I have to say that this is going to be our best anthology to date. Not only that, but I think this will be the first time one of our books promises to have true public appeal–I think this one will actually merit some real promotion to the public, and get us some sales to people who don’t know us for a change 
OK, well, the group’s all showing up for the meeting now, so I’m off. Later!
Inanna
At last, my novel is published and available for sale! It’s not up on the Amazon site yet at the time of this writing, but it’s available through Misanthrope Press, here: http://www.createspace.com/3449535
The proof copy wound up getting shipped to Chris instead of me thanks to a glitch on the printer’s website, so I had to wait an extra day ’til our regular Wednesday meeting to see it, but I have it in hand now and just approved it for publication. It’s always pretty exciting to hold a new Misanthrope Press title, to have a real, tangible work in print that I helped to bring into the world. Much more so when it’s my name alone on the cover! (Well, technically, Chris’s name is there, too, but just in the artwork…)
I’ve placed my order for copies to sell at MarCon Memorial Day weekend, where CMC is going to have a booth and will be doing a panel on starting a writers’ group. Should be an exciting weekend… you should come look for us there!
Later,
Inanna
