Lilith Saintcrow

You know you have wonderful geek friends when one sends you an email that starts “I’M IN UR SIETCH, BEIN UR KWISATZ HADERACH.” You further know you are a geek when you look at it and think, off the top of your head, “Huh. Spelled it right, too.”

I love my friends.

In other news, I am currently wondering if insomnia is a writer’s disease or just my particular curse. It was five o’clock this morning before I could sleep. Of course, the Market Spice Tea I took down at nine PM might have had something to do with it. I don’t have caffeine after about two PM because I do have such trouble sleeping. I thought black tea with wonderful spicy herbs might be fine. Maybe it wasn’t.

On to other news–contest news, as a matter of fact!

Congratulations to Kimberley Stouffer, who won the First Come First Served contest for a free signed copy of Dead Man Rising. Also congrats to Bridget, who was the first winner of the Valentine Trivia Contest. (For those of you who participated, no, Sargon Corvin isn’t Jace’s foster father. It was Santino’s Mob name.)

Those contests were sadly only for subscribers to The Dark Side, my newsletter. However, there are other contests going on that I can invite the world into now that the Dark Siders have heard about them first.

* The Japhrimel Slogan Contest This contest is all about Japhrimel. Send a witty slogan suitable for coffee mugs and bumper stickers here. (Be sure to put “Japhrimel Slogan Contest” in the subject line!) The five best ones will be voted on by the fantastic Dark Siders. The first-place winner will get a free coffee mug or bumper sticker with their slogan as well as have the resulting item in my CafePress shop named after them.

* The Valentine Art Contest Artists, this one’s for you! Send me a JPG of original artwork inspired by the Valentine series. Most entries will go in a Fan Art Gallery I’m about to stick onto my website. The winner of this contest will get a signed copy of Dead Man Rising and may even get a signed-by-me print of their submission, probably through CafePress as well. Send your art as an attachment here. Be sure to put “Valentine Art Contest” in the subject line or your entry will go into the rubbish bin. (Hint: There’s an upcoming Japhrimel-only art contest after the first of the year, artists!)

* The Watcher Short Fiction Contest The response to the Dead Man Rising Fiction Contest was so tremendous I’ve decided to do the same with the Watcher series. Send me a short piece of original fiction (12-14K words max) set in the Watcher’s world. The pieces will be judged by me and possibly my beta readers, depending on volume. The winner will receive signed copies of Fire Watcher and Cloud Watcher, and the three runners-up will be put in a PDF along with the winner and made available through my website. The entries must be sent here, with “Watcher Fiction Contest” in the subject line. Submissions must be double-spaced, with page numbers, with at least 12pt Courier or Times New Roman type. Submissions that don’t meet this criteria won’t be looked at. PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pay attention to the subject line on your submission for all three contests! I am asking for these to keep my email inbox organized; submissions who don’t meet the subject line criteria will be trashed without being opened. I’m sorry, but due to the response volume, that’s the way it is.

These three contests will close January 31, 2007, so you have plenty of time during and after this crazy holiday season. I will announce winners February 15, 2007. Good luck!

We’re expecting snow today, which will be nice for the Little Prince and Princess. The DHM just called to tell me it’s snowing up north where he is. I of course cautioned him to leave early enough to get home safe. People around here go crazy when it snows. Not like Wyoming, where they just shrug and get out the shovels and chains. It happens so infrequently in this corner of the world that everyone gets a bit overexcited.

Stay warm today, everyone.

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