House of Zeor, Sime~Gen #1, by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is now available on Amazon and Audible.com-- on sale now at the reduced price of $17.46
http://www.amazon.com/House-Zeor-Sime~Gen-Book-1/dp/B007K9OQWW/
It is read by Michael Spence, an actor who has been a long-time Sime~Gen fan. On audible.com you can hear a sample before buying, but I couldn't figure out how to do that when clicking through from Amazon to the buy page.
What's New at simegen.com, with: Territorial News
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Jean Lorrah
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Friday, February 24, 2012
New Sime~Gen Fanfic Coming to simegen.com
BORDERLANDS - Co-operative fanfic in the Sime~Gen Universe by a variety of (really marvelous, talented and skilled) writers is alive and well and about to GROW. I just gave the ftp keys to update the section simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev to Bev who has a backlog of items to post that need (of course) editing because they were created essentially "freehand" -- if you haven't discovered or kept up with Borderlands, now is the time to catch up because here comes more in this ongoing saga about a complex and unique town on, well, The Border.
http://simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/
That's the entry top page and from there you can cruise down into the episode list and catch up.
People from the Founding 400 who sponsored production of The Farris Channel have now been mailed and emailed notification that the book is available.
Several have turned up on the Sime~Gen Group on Facebook and noted that since their copies of the series novels had worn out, they bought full sets of the ebook versions.
That is one marvelous advantage to ebooks - you can reread them without wearing out the binding.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Progress Reports
Michael Spence has finished the recording of House of Zeor for audible.com audiobooks, and it is being compiled from the huge chapter files to a single file you can just listen to.
Here's what I wrote on the SIMEGEN Group on Facebook:
Meanwhile, Kaires is this weekend taking flyers for THE FARRIS CHANNEL and other Sime~Gen novels to a Mensa gathering. These are the flyers Zoe Farris made (in Australia!).
Kaires also updated the page where you can buy Sime~Gen Jewelry.
Sime~Gen Marketplace - Starred-Cross Jewelry
I have retrieved the rights to my Vampire novels, THOSE OF MY BLOOD and DREAMSPY, and made a deal with Borgo Press to reissue them as e-book and a new paper edition. That will be a few months in the making.
My next release will be the Vampire anthology (without any stories by me or Jean Lorrah) - VAMPIRE'S DILEMMA edited by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah, in ebook and paper from Wildside Press.
To see these updates develop in incremental stages join:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/121838917889519/
Or you can subscribe to this blog by email, and various other means. If there's a "means" of subscribing missing, please drop a note here so we can fix that.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Here's what I wrote on the SIMEGEN Group on Facebook:
Meanwhile, Kaires is this weekend taking flyers for THE FARRIS CHANNEL and other Sime~Gen novels to a Mensa gathering. These are the flyers Zoe Farris made (in Australia!).
Kaires also updated the page where you can buy Sime~Gen Jewelry.
Sime~Gen Marketplace - Starred-Cross Jewelry
I have retrieved the rights to my Vampire novels, THOSE OF MY BLOOD and DREAMSPY, and made a deal with Borgo Press to reissue them as e-book and a new paper edition. That will be a few months in the making.
My next release will be the Vampire anthology (without any stories by me or Jean Lorrah) - VAMPIRE'S DILEMMA edited by Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah, in ebook and paper from Wildside Press.
To see these updates develop in incremental stages join:
http://www.facebook.com/groups/121838917889519/
Or you can subscribe to this blog by email, and various other means. If there's a "means" of subscribing missing, please drop a note here so we can fix that.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Sunday, February 12, 2012
ReReadable Books Review Column Updated
The review column for February 2012 is now posted, and books to be reviewed are posted through June 2012.
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2012/
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2012/
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
Friday, January 20, 2012
2012 original publication, The Farris Channel by Jacqueline Lichtenberg (maybe my longest novel to date) is now available in Paper and E-book (Kindle, Nook, etc, etc). That makes 12 volumes in Sime~Gen, and you can find them in this handy Kindle "store" then find links anywhere. http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20 -- one universe, all genres from Action Adventure and Paranormal Romance to Medical Drama. We plan to have a Sime~Gen Novel in each genre.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Monday, January 16, 2012
The Farris Channel available in paper edition
Folks:
The Amazon page for the 12th Sime~Gen book, The Farris Channel, just went live, so I expect the paper editions will be available everywhere now. Ebook very soon - in most all popular formats.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
The Amazon page for the 12th Sime~Gen book, The Farris Channel, just went live, so I expect the paper editions will be available everywhere now. Ebook very soon - in most all popular formats.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Sunday, January 15, 2012
ReReadable Books Review Column Updated
My Review Column, ReReadable Books, has been updated. It is paid for by the New Age magazine, The Monthly Aspectarian, and is published on paper by them, then posted to their website (lightworks.com) and the column is then archived at http://simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Columns are posted and indexed back to 1993.
The archive has been updated, completing postings for 2011 with the posting of the review columns for October, November and December.
You'll find an index of all the books reviewed for 2011 with links for each month's column here:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
Also the first column for 2012 has been posted, along with books to be reviewed up through May 2012, and that index page is:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2012/
The index pages have links to each book's Amazon page for handy reference.
We also now have a set of handy "share" buttons at the top of each page along with the year-date index.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Columns are posted and indexed back to 1993.
The archive has been updated, completing postings for 2011 with the posting of the review columns for October, November and December.
You'll find an index of all the books reviewed for 2011 with links for each month's column here:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
Also the first column for 2012 has been posted, along with books to be reviewed up through May 2012, and that index page is:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2012/
The index pages have links to each book's Amazon page for handy reference.
We also now have a set of handy "share" buttons at the top of each page along with the year-date index.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Thursday, January 12, 2012
THE FARRIS CHANNEL - coming soon!
I have just been given the full cover of THE FARRIS CHANNEL, Sime~Gen Book 12.
It is now in the process of being made available Print On Demand -- it's a long book, so the trade paperback will be expensive. It's printed on acid free paper with a very sturdy binding. The e-book edition is likewise moving into the hopper and will appear within a few days, we expect.
You will find this available at all the best online outlets, with the e-book in your favorite format.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
It is now in the process of being made available Print On Demand -- it's a long book, so the trade paperback will be expensive. It's printed on acid free paper with a very sturdy binding. The e-book edition is likewise moving into the hopper and will appear within a few days, we expect.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Monday, December 26, 2011
Thursday, December 22, 2011
So what is Sime~Gen?
Soon we will have directions for attending the Sime~Gen New Year's Chat online, and will post them here and on the Sime~Gen Group on Facebook.
Meanwhile, I found the following exchange on a Facebook Chat on the Sime~Gen Group and asked permission to post it here.
This is just absolutely classic. A new person comes along, hears everyone offhandedly referring to Sime~Gen and just asks so What Is Sime~Gen? So here are some well known readers trying to explain it to a widely-read reader who has never heard of Sime~Gen.
"Azure Boone" is a writer I met on Google+, and Eliza is a reader, fan-writer, of Sime~Gen as well as a tech and an artist. Zoe likewise is a writer, fan-writer and Sime~Gen reader. Zoe and Eliza live in Australia, and Azure is in the USA. Zoe started the Facebook Group for Sime~Gen. This is a casual chat log.
Azure Boone
hello
any body here?
Eliza Leahy
Hello
Azure Boone
oh hey!
Eliza Leahy
no, only me
:)
Azure Boone
i was wondering what sime gen is
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Hi
Eliza Leahy
I don't count, but you can talk to me anyway if you like
Azure Boone
oh hello
of course you COUNT
you're a woman?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
You mean you only spell?
Eliza Leahy
simegen is a series of books - about the future of mankind when it has mutated into two types - simes and gens
Azure Boone
ohhhh what are simes?
Eliza Leahy
simes need seyln to live - gens produce selyn
however, in taking the seyln from the gens, the simes usually "kill" them
simes have tentacles on their arms, 4 handling tentacles per arm, and two "laterals" which are for the transfer of seyln
Azure Boone
okay, so, is this a theory that is supported by this entire group? And stories are written around the concept?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
It started with books
The group is fans of the stories
Azure Boone
ohhhh, I see
Eliza Leahy
The universe was written by JL - Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah
Azure Boone
totally cool
so they created a world and this is like fan fic?
Eliza Leahy
you will have to get some of the books :)
there are 11 published books
and one on the way
and a LOT of fan stories
Azure Boone
like a baby
Eliza Leahy
yes, and the birth seems to be pretty hard! lol
Deirdre Moira Murphy
There is both fanfic and fic by the original authors.
Azure Boone
so cool, I see. Is it like Star Trek in vehicle delivery?
Eliza Leahy
scroll down the simegen page a bit and you will see a portrait I did of a sime friend of ours
Azure Boone
Or more like Star Wars...
Eliza Leahy
I'm not sure I see the distinction between ST and SW?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Does someone here have a website link for Azure?
Azure Boone
LOL, maybe there isn't, except in a Force
Eliza Leahy
www.simegen.com
Azure Boone
that was easy, I'll book mark it
Eliza Leahy
there is also fanfiction on www.fictionbank.com and secretpens.org
www.secretpens.org
Azure Boone
so sime and gen are like... two different species from two different planets?
Eliza Leahy
no, mutations of humans
both are human and can breed
Azure Boone
ohhhhhhhhhh coool
Eliza Leahy
all from earth
no one knows how the mutation started, although there is speculation
Deirdre Moira Murphy
No, the human race on this planet mutates into one species, where some people are simes, and some are gens
Azure Boone
they can't see it at a genetic level?
Eliza Leahy
the further mutation is a channel - who can take seyln from a gen without killing them and give it to a sime - otherwise they would run out of gens
Deirdre Moira Murphy
And like male and female, any set of parents can have sime kids, gen kids, or some of each
Zoe Farris
Hello all
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Though two simes will have more sime kids, on average, and two gens will have more gen kids, on average.
Azure Boone
is one superior over the other?
Eliza Leahy
Now that Zoe Farris is on, I'll leave. I have gingerbread men to make ;)
yes - Gens are superior
Azure Boone
lol
Eliza Leahy
MWHAHAHAaaaaaa!!!!!!
Azure Boone
thanks gall
I mean gal!
do all agree that Gens are superior?
Zoe Farris
ahh the delusions of Companions
Eliza Leahy
All the gens do....
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Whether one is superior is a matter of opinion--just like which is superior, male or female?
Eliza Leahy
females
Zoe Farris
lol
Eliza Leahy
so female gens are AMAZING!
oh yeah, I was leaving.... heehee
Azure Boone
lol
female ANYTHING are amazing
Zoe Farris
Gens superior, well that is debateble
I agree females are, but I am sure any males here will not.
Eliza Leahy
Farris's are a further mutation - they whine a lot
Zoe Farris
What you find is that alot of fans identify either Sime or Gen, and then either Channel, renSime or Companion (Gen who can serve Channels) or ordinary Gen
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Multitudinous allergies will do that to a person.
Eliza Leahy
I'll leave you in the hands of the whiny Farris and Deirdre :)
Azure Boone
oh, is that supposed to be like PMS?
thanks for the heads up, lol
Zoe Farris
Thank you Eliza
Azure Boone
yes, Eliza, thanks
Zoe Farris
Maybe PTS Pre Transfer Syndrome. ;)
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Farris is a family name, and also ...kind of like redheads. Rare and flashy, and (metaphorically) easily sunburnt.
Azure Boone
lol
Zoe Farris
that is a great analogy
Azure Boone
so everything is basically the same in a fun way
well, maybe not fun, just different
Zoe Farris
So, Azure, have you read anything yet
Azure Boone
No, I haven't, I'm completely a nooooob
Zoe Farris
of Sime Gen I mean
cool
Azure Boone
right, knew that's what you meant, lol
Zoe Farris
Deirdre?
Azure Boone
i have my work cut out for me, or my fun
Zoe Farris
I'd say fun
Azure Boone
I imagine so
Zoe Farris
of cource we will be waiting to find out how you identify, if you do. :)
Deirdre Moira Murphy
It's been years since I read any of the fan fiction, but I read House of Zeor before it had a sequel.
Azure Boone
i know, I can't wait to JUDGE
is that a secret reason we read? To JUDGE?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
No, I read to escape into somebody else's problems! LOL
Zoe Farris
yes that was my fav and it was the first one in Australia
i found the stories were a wonderful analogy to my life and still do
it is a wonderful universe
Azure Boone
I think we want to figure out the problem
Deirdre Moira Murphy
I should either go to bed or work on my next Torn World story (different shared world)
Azure Boone
gives us some control
is that a neighboring planet to the Sime Gen
Deirdre Moira Murphy
No, a completely different world.
Zoe Farris
lol Sime Gen is here on earth.
Azure Boone
i KNOW, I'm keeping up
Zoe Farris
lol ok
Deirdre Moira Murphy
I got sucked in to Torn World writing entries to worldbuilding contests before it went public.
Azure Boone
i was wondering if it was a neighboring planet to earth, lol
and it just demanded existence
Zoe Farris
The fun thing Azure is which is going to be your first book. It is like transfer, the first one sets the standard and is considered the best (for some fans)
Azure Boone
which one should I read first, number one, right?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
I think my favorite might be Mahogany Trinrose, but I wouldn't reccommend reading it first.
Zoe Farris
it is hard to say. For a newbie House of Zeor is good because it is from the Gen POV. but others would say otherwise
Azure Boone
wait, isn't there an order
Zoe Farris
You could also read them in chronological order which would mean First Channel would be the start
Azure Boone
okay, typing that down
Zoe Farris
there is published order and chrono order
Azure Boone
hmm, I'll ask Jacqueline
Zoe Farris
after havnig read them several times each as they came out I now start from the first in chrono order
Azure Boone
the birthing mother
Zoe Farris
I am on To Kiss or To Kill now
Eliza Leahy
ok, gingerbread simes and gens are in the oven
no, you are reading 4+ now ;)
Azure Boone
lol
which is 4?
Zoe Farris
cool i will be expecting tentacles on mine
Unto Zeor Forever,?
Eliza Leahy
four plus - it's a fan story
ignore me
Zoe Farris
oh i see
Azure Boone
who's doing that?
Eliza Leahy
who is doing what?
Azure Boone
umm what you said, Eliza
who is doing fan fic
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Azure, I hope you enjoy them, whatever order you read them in!
Eliza Leahy
lots of people, but 4+ is one of mine that Zoe is reading
Azure Boone
I'm sure we don't have this vast audience because they're not awesome
ohhhhhhh, lmbo
and he's supposed to be reading
Zoe Farris
http://www.simegen.com/CHRONO1.html
Eliza Leahy
Zoe Farris is my Channel - I'm her Companion, we live in Brisbane, Australia, where are you?
Azure Boone
The Gens grew selfish
Zoe Farris
that is the cronological table which includes where the new ones fit in and some fan stories too I think
Azure Boone
tsk tsk
Eliza Leahy
that's the simes perspective naturally
Azure Boone
oh, then who wrote that link, a sime?
Zoe Farris
That is the very first part of First Channel
Azure Boone
who wrote the link Zoe gave?
Zoe Farris
It is the prologue to First Channel, the first in chrono order by Jean
Azure Boone
So God spoke that
Eliza Leahy
pfth
Azure Boone
lol, well? The author?
Zoe Farris
lol Eliza. It is legend
Eliza Leahy
yes, one of the authors
yum, gingerbread :)
Azure Boone
okay, I need to read, is that prologue an explanation of the story/universe or is it part of the actual story
Eliza Leahy
gingerbread with tentacles
Zoe Farris
IN the Universe no one knows what happened to cause the mutation, and anything said is mere speculation from either Simes or Gens, such as archeologists
Eliza Leahy
no, it's just a legend from back in time explaining why simes kill
Azure Boone
okay, so, this is just something that is believed to be true in the storyworld, not necessarily the author explaining how the story world actually "is"
Eliza Leahy
you can buy the books in electronic format now
Zoe - give the URL for buying them
yes, that is correct
Azure Boone
i need to, i need one of those READERS
Zoe Farris
yes, Azure, it is legend within the world.
Eliza Leahy
you can get a program for your computer that does it
Zoe Farris
i will find the link brb'
Azure Boone
i know, i'm just hating the idea of lobbing my computer around
Tim Lieder
Kindle has all the better titles. And it's better at getting the money to the authors. And you can also buy She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror on it.
Azure Boone
but it does have a LIGHT
LOL, I know that story, who did that?
Zoe Farris
here is a bit of humour about being Sime I wrote years ago. http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/Sime/index.html
and here is the link to the electronic published books. http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20
I have them on my kindle for iphone.
Azure Boone
wow, thanks
Meanwhile, I found the following exchange on a Facebook Chat on the Sime~Gen Group and asked permission to post it here.
This is just absolutely classic. A new person comes along, hears everyone offhandedly referring to Sime~Gen and just asks so What Is Sime~Gen? So here are some well known readers trying to explain it to a widely-read reader who has never heard of Sime~Gen.
"Azure Boone" is a writer I met on Google+, and Eliza is a reader, fan-writer, of Sime~Gen as well as a tech and an artist. Zoe likewise is a writer, fan-writer and Sime~Gen reader. Zoe and Eliza live in Australia, and Azure is in the USA. Zoe started the Facebook Group for Sime~Gen. This is a casual chat log.
Azure Boone
hello
any body here?
Eliza Leahy
Hello
Azure Boone
oh hey!
Eliza Leahy
no, only me
:)
Azure Boone
i was wondering what sime gen is
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Hi
Eliza Leahy
I don't count, but you can talk to me anyway if you like
Azure Boone
oh hello
of course you COUNT
you're a woman?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
You mean you only spell?
Eliza Leahy
simegen is a series of books - about the future of mankind when it has mutated into two types - simes and gens
Azure Boone
ohhhh what are simes?
Eliza Leahy
simes need seyln to live - gens produce selyn
however, in taking the seyln from the gens, the simes usually "kill" them
simes have tentacles on their arms, 4 handling tentacles per arm, and two "laterals" which are for the transfer of seyln
Azure Boone
okay, so, is this a theory that is supported by this entire group? And stories are written around the concept?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
It started with books
The group is fans of the stories
Azure Boone
ohhhh, I see
Eliza Leahy
The universe was written by JL - Jacqueline Lichtenberg and Jean Lorrah
Azure Boone
totally cool
so they created a world and this is like fan fic?
Eliza Leahy
you will have to get some of the books :)
there are 11 published books
and one on the way
and a LOT of fan stories
Azure Boone
like a baby
Eliza Leahy
yes, and the birth seems to be pretty hard! lol
Deirdre Moira Murphy
There is both fanfic and fic by the original authors.
Azure Boone
so cool, I see. Is it like Star Trek in vehicle delivery?
Eliza Leahy
scroll down the simegen page a bit and you will see a portrait I did of a sime friend of ours
Azure Boone
Or more like Star Wars...
Eliza Leahy
I'm not sure I see the distinction between ST and SW?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Does someone here have a website link for Azure?
Azure Boone
LOL, maybe there isn't, except in a Force
Eliza Leahy
www.simegen.com
Azure Boone
that was easy, I'll book mark it
Eliza Leahy
there is also fanfiction on www.fictionbank.com and secretpens.org
www.secretpens.org
Azure Boone
so sime and gen are like... two different species from two different planets?
Eliza Leahy
no, mutations of humans
both are human and can breed
Azure Boone
ohhhhhhhhhh coool
Eliza Leahy
all from earth
no one knows how the mutation started, although there is speculation
Deirdre Moira Murphy
No, the human race on this planet mutates into one species, where some people are simes, and some are gens
Azure Boone
they can't see it at a genetic level?
Eliza Leahy
the further mutation is a channel - who can take seyln from a gen without killing them and give it to a sime - otherwise they would run out of gens
Deirdre Moira Murphy
And like male and female, any set of parents can have sime kids, gen kids, or some of each
Zoe Farris
Hello all
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Though two simes will have more sime kids, on average, and two gens will have more gen kids, on average.
Azure Boone
is one superior over the other?
Eliza Leahy
Now that Zoe Farris is on, I'll leave. I have gingerbread men to make ;)
yes - Gens are superior
Azure Boone
lol
Eliza Leahy
MWHAHAHAaaaaaa!!!!!!
Azure Boone
thanks gall
I mean gal!
do all agree that Gens are superior?
Zoe Farris
ahh the delusions of Companions
Eliza Leahy
All the gens do....
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Whether one is superior is a matter of opinion--just like which is superior, male or female?
Eliza Leahy
females
Zoe Farris
lol
Eliza Leahy
so female gens are AMAZING!
oh yeah, I was leaving.... heehee
Azure Boone
lol
female ANYTHING are amazing
Zoe Farris
Gens superior, well that is debateble
I agree females are, but I am sure any males here will not.
Eliza Leahy
Farris's are a further mutation - they whine a lot
Zoe Farris
What you find is that alot of fans identify either Sime or Gen, and then either Channel, renSime or Companion (Gen who can serve Channels) or ordinary Gen
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Multitudinous allergies will do that to a person.
Eliza Leahy
I'll leave you in the hands of the whiny Farris and Deirdre :)
Azure Boone
oh, is that supposed to be like PMS?
thanks for the heads up, lol
Zoe Farris
Thank you Eliza
Azure Boone
yes, Eliza, thanks
Zoe Farris
Maybe PTS Pre Transfer Syndrome. ;)
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Farris is a family name, and also ...kind of like redheads. Rare and flashy, and (metaphorically) easily sunburnt.
Azure Boone
lol
Zoe Farris
that is a great analogy
Azure Boone
so everything is basically the same in a fun way
well, maybe not fun, just different
Zoe Farris
So, Azure, have you read anything yet
Azure Boone
No, I haven't, I'm completely a nooooob
Zoe Farris
of Sime Gen I mean
cool
Azure Boone
right, knew that's what you meant, lol
Zoe Farris
Deirdre?
Azure Boone
i have my work cut out for me, or my fun
Zoe Farris
I'd say fun
Azure Boone
I imagine so
Zoe Farris
of cource we will be waiting to find out how you identify, if you do. :)
Deirdre Moira Murphy
It's been years since I read any of the fan fiction, but I read House of Zeor before it had a sequel.
Azure Boone
i know, I can't wait to JUDGE
is that a secret reason we read? To JUDGE?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
No, I read to escape into somebody else's problems! LOL
Zoe Farris
yes that was my fav and it was the first one in Australia
i found the stories were a wonderful analogy to my life and still do
it is a wonderful universe
Azure Boone
I think we want to figure out the problem
Deirdre Moira Murphy
I should either go to bed or work on my next Torn World story (different shared world)
Azure Boone
gives us some control
is that a neighboring planet to the Sime Gen
Deirdre Moira Murphy
No, a completely different world.
Zoe Farris
lol Sime Gen is here on earth.
Azure Boone
i KNOW, I'm keeping up
Zoe Farris
lol ok
Deirdre Moira Murphy
I got sucked in to Torn World writing entries to worldbuilding contests before it went public.
Azure Boone
i was wondering if it was a neighboring planet to earth, lol
and it just demanded existence
Zoe Farris
The fun thing Azure is which is going to be your first book. It is like transfer, the first one sets the standard and is considered the best (for some fans)
Azure Boone
which one should I read first, number one, right?
Deirdre Moira Murphy
I think my favorite might be Mahogany Trinrose, but I wouldn't reccommend reading it first.
Zoe Farris
it is hard to say. For a newbie House of Zeor is good because it is from the Gen POV. but others would say otherwise
Azure Boone
wait, isn't there an order
Zoe Farris
You could also read them in chronological order which would mean First Channel would be the start
Azure Boone
okay, typing that down
Zoe Farris
there is published order and chrono order
Azure Boone
hmm, I'll ask Jacqueline
Zoe Farris
after havnig read them several times each as they came out I now start from the first in chrono order
Azure Boone
the birthing mother
Zoe Farris
I am on To Kiss or To Kill now
Eliza Leahy
ok, gingerbread simes and gens are in the oven
no, you are reading 4+ now ;)
Azure Boone
lol
which is 4?
Zoe Farris
cool i will be expecting tentacles on mine
Unto Zeor Forever,?
Eliza Leahy
four plus - it's a fan story
ignore me
Zoe Farris
oh i see
Azure Boone
who's doing that?
Eliza Leahy
who is doing what?
Azure Boone
umm what you said, Eliza
who is doing fan fic
Deirdre Moira Murphy
Azure, I hope you enjoy them, whatever order you read them in!
Eliza Leahy
lots of people, but 4+ is one of mine that Zoe is reading
Azure Boone
I'm sure we don't have this vast audience because they're not awesome
ohhhhhhh, lmbo
and he's supposed to be reading
Zoe Farris
http://www.simegen.com/CHRONO1.html
Eliza Leahy
Zoe Farris is my Channel - I'm her Companion, we live in Brisbane, Australia, where are you?
Azure Boone
The Gens grew selfish
Zoe Farris
that is the cronological table which includes where the new ones fit in and some fan stories too I think
Azure Boone
tsk tsk
Eliza Leahy
that's the simes perspective naturally
Azure Boone
oh, then who wrote that link, a sime?
Zoe Farris
That is the very first part of First Channel
Azure Boone
who wrote the link Zoe gave?
Zoe Farris
It is the prologue to First Channel, the first in chrono order by Jean
Azure Boone
So God spoke that
Eliza Leahy
pfth
Azure Boone
lol, well? The author?
Zoe Farris
lol Eliza. It is legend
Eliza Leahy
yes, one of the authors
yum, gingerbread :)
Azure Boone
okay, I need to read, is that prologue an explanation of the story/universe or is it part of the actual story
Eliza Leahy
gingerbread with tentacles
Zoe Farris
IN the Universe no one knows what happened to cause the mutation, and anything said is mere speculation from either Simes or Gens, such as archeologists
Eliza Leahy
no, it's just a legend from back in time explaining why simes kill
Azure Boone
okay, so, this is just something that is believed to be true in the storyworld, not necessarily the author explaining how the story world actually "is"
Eliza Leahy
you can buy the books in electronic format now
Zoe - give the URL for buying them
yes, that is correct
Azure Boone
i need to, i need one of those READERS
Zoe Farris
yes, Azure, it is legend within the world.
Eliza Leahy
you can get a program for your computer that does it
Zoe Farris
i will find the link brb'
Azure Boone
i know, i'm just hating the idea of lobbing my computer around
Tim Lieder
Kindle has all the better titles. And it's better at getting the money to the authors. And you can also buy She Nailed a Stake Through His Head: Tales of Biblical Terror on it.
Azure Boone
but it does have a LIGHT
LOL, I know that story, who did that?
Zoe Farris
here is a bit of humour about being Sime I wrote years ago. http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/Sime/index.html
and here is the link to the electronic published books. http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20
I have them on my kindle for iphone.
Azure Boone
wow, thanks
Thursday, December 8, 2011
Jacqueline Lichtenberg’s Unto Zeor, Forever: More Than Just Tentacle Sex | Tor.com
Jacqueline Lichtenberg’s Unto Zeor, Forever: More Than Just Tentacle Sex | Tor.com
That link goes to a long article on the SIME~GEN novel UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER.
That link goes to a long article on the SIME~GEN novel UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Smart Pop Books — Power of Becoming
Smart Pop Books — Power of Becoming
Jean Lorrah and I have essays in 2 of these books, 7 Seasons of Buffy and 5 Seasons of Angel, both about the TV shows.
Jean Lorrah and I have essays in 2 of these books, 7 Seasons of Buffy and 5 Seasons of Angel, both about the TV shows.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Leonard Nimoy Has Attended His Last Star Trek Convention - CinemaBlend.com
Leonard Nimoy Has Attended His Last Star Trek Convention - CinemaBlend.com
That link leads to an article about Leonard Nimoy retiring at age 80. I saw William Shatner on TV recently touting a new book and an album, and he's now 80, too.
Still waiting for news on THE FARRIS CHANNEL release, while my first audiobook release, MOLT BROTHER, is working it's way to the public.
HOUSE OF ZEOR is being recorded in audiobook, and there may be more to come.
Work continues on moving the simegen.com domain to a new server situation and starting the redesign.
Join the SIME GEN Group on Facebook for late-breaking news on availability, and a lively Q&A on Sime~Gen background.
That link leads to an article about Leonard Nimoy retiring at age 80. I saw William Shatner on TV recently touting a new book and an album, and he's now 80, too.
Still waiting for news on THE FARRIS CHANNEL release, while my first audiobook release, MOLT BROTHER, is working it's way to the public.
HOUSE OF ZEOR is being recorded in audiobook, and there may be more to come.
Work continues on moving the simegen.com domain to a new server situation and starting the redesign.
Join the SIME GEN Group on Facebook for late-breaking news on availability, and a lively Q&A on Sime~Gen background.
Sunday, September 11, 2011
The Farris Channel - #12 in the Sime~Gen Series from Wildside Press
Folks:
The Farris Channel - the story of the founding of the House of Zeor, is not quite yet available, but I have just sent Wildside the OK on the final-final typo-scrubbed manuscript.
Karen McCleod and Kaires both did very productive run-throughs of this manuscript, but I'm certain you will find more typos if you read closely.
The book will be available in paper and e-book (Kindle, Nook, and a wide variety of formats).
Let us know when you see it appear.
You can see 11 of the 12 volumes plus other works by Jean Lorrah and/or Jacqueline Lichtenberg on this Amazon Store then find them handily on your favorite outlet.
http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20
The Farris Channel - the story of the founding of the House of Zeor, is not quite yet available, but I have just sent Wildside the OK on the final-final typo-scrubbed manuscript.
Karen McCleod and Kaires both did very productive run-throughs of this manuscript, but I'm certain you will find more typos if you read closely.
The book will be available in paper and e-book (Kindle, Nook, and a wide variety of formats).
Let us know when you see it appear.
You can see 11 of the 12 volumes plus other works by Jean Lorrah and/or Jacqueline Lichtenberg on this Amazon Store then find them handily on your favorite outlet.
http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20
Monday, August 1, 2011
ReReadable Books Updated
The newsletter is lagging our news - by a lot.
ReReadable Books is now updated through July 2011. Click the month link on the left and read the columns.
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
If you've been following breaking news on the SIMEGEN Group on Facebook, you've seen the following developments.
All the Sime~Gen novels are now in new paper and a new, wide variety of ebook formats including Kindle and Nook. Three new volumes are likewise available, and a 4th, the long-awaited Farris Channel (story of the founding of the House of Zeor) is in copyediting. These Wildside Press editions are numbered in order of publication but each volume contains the chronological order.
Find all of them in this handy Amazon store or easily look them up by title on other retailers.
http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20
House of Zeor, the first published Sime~Gen novel, is now being recorded in an audiobook edition. Follow the Facebook SimeGen Group, watch the store, or this newsletter space for availability.
Molt Brother by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is also being recorded for audiobook release.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Blogging Tuesdays at http://aliendjinnromancesblogspot.com
ReReadable Books is now updated through July 2011. Click the month link on the left and read the columns.
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
If you've been following breaking news on the SIMEGEN Group on Facebook, you've seen the following developments.
All the Sime~Gen novels are now in new paper and a new, wide variety of ebook formats including Kindle and Nook. Three new volumes are likewise available, and a 4th, the long-awaited Farris Channel (story of the founding of the House of Zeor) is in copyediting. These Wildside Press editions are numbered in order of publication but each volume contains the chronological order.
Find all of them in this handy Amazon store or easily look them up by title on other retailers.
http://astore.amazon.com/simegen-20
House of Zeor, the first published Sime~Gen novel, is now being recorded in an audiobook edition. Follow the Facebook SimeGen Group, watch the store, or this newsletter space for availability.
Molt Brother by Jacqueline Lichtenberg is also being recorded for audiobook release.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Blogging Tuesdays at http://aliendjinnromancesblogspot.com
Thursday, April 28, 2011
alien romances: New Sime-Gen Books
alien romances: New Sime-Gen Books
That link leads to a commentary by Margaret Carter, an accomplished writer whom some of you may know from the Sime~Gen Listserv which now functions via the facebook SimeGen Group.
That link leads to a commentary by Margaret Carter, an accomplished writer whom some of you may know from the Sime~Gen Listserv which now functions via the facebook SimeGen Group.
Monday, April 4, 2011
Another New Sime~Gen Novel
The latest Sime~Gen release is TO KISS OR TO KILL by Jean Lorrah.
Jonmair's destiny was death. Baird Axton made her want to live.
This is the book the fans asked for: it's about the heroism of ordinary Simes and Gens that made Unity possible. There are no Farrises or Tigues in this book, and the only channel with a major role (a supporting character) uses his dual system for playing shiltpron, not transferring selyn.
The main characters are a renSime, Baird Axton, and a Gen, Jonmair. Sold into the Pens by her own parents when she establishes as a Gen, Jonmair expects to die providing one more month of life for a Sime. But while she is waiting in the Pen, Unity is declared and Baird rescues her from the Last Kill.
Baird's family owns The Post, the largest entertainment establishment in Norlea, and there Jonmair works while she struggles to figure out what to do with the life she never expected to have. While Baird and Jonmair are the main story, Zhag and Tonyo, whom you met in The Story Untold, are supporting characters also trying to figure out a whole new way of life.
These books are currently available in Kindle, but paper versions will become available in the near future.
Monday, March 28, 2011
First New Sime~Gen in Over Twenty Years!
Today not one but two new Sime~Gen books were released on Kindle! Other ebook formats will follow, as will a paperback with the two books back-to-back, Ace Double style.
One book is Personal Recognizance by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, a story of students at the exclusive school Rialite, in the era when the computer has recently been reinvented and bright kids quickly find something to do with it besides their lessons.
The other book is The Story Untold and Other Sime~Gen Stories by Jean Lorrah, three stories about musicians Tonyo Logan and Zhag Paget, spanning fifteen years of their amazing career. Their music became one of the forces that allowed the people of Gulf Territory to survive the early years of Unity.
These ebooks are now available, with other editions to follow.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
First Channel cover from Borgo Press Edition
Here's what I posted on the facebook SimeGen Group with this cover.
Here's the long-awaited cover for FIRST CHANNEL. It is paper and e-book available in a couple more days.
Wildside went to the mat for us and photoshopped out some wooden bracelets this figure was wearing. We'll live with the long sleeves and pretend this is a sleeveless yawal -- or maybe just imagine riding pants under a tunic. We imagine this is Kadi rounding up the horses after the fight which leaves Rimon unconscious. We have real good imaginations, Jean and I. We do. The custom art on previous covers has been much, much less accurate, so we've lots of practice.
We see it as Kadi on a saddle stolen from some Freebanders who got it out-Territory -- which tells you a LOT about out-T culture on the Gen side. I would have expected wrangler's saddles, solid Western saddles with gear etc. But we discovered there's more out-T to learn about. Someone quick write a story about where this saddle came from, who made it, and why. Or maybe the story they make up when selling it in town? Talk fast.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Here's the long-awaited cover for FIRST CHANNEL. It is paper and e-book available in a couple more days.
Wildside went to the mat for us and photoshopped out some wooden bracelets this figure was wearing. We'll live with the long sleeves and pretend this is a sleeveless yawal -- or maybe just imagine riding pants under a tunic. We imagine this is Kadi rounding up the horses after the fight which leaves Rimon unconscious. We have real good imaginations, Jean and I. We do. The custom art on previous covers has been much, much less accurate, so we've lots of practice.
We see it as Kadi on a saddle stolen from some Freebanders who got it out-Territory -- which tells you a LOT about out-T culture on the Gen side. I would have expected wrangler's saddles, solid Western saddles with gear etc. But we discovered there's more out-T to learn about. Someone quick write a story about where this saddle came from, who made it, and why. Or maybe the story they make up when selling it in town? Talk fast.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Covers of New Sime~Gen Releases
There's a discussion on the SimeGen Group on facebook (please join us!) about the new covers, which are turning out pretty good.
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_121838917889519&ap=1
Here are the first two.
And yes, House of Zeor is actually a "Western" -- it's just a Science Fiction Western set in the far future when humanity must reconstruct civilization. They're lucky horses survived.
On the facebook SimeGen Group, Eliza added tentacles to Digen's headache. The llink is there if you want it.
Both these novels are now available in e-book. Here they are on Kindle:
House of Zeor (Sime~Gen, Book 1)
Unto Zeor, Forever (Sime~Gen)
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_121838917889519&ap=1
Here are the first two.
And yes, House of Zeor is actually a "Western" -- it's just a Science Fiction Western set in the far future when humanity must reconstruct civilization. They're lucky horses survived.
On the facebook SimeGen Group, Eliza added tentacles to Digen's headache. The llink is there if you want it.
Both these novels are now available in e-book. Here they are on Kindle:
House of Zeor (Sime~Gen, Book 1)
Unto Zeor, Forever (Sime~Gen)
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Monday, December 6, 2010
Sime~Gen Perspectives Newsletter: Fall-December 2010
Contents:
* ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S CHAT JANUARY 2, 2011 -- NEW DATE AND TIME
* TITLES ON AMAZON.COM
* BORDERLANDS NEWS
* JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEB PAGE, AND JOURNAL
* RELAY FOR LIFE
* NEWSLETTER NEWS
* JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
* NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE
* JEAN'S NEW ESSAYS ON WRITING
* COAL FOR CHRISTMAS RECEIVES ANOTHER AWARD
* REREADABLE BOOKS
* PATRIC MICHAEL'S NEXT PUBLICATION
* JOIN THE REVIEWERS
* NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
* HELP WANTED
* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
* AVAILABLE RELEASES
* SITES TO REMEMBER
* SUBSCRIPTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
**** ANNOUNCING THE ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S CHAT JANUARY 2, 2011 -- NEW DATE AND TIME
Including combined information from Jacqueline, and Karen:
This is your chance to talk real-time to Jean and me -- I'm planning to be on the simegen.com server's IRC chat for New Year's at 1 PM Mountain Standard Time (USA) on SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2011. Please note the new time change, below.
And it's your chance to vote awards for people at simegen.com who have been especially helpful to you. We announce the stock awards, but then all in attendance get a chance to nominate and vote for other awards. Karen has a list of our Awards -- frankly I always forget!
You can see brief definitions of all the awards at:
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/chats/chat2006_chat2.html#awards
In many cases, more detailed explanations of these awards, with lists of previous winners, can be found on the main Awards page (http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/awards). You can see these by following links from the one-liner page, above.
We (theoretically; we're always lagging on this) post the list of awards because it forms the major part of the history of this domain. I feel it's important to keep track of our major contributors.
So anyone who's on our lists or deals with us in any way is more than welcome to sit in, nominate, vote, and chat.
We run it in two simultaneous IRC chatrooms -- so you can split your screen in half. One screen is moderated during the business meeting so the log is easier to clean up. The other screen is just chatter. Then both "rooms" are opened so everyone can talk to each other and just party.
For those that don't have the mIRC (or equivalent) software, there is an entry point for you via the web page of: http://www.simegen.com/techtools/chat/
We use the "rooms" #sgchat for the business meeting and #sgtalk for "side talk." Those who attended last year using mIRC or equivalent, your settings are unchanged.
The New Year's Chat will be 3pm EST, 2pm CST, 1pm MST, NOON PST. For those not in North America, please use the Worldclock website http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to calculate the time that is right for you.
The edited and cleaned text of the meeting is put online as soon as possible.
Previous chat logs can be found at www.simegen.com/sgfandom/chats/ if you want to take a look.
Karen will gladly help OFF LIST to get you connected to the chat. Some help, though perhaps not quite current, is also found on http://www.simegen.com/techtools/ where tutorials can be found.
Karen will be on AIM, as long as her computer allows her, prior to the chat and will do what she can to help everyone who wants to attend, "get connected."
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******TITLES ON AMAZON.COM******
Wildside Press has now released MOLT BROTHER and CITY OF A MILLION LEGENDS on Kindle, Nook, Apple, and all the new e-book formats. They are still available on Fictionwise.com PLUS in paper if you want new copies.
HOUSE OF ZEOR just went to press -- there will be ebook in all those formats, PLUS new paper POD on acid free paper.
UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER has been turned in, and will be back for proofing soon. We'll let you know when, but it will hit all formats as well.
Here's a the link to use that goes to the Jacqueline Lichtenberg titles on Amazon. If you can copy, paste and delete the carriage returns, use this link to buy anything on amazon and Sime~Gen Inc. gets a few cents toward our server fees.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D12%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D16%26field-keywords%3DJacqueline%2520Lichtenberg%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddigital-text&tag=rereadablebooksr&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
And Jean's SAVAGE EMPIRE will be available too.
Here's the link to Jean Lorrah's titles -- where you will find her Sime~Gen as soon as it comes available.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D17%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D11%26field-keywords%3DJean%2520Lorrah%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddigital-text&tag=rereadablebooksr&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
Our Lists aren't functioning well due to the spam load, so until we can move the server and get new List software, you can interact with us by dropping a note on the whatsnew.simegen.com blog or via facebook, twitter or any service you prefer.
Find all my services at http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com/ in the friendfeed box. (yes, I have to update that page but I'm working on the book text!)
I'm currently working on MAHOGANY TRINROSE.
I'm using the files that Karen MacLeod proofed up for Meisha Merlin before they collapsed.
We have turned in PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE (my new Sime~Gen story set in the most modern setting yet) and 3 of Jean's Zhag and Tonyo stories for a DOUBLE - (like the old Ace Doubles) - printed back to back in the same volume.
We'll let you know when they come out.
All the Sime~Gen works (INCLUDING THE FARRIS CHANNEL) are now under contract to the Borgo imprint of Wildside Press, a slick modern operation that will make them available everywhere in every format -- EXCEPT in brick-n-mortar stores.
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******BORDERLANDS NEWS******
Borderlands Part 32, "On The Run," is now posted at
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/boom/index.html#part.32
Who's on the run? Well, new characters Dilena and Portia are on the run from Gen T, which doesn't like their lifestyle very much. No, they're both Gens. Sosu Nick is not actually on the run, but like Yellow-Dog Dingo, he's very truly run after, and by a rather unsavory character.
Poor Ambassador Tsibola is back in town, and at least four difficult interviews with different people send him on the run -- to his bed.Sidebars include the beginnings of a new Distect scare, this time out-T,and a scene where Cristal asks for advice (with thematic connections to one of the main plot threads). We also have Saag and Randayl, the Senator's Sime sons, exchanging stories, as well as Fennik and Tsibola having one of their brandy evenings, only without the brandy this time.
Feedback! We want feedback! Give us feedback! And then in due course you'll get Part 33, "What's Yours Is Mine."
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******JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL******
Have you been reading my blog, The House of Keon, at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/ ? It's about my various travels, and is currently about my recent visits to places of interest near home--what I call a semi-staycation. Well, until I go somewhere else, or unless and until photos from more of my earlier travels turn up, I will soon run out of material and leave that blog standing with all my previous posts. Next time I travel, I will of course add to that blog, but that probably won't be until summer 2011.
However, I will not be giving up blogging. Probably just about in time for the next issue of our newsletter, I expect to begin a new blog on a different topic associated with a project Jacqueline and I will start soon. Tune in next time to find out what it is!
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******NEWSLETTER NEWS******
NEW NEWS: We have a new way of accessing WHAT'S NEW on simegen.com It is a blog where you can read the monthly Newsletter and drop your own comments and news, tell us what you need done, or report problems with pages.
http://whatsnew..simegen.com/ Click in the right margin to follow this Newsletter, and the news will appear in your blogger.com account. Or you can use the RSS feed. If there's another follow-tool you would prefer, please e-mail simegen@simegen.com asking for it (give the URL) and we'll enable it. There are a few handy tools we haven't enabled yet, but they are available (such as feedburner).
Patric set this magical thing up on our server and Karen has posted the Newsletters from Jan 2009 to now, so you can access past news just by scrolling. Please visit our top page, simegen.com, and note that my Twitter scroll is there for you -- plus a very nice Writing Tips Twitter scroll. Click and read the entire scroll on Twitter.
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******JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING******
If you are on LinkedIn or Facebook, be sure to look up Jean Lorrah.
Jean's personal Twitter account is http://twitter.com/houseofkeon She tweets only when she has something more important to announce than that she got up in the morning.
She also has a daily Twitter account, http://twitter.com/TipsOnWriting That's right: tips on writing every single day.
Jean is taking a course on Marketing and Emerging Media, part of which requires learning to use even more social media.
You can see her photo album on Italy now at http://short.to/14bad
And finally, Jean's blog continues with weekly entries at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
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****** Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
Amazon.com has made Author Pages for Jacqueline http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Lichtenberg/e/B000APV900/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145159&sr=1-2-ent and me http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Lorrah/e/B000APACX0/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145011&sr=1-2-ent . Both pages are incomplete, not listing all the books we have available on the site, and neither has any comments or discussion going on. Still, they are available.
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More Amazon news: Amazon.com has just--without warning--eliminated all ebook downloads other than Kindle. The downside is that you can no longer download the ebooks of Jacqueline or my books that had been available, or the Nessie's Grotto books by Lois Wickstrom and me (you can still get the latter at Fictionwise). The upside is that Blood Will Tell and my four Star Trek novels have suddenly developed Kindle editions.
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Blatant commercial to keep simegen..com on the air.If you buy from Amazon using one of our search boxes at the bottoms of many of our pages, or find what you're looking for in our a-stores, we get a few cents to pay the bandwidth bills.
Our Amazon stores (we recommend buying directly from Amazon itself, not one of their onboard retailers unless you know the retailer very well -- we get paid the same, but have found better customer service with amazon.com shipments).
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keybooks/
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keygifts/ -- NEW STORE created to hold gift items specially useful to writers, both in writing and in just finding the TIME to write.
Also we now have Google ads on our main entry pages -- and they pay nicely when someone finds what they want via one of those ads. But don't click just to click -- click something that looks like what you really want.
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******NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE******
MY CURRENT MAIN EFFORTS:
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/downloads/
That is a page that needs redesigning, just as the /marketplace/ top page will.
We are preparing to make available in e-book and on paper, a set of 7 textbooks on writing, 5 of which are on philosophy, the wellspring of ideas and the bulwark against writer's block. The particular philosophy showcased is the structural framework behind Tarot, but you don't have to be interested in Tarot to use this information in writing or many other endeavors.
Novel and Screenwriting are both very much rooted in structure which becomes invisible when clothed in unique details.
Learning to perceive the underlying structure behind seething masses of detail is somewhat like learning to spot starfish against an underwater boulder full of barnacles.
It's pattern-recognition, a brain function we all have and sometimes fail to buff up. These first 5 volumes help train the mental "eye" in a kind of abstract "pattern recognition" that will serve to sharpen results in everything you do.
The final 2 (or possibly more) volumes are directed at readers and writers who want to understand the application of the pattern recognition principles showcased in the first 5 volumes. These volumes are designed to be of use specifically by writers, but writers working in fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting.
Currently, this project stands at the beginning of Volume #5, with several more weeks work to do on that volume, plus artwork and packaging efforts. This is a team effort that has absorbed Karen, Patric, Jean, me -- and others here -- for a year or more.
Some of these Tarot and Writing Lesson chapters have been posted to the blogs
http://www.editingcircle.blogspot.com/
And on Tuesdays where I post on
http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/
The better entries on these two blogs will be compiled and presented in PDF (or other e-book formats) plus, on paper.
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****** JEAN'S NEW ESSAYS ON WRITING
You can find an ongoing series of Jean's new essays, Secrets of Fiction Writing, at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jean_Lorrah. There are eleven articles up, and I just turned in the twelfth yesterday. I hope to produce approximately one a week. These articles can be read directly on the Ezine Article website, or ezines are free to reprint them as long as they follow the Ezine Article rules.
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******COAL FOR CHRISTMAS RECEIVES ANOTHER AWARD **********
COAL FOR CHRISTMAS by Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah has been named an Official Selection in the KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival.
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******REREADABLE BOOKS******
ReReadable Books columns now posted through August 2010, and books to be reviewed are posted through 2010 and up to May 2011. Here are the links:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2010/
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
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****** Patric Michael (our Webmaster) is pleased to announce his NEXT publication!******
June 2, 2010 brought CONWAY'S CURSE -- the new work from Patric Michael, available from Dreamspinner Press http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/
Check out http://www.patricmichael.com/ for the Start of Something Great.
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******JOIN THE REVIEWERS
Jacqueline is developing a new way to find books to review -- via Twitter!
And with more people helping we could, perhaps, find more reviewers. I've been collecting people in writing, editing, publishing, and various parts of the film industry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I really could use some help with this. To connect with me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
To connect with me on Facebook --
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
To connect with me on LinkedIn --
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinelichtenberg
Karen MacLeod and Patric are also available on LinkedIn. We are moving gradually into the networking space and evaluating the uses of cloud computing. We need a new coordinator for the Reviews department who can work with the social networking tools.
For the moment we have only a few reviewers responding to the e-mail List, and I suspect that's the drift away from e-mail because of the spam load. We need to launch a blogspot blog for our Reviewers instead of a List, or perhaps establish a Group on Facebook.
I will continue to post books to be reviewed to the reviewers List as I discover them. As Coordinator of our Reviews Department, I ask for your help. With the current upsurge in e-book publishing that is sweeping the Internet, we daily receive an increasing number of books to review. Yet, in counterpoint, we have a shortage of reviewers, and many of our
reviews staff are several books behind. We are eagerly and actively seeking new people to review for us. As with all of Sime~Gen, our reviewers are volunteers. When they write a review, it is posted with their byline, and they get to keep the review copy of the books they have read and reviewed.
For more information on our Reviewers Agreement, visit:
http://www.simegen.com/agreements/revagr.html
Please help us by passing this information along to anyone you know who might want to join our happy band. If interested, they can send a note expressing their interest to Jean at simegen@simegen.com
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******NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
A SIME~GEN postage stamp is now available to order on cafe press. It can be used just as you would use a regular postage stamp. Be the first on YOUR block to have them!
We've got a new page for Cafe Press items from our artists and authors. Now you can get t-shirts, greeting cards, clocks, mugs, and other great stuff with work from your favorite artists. You can even buy books about Nessie, the Orange Forest Rabbit and The Reluctant Spy that aren't available anywhere else.
http://simegen.com/marketplace/cafepress/ is a direct link to all our items and merchandise stores. Use of this page will give the domain extra income. If there is an item that you wish to see that isn't offered, just write Lois at lois@lochness-monster.com and she'll get it ready for you to order.
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******HELP WANTED*****
The spotlights section of Simegen.com currently needs interviewers, spotlight posting personnel, an assistant spotlights gatemaster, and a keygifts store manager. We are also requesting an Assistant Reviews Co-coordinator - duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect
activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are: A good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order), some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books. Direct all inquiries to simegen@simegen.com.
Individuals to take over, or assist with the SIMECENTER Site -- It isn't at all hard, but a bit time-consuming...and very rewarding ("meeting" these marvelous authors and artists, if only via E-Mail and their websites.) Please write me, Kaires Tevesu, if you are interested. People who talked to me earlier about helping: I've lost track of your communications in the throes of several changes of computer. PLEASE contact me again. The time is right, the templates are much more
robust, I have a small backlog of stories (the hardest part of operating SimeCenter), and I've even documented some of the processes. I'd like to talk to you again.
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******PUBLICATION SCHEDULE********
We have had to withdraw the entire Sime~Gen project from Meisha Merlin for a wide range of reasons. They missed several deadlines for publication of TO KISS OR TO KILL and showed no signs of intention to get it out any time in the foreseeable future. That stalled everything else. It was very disappointing.
THE UNITY TRILOGY should continue to be available for some time -- they have the right to dispose of all stock in the
Meisha Merlin warehouse.
******
******AVAILABLE RELEASES***********
~ the Omnibus reprint of Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE: DARK MOON RISING --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210013X/rereadablebooksr/ is #1
in the reprint program.
~ Trade Paperback edition of DREAMSPY from BenBella Books and you can order
on Amazon and some other places
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932100253/rereadablebooksr/
Read the comments here:
http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/dreamspy/dreamspyreviews.html
~ SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210030X/rereadablebooksr/ is #2
in Jean Lorrah's and Winston Howlett's omnibus
reprint of the Savage Empire series.
Still Available in Trade Paperback, SIME~GEN: THE UNITY TRILOGY
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592220037/rereadablebooksr/
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***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights: http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/
Chats: http://www.simegen..com/writers/spotlights/chat.html
Romance articles: http://www.simegen.com/romance/articles.html
Reviews of books by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Reviews: http://www.simegen.com/reviews/
Shopping: http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/
Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words
can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html
To sign up for classes, go to http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html
To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for
the latest openings.
******
To contact editor for any reason, please e-mail Lisa Saunders at
simegen@simegen.com
*Please Note all material posted on Official Virtual Tecton is copyright ©
by Sime~Gen Inc. and all rights are reserved..
To get your Sime~Gen(tm) material sanctioned for web posting or to get
permission to repost from official materials, e-mail ambrovzeor@aol.com, contact
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Sime~Gen (tm) is the trademark of a fictional universe copyright © by
Jacqueline Lichtenberg, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986 and
Sime~Gen Inc. 1999-2010
* ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S CHAT JANUARY 2, 2011 -- NEW DATE AND TIME
* TITLES ON AMAZON.COM
* BORDERLANDS NEWS
* JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEB PAGE, AND JOURNAL
* RELAY FOR LIFE
* NEWSLETTER NEWS
* JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
* NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE
* JEAN'S NEW ESSAYS ON WRITING
* COAL FOR CHRISTMAS RECEIVES ANOTHER AWARD
* REREADABLE BOOKS
* PATRIC MICHAEL'S NEXT PUBLICATION
* JOIN THE REVIEWERS
* NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
* HELP WANTED
* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
* AVAILABLE RELEASES
* SITES TO REMEMBER
* SUBSCRIPTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
**** ANNOUNCING THE ANNUAL NEW YEAR'S CHAT JANUARY 2, 2011 -- NEW DATE AND TIME
Including combined information from Jacqueline, and Karen:
This is your chance to talk real-time to Jean and me -- I'm planning to be on the simegen.com server's IRC chat for New Year's at 1 PM Mountain Standard Time (USA) on SUNDAY, JANUARY 2, 2011. Please note the new time change, below.
And it's your chance to vote awards for people at simegen.com who have been especially helpful to you. We announce the stock awards, but then all in attendance get a chance to nominate and vote for other awards. Karen has a list of our Awards -- frankly I always forget!
You can see brief definitions of all the awards at:
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/chats/chat2006_chat2.html#awards
In many cases, more detailed explanations of these awards, with lists of previous winners, can be found on the main Awards page (http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/awards). You can see these by following links from the one-liner page, above.
We (theoretically; we're always lagging on this) post the list of awards because it forms the major part of the history of this domain. I feel it's important to keep track of our major contributors.
So anyone who's on our lists or deals with us in any way is more than welcome to sit in, nominate, vote, and chat.
We run it in two simultaneous IRC chatrooms -- so you can split your screen in half. One screen is moderated during the business meeting so the log is easier to clean up. The other screen is just chatter. Then both "rooms" are opened so everyone can talk to each other and just party.
For those that don't have the mIRC (or equivalent) software, there is an entry point for you via the web page of: http://www.simegen.com/techtools/chat/
We use the "rooms" #sgchat for the business meeting and #sgtalk for "side talk." Those who attended last year using mIRC or equivalent, your settings are unchanged.
The New Year's Chat will be 3pm EST, 2pm CST, 1pm MST, NOON PST. For those not in North America, please use the Worldclock website http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/ to calculate the time that is right for you.
The edited and cleaned text of the meeting is put online as soon as possible.
Previous chat logs can be found at www.simegen.com/sgfandom/chats/ if you want to take a look.
Karen will gladly help OFF LIST to get you connected to the chat. Some help, though perhaps not quite current, is also found on http://www.simegen.com/techtools/ where tutorials can be found.
Karen will be on AIM, as long as her computer allows her, prior to the chat and will do what she can to help everyone who wants to attend, "get connected."
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******TITLES ON AMAZON.COM******
Wildside Press has now released MOLT BROTHER and CITY OF A MILLION LEGENDS on Kindle, Nook, Apple, and all the new e-book formats. They are still available on Fictionwise.com PLUS in paper if you want new copies.
HOUSE OF ZEOR just went to press -- there will be ebook in all those formats, PLUS new paper POD on acid free paper.
UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER has been turned in, and will be back for proofing soon. We'll let you know when, but it will hit all formats as well.
Here's a the link to use that goes to the Jacqueline Lichtenberg titles on Amazon. If you can copy, paste and delete the carriage returns, use this link to buy anything on amazon and Sime~Gen Inc. gets a few cents toward our server fees.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D12%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D16%26field-keywords%3DJacqueline%2520Lichtenberg%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddigital-text&tag=rereadablebooksr&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
And Jean's SAVAGE EMPIRE will be available too.
Here's the link to Jean Lorrah's titles -- where you will find her Sime~Gen as soon as it comes available.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26x%3D17%26ref_%3Dnb_sb_noss%26y%3D11%26field-keywords%3DJean%2520Lorrah%26url%3Dsearch-alias%253Ddigital-text&tag=rereadablebooksr&linkCode=ur2&camp=1789&creative=390957
Our Lists aren't functioning well due to the spam load, so until we can move the server and get new List software, you can interact with us by dropping a note on the whatsnew.simegen.com blog or via facebook, twitter or any service you prefer.
Find all my services at http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com/ in the friendfeed box. (yes, I have to update that page but I'm working on the book text!)
I'm currently working on MAHOGANY TRINROSE.
I'm using the files that Karen MacLeod proofed up for Meisha Merlin before they collapsed.
We have turned in PERSONAL RECOGNIZANCE (my new Sime~Gen story set in the most modern setting yet) and 3 of Jean's Zhag and Tonyo stories for a DOUBLE - (like the old Ace Doubles) - printed back to back in the same volume.
We'll let you know when they come out.
All the Sime~Gen works (INCLUDING THE FARRIS CHANNEL) are now under contract to the Borgo imprint of Wildside Press, a slick modern operation that will make them available everywhere in every format -- EXCEPT in brick-n-mortar stores.
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******BORDERLANDS NEWS******
Borderlands Part 32, "On The Run," is now posted at
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/boom/index.html#part.32
Who's on the run? Well, new characters Dilena and Portia are on the run from Gen T, which doesn't like their lifestyle very much. No, they're both Gens. Sosu Nick is not actually on the run, but like Yellow-Dog Dingo, he's very truly run after, and by a rather unsavory character.
Poor Ambassador Tsibola is back in town, and at least four difficult interviews with different people send him on the run -- to his bed.Sidebars include the beginnings of a new Distect scare, this time out-T,and a scene where Cristal asks for advice (with thematic connections to one of the main plot threads). We also have Saag and Randayl, the Senator's Sime sons, exchanging stories, as well as Fennik and Tsibola having one of their brandy evenings, only without the brandy this time.
Feedback! We want feedback! Give us feedback! And then in due course you'll get Part 33, "What's Yours Is Mine."
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******JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL******
Have you been reading my blog, The House of Keon, at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/ ? It's about my various travels, and is currently about my recent visits to places of interest near home--what I call a semi-staycation. Well, until I go somewhere else, or unless and until photos from more of my earlier travels turn up, I will soon run out of material and leave that blog standing with all my previous posts. Next time I travel, I will of course add to that blog, but that probably won't be until summer 2011.
However, I will not be giving up blogging. Probably just about in time for the next issue of our newsletter, I expect to begin a new blog on a different topic associated with a project Jacqueline and I will start soon. Tune in next time to find out what it is!
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******NEWSLETTER NEWS******
NEW NEWS: We have a new way of accessing WHAT'S NEW on simegen.com It is a blog where you can read the monthly Newsletter and drop your own comments and news, tell us what you need done, or report problems with pages.
http://whatsnew..simegen.com/ Click in the right margin to follow this Newsletter, and the news will appear in your blogger.com account. Or you can use the RSS feed. If there's another follow-tool you would prefer, please e-mail simegen@simegen.com asking for it (give the URL) and we'll enable it. There are a few handy tools we haven't enabled yet, but they are available (such as feedburner).
Patric set this magical thing up on our server and Karen has posted the Newsletters from Jan 2009 to now, so you can access past news just by scrolling. Please visit our top page, simegen.com, and note that my Twitter scroll is there for you -- plus a very nice Writing Tips Twitter scroll. Click and read the entire scroll on Twitter.
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******JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING******
If you are on LinkedIn or Facebook, be sure to look up Jean Lorrah.
Jean's personal Twitter account is http://twitter.com/houseofkeon She tweets only when she has something more important to announce than that she got up in the morning.
She also has a daily Twitter account, http://twitter.com/TipsOnWriting That's right: tips on writing every single day.
Jean is taking a course on Marketing and Emerging Media, part of which requires learning to use even more social media.
You can see her photo album on Italy now at http://short.to/14bad
And finally, Jean's blog continues with weekly entries at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
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****** Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
Amazon.com has made Author Pages for Jacqueline http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Lichtenberg/e/B000APV900/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145159&sr=1-2-ent and me http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Lorrah/e/B000APACX0/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145011&sr=1-2-ent . Both pages are incomplete, not listing all the books we have available on the site, and neither has any comments or discussion going on. Still, they are available.
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More Amazon news: Amazon.com has just--without warning--eliminated all ebook downloads other than Kindle. The downside is that you can no longer download the ebooks of Jacqueline or my books that had been available, or the Nessie's Grotto books by Lois Wickstrom and me (you can still get the latter at Fictionwise). The upside is that Blood Will Tell and my four Star Trek novels have suddenly developed Kindle editions.
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Blatant commercial to keep simegen..com on the air.If you buy from Amazon using one of our search boxes at the bottoms of many of our pages, or find what you're looking for in our a-stores, we get a few cents to pay the bandwidth bills.
Our Amazon stores (we recommend buying directly from Amazon itself, not one of their onboard retailers unless you know the retailer very well -- we get paid the same, but have found better customer service with amazon.com shipments).
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keybooks/
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keygifts/ -- NEW STORE created to hold gift items specially useful to writers, both in writing and in just finding the TIME to write.
Also we now have Google ads on our main entry pages -- and they pay nicely when someone finds what they want via one of those ads. But don't click just to click -- click something that looks like what you really want.
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******NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE******
MY CURRENT MAIN EFFORTS:
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/downloads/
That is a page that needs redesigning, just as the /marketplace/ top page will.
We are preparing to make available in e-book and on paper, a set of 7 textbooks on writing, 5 of which are on philosophy, the wellspring of ideas and the bulwark against writer's block. The particular philosophy showcased is the structural framework behind Tarot, but you don't have to be interested in Tarot to use this information in writing or many other endeavors.
Novel and Screenwriting are both very much rooted in structure which becomes invisible when clothed in unique details.
Learning to perceive the underlying structure behind seething masses of detail is somewhat like learning to spot starfish against an underwater boulder full of barnacles.
It's pattern-recognition, a brain function we all have and sometimes fail to buff up. These first 5 volumes help train the mental "eye" in a kind of abstract "pattern recognition" that will serve to sharpen results in everything you do.
The final 2 (or possibly more) volumes are directed at readers and writers who want to understand the application of the pattern recognition principles showcased in the first 5 volumes. These volumes are designed to be of use specifically by writers, but writers working in fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting.
Currently, this project stands at the beginning of Volume #5, with several more weeks work to do on that volume, plus artwork and packaging efforts. This is a team effort that has absorbed Karen, Patric, Jean, me -- and others here -- for a year or more.
Some of these Tarot and Writing Lesson chapters have been posted to the blogs
http://www.editingcircle.blogspot.com/
And on Tuesdays where I post on
http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/
The better entries on these two blogs will be compiled and presented in PDF (or other e-book formats) plus, on paper.
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****** JEAN'S NEW ESSAYS ON WRITING
You can find an ongoing series of Jean's new essays, Secrets of Fiction Writing, at http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jean_Lorrah. There are eleven articles up, and I just turned in the twelfth yesterday. I hope to produce approximately one a week. These articles can be read directly on the Ezine Article website, or ezines are free to reprint them as long as they follow the Ezine Article rules.
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******COAL FOR CHRISTMAS RECEIVES ANOTHER AWARD **********
COAL FOR CHRISTMAS by Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah has been named an Official Selection in the KIDS FIRST! Film and Video Festival.
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******REREADABLE BOOKS******
ReReadable Books columns now posted through August 2010, and books to be reviewed are posted through 2010 and up to May 2011. Here are the links:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2010/
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
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****** Patric Michael (our Webmaster) is pleased to announce his NEXT publication!******
June 2, 2010 brought CONWAY'S CURSE -- the new work from Patric Michael, available from Dreamspinner Press http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/
Check out http://www.patricmichael.com/ for the Start of Something Great.
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******JOIN THE REVIEWERS
Jacqueline is developing a new way to find books to review -- via Twitter!
And with more people helping we could, perhaps, find more reviewers. I've been collecting people in writing, editing, publishing, and various parts of the film industry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I really could use some help with this. To connect with me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
To connect with me on Facebook --
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
To connect with me on LinkedIn --
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinelichtenberg
Karen MacLeod and Patric are also available on LinkedIn. We are moving gradually into the networking space and evaluating the uses of cloud computing. We need a new coordinator for the Reviews department who can work with the social networking tools.
For the moment we have only a few reviewers responding to the e-mail List, and I suspect that's the drift away from e-mail because of the spam load. We need to launch a blogspot blog for our Reviewers instead of a List, or perhaps establish a Group on Facebook.
I will continue to post books to be reviewed to the reviewers List as I discover them. As Coordinator of our Reviews Department, I ask for your help. With the current upsurge in e-book publishing that is sweeping the Internet, we daily receive an increasing number of books to review. Yet, in counterpoint, we have a shortage of reviewers, and many of our
reviews staff are several books behind. We are eagerly and actively seeking new people to review for us. As with all of Sime~Gen, our reviewers are volunteers. When they write a review, it is posted with their byline, and they get to keep the review copy of the books they have read and reviewed.
For more information on our Reviewers Agreement, visit:
http://www.simegen.com/agreements/revagr.html
Please help us by passing this information along to anyone you know who might want to join our happy band. If interested, they can send a note expressing their interest to Jean at simegen@simegen.com
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******NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
A SIME~GEN postage stamp is now available to order on cafe press. It can be used just as you would use a regular postage stamp. Be the first on YOUR block to have them!
We've got a new page for Cafe Press items from our artists and authors. Now you can get t-shirts, greeting cards, clocks, mugs, and other great stuff with work from your favorite artists. You can even buy books about Nessie, the Orange Forest Rabbit and The Reluctant Spy that aren't available anywhere else.
http://simegen.com/marketplace/cafepress/ is a direct link to all our items and merchandise stores. Use of this page will give the domain extra income. If there is an item that you wish to see that isn't offered, just write Lois at lois@lochness-monster.com and she'll get it ready for you to order.
******
******HELP WANTED*****
The spotlights section of Simegen.com currently needs interviewers, spotlight posting personnel, an assistant spotlights gatemaster, and a keygifts store manager. We are also requesting an Assistant Reviews Co-coordinator - duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect
activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are: A good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order), some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books. Direct all inquiries to simegen@simegen.com.
Individuals to take over, or assist with the SIMECENTER Site -- It isn't at all hard, but a bit time-consuming...and very rewarding ("meeting" these marvelous authors and artists, if only via E-Mail and their websites.) Please write me, Kaires Tevesu, if you are interested. People who talked to me earlier about helping: I've lost track of your communications in the throes of several changes of computer. PLEASE contact me again. The time is right, the templates are much more
robust, I have a small backlog of stories (the hardest part of operating SimeCenter), and I've even documented some of the processes. I'd like to talk to you again.
****** Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******PUBLICATION SCHEDULE********
We have had to withdraw the entire Sime~Gen project from Meisha Merlin for a wide range of reasons. They missed several deadlines for publication of TO KISS OR TO KILL and showed no signs of intention to get it out any time in the foreseeable future. That stalled everything else. It was very disappointing.
THE UNITY TRILOGY should continue to be available for some time -- they have the right to dispose of all stock in the
Meisha Merlin warehouse.
******
******AVAILABLE RELEASES***********
~ the Omnibus reprint of Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE: DARK MOON RISING --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210013X/rereadablebooksr/ is #1
in the reprint program.
~ Trade Paperback edition of DREAMSPY from BenBella Books and you can order
on Amazon and some other places
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932100253/rereadablebooksr/
Read the comments here:
http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/dreamspy/dreamspyreviews.html
~ SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210030X/rereadablebooksr/ is #2
in Jean Lorrah's and Winston Howlett's omnibus
reprint of the Savage Empire series.
Still Available in Trade Paperback, SIME~GEN: THE UNITY TRILOGY
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592220037/rereadablebooksr/
******
***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights: http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/
Chats: http://www.simegen..com/writers/spotlights/chat.html
Romance articles: http://www.simegen.com/romance/articles.html
Reviews of books by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Reviews: http://www.simegen.com/reviews/
Shopping: http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/
Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words
can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html
To sign up for classes, go to http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html
To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for
the latest openings.
******
To contact editor for any reason, please e-mail Lisa Saunders at
simegen@simegen.com
*Please Note all material posted on Official Virtual Tecton is copyright ©
by Sime~Gen Inc. and all rights are reserved..
To get your Sime~Gen(tm) material sanctioned for web posting or to get
permission to repost from official materials, e-mail ambrovzeor@aol.com, contact
simegen@simegen.com.
Sime~Gen (tm) is the trademark of a fictional universe copyright © by
Jacqueline Lichtenberg, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986 and
Sime~Gen Inc. 1999-2010
Thursday, November 18, 2010
House of Zeor reissue now available!!
I was just told today, 11/18/2010 at 1:15 PM Mountain Standard Time that House of Zeor is NOW AVAILABLE and they're sending me a sample paper copy.
As of 1:30 though, it's not yet showing on Amazon. Oh, being ahead of the electronic world is frustrating.
I'm well into the work assembling RENSIME for them. MAHOGANY TRINROSE is turned in as is UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER -- those 3 comprise the Digen Farris trilogy.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
As of 1:30 though, it's not yet showing on Amazon. Oh, being ahead of the electronic world is frustrating.
I'm well into the work assembling RENSIME for them. MAHOGANY TRINROSE is turned in as is UNTO ZEOR, FOREVER -- those 3 comprise the Digen Farris trilogy.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Monday, November 15, 2010
SIME~GEN now in all E-book formats
Folks:
Here is a link to the Jacqueline Lichtenberg page on Amazon where you will soon find HOUSE OF ZEOR, all the Sime~Gen reprints, plus the new Sime~Gen novels Jean Lorrah and I have been promising you.
J
And here's the link to Jean Lorrah's Amazon page (where you will also find some of my books cross-indexed; odd thing that!)
Jean Lorrah
Watch this blog for more info. All the Sime~Gen novels will be available in almost all e-book formats plus Print On Demand on acid free paper. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple ipad - whichever you choose you will find us there.
Free Chapters of my novels can be found through
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Free chapters of the Sime~Gen novels are still at
http://www.simegen.com/writers/simegen/ -- look on the left, click to read free chapters.
Drop a note on this blog if you'd like your comments on Sime~Gen included on the comments page at /writers/simegen/
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/jl/
Here is a link to the Jacqueline Lichtenberg page on Amazon where you will soon find HOUSE OF ZEOR, all the Sime~Gen reprints, plus the new Sime~Gen novels Jean Lorrah and I have been promising you.
J
And here's the link to Jean Lorrah's Amazon page (where you will also find some of my books cross-indexed; odd thing that!)
Jean Lorrah
Watch this blog for more info. All the Sime~Gen novels will be available in almost all e-book formats plus Print On Demand on acid free paper. Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple ipad - whichever you choose you will find us there.
Free Chapters of my novels can be found through
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com
Free chapters of the Sime~Gen novels are still at
http://www.simegen.com/writers/simegen/ -- look on the left, click to read free chapters.
Drop a note on this blog if you'd like your comments on Sime~Gen included on the comments page at /writers/simegen/
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/jl/
Sunday, October 17, 2010
Jacqueline Lichtenberg Collected
Folks:
Two volumes of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's short stories have been compiled and submitted for POD and various e-book formats to Wildside Press which also keeps my non-Sime~Gen galaxy spanning SF novels Molt Brother and City of a Million Legends available on fictionwise.com and amazon.
Jean Lorrah and I are currently working to compile NEW, never before published, material for one of Wildside's DOUBLES program.
Watch this blog for more information and links as they come available.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com For free chapters and current availability
Two volumes of Jacqueline Lichtenberg's short stories have been compiled and submitted for POD and various e-book formats to Wildside Press which also keeps my non-Sime~Gen galaxy spanning SF novels Molt Brother and City of a Million Legends available on fictionwise.com and amazon.
Jean Lorrah and I are currently working to compile NEW, never before published, material for one of Wildside's DOUBLES program.
Watch this blog for more information and links as they come available.
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com For free chapters and current availability
Monday, September 20, 2010
Where is JL?
For those wandering into this blog by accident, "JL" = Jacqueline Lichtenberg (me) and "Jean" = Jean Lorrah.
We are the owners and operators of Sime~Gen Inc. and simegen.com where many folks volunteer time and energy to support the creativity of other people. Geezerchick is one of the the most prolific contributors.
This blog carries the domain newsletter which is also available on a mailing list -- but spam has become too much of a burden for many people. So we've established this blog to carry news of the doings on the simegen.com domain and news by those contributing to the domain.
From September 23, 2010 through probably October 4th, I (JL) won't be online much, but you can contact Jean Lorrah by leaving a note on this blog.
Jean and I are brewing up a social-networks based initiative which will be supported by the simegen.com domain and provide some entertaining and informative resources for students of the art and craft of writing. We will explore all the aspects of human life and society that are necessary ingredients in construction of characters.
But we will also focus on what it takes to live as a professional writer. Your characters are part of your life!
Watch this blog or join us on twitter, facebook, linkedin, or your favorite aggregator such as friendfeed.com for the announcement of the new, dedicated blog, website and newsletter.
You will find links to all my social networks and blogs in the friendfeed.com box near the bottom of http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com -- you don't have to join friendfeed.com to use those links.
You can find Jean Lorrah via her homepage http://jeanlorrah.com
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/jl/ -- homepage with full biography & bibliography
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com -- current novels available, print & e-book
http://slantedconcept.com -- screenwriting projects in progress
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
We are the owners and operators of Sime~Gen Inc. and simegen.com where many folks volunteer time and energy to support the creativity of other people. Geezerchick is one of the the most prolific contributors.
This blog carries the domain newsletter which is also available on a mailing list -- but spam has become too much of a burden for many people. So we've established this blog to carry news of the doings on the simegen.com domain and news by those contributing to the domain.
From September 23, 2010 through probably October 4th, I (JL) won't be online much, but you can contact Jean Lorrah by leaving a note on this blog.
Jean and I are brewing up a social-networks based initiative which will be supported by the simegen.com domain and provide some entertaining and informative resources for students of the art and craft of writing. We will explore all the aspects of human life and society that are necessary ingredients in construction of characters.
But we will also focus on what it takes to live as a professional writer. Your characters are part of your life!
Watch this blog or join us on twitter, facebook, linkedin, or your favorite aggregator such as friendfeed.com for the announcement of the new, dedicated blog, website and newsletter.
You will find links to all my social networks and blogs in the friendfeed.com box near the bottom of http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com -- you don't have to join friendfeed.com to use those links.
You can find Jean Lorrah via her homepage http://jeanlorrah.com
Jacqueline Lichtenberg
http://www.simegen.com/jl/ -- homepage with full biography & bibliography
http://jacquelinelichtenberg.com -- current novels available, print & e-book
http://slantedconcept.com -- screenwriting projects in progress
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
Monday, September 13, 2010
Sime~Gen Perspectives Newsletter -- JULY/AUGUST 2010
Contents:
* SHORT SCRIPT CONTENDER
* BORDERLANDS NEWS
* JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL
* RELAY FOR LIFE
* NEWSLETTER NEWS
* JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
* NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE
* COAL FOR CHRISTMAS
* REREADABLE BOOKS
* PATRIC MICHAEL'S RECENT PUBLICATION
* JOIN THE REVIEWERS
* NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
* HELP WANTED
* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
* AVAILABLE RELEASES
* SITES TO REMEMBER
* SUBSCRIPTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
******SHORT SCRIPT CONTENDER from Jean Lorrah*******
Lois Wickstrom and I have noticed calls for short scripts, and new short script categories in contests, so we wrote a low-budget 18-page script called "The A Word." First time out, it was named an Official Selection of the AOF Festival in Pasadena. Then the script consultant we sent it to added it (with our permission) to a group of scripts she is sending to producers who approached her specifically looking for short scripts. We are entering it in every contest
with a short script category, and have high hopes for it.
******
******BORDERLANDS NEWS******
Borderlands Part 32, "On The Run," is now posted at
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/boom/index.html#part.32
Who's on the run? Well, new characters Dilena and Portia are on the run from Gen T, which doesn't like their lifestyle very much. No, they're both Gens. Sosu Nick is not actually on the run, but like Yellow-Dog Dingo, he's very truly run after, and by a rather unsavory character.
Poor Ambassador Tsibola is back in town, and at least four difficult interviews with different people send him on the run -- to his bed. Sidebars include the beginnings of a new Distect scare, this time out-T,and a scene where Cristal asks for advice (with thematic connections to one of the main plot threads). We also have Saag and Randayl, the Senator's Sime sons, exchanging stories, as well as Fennik and Tsibola having one of their brandy evenings, only without the brandy this time.
Feedback! We want feedback! Give us feedback! And then in due course you'll get Part 33, "What's Yours Is Mine."
******
******JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL******
Have you been reading my blog, The House of Keon, at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/ ? It's about my various travels, and is currently about my recent visits to places of interest near home--what I call a semi-staycation. Well, until I go somewhere else, or unless and until photos from more of my earlier travels turn up, I will soon run out of material and leave that blog standing with all my previous posts. Next time I travel, I will of course add to that
blog, but that probably won't be until summer 2011.
However, I will not be giving up blogging. Probably just about in time for the next issue of our newsletter, I expect to begin a new blog on a different topic associated with a project Jacqueline and I will start soon. Tune in next time to find out what it is!
******
******RELAY FOR LIFE ~ a message from Jean******
Our local Relay for Life is one of the earliest in the country. My team, the 8th Wonders (all breast cancer survivors) raised nearly $5000--and we would like to raise the rest before August to put us in the silver category (we are now at bronze). If you'd like to help push us over our goal, you can contribute online at http://short.to/12jf1 . The money goes directly to the American Cancer Society.
******
******NEWSLETTER NEWS******
NEW NEWS: We have a new way of accessing WHAT'S NEW on simegen.com It is a blog where you can read the monthly Newsletter and drop your own comments and news, tell us what you need done, or report problems with pages.
http://whatsnew..simegen.com/ Click in the right margin to follow this Newsletter, and the news will appear in your blogger.com account. Or you can use the RSS feed. If there's another follow-tool you would prefer, please e-mail simegen@simegen.com asking for it (give the URL) and we'll enable it. There are a few handy tools we haven't enabled yet,but they are available (such as feedburner).
Patric set this magical thing up on our server and Karen has posted the Newsletters from Jan 2009 to now, so you can access past news just by scrolling. Please visit our top page, simegen.com, and note that my Twitter scroll is there for you -- plus a very nice Writing Tips Twitter scroll. Click and read the entire scroll on Twitter.
******
******Advertisment*****
For fans of L. H. Young: I now write under Lisa Hannah Wells. You may find the latest news and information on my books and services at http://www.lisahannahwells.com/ or my Blog, http://authorlhyoung.wordpress.com/
*****Please Support Those Who Support Us*****
******JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING******
If you are on LinkedIn or Facebook, be sure to look up Jean Lorrah.
Jean's personal Twitter account is http://twitter.com/houseofkeon She tweets only when she has something more important to announce than that she got up in the morning.
She also has a daily Twitter account, http://twitter.com/TipsOnWriting That's right: tips on writing every single day.
Jean is taking a course on Marketing and Emerging Media, part of which requires learning to use even more social media.
You can see her photo album on Italy now at http://short.to/14bad
And finally, Jean's blog continues with weekly entries at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
******
****** Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
Amazon.com has made Author Pages for Jacqueline http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-
Lichtenberg/e/B000APV900/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145159&sr=1-2-ent and Jean Lorrah: http://www.amazon.com/Jean-
Lorrah/e/B000APACX0/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145011&sr=1-2-ent Both pages are incomplete, not listing all the books we have available on the site, and neither has any comments or discussion going on. Still, they are available.
_______________________________
More Amazon news: Amazon.com has just--without warning--eliminated all ebook downloads other than Kindle. The downside is that you can no longer download the ebooks of Jacqueline or Jean's books that had been available, or the Nessie's Grotto books by Lois Wickstrom and Jean (you can still get the latter at Fictionwise). The upside is that Blood Will Tell and Jean's four Star Trek novels have suddenly developed Kindle editions.
________________________________
Blatant commercial to keep simegen.com on the air.If you buy from Amazon using one of our search boxes at the bottoms of many of our pages, or find what you're looking for in our a-stores, we get a few cents to pay the bandwidth bills.
Our Amazon stores (we recommend buying directly from Amazon itself, not one of their onboard retailers unless you know the retailer very well -- we get paid the same, but have found better customer service with amazon.com shipments).
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keybooks/
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keygifts/ -- NEW STORE created to hold gift items specially useful to writers, both in writing and in just finding the TIME to write.
Also we now have Google ads on our main entry pages -- and they pay nicely when someone finds what they want via one of those ads. But don't click just to click -- click something that looks like what you really want.
******
******NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE******
MY CURRENT MAIN EFFORTS:
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/downloads/
That is a page that needs redesigning, just as the /marketplace/ top page will.
We are preparing to make available in e-book and on paper, a set of 7 textbooks on writing, 5 of which are on philosophy,the wellspring of ideas and the bulwark against writer's block. The particular philosophy showcased is the structural framework behind Tarot, but you don't have to be interested in Tarot to use this information in writing or many other endeavors.
Novel and Screenwriting are both very much rooted in structure which becomes invisible when clothed in unique details.
Learning to perceive the underlying structure behind seething masses of detail is somewhat like learning to spot starfish against an underwater boulder full of barnacles.
It's pattern-recognition, a brain function we all have and sometimes fail to buff up. These first 5 volumes help train the mental "eye" in a kind of abstract "pattern recognition" that will serve to sharpen results in everything you do.
The final 2 (or possibly more) volumes are directed at readers and writers who want to understand the application of the pattern recognition principles showcased in the first 5 volumes. These volumes are designed to be of use specifically by writers, but writers working in fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting.
Currently, this project stands at the beginning of Volume #5, with several more weeks work to do on that volume, plus artwork and packaging efforts. This is a team effort that has absorbed Karen, Patric, Jean, me -- and others here -- for a year or more.
Some of these Tarot and Writing Lesson chapters have been posted to the blogs
http://www.editingcircle.blogspot.com/ And on Tuesdays where I post on
http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/
The better entries on these two blogs will be compiled and presented in PDF (or other e-book formats) plus, on paper.
******
******COAL FOR CHRISTMAS**********
COAL FOR CHRISTMAS by Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah finished in the top ten family screenplays in the 2008 TheMovieDeal contest. http://www.themoviedeal.com/#/finalists/4532422034 Find the SCROLL icon at the lower left, and scroll down to see the top ten in each category.
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******REREADABLE BOOKS******
ReReadable Books columns now posted through August 2010, and books to be reviewed are posted through 2010 and up to May 2011. Here are the links:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2010/
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
******
****** Patric Michael (our Webmaster) is pleased to announce his recent publication!******
CONWAY'S CURSE -- the new work from Patric Michael, available from Dreamspinner Press
http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/
Check out http://www.patricmichael.com/ for the Start of Something Great.
*******
******JOIN THE REVIEWERS
Jacqueline is developing a new way to find books to review -- via Twitter!
And with more people helping we could, perhaps, find more reviewers. I've been collecting people in writing, editing, publishing, and various parts of the film industry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I really could use some help with this. To connect with me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
To connect with me on Facebook --
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
To connect with me on LinkedIn --
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinelichtenberg
Karen MacLeod and Patric are also available on LinkedIn. We are moving gradually into the networking space and evaluating the uses of cloud computing. We need a new coordinator for the Reviews department who can work with the social networking tools.
For the moment we have only a few reviewers responding to the e-mail List, and I suspect that's the drift away from e-mail because of the spam load. We need to launch a blogspot blog for our Reviewers instead of a List, or perhaps establish a Group on Facebook.
I will continue to post books to be reviewed to the reviewers List as I discover them. As Coordinator of our Reviews Department, I ask for your help. With the current upsurge in e-book publishing that is sweeping the Internet, we daily receive an increasing number of books to review. Yet, in counterpoint, we have a shortage of reviewers, and many of our reviews staff are several books behind. We are eagerly and actively seeking new people to review for us. As with all of Sime~Gen, our reviewers are volunteers. When they write a review, it is posted with their byline, and they get to keep the review copy of the books they have read and reviewed.
For more information on our Reviewers Agreement, visit:
http://www.simegen.com/agreements/revagr.html
Please help us by passing this information along to anyone you know who might want to join our happy band. If interested,they can send a note expressing their interest to Jean at simegen@simegen.com
******
******Advertisement******
Anyone shopping Amazon who wants to contribute to simegen.com without it costing them a cent, please start by using any of the Amazon Search boxes on our pages. Our top page has three really handy ones near the bottom.
http://www.simegen.com/
******Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
A SIME~GEN postage stamp is now available to order on cafe press. It can be used just as you would use a regular postage stamp. Be the first on YOUR block to have them!
We've got a new page for Cafe Press items from our artists and authors. Now you can get t-shirts, greeting cards, clocks, mugs, and other great stuff with work from your favorite artists. You can even buy books about Nessie, the Orange Forest Rabbit and The Reluctant Spy that aren't available anywhere else.
http://simegen.com/marketplace/cafepress/ is a direct link to all our items and merchandise stores. Use of this page will give the domain extra income. If there is an item that you wish to see that isn't offered, just write Lois at lois@lochness-monster.com and she'll get it ready for you to order.
******
******HELP WANTED*****
The spotlights section of Simegen.com currently needs interviewers, spotlight posting personnel, an assistant spotlights gatemaster, and a keygifts store manager. We are also requesting an Assistant Reviews Co-coordinator - duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect
activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are: A good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order), some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books. Direct all inquiries to simegen@simegen.com.
Individuals to take over, or assist with the SIMECENTER Site -- It isn't at all hard, but a bit time-consuming...and very rewarding ("meeting" these marvelous authors and artists, if only via E-Mail and their websites.) Please write me, Kaires Tevesu, if you are interested. People who talked to me earlier about helping: I've lost track of your communications in the throes of several changes of computer. PLEASE contact me again. The time is right, the templates are much more
robust, I have a small backlog of stories (the hardest part of operating SimeCenter), and I've even documented some of the processes. I'd like to talk to you again.
****** Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******PUBLICATION SCHEDULE********
We have had to withdraw the entire Sime~Gen project from Meisha Merlin for a wide range of reasons. They missed several deadlines for publication of TO KISS OR TO KILL and showed no signs of intention to get it out any time in the foreseeable future. That stalled everything else. It was very disappointing. So we are now actively in search of another publisher.
THE UNITY TRILOGY should continue to be available for some time -- they have the right to dispose of all stock in the Meisha Merlin warehouse.
******
******AVAILABLE RELEASES***********
~ the Omnibus reprint of Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE: DARK MOON RISING --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210013X/rereadablebooksr/ is #1
in the reprint program.
~ Trade Paperback edition of DREAMSPY from BenBella Books and you can order
on Amazon and some other places
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932100253/rereadablebooksr/
Read the comments here:
http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/dreamspy/dreamspyreviews.html
~ SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210030X/rereadablebooksr/ is #2
in Jean Lorrah's and Winston Howlett's omnibus reprint of the Savage Empire series.
Still Available in Trade Paperback, SIME~GEN: THE UNITY TRILOGY
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592220037/rereadablebooksr/
******
***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights: http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/
Chats: http://www.simegen..com/writers/spotlights/chat.html
Romance articles: http://www.simegen.com/romance/articles.html
Reviews of books by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Reviews: http://www.simegen.com/reviews/
Shopping: http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/
Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words
can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html
To sign up for classes, go to http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html
To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for
the latest openings.
******
To contact editor for any reason, please e-mail Lisa Saunders at
simegen@simegen.com
*Please Note all material posted on Official Virtual Tecton is copyright © by Sime~Gen Inc. and all rights are reserved.
To get your Sime~Gen(tm) material sanctioned for web posting or to get permission to repost from official materials, e-mail ambrovzeor@aol.com, contact simegen@simegen.com.
Sime~Gen (tm) is the trademark of a fictional universe copyright © by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986 and Sime~Gen Inc. 1999-2010
* SHORT SCRIPT CONTENDER
* BORDERLANDS NEWS
* JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL
* RELAY FOR LIFE
* NEWSLETTER NEWS
* JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
* NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE
* COAL FOR CHRISTMAS
* REREADABLE BOOKS
* PATRIC MICHAEL'S RECENT PUBLICATION
* JOIN THE REVIEWERS
* NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
* HELP WANTED
* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
* AVAILABLE RELEASES
* SITES TO REMEMBER
* SUBSCRIPTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
******SHORT SCRIPT CONTENDER from Jean Lorrah*******
Lois Wickstrom and I have noticed calls for short scripts, and new short script categories in contests, so we wrote a low-budget 18-page script called "The A Word." First time out, it was named an Official Selection of the AOF Festival in Pasadena. Then the script consultant we sent it to added it (with our permission) to a group of scripts she is sending to producers who approached her specifically looking for short scripts. We are entering it in every contest
with a short script category, and have high hopes for it.
******
******BORDERLANDS NEWS******
Borderlands Part 32, "On The Run," is now posted at
http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/boom/index.html#part.32
Who's on the run? Well, new characters Dilena and Portia are on the run from Gen T, which doesn't like their lifestyle very much. No, they're both Gens. Sosu Nick is not actually on the run, but like Yellow-Dog Dingo, he's very truly run after, and by a rather unsavory character.
Poor Ambassador Tsibola is back in town, and at least four difficult interviews with different people send him on the run -- to his bed. Sidebars include the beginnings of a new Distect scare, this time out-T,and a scene where Cristal asks for advice (with thematic connections to one of the main plot threads). We also have Saag and Randayl, the Senator's Sime sons, exchanging stories, as well as Fennik and Tsibola having one of their brandy evenings, only without the brandy this time.
Feedback! We want feedback! Give us feedback! And then in due course you'll get Part 33, "What's Yours Is Mine."
******
******JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL******
Have you been reading my blog, The House of Keon, at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/ ? It's about my various travels, and is currently about my recent visits to places of interest near home--what I call a semi-staycation. Well, until I go somewhere else, or unless and until photos from more of my earlier travels turn up, I will soon run out of material and leave that blog standing with all my previous posts. Next time I travel, I will of course add to that
blog, but that probably won't be until summer 2011.
However, I will not be giving up blogging. Probably just about in time for the next issue of our newsletter, I expect to begin a new blog on a different topic associated with a project Jacqueline and I will start soon. Tune in next time to find out what it is!
******
******RELAY FOR LIFE ~ a message from Jean******
Our local Relay for Life is one of the earliest in the country. My team, the 8th Wonders (all breast cancer survivors) raised nearly $5000--and we would like to raise the rest before August to put us in the silver category (we are now at bronze). If you'd like to help push us over our goal, you can contribute online at http://short.to/12jf1 . The money goes directly to the American Cancer Society.
******
******NEWSLETTER NEWS******
NEW NEWS: We have a new way of accessing WHAT'S NEW on simegen.com It is a blog where you can read the monthly Newsletter and drop your own comments and news, tell us what you need done, or report problems with pages.
http://whatsnew..simegen.com/ Click in the right margin to follow this Newsletter, and the news will appear in your blogger.com account. Or you can use the RSS feed. If there's another follow-tool you would prefer, please e-mail simegen@simegen.com asking for it (give the URL) and we'll enable it. There are a few handy tools we haven't enabled yet,but they are available (such as feedburner).
Patric set this magical thing up on our server and Karen has posted the Newsletters from Jan 2009 to now, so you can access past news just by scrolling. Please visit our top page, simegen.com, and note that my Twitter scroll is there for you -- plus a very nice Writing Tips Twitter scroll. Click and read the entire scroll on Twitter.
******
******Advertisment*****
For fans of L. H. Young: I now write under Lisa Hannah Wells. You may find the latest news and information on my books and services at http://www.lisahannahwells.com/ or my Blog, http://authorlhyoung.wordpress.com/
*****Please Support Those Who Support Us*****
******JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING******
If you are on LinkedIn or Facebook, be sure to look up Jean Lorrah.
Jean's personal Twitter account is http://twitter.com/houseofkeon She tweets only when she has something more important to announce than that she got up in the morning.
She also has a daily Twitter account, http://twitter.com/TipsOnWriting That's right: tips on writing every single day.
Jean is taking a course on Marketing and Emerging Media, part of which requires learning to use even more social media.
You can see her photo album on Italy now at http://short.to/14bad
And finally, Jean's blog continues with weekly entries at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
******
****** Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
Amazon.com has made Author Pages for Jacqueline http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-
Lichtenberg/e/B000APV900/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145159&sr=1-2-ent and Jean Lorrah: http://www.amazon.com/Jean-
Lorrah/e/B000APACX0/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145011&sr=1-2-ent Both pages are incomplete, not listing all the books we have available on the site, and neither has any comments or discussion going on. Still, they are available.
_______________________________
More Amazon news: Amazon.com has just--without warning--eliminated all ebook downloads other than Kindle. The downside is that you can no longer download the ebooks of Jacqueline or Jean's books that had been available, or the Nessie's Grotto books by Lois Wickstrom and Jean (you can still get the latter at Fictionwise). The upside is that Blood Will Tell and Jean's four Star Trek novels have suddenly developed Kindle editions.
________________________________
Blatant commercial to keep simegen.com on the air.If you buy from Amazon using one of our search boxes at the bottoms of many of our pages, or find what you're looking for in our a-stores, we get a few cents to pay the bandwidth bills.
Our Amazon stores (we recommend buying directly from Amazon itself, not one of their onboard retailers unless you know the retailer very well -- we get paid the same, but have found better customer service with amazon.com shipments).
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keybooks/
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keygifts/ -- NEW STORE created to hold gift items specially useful to writers, both in writing and in just finding the TIME to write.
Also we now have Google ads on our main entry pages -- and they pay nicely when someone finds what they want via one of those ads. But don't click just to click -- click something that looks like what you really want.
******
******NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE******
MY CURRENT MAIN EFFORTS:
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/downloads/
That is a page that needs redesigning, just as the /marketplace/ top page will.
We are preparing to make available in e-book and on paper, a set of 7 textbooks on writing, 5 of which are on philosophy,the wellspring of ideas and the bulwark against writer's block. The particular philosophy showcased is the structural framework behind Tarot, but you don't have to be interested in Tarot to use this information in writing or many other endeavors.
Novel and Screenwriting are both very much rooted in structure which becomes invisible when clothed in unique details.
Learning to perceive the underlying structure behind seething masses of detail is somewhat like learning to spot starfish against an underwater boulder full of barnacles.
It's pattern-recognition, a brain function we all have and sometimes fail to buff up. These first 5 volumes help train the mental "eye" in a kind of abstract "pattern recognition" that will serve to sharpen results in everything you do.
The final 2 (or possibly more) volumes are directed at readers and writers who want to understand the application of the pattern recognition principles showcased in the first 5 volumes. These volumes are designed to be of use specifically by writers, but writers working in fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting.
Currently, this project stands at the beginning of Volume #5, with several more weeks work to do on that volume, plus artwork and packaging efforts. This is a team effort that has absorbed Karen, Patric, Jean, me -- and others here -- for a year or more.
Some of these Tarot and Writing Lesson chapters have been posted to the blogs
http://www.editingcircle.blogspot.com/ And on Tuesdays where I post on
http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/
The better entries on these two blogs will be compiled and presented in PDF (or other e-book formats) plus, on paper.
******
******COAL FOR CHRISTMAS**********
COAL FOR CHRISTMAS by Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah finished in the top ten family screenplays in the 2008 TheMovieDeal contest. http://www.themoviedeal.com/#/finalists/4532422034 Find the SCROLL icon at the lower left, and scroll down to see the top ten in each category.
******
******REREADABLE BOOKS******
ReReadable Books columns now posted through August 2010, and books to be reviewed are posted through 2010 and up to May 2011. Here are the links:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2010/
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2011/
******
****** Patric Michael (our Webmaster) is pleased to announce his recent publication!******
CONWAY'S CURSE -- the new work from Patric Michael, available from Dreamspinner Press
http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com/
Check out http://www.patricmichael.com/ for the Start of Something Great.
*******
******JOIN THE REVIEWERS
Jacqueline is developing a new way to find books to review -- via Twitter!
And with more people helping we could, perhaps, find more reviewers. I've been collecting people in writing, editing, publishing, and various parts of the film industry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I really could use some help with this. To connect with me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
To connect with me on Facebook --
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
To connect with me on LinkedIn --
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinelichtenberg
Karen MacLeod and Patric are also available on LinkedIn. We are moving gradually into the networking space and evaluating the uses of cloud computing. We need a new coordinator for the Reviews department who can work with the social networking tools.
For the moment we have only a few reviewers responding to the e-mail List, and I suspect that's the drift away from e-mail because of the spam load. We need to launch a blogspot blog for our Reviewers instead of a List, or perhaps establish a Group on Facebook.
I will continue to post books to be reviewed to the reviewers List as I discover them. As Coordinator of our Reviews Department, I ask for your help. With the current upsurge in e-book publishing that is sweeping the Internet, we daily receive an increasing number of books to review. Yet, in counterpoint, we have a shortage of reviewers, and many of our reviews staff are several books behind. We are eagerly and actively seeking new people to review for us. As with all of Sime~Gen, our reviewers are volunteers. When they write a review, it is posted with their byline, and they get to keep the review copy of the books they have read and reviewed.
For more information on our Reviewers Agreement, visit:
http://www.simegen.com/agreements/revagr.html
Please help us by passing this information along to anyone you know who might want to join our happy band. If interested,they can send a note expressing their interest to Jean at simegen@simegen.com
******
******Advertisement******
Anyone shopping Amazon who wants to contribute to simegen.com without it costing them a cent, please start by using any of the Amazon Search boxes on our pages. Our top page has three really handy ones near the bottom.
http://www.simegen.com/
******Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
A SIME~GEN postage stamp is now available to order on cafe press. It can be used just as you would use a regular postage stamp. Be the first on YOUR block to have them!
We've got a new page for Cafe Press items from our artists and authors. Now you can get t-shirts, greeting cards, clocks, mugs, and other great stuff with work from your favorite artists. You can even buy books about Nessie, the Orange Forest Rabbit and The Reluctant Spy that aren't available anywhere else.
http://simegen.com/marketplace/cafepress/ is a direct link to all our items and merchandise stores. Use of this page will give the domain extra income. If there is an item that you wish to see that isn't offered, just write Lois at lois@lochness-monster.com and she'll get it ready for you to order.
******
******HELP WANTED*****
The spotlights section of Simegen.com currently needs interviewers, spotlight posting personnel, an assistant spotlights gatemaster, and a keygifts store manager. We are also requesting an Assistant Reviews Co-coordinator - duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect
activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are: A good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order), some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books. Direct all inquiries to simegen@simegen.com.
Individuals to take over, or assist with the SIMECENTER Site -- It isn't at all hard, but a bit time-consuming...and very rewarding ("meeting" these marvelous authors and artists, if only via E-Mail and their websites.) Please write me, Kaires Tevesu, if you are interested. People who talked to me earlier about helping: I've lost track of your communications in the throes of several changes of computer. PLEASE contact me again. The time is right, the templates are much more
robust, I have a small backlog of stories (the hardest part of operating SimeCenter), and I've even documented some of the processes. I'd like to talk to you again.
****** Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******PUBLICATION SCHEDULE********
We have had to withdraw the entire Sime~Gen project from Meisha Merlin for a wide range of reasons. They missed several deadlines for publication of TO KISS OR TO KILL and showed no signs of intention to get it out any time in the foreseeable future. That stalled everything else. It was very disappointing. So we are now actively in search of another publisher.
THE UNITY TRILOGY should continue to be available for some time -- they have the right to dispose of all stock in the Meisha Merlin warehouse.
******
******AVAILABLE RELEASES***********
~ the Omnibus reprint of Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE: DARK MOON RISING --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210013X/rereadablebooksr/ is #1
in the reprint program.
~ Trade Paperback edition of DREAMSPY from BenBella Books and you can order
on Amazon and some other places
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932100253/rereadablebooksr/
Read the comments here:
http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/dreamspy/dreamspyreviews.html
~ SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210030X/rereadablebooksr/ is #2
in Jean Lorrah's and Winston Howlett's omnibus reprint of the Savage Empire series.
Still Available in Trade Paperback, SIME~GEN: THE UNITY TRILOGY
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592220037/rereadablebooksr/
******
***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights: http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/
Chats: http://www.simegen..com/writers/spotlights/chat.html
Romance articles: http://www.simegen.com/romance/articles.html
Reviews of books by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Reviews: http://www.simegen.com/reviews/
Shopping: http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/
Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words
can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html
To sign up for classes, go to http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html
To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for
the latest openings.
******
To contact editor for any reason, please e-mail Lisa Saunders at
simegen@simegen.com
*Please Note all material posted on Official Virtual Tecton is copyright © by Sime~Gen Inc. and all rights are reserved.
To get your Sime~Gen(tm) material sanctioned for web posting or to get permission to repost from official materials, e-mail ambrovzeor@aol.com, contact simegen@simegen.com.
Sime~Gen (tm) is the trademark of a fictional universe copyright © by Jacqueline Lichtenberg, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986 and Sime~Gen Inc. 1999-2010
Monday, June 21, 2010
Sime~Gen Perspectives Newsletter -- MAY- JUNE 2010
Contents:
* BORDERLANDS NEWS
* JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL
* RELAY FOR LIFE
* NEWSLETTER NEWS
* JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
* NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE
* COAL FOR CHRISTMAS
* REREADABLE BOOKS
* PATRIC MICHAEL'S NEXT PUBLICATION
* JOIN THE REVIEWERS
* NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
* HELP WANTED
* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
* AVAILABLE RELEASES
* SITES TO REMEMBER
* SUBSCRIPTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
******BORDERLANDS NEWS******
Borderlands Part 32, "On The Run," is now posted at http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/boom/index.html#part.32
Who's on the run? Well, new characters Dilena and Portia are on the run from Gen T, which doesn't like their lifestyle very much. No, they're both Gens. Sosu Nick is not actually on the run, but like Yellow-Dog Dingo, he's very truly run after, and by a rather unsavory character.
Poor Ambassador Tsibola is back in town, and at least four difficult interviews with different people send him on the run -- to his bed.Sidebars include the beginnings of a new Distect scare, this time out-T,and a scene where Cristal asks for advice (with thematic connections to one of the main plot threads). We also have Saag and Randayl, the Senator's Sime sons, exchanging stories, as well as Fennik and Tsibola having one of their brandy evenings, only without the brandy this time.
Feedback! We want feedback! Give us feedback! And then in due course you'll get Part 33, "What's Yours Is Mine."
******
******JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL******
My blog for the month of May is about traveling with pets. Some of you may remember my little dog, Cuddles, who used to go to cons with me. Now my cat Dudley goes to MediaWest*Con every year. If you're at MediaWest, stop by the Empire Books table and say hello. Read my blog at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
_________________________________
I earned an A in my Marketing and Emerging Media course Spring Semester. One of the requirements was to build a website of several pages at webs.com. I took the opportunity to create a site about my pets, something I've intended to do for years. Find it at http://jeanlorrah.webs.com/index.htm
________________________________
New entries are up in Jean's blog......loads of pictures!
http://houseofkeon.blogspot.com/2009/12/italy-part-two-pompeii-and-herculane
um.html
India and Nepal--True Adventures
A journey into a new world, real events, wonders vs. hardships. Tips and
tricks for travelers. What to see. http://houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
******
******RELAY FOR LIFE ~ a message from Jean******
Our local Relay for Life is one of the earliest in the country. My team, the 8th Wonders (all breast cancer survivors) raised nearly $5000--and we would like to raise the rest before August to put us in the silver category (we are now at bronze). If you'd like to help push us over our goal, you can contribute online at http://short.to/12jf1 The money goes directly to the American Cancer Society.
******
******NEWSLETTER NEWS******
NEW NEWS: We have a new way of accessing WHAT'S NEW on simegen.com It is a blog where you can read the monthly Newsletter and drop your own comments and news, tell us what you need done, or report problems with pages.
http://whatsnew..simegen.com/ Click in the right margin to follow this Newsletter, and the news will appear in your blogger.com account. Or you can use the RSS feed. If there's another follow-tool you would prefer, please e-mail simegen@simegen.com asking for it (give the URL) and we'll enable it. There are a few handy tools we haven't enabled yet, but they are available (such as feedburner).
Patric set this magical thing up on our server and Karen has posted the Newsletters from Jan 2009 to now, so you can access past news just by scrolling. Please visit our top page, simegen.com, and note that my Twitter scroll is there for you -- plus a very nice Writing Tips Twitter scroll. Click and read the entire scroll on Twitter.
******
******Advertisment*****
When you enter the imagination of L. H. Young, you begin a fascinating ride, whether you are traveling the time stream with witches, finding love the stuff of legends with her wonderful vampires, traipsing across the universe with her Sci-fi, or going to school with four unusual teenagers born with the ability to heal by touch. Don’t forget that she even writes for the
imagination of the very young as seen in The Christmas Kitten.
http://www.authorlhyoung.com/
*****Please Support Those Who Support Us*****
******JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING******
If you are on LinkedIn or Facebook, be sure to look up Jean Lorrah.
Jean's personal Twitter account is http://twitter.com/houseofkeon She tweets only when she has something more important to announce than that she got up in the morning.
She also has a daily Twitter account, http://twitter.com/TipsOnWriting That's right: tips on writing every single day.
Jean is taking a course on Marketing and Emerging Media, part of which requires learning to use even more social media.
You can see her photo album on Italy now at http://short.to/14bad
And finally, Jean's blog continues with weekly entries at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
******
****** Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
Amazon.com has made Author Pages for Jacqueline http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Lichtenberg/e/B000APV900/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145159&sr=1-2-ent and Jean http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Lorrah/e/B000APACX0/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145011&sr=1-2-ent Both pages are incomplete, not listing all the books we have available on the site, and neither has any comments or discussion going on. Still, they are available.
_______________________________
More Amazon news: Amazon.com has just--without warning--eliminated all ebook downloads other than Kindle. The downside is that you can no longer download the ebooks of Jacqueline or Jean's books that had been available, or the Nessie's Grotto books by Lois Wickstrom and me (you can still get the latter at Fictionwise). The upside is that Blood Will Tell and Jean's four Star Trek novels have suddenly developed Kindle editions.
________________________________
Blatant commercial to keep simegen..com on the air.If you buy from Amazon using one of our search boxes at the bottoms of many of our pages, or find what you're looking for in our a-stores, we get a few cents to pay the bandwidth bills.
Our Amazon stores (we recommend buying directly from Amazon itself, not one of their onboard retailers unless you know the retailer very well -- we get paid the same, but have found better customer service with amazon.com shipments).
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keybooks/
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keygifts/ -- NEW STORE created to hold gift items specially useful to writers, both in writing and in just finding the TIME to write.
Also we now have Google ads on our main entry pages -- and they pay nicely when someone finds what they want via one of those ads. But don't click just to click -- click something that looks like what you really want.
******
******NEW PROJECT FOR JAQUELINE******
MY CURRENT MAIN EFFORTS:
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/downloads/
That is a page that needs redesigning, just as the /marketplace/ top page will.
We are preparing to make available in e-book and on paper, a set of 7 textbooks on writing, 5 of which are on philosophy, the wellspring of ideas and the bulwark against writer's block. The particular philosophy showcased is the structural framework behind Tarot, but you don't have to be interested in Tarot to use this information in writing or many other endeavors.
Novel and Screenwriting are both very much rooted in structure which becomes invisible when clothed in unique details.
Learning to perceive the underlying structure behind seething masses of detail is somewhat like learning to spot starfish against an underwater boulder full of barnacles.
It's pattern-recognition, a brain function we all have and sometimes fail to buff up. These first 5 volumes help train the mental "eye" in a kind of abstract "pattern recognition" that will serve to sharpen results in everything you do.
The final 2 (or possibly more) volumes are directed at readers and writers who want to understand the application of the pattern recognition principles showcased in the first 5 volumes. These volumes are designed to be of use specifically by writers, but writers working in fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting.
Currently, this project stands at the beginning of Volume #5, with several more weeks work to do on that volume, plus artwork and packaging efforts. This is a team effort that has absorbed Karen, Patric, Jean, me -- and others here -- for a year or more.
Some of these Tarot and Writing Lesson chapters have been posted to the blogs
http://www.editingcircle.blogspot.com/
And on Tuesdays where I post on
http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/
The better entries on these two blogs will be compiled and presented in PDF (or other e-book formats) plus, on paper.
******
******COAL FOR CHRISTMAS**********
COAL FOR CHRISTMAS by Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah finished in the top ten family screenplays in the 2008 TheMovieDeal
contest. http://www.themoviedeal.com/#/finalists/4532422034 Find the SCROLL icon at the lower left, and scroll down to
see the top ten in each category.
******
******REREADABLE BOOKS******
ReReadable Books columns for March, April and May 2010 now posted for free reading
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2010/
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BLOG WHERE THIS NEWSLETTER IS POSTED
http://whatsnew.simegen.com/ which is a neat way to avoid losing the Newsletter in spam.
******
****** Patric Michael (our Webmaster) is pleased to announce his NEXT publication!******
June 2, 2010 brings CONWAY'S CURSE -- the new work from Patric Michael, available from Dreamspinner Press http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com
Check out http://www.patricmichael.com/ for the Start of Something Great.
*******
******JOIN THE REVIEWERS
Jacqueline is developing a new way to find books to review -- via Twitter!
And with more people helping we could, perhaps, find more reviewers. I've been collecting people in writing, editing, publishing, and various parts of the film industry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I really could use some help with this. To connect with me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
To connect with me on Facebook --
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
To connect with me on LinkedIn --
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinelichtenberg
Karen MacLeod and Patric are also available on LinkedIn. We are moving gradually into the networking space and evaluating the uses of cloud computing. We need a new coordinator for the Reviews department who can work with the social networking tools.
For the moment we have only a few reviewers responding to the e-mail List, and I suspect that's the drift away from e-mail because of the spam load. We need to launch a blogspot blog for our Reviewers instead of a List, or perhaps establish a Group on Facebook.
I will continue to post books to be reviewed to the reviewers List as I discover them. As Coordinator of our Reviews Department, I ask for your help. With the current upsurge in e-book publishing that is sweeping the Internet, we daily receive an increasing number of books to review. Yet, in counterpoint, we have a shortage of reviewers, and many of our reviews staff are several books behind. We are eagerly and actively seeking new people to review for us. As with all of Sime~Gen, our reviewers are volunteers. When they write a review, it is posted with their byline, and they get to keep the review copy of the books they have read and reviewed.
For more information on our Reviewers Agreement, visit:
http://www.simegen.com/agreements/revagr.html
Please help us by passing this information along to anyone you know who might want to join our happy band. If interested, they can send a note expressing their interest to Jean at simegen@simegen.com
******
******Advertisement******
Anyone shopping Amazon who wants to contribute to simegen.com without it
costing them a cent, please start by using any of the Amazon Search boxes on
our pages. Our top page has three really handy ones near the bottom.
http://www.simegen.com/
******Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
A SIME~GEN postage stamp is now available to order on cafe press. It can be used just as you would use a regular postage stamp. Be the first on YOUR block to have them!
We've got a new page for Cafe Press items from our artists and authors. Now you can get t-shirts, greeting cards, clocks, mugs, and other great stuff with work from your favorite artists. You can even buy books about Nessie, the Orange Forest Rabbit and The Reluctant Spy that aren't available anywhere else.
http://simegen.com/marketplace/cafepress/ is a direct link to all our items and merchandise stores. Use of this page will give the domain extra income. If there is an item that you wish to see that isn't offered, just write Lois at lois@lochness-monster.com and she'll get it ready for you to order.
******
******HELP WANTED*****
The spotlights section of Simegen.com currently needs interviewers, spotlight posting personnel, an assistant spotlights gatemaster, and a keygifts store manager. We are also requesting an Assistant Reviews Co-coordinator - duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect
activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are: A good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order), some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books. Direct all inquiries to simegen@simegen.com.
Individuals to take over, or assist with the SIMECENTER Site -- It isn't at all hard, but a bit time-consuming...and very rewarding ("meeting" these marvelous authors and artists, if only via E-Mail and their websites.) Please write me, Kaires Tevesu, if you are interested. People who talked to me earlier about helping: I've lost track of your communications in the throes of several changes of computer. PLEASE contact me again. The time is right, the templates are much more
robust, I have a small backlog of stories (the hardest part of operating SimeCenter), and I've even documented some of the processes. I'd like to talk to you again.
****** Please Support Those Advertisers Who Support Us *****
******PUBLICATION SCHEDULE********
We have had to withdraw the entire Sime~Gen project from Meisha Merlin for a wide range of reasons. They missed several deadlines for publication of TO KISS OR TO KILL and showed no signs of intention to get it out any time in the foreseeable future. That stalled everything else. It was very disappointing. So we are now actively in search of another publisher.
THE UNITY TRILOGY should continue to be available for some time -- they have the right to dispose of all stock in the Meisha Merlin warehouse.
******
******AVAILABLE RELEASES***********
~ the Omnibus reprint of Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE: DARK MOON RISING --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210013X/rereadablebooksr/ is #1
in the reprint program.
~ Trade Paperback edition of DREAMSPY from BenBella Books and you can order
on Amazon and some other places
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932100253/rereadablebooksr/
Read the comments here:
http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/dreamspy/dreamspyreviews.html
~ SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210030X/rereadablebooksr/ is #2
in Jean Lorrah's and Winston Howlett's omnibus
reprint of the Savage Empire series.
Still Available in Trade Paperback, SIME~GEN: THE UNITY TRILOGY
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592220037/rereadablebooksr/
******
***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights: http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/
Chats: http://www.simegen..com/writers/spotlights/chat.html
Romance articles: http://www.simegen.com/romance/articles.html
Reviews of books by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Reviews: http://www.simegen.com/reviews/
Shopping: http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/
Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words
can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html
To sign up for classes, go to
http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html
To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for the latest openings.
******
To contact editor for any reason, please e-mail Lisa Saunders at
simegen@simegen.com
*Please Note all material posted on Official Virtual Tecton is copyright ©
by Sime~Gen Inc. and all rights are reserved.
To get your Sime~Gen(tm) material sanctioned for web posting or to get
permission to repost from official materials, e-mail ambrovzeor@aol.com, contact
simegen@simegen.com.
Sime~Gen (tm) is the trademark of a fictional universe copyright © by
Jacqueline Lichtenberg, 1969, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1984, 1986 and
Sime~Gen Inc. 1999-2010
* BORDERLANDS NEWS
* JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL
* RELAY FOR LIFE
* NEWSLETTER NEWS
* JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING
* Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
* NEW PROJECT FOR JACQUELINE
* COAL FOR CHRISTMAS
* REREADABLE BOOKS
* PATRIC MICHAEL'S NEXT PUBLICATION
* JOIN THE REVIEWERS
* NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
* HELP WANTED
* PUBLICATION SCHEDULE
* AVAILABLE RELEASES
* SITES TO REMEMBER
* SUBSCRIPTION AND CONTACT INFORMATION
**COPYRIGHT NOTICE**
******BORDERLANDS NEWS******
Borderlands Part 32, "On The Run," is now posted at http://www.simegen.com/sgfandom/fans/bev/boom/index.html#part.32
Who's on the run? Well, new characters Dilena and Portia are on the run from Gen T, which doesn't like their lifestyle very much. No, they're both Gens. Sosu Nick is not actually on the run, but like Yellow-Dog Dingo, he's very truly run after, and by a rather unsavory character.
Poor Ambassador Tsibola is back in town, and at least four difficult interviews with different people send him on the run -- to his bed.Sidebars include the beginnings of a new Distect scare, this time out-T,and a scene where Cristal asks for advice (with thematic connections to one of the main plot threads). We also have Saag and Randayl, the Senator's Sime sons, exchanging stories, as well as Fennik and Tsibola having one of their brandy evenings, only without the brandy this time.
Feedback! We want feedback! Give us feedback! And then in due course you'll get Part 33, "What's Yours Is Mine."
******
******JEAN PUBLISHES BLOG, WEBPAGE, AND JOURNAL******
My blog for the month of May is about traveling with pets. Some of you may remember my little dog, Cuddles, who used to go to cons with me. Now my cat Dudley goes to MediaWest*Con every year. If you're at MediaWest, stop by the Empire Books table and say hello. Read my blog at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
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I earned an A in my Marketing and Emerging Media course Spring Semester. One of the requirements was to build a website of several pages at webs.com. I took the opportunity to create a site about my pets, something I've intended to do for years. Find it at http://jeanlorrah.webs.com/index.htm
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New entries are up in Jean's blog......loads of pictures!
http://houseofkeon.blogspot.com/2009/12/italy-part-two-pompeii-and-herculane
um.html
India and Nepal--True Adventures
A journey into a new world, real events, wonders vs. hardships. Tips and
tricks for travelers. What to see. http://houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
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******RELAY FOR LIFE ~ a message from Jean******
Our local Relay for Life is one of the earliest in the country. My team, the 8th Wonders (all breast cancer survivors) raised nearly $5000--and we would like to raise the rest before August to put us in the silver category (we are now at bronze). If you'd like to help push us over our goal, you can contribute online at http://short.to/12jf1 The money goes directly to the American Cancer Society.
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******NEWSLETTER NEWS******
NEW NEWS: We have a new way of accessing WHAT'S NEW on simegen.com It is a blog where you can read the monthly Newsletter and drop your own comments and news, tell us what you need done, or report problems with pages.
http://whatsnew..simegen.com/ Click in the right margin to follow this Newsletter, and the news will appear in your blogger.com account. Or you can use the RSS feed. If there's another follow-tool you would prefer, please e-mail simegen@simegen.com asking for it (give the URL) and we'll enable it. There are a few handy tools we haven't enabled yet, but they are available (such as feedburner).
Patric set this magical thing up on our server and Karen has posted the Newsletters from Jan 2009 to now, so you can access past news just by scrolling. Please visit our top page, simegen.com, and note that my Twitter scroll is there for you -- plus a very nice Writing Tips Twitter scroll. Click and read the entire scroll on Twitter.
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******JEAN'S SOCIAL NETWORKING******
If you are on LinkedIn or Facebook, be sure to look up Jean Lorrah.
Jean's personal Twitter account is http://twitter.com/houseofkeon She tweets only when she has something more important to announce than that she got up in the morning.
She also has a daily Twitter account, http://twitter.com/TipsOnWriting That's right: tips on writing every single day.
Jean is taking a course on Marketing and Emerging Media, part of which requires learning to use even more social media.
You can see her photo album on Italy now at http://short.to/14bad
And finally, Jean's blog continues with weekly entries at http://www.houseofkeon.blogspot.com/
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****** Check our our new Amazon "Stores"
Amazon.com has made Author Pages for Jacqueline http://www.amazon.com/Jacqueline-Lichtenberg/e/B000APV900/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145159&sr=1-2-ent and Jean http://www.amazon.com/Jean-Lorrah/e/B000APACX0/ref=sr_tc_2_0?qid=1274145011&sr=1-2-ent Both pages are incomplete, not listing all the books we have available on the site, and neither has any comments or discussion going on. Still, they are available.
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More Amazon news: Amazon.com has just--without warning--eliminated all ebook downloads other than Kindle. The downside is that you can no longer download the ebooks of Jacqueline or Jean's books that had been available, or the Nessie's Grotto books by Lois Wickstrom and me (you can still get the latter at Fictionwise). The upside is that Blood Will Tell and Jean's four Star Trek novels have suddenly developed Kindle editions.
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Blatant commercial to keep simegen..com on the air.If you buy from Amazon using one of our search boxes at the bottoms of many of our pages, or find what you're looking for in our a-stores, we get a few cents to pay the bandwidth bills.
Our Amazon stores (we recommend buying directly from Amazon itself, not one of their onboard retailers unless you know the retailer very well -- we get paid the same, but have found better customer service with amazon.com shipments).
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keybooks/
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/keygifts/ -- NEW STORE created to hold gift items specially useful to writers, both in writing and in just finding the TIME to write.
Also we now have Google ads on our main entry pages -- and they pay nicely when someone finds what they want via one of those ads. But don't click just to click -- click something that looks like what you really want.
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******NEW PROJECT FOR JAQUELINE******
MY CURRENT MAIN EFFORTS:
http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/downloads/
That is a page that needs redesigning, just as the /marketplace/ top page will.
We are preparing to make available in e-book and on paper, a set of 7 textbooks on writing, 5 of which are on philosophy, the wellspring of ideas and the bulwark against writer's block. The particular philosophy showcased is the structural framework behind Tarot, but you don't have to be interested in Tarot to use this information in writing or many other endeavors.
Novel and Screenwriting are both very much rooted in structure which becomes invisible when clothed in unique details.
Learning to perceive the underlying structure behind seething masses of detail is somewhat like learning to spot starfish against an underwater boulder full of barnacles.
It's pattern-recognition, a brain function we all have and sometimes fail to buff up. These first 5 volumes help train the mental "eye" in a kind of abstract "pattern recognition" that will serve to sharpen results in everything you do.
The final 2 (or possibly more) volumes are directed at readers and writers who want to understand the application of the pattern recognition principles showcased in the first 5 volumes. These volumes are designed to be of use specifically by writers, but writers working in fiction, non-fiction, or screenwriting.
Currently, this project stands at the beginning of Volume #5, with several more weeks work to do on that volume, plus artwork and packaging efforts. This is a team effort that has absorbed Karen, Patric, Jean, me -- and others here -- for a year or more.
Some of these Tarot and Writing Lesson chapters have been posted to the blogs
http://www.editingcircle.blogspot.com/
And on Tuesdays where I post on
http://www.aliendjinnromances.blogspot.com/
The better entries on these two blogs will be compiled and presented in PDF (or other e-book formats) plus, on paper.
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******COAL FOR CHRISTMAS**********
COAL FOR CHRISTMAS by Lois Wickstrom and Jean Lorrah finished in the top ten family screenplays in the 2008 TheMovieDeal
contest. http://www.themoviedeal.com/#/finalists/4532422034 Find the SCROLL icon at the lower left, and scroll down to
see the top ten in each category.
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******REREADABLE BOOKS******
ReReadable Books columns for March, April and May 2010 now posted for free reading
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/2010/
PLEASE REMEMBER TO SUBSCRIBE TO OUR BLOG WHERE THIS NEWSLETTER IS POSTED
http://whatsnew.simegen.com/ which is a neat way to avoid losing the Newsletter in spam.
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****** Patric Michael (our Webmaster) is pleased to announce his NEXT publication!******
June 2, 2010 brings CONWAY'S CURSE -- the new work from Patric Michael, available from Dreamspinner Press http://www.dreamspinnerpress.com
Check out http://www.patricmichael.com/ for the Start of Something Great.
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******JOIN THE REVIEWERS
Jacqueline is developing a new way to find books to review -- via Twitter!
And with more people helping we could, perhaps, find more reviewers. I've been collecting people in writing, editing, publishing, and various parts of the film industry on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn.
I really could use some help with this. To connect with me on Twitter
http://twitter.com/jlichtenberg
To connect with me on Facebook --
http://facebook.com/jacqueline.lichtenberg
To connect with me on LinkedIn --
http://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinelichtenberg
Karen MacLeod and Patric are also available on LinkedIn. We are moving gradually into the networking space and evaluating the uses of cloud computing. We need a new coordinator for the Reviews department who can work with the social networking tools.
For the moment we have only a few reviewers responding to the e-mail List, and I suspect that's the drift away from e-mail because of the spam load. We need to launch a blogspot blog for our Reviewers instead of a List, or perhaps establish a Group on Facebook.
I will continue to post books to be reviewed to the reviewers List as I discover them. As Coordinator of our Reviews Department, I ask for your help. With the current upsurge in e-book publishing that is sweeping the Internet, we daily receive an increasing number of books to review. Yet, in counterpoint, we have a shortage of reviewers, and many of our reviews staff are several books behind. We are eagerly and actively seeking new people to review for us. As with all of Sime~Gen, our reviewers are volunteers. When they write a review, it is posted with their byline, and they get to keep the review copy of the books they have read and reviewed.
For more information on our Reviewers Agreement, visit:
http://www.simegen.com/agreements/revagr.html
Please help us by passing this information along to anyone you know who might want to join our happy band. If interested, they can send a note expressing their interest to Jean at simegen@simegen.com
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******NEW ITEMS FROM ARTISTS AND AUTHORS AT CAFE PRESS
A SIME~GEN postage stamp is now available to order on cafe press. It can be used just as you would use a regular postage stamp. Be the first on YOUR block to have them!
We've got a new page for Cafe Press items from our artists and authors. Now you can get t-shirts, greeting cards, clocks, mugs, and other great stuff with work from your favorite artists. You can even buy books about Nessie, the Orange Forest Rabbit and The Reluctant Spy that aren't available anywhere else.
http://simegen.com/marketplace/cafepress/ is a direct link to all our items and merchandise stores. Use of this page will give the domain extra income. If there is an item that you wish to see that isn't offered, just write Lois at lois@lochness-monster.com and she'll get it ready for you to order.
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******HELP WANTED*****
The spotlights section of Simegen.com currently needs interviewers, spotlight posting personnel, an assistant spotlights gatemaster, and a keygifts store manager. We are also requesting an Assistant Reviews Co-coordinator - duties include covering when other staff are unable to perform tasks. We are almost finished revamping our reviews section and expect
activity to be at a constant high level. We're looking for a versatile quick learner able to put in some time daily. Pluses are: A good command of the English language (syntax, grammar, punctuation, in that order), some computer experience or ability to learn, and an interest in books. Direct all inquiries to simegen@simegen.com.
Individuals to take over, or assist with the SIMECENTER Site -- It isn't at all hard, but a bit time-consuming...and very rewarding ("meeting" these marvelous authors and artists, if only via E-Mail and their websites.) Please write me, Kaires Tevesu, if you are interested. People who talked to me earlier about helping: I've lost track of your communications in the throes of several changes of computer. PLEASE contact me again. The time is right, the templates are much more
robust, I have a small backlog of stories (the hardest part of operating SimeCenter), and I've even documented some of the processes. I'd like to talk to you again.
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******PUBLICATION SCHEDULE********
We have had to withdraw the entire Sime~Gen project from Meisha Merlin for a wide range of reasons. They missed several deadlines for publication of TO KISS OR TO KILL and showed no signs of intention to get it out any time in the foreseeable future. That stalled everything else. It was very disappointing. So we are now actively in search of another publisher.
THE UNITY TRILOGY should continue to be available for some time -- they have the right to dispose of all stock in the Meisha Merlin warehouse.
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******AVAILABLE RELEASES***********
~ the Omnibus reprint of Jean Lorrah's SAVAGE EMPIRE: DARK MOON RISING --
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210013X/rereadablebooksr/ is #1
in the reprint program.
~ Trade Paperback edition of DREAMSPY from BenBella Books and you can order
on Amazon and some other places
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1932100253/rereadablebooksr/
Read the comments here:
http://www.simegen.com/writers/luren/dreamspy/dreamspyreviews.html
~ SAVAGE EMPIRE: PROPHECIES
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/193210030X/rereadablebooksr/ is #2
in Jean Lorrah's and Winston Howlett's omnibus
reprint of the Savage Empire series.
Still Available in Trade Paperback, SIME~GEN: THE UNITY TRILOGY
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1592220037/rereadablebooksr/
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***** Sites to Remember *****
Author spotlights: http://www.simegen.com/writers/spotlights/
Chats: http://www.simegen..com/writers/spotlights/chat.html
Romance articles: http://www.simegen.com/romance/articles.html
Reviews of books by Jacqueline Lichtenberg:
http://www.simegen.com/reviews/rereadablebooks/
Reviews: http://www.simegen.com/reviews/
Shopping: http://www.simegen.com/marketplace/
Sound files of Jacqueline Lichtenberg pronouncing Sime~Gen vocabulary words
can be found at http://www.simegen.com/jl/nivetsoundfiles/index.html
To sign up for classes, go to
http://www.simegen.com/school/SchoolForms.html
To volunteer, go to http://www.simegen.com/agreements/helpwanted.html for the latest openings.
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