Busy, busy, busy

07Feb10

Hi all,

We’ve had a very busy week and this coming week promises to be just as busy.

I lost a dear friend to a long-fought battle with cancer last weekend. She was a wonderful artist, mother, grandmother, friend and educator — I say educator instead of teacher because she wasn’t the type to walk in the class room, teach, walk out and go on to the next lesson. She made connections with her kids and took every opportunity to reach out to them. She was enthusiastic about everything — everything — to a point that it was sometimes even annoying. For example, I’m not a morning person and she was an all-day person. We’d sit together on the bus on the way to school every morning and while I was trying to keep my eyes open she would be finding beauty in everything, saying things like, ”Heidi, look at how beautiful the colors in those clouds are. Isn’t it just lovely?” If I could manage a reply at all it would often be something along the lines of, “How can you be so awake and happy this early?” to which she would smile and ask me how I can not be happy on such a beautiful morning *sigh*

She was a wonderful lady and although she’d had cancer for as long as I’d known her — which is going on 12 years now — she’d always fought and fought hard. As the cancer moved from place to place in her body it just seemed like she would go on fighting forever. So – as ridiculous as it sounds considering how long she had cancer and how serious her cancer was — it was still a surprise to wake up last Sunday and hear that she’d passed away.

Her son is actually married to a friend of mine and they’re currently here from the UK with their 2 small children, so our house has been and will be full of guests until Wednesday. We’re also all battling head colds :P So when you add runny noses and guests to a 6 week old baby I’m working      s-l-o-w-l-y. 

So, the plans for this week:

1. Spend more time with my friend before she goes back to the UK on Wednesday.

2. Doctor visits on Monday.

3. Buy presents and plan 2 parties for kidlet who turns 6 on Friday (1 at daycare in the morning and 1 with the family at night).

4. Get started on editing 3 connected novellas.

5. Get answers to about 5 authors who are waiting to hear on submissions sitting with me.

6. There’s probably a ton of stuff I’m forgetting but I’m going to stop here because if this list gets any longer I’m going back to bed

have a great week y’all

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Call for submissions for Samhain Publishing’s Red Hot Winter Anthology

02Feb10

Samhain Publishing’s Red Hot Winter Anthology

Does the thought of winter gives you the chills? How about a red-hot novella with a sexy hero (or two) to warm you up?
I’m very pleased to announce an open call for submissions for a new, yet-to-be-titled Winter 2011 Red Hot anthology. I’m looking for winter-themed contemporary stories that are hot enough to melt the snow outside. I’m open to having some paranormal elements, some suspense or comedy thrown in, as long as the stories are red hot! M/F, M/M or multiples thereof are all welcome, but the story must have a happily ever after or happy for now.

The anthology will include novellas from 20,000 to 25,000 words in length and will be released individually as separate ebooks in January 2011 and will be combined as one print title for Winter 2011 print release.

Submissions are open to all authors, published with Samhain or aspiring to be published with Samhain. All submissions must be new material—previously published submissions will not be considered. Additionally, manuscripts previously submitted, whether individually or for past anthologies, will not be considered either. Please be aware that manuscripts submitted to this anthology cannot be resubmitted at a later date unless by invitation from an editor. However, submissions with merit for possible publication at Samhain are and will be passed to interested Samhain editors even if not chosen for the Red Hot Winter Anthology.

To submit a manuscript for consideration please include:
The full manuscript (of 20,000 to 25,000 words) with a comprehensive 2-5 page synopsis. Please include a letter of introduction/query letter. Full manuscripts are required for this as it’s a special project.

Also, when you send your manuscript, please be sure to use the naming convention RedHot_Winter_Title and RedHot_Winter_Title_Synopsis.

Submissions are open until June 1, 2010 and the final decisions will be made by June 30, 2010. Please send your submission to editor@samhainpublishing.com and include Red Hot Winter Anthology in the subject line.

Questions can be addressed to Heidi Moore at heidi@samhainpublishing.com

Please note, we are not accepting multiple submissions for this anthology. However, if you already have a manuscript under consideration as a general submission with Samhain and would also like to send in a submission to this anthology, please do so.  

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Our New Addition

27Jan10

Not too happy after being pulled out in a cold operating room.

Getting ready to go home.

Home in bed

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Anticipation

24Jan10

Can I just say how ridiculously excited I am about this movie:

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MIA

20Dec09

Yeah, I know I’ve been MIA for ages and probably will be for a while yet…

See, I’ve been busy — doing really important things like growing a baby

I’m going into hospital tomorrow and the baby will be born on Tuesday morning. So although I’ll be spending this Xmas in the hospital, I’m getting a pretty great gift out of it all

MERRY XMAS all!!!

And I’ll be back sometime in a few weeks with a picture or of the new addition to family.

cheers

Heidi

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