New Short Story Ebook: Beauty’s Folly

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This week’s new ebook is my novelette, “Beauty’s Folly.” Originally published in OSC’s InterGalactic Medicine Show, #5, July 2007, I’m thrilled to be able to use the original, fabulous illustration by Liz Clarke as the cover.

Story synopsis:

When the fortunes of Annabel’s father took a dramatic downturn, they were plunged into sudden poverty, forced to move from their lavish estate to the slums of New York. One day, Annabel is drawn by an otherworldly melody to strike up a conversation with an alley panhandler. Eloy is a strange man with beastly features. He unnerves her with his abrupt marriage proposal, astonishing her further with his lavish gifts. He whisks Annabel’s father to a strange, magical manor, only releasing him when she agrees to take his place.

A modern retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

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Tweets for the Week of 06-24-2013

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Standing With Wendy

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While I am fiery-passionate about my political and ethical views, it’s been a LONG while since I’ve felt anything but weary resignation, watching the rise of disenfranchising political movements as they strip away my rights, my freedoms, my very voice. It hasn’t made for great impetus to speak out, or about, what I believe in. After all, it’s exhausting throwing oneself again and again into a futile fray, and I am so very tired these days. But what happened last night in the Texas legislature was absolutely inspiring—both the strength and conviction that enabled one woman to stand up and speak, without eating, resting, taking any sort of a break, for nearly 13 hours to prove that an individual can make a difference, as well as the groundswell of support from the people, the public to see it through to the end. Not a mob but a united front, a force and power that demanded to be heard. A voice.

Thank you Wendy Davis, Texas demonstrators at the state capitol, and everyone who stood with Wendy for reminding me that to be heard, we must speak. And thank you as well for restoring a little bit of faith in this jaded, cynical heart. You were all an inspiration. Continue reading →

New Short Story Ebook: Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo

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This week’s new ebook is “Requiem Duet, Concerto for Flute and Voodoo.” Originally published in Daily Science Fiction, Sept. 2011.

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Zoë hears voices, three of them. She always has, even before her father died and she had to move to New Orleans. They tell her things, help her when she’s in trouble, and warn her when danger’s nearby. So she doesn’t understand when they advise her to trust Maurin, the strange voodoo man who asks for her still-beating heart in exchange for his help in repairing her most treasured keepsake, her father’s bone flute.

A story about friendship and grief, and how sometimes you have to lose your heart to find it.

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Tweets for the Week of 06-17-2013

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New Short Story Ebook: Nothing of Me

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So I’m finally getting around to releasing more of my previously published stories as a la carte ebooks. I’ll be publishing one a week starting today and going through July for the low, low price of $0.99.

This week’s story is “Nothing of Me.” Originally published in the Bram Stoker Award-nominated anthology Aegri Somnia, it’s my take on the Scylla and Charybdis Greek myth.
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Tweets for the Week of 05-31-2013

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  • Woke up an hour before alarm but only managed 400 words on novel today. Obviously, not enough coffee. 21:09:41, 2013-05-31
  • Clicking through latest SFWA kerfuffle, find myself wondering: Why again CAN'T I stab people with a fork? Then remember: Oh right, felony… 08:47:28, 2013-06-01
  • Guh. Stuck on scene transition. Been spinning gears for last hour; got nothing. Time to step away from laptop, recharge drained inspiration. 14:28:40, 2013-06-01
  • This is your brain; this is your brain on writing: Amazing Facts on Writing and How it Affects Our Brain http://t.co/3d1nmNWevp 11:36:38, 2013-06-02
  • Received a jar of fresh organic honey at work. Coming home on train with it, head fills with disaster scenarios…all of them sticky. 18:23:32, 2013-06-03
  • Yay! Made it home with my jar of honey without any of my (sticky) disaster scenarios happening. 19:14:47, 2013-06-03
  • Skipped bridge scene I was stuck on in novel, began next chapter, and words happened: 1.3K of them. AND bridge worked itself out, too. Rah! 18:06:20, 2013-06-04
  • Doing research for novel leads me to conclude I need a binturong. 21:40:35, 2013-06-04
  • I'm awed by the beautiful whimsy of these works and blown away by the skill and phenomenal perspective of the artist: http://t.co/zExNKndez4 11:30:05, 2013-06-05

Tweets For 2013-05-24 to 2013-05-30

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Happy 2013! No Resolutions. Well, maybe just one.

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This is normally when I look back over the previous year and make some resolutions for the new one, but I’m sort of off resolutions. It’s not that I don’t have any goals or good intentions to enumerate. To the contrary, I have many items I’d like to accomplish, improvements I’d like to make, tasks I want to complete. But coming off of 2012, I find I made all my deadlines and am caught up on my urgently outstanding to-do items. Aside from feeling like I should beware the impending Apocalypse, it makes me realize that I haven’t found resolutions all that helpful. When a deadline pops up, I’ll work my ass off to meet it because that’s what I do with deadlines. When a project lands on my plate, ditto ass ditto off ditto just ‘cuz. And I’m fully aware of personal items I’d like to address with an eye towards improvement as they’re largely the same ones dogging me most if not all my life. Me making a list isn’t going to up my motivation or change my work habits, or at least it certainly hasn’t up to this point.

So I’m going to skip the resolution list-making. Instead, I’ll just resolve to do my best, and if/when my best doesn’t pan out the way I’d like, I resolve not to let it get to me.

In lieu of a list of resolutions, herein a rundown of my work published in 2012:

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*reprint
†free fiction

New WordPress Websites (instead of writing)

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So instead of working on the stories I’ve got on my plate, including one with a  scary-looming deadline, I’ve been doing some WordPress web development. For three websites actually:

  • Created a website for a new novelist: CateCampbell.net.
  • Made a new website for my good friend and talented photographer/filmmaker, Patrick Roberts…which isn’t quite done yet.
  • And, ta dah, overhauled my own site, EugieFoster.com

Was getting pretty tired of having to keep patching up the hacks I made to my last theme, and WordPress has implemented some nice functionality in the recent upgrade series that I hadn’t been able to take advantage of, like drag-n-drop custom menus (!), so it was time. Streamlined the backend of my site’s organization as well to make it faster to update.

Shiny?

Okay, enough with the excuses. Back to the stare down with my current story deadline…