Happy New Year!

A great New Year to you all! Hope it’s filled with adventures, calm, deep satisfaction, and new experiences.:)

That’s what I’m hoping for, I think. As usual, I’ll probably be going for it with all the enthusiasm of my little guy.

It’s been a big year for me – I spent a lot of it looking after my bub, some of it compiling our new motherhood Anthology, The Milk of Female Kindness, and some of it working in what must be admitted was a somewhat half-hearted fashion, considering everything else going on.

I think I need to take advantage of some of that calm I was talking about earlier to consider whether or not I will try and publish my short story collection this year. They are a rather eclectic mix, rather like me – science fiction, speculative fiction, and some which are probably best described just as ‘odd’.

Anyway, if you are looking for a new experience to start off with, I am currently running a Giveaway on Goodreads for The Milk of Female Kindness. It’s not a how-to guide, but a creative look at being a mother, with artwork, poetry, essays, stories and interviews. It will make you think. there are five paperback copies available to the lucky winners, and it’s free to enter, so pop over there and give it a shot! 🙂

 

Book giveaway – get in now!

Just a quick reminder that the Giveaway of my novel ‘The Artemis Effect’ is ending tomorrow, so if you’d like to win one of five paperback copies, please pop on over to Goodreads to enter!

 

Goodreads Book Giveaway

The Artemis Effect

by Kasia James

Giveaway ends January 29, 2013.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

I’ve been delighted with the number of people entering the Giveaway so far. Fingers crossed a few people will actually read and review it! 🙂

Book Giveaway!

To celebrate some lovely reviews I’ve had lately (which I will reblog for those interested after this post), I’m holding a Goodreads Giveaway! There are five paperback copies of ‘The Artemis Effect’ up for grabs in many countries around the world, so if you’ve been tempted to give it a go, here is your chance!

The Artemis Effect

by Kasia James

Giveaway ends January 29, 2013.

See the giveaway details
at Goodreads.

Enter to win

If you’re not yet a member of Goodreads, don’t despair. It’s free to join,and you may just meet some other people with similar reading interests. 🙂

Life, Writing and Everything update

Well, having given in and had a good whinge about the lack of time for writing, I had a terrific response with suggestions on how to kick the writing blues.

I’d like to sincerely thank everyone who responded, becauset it really has made a difference. I haven’t yet had a chance to put all the suggestions into practice, but I have been seizing more of those half hours, and prioritising my writing more.  Hence,  since that post a couple of weeks ago, I’ve managed to:

• Usefully edit a short story I wrote a while ago,
• Write half of a new short story,
• Start updating my Goodreads status,
• Written various zombie themed haiku, and submitted them to a publication which was after that type of thing,
• Investigate other avenues for short story submissions,
• Started keeping a small notebook, to record ideas and keep a writing ‘to-do’ list (at opposite ends of the notebook, so the practical doesn’t pollute the fanciful),
• Write a blog post or two, and most importantly
• Finish the final edit of my novel!

I’m particularly excited about that last item – it’s been such a long slog, and it’s terrific to finally get there.  Just some formatting for e-book, and final tweaks to the cover art, and it will be ready to be released on an unsuspecting world.

So thanks again everyone. I badly needed a kick to get things rolling again, and you were inspirational.