The Cult of Ellen

I has it!

*beam*

For those of you who are interested, it are here and includes reviews of my friends, RJ Smith (not a 'he'), DJ Muir, SJ Cooper, and Marie Prior aka Fred (a much finer name). Also alasdair1076.

Okay, so my review is this:

With its local denizens attuned to the land’s darker mysteries, Ellen J. Allen’s “Day Trippers” brings to mind the pub customers in the original An American Werewolf in London. A ravening werewolf seems hackneyed nowadays, but Allen’s mythological beast is far more interesting, both in its origins and its desires. A fresh plot and smart, pitch-perfect dialog make “Day Trippers” one hell of a good read.

I'm happy! *big grin*

If anyone wants to know more about the beast, let me know. :)

I got a review!

*squee*

And it was good! *happy dance of much frog-in-blenderness*

Okay, it might not be such a big deal for the pro writers on my f-list. Still, it's a review of the second story I've ever had published. ( It makes me happy. )

The rest of Hub's flash fiction special is reviewed too, with decent reviews going to our rhube and stevecooperorg, and the best review going to our very own alasdair1076. Hurrah!

I can has MacBook! Courtesy of the love of my life, I have a very sleek matt-black 13" 2.2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo 4Gb 667MHz DDR2 SDRAM laptop sitting beside me. Called Armitage (points for spotting the reference). I freely confess I am an Apple fan. I love their stuff, especially on the rare occasions when their stuff becomes my stuff. I love the attention to detail, the little touches which make things, all in all, a joy to use. In short, I squee.

This... is gorgeous. And one of the very first things I did - right after running software update and turning on the firewall - was to buy a copy of Scrivener. This morning, I began work on the import of Squirrels In Space. So it may finally get the edit it needs! And then there's Thunder Moon to finish in first draft, and several short stories to complete, and a couple of reviews to write.

Oh, and just because I can, I've set up a project for keeping track of wedding stuff. How sad am I? Very! And I don't care. I have lots of squee today, so if any of you are feeling short on squee, give me a shout and I'll send some over.

Counting down: hen do - 10 days, flight out - 22 days, wedding - 30 days.

Squeeeee!