Contest Time!

You can win a copy of Twilight and Thorns or a copy of "Miskatonic Mistletoe." 

Just go to http://www.angelsparrow.com and go to the contest page.  You can enter both, but you can only win one.

Twilight and Thorns is an amazing anthology with stories by seven very talented people and yours truly.  My first non-smut sale!  Ends Dec 21

"Miskatonic Mistletoe" is the fourth of the gay Christmas werewolves and their adventures.  This time, it's a Lovecraft pastiche.  Ends Dec 24.

Pop over and send the e-mail!

Because I've mailed out two stories in the last week

1. Go to the Wikipedia home page and click random article. That is your band's name.
2. Click random article again; that is your album name.
3. Click random article 15 more times; those are the tracks on your album.

The band is called Alseid

The Hilario Ulloa album features glen and grove nymphs scaring the daylights out of travelers, one of whom looks like the President of Nicaragua ca 1939.

Tracks on the Album:
1) Portrait in Jazz (instrumental)
2) Vaughan Secondary School (teen-age death song)
3) Genbu sotojutsu (j-pop)
4) Roy Abell (mountain ballad)
5) Seneca Rocks (uses Seneca tribe drummers)
6) 2007 Caribbean Series (reggae)
7) Dean Potter (basic pop)
8) Wrapping Paper (cover of the Cream song)
9) Merricks Beach Foreshore Reserve (Flogging Molly tribute, sounds a lot like "Queen Anne's Revenge")
10) Yr Elen (Celtic lament, sung in Welsh)
11) Samothrace (Greek folk music)
12) Joy Leftow (riot grrl power anthem)
13) Loewy (80's style power ballad)
14) Nepticulidae (a sea chanty)
15) Línea Coahuila Durango (samba)

Obviously a girl-group, Hilario Ulloa marks Alseid's attempt to break out of the pop mold and go eclectic. With styles as diverse as jazz and J-pop,Cream covers, Celtic laments and Latin sambas, this album is a fan-pleaser, but a cataloguing nightmare.

A December round up

( a lot of pointless rambling )