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Date: 2009-11-20 15:57
Subject: Free Download of Telepaths Don't Need Safewords!
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So, many of you reading this blog know my very first book way back when (18 years ago, to be exact) was a self-published chapbook called Telepaths Don't Need Safewords. The chapbook eventually sold thousands of copies, but it has been out of print for several years now.

Circlet.com is releasing an ebook edition of it now, and until the end of November, it's FREE. You still have to go through Circlet's shopping cart to get the download, but you pay nothing!

I figure now is a good time to do this because an ebook from Torquere Press is coming in a few weeks that features Arshan as the main character, and it's something of a prequel. May as well remind people what that original first short story was like.

The ebook includes all three stories from the original collection:

Telepaths Don't Need Safewords
A tale of Arshan and Mriah, an established couple attending a glitzy, decadent BDSM costume party, and the adventures and trouble they run into there. What no one there knows is that they have a secret, a telepathic bond that allows them to read each other's thoughts and share feelings.

Cat Scratch Fever
As humans attempt to gain a foothold on an exotic and alien planet, their leader finds taming a cat-like female alien the key to establishing peace.

Heart's Desire
A lonely domme hosts a play party, where everyone takes on a fantasy role. But reality can be so much more painful, and so much sweeter.

Download your copy in PDF form today and tell your friends!
http://tinyurl.com/telepaths

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-18 22:51
Subject: Carpool to or from Transcending Boundaries?
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Just checking if anyone might be able to help an author who finds herself sans wheels for the weekend to get to and from the Transcending Boundaries conference in Worcester, MA on Saturday? I'm in the Porter Square area of Cambridge.

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-18 22:50
Subject: DGC experiment going well so far...
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So far so good on the launch of Daron's Guitar Chronicles! New posts appeared as planned on Monday and Today, and another will come Friday! New posts will be every M/W/F barring unforeseen circumstances like alien invasion or power outage that knocks us off the net.

I've been having fun making links to references in the text to things from the 1980s, bands and celebrities, places in Providence and Boston, and other such things, as well as embeddding Youtube videos, or at least linking to them, where appropriate. I hope people are having fun with it!

The site is here:
http://daron.ceciliatan.com

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-16 14:41
Subject: Transcending Boundaries Panel on Bisexuality!
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So, I'm moderating a panel at this weekend's Transcending Boundaries conference in Worcester (for bi, poly, queer, etc. activists) called BISEXUALS: ARE WE INVISIBLE?

I think the panel still needs a few more members, so if you're attending and have opinions you'd like to voice on the following topic, please let me know. If you're not registered for the conference, you still can!

Panel description:
Twenty years ago, no queer organization wanted to include the letter "B" in their alphabet soup. Now, it's included as a matter of course, but is being taken for granted just a new form of invisibility? Time after time we hear of "gay" celebrities who are re-labeled from straight to homosexual if their taste for the same sex becomes public. Why is the possibility of bisexuality not even considered by the newsmedia? Has "pansexual" replaced "bisexual" in activist terms and is this a good thing? Are we clinging to a dated concept that hasn't caught on in the mainstream because it's too hard to explain? Or is it just that we've been marching in place while the rest of the LGBTQ movement seems to be moving forward? Has the lack of a newsworthy and legislatively focused topic like "gay marriage" hurt our movement? What is our movement anyway? Having established a seat at the table in lesbian/gay-dominated politics, is it time to look outward to education and changing the perceptions of the general public? Who are our best allies and what other coalition-building can we use to ensure that bisexuality as a valid identity and lifestyle choice is neither excluded nor taken for granted?

Comments here are also welcome on the topic, too.

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-15 19:08
Subject: New ebook cover! Yum!
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For obvious reasons... just had to share the cover design of my next book with you all...

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It's a BDSM novella called "Royal Treatment" which is a prequel to Telepaths Don't Need Safewords. (Telepaths is out of print but I will release my own ebook that includes it very soon now, for those who haven't read it already.) ROYAL TREATMENT will be out soon from Torquere Press in their "Highball" line.

Yes, that's meant to be Arshan on the cover. Looks like him, doesn't it? I got lucky and was able to point the cover designer at that image on a stock photography web site. Yes, I love it and am drooling. And yes, I know Arsh is a dom, but when you see what he goes through in this book... well, more on that when we have an actual book! I'll link as soon as its available for sale!

Larger size view: below the cut )

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-13 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 03:23 Actually in bed before 4am first time this week. Three pieces edited and turned in on Yankees Annual. More tomorrow. Sleep Now. #
  • 13:13 Apparently I should have put the humidifier on last night. Massive sinus headache this morning. It's on now, and new filters ordered. Oy. #
  • 15:29 Totally awesome (mostly) acoustic cover of "Poker Face" from @molly23: VIDEO! is.gd/4TB5j (& Audio: is.gd/4TAXU) #
  • 15:30 RT @circletpress New anthology! "Apocalypse Sex: Love at the End of the World" Deadline 1/15. Details: www.circlet.com/?p=596 #
  • 16:29 I did a fun & lengthy interview about 50 Greatest Yankees Games, podcast: bit.ly/2nrQuv #
  • 16:59 Bodywork clients shall be here soon. I'm doing a little stretching and meditation first. #
  • 20:09 This sinus headache is really getting to be a drag. it went away while I was massaging other people, then came back. Now trying ibuprofen. #
  • 20:38 Wow, 71 people have already read part one of Daron's Guitar Chronicles: daron.ceciliatan.com/?p=1 #
  • 23:05 Ordered dinner from Lilly's Gourmet Pasta via Foodler.com. We'll see if it is as good as advertised! Smells/looks good so far. I <3 Foodler! #
  • 23:23 Lilly's Gourmet Pasta (via Foodler.com) is a win. Lots of sauces to choose from & better salad than local pizza/sub joint. Not bad price. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-12 15:34
Subject: New call for subs: Apocalypse Sex
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Call for Submissions: Apocalypse Sex: Love at the End of the World

What would you do if you had only 24 hours to live?

Maybe aliens have taken over the planet and are massacring the human race; conversely, maybe humans have invaded an alien planet--but are losing. Perhaps you're contemplating ending your own world, or are convinced your life is going to end--whether through self-harm, a major lifestyle change, or something else. Maybe a fatal disease is exterminating your species, or nuclear war has broken out.

And maybe it's a false alarm, but how could you possibly know that in advance?

24 hours left to do everything you've wanted to: Would you make love to the person you've always secretly cared for? Have a rendezvous with a stranger on the street? Explore your wildest fantasies, or get back to the basics one last time?

The possibilities are limitless within this basic theme. Don't forget the sci-fi/fantasy aspect we always look for, but bring your sexiest ideas too. Come up with some original plots, keep 'em captivating and steamy, and have some fun!

Apocalypse Sex is being edited by Jennifer Levine (co-editor of Like A God's Kiss) for [info]circletpress. For more details on submitting follow this link: http://www.circlet.com/?p=596

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-12 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 03:51 Okay, some kind of strangeness in Twitter is causing tweets with hashtag #nflsunday to reappear in the #circlet press twitter feed. WTF? #
  • 19:18 Another slammed busy day & night. Sigh. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-11 02:02
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 02:23 God. I am absolutely fecking BURIED right now. Don't expect me to tweet much for a week or so while I dig dig dig a little clearance. Argh. #
  • 03:29 RT @ravenousromance: Do you write M/M, kinky, or menage? Email submissions at ravenousromance dot com. Full-length novels preferred. #
  • 16:20 My anthology "Young Studs" (young guys/older women) is book of day at Ravenous Romance: www.ravenousromance.com/ #
  • 16:26 Why do I feel like this day is going to be so hard to get through? Trying to concentrate on the shovel and the dirt right in front of me... #
  • 16:27 And not on the immense mountain trying to landslide over me. And why does my shovel look like a teaspoon? Deep breaths. Dig dig dig. #
  • 21:41 Time to stop working and make dinner. I think I am inventing a new recipe to use up kohlrabi. I'm going for kohlrabi fritters essentially. #
  • 23:52 Invented recipe: kohlrabi fritters. Shredded kohlrabi, shallot, beaten egg, matzoh meal, salt, white pepper, paprika, basil, parsley, cumin. #
  • 23:53 Came out wonderful. Shaped into small patties, fried about 2-3 minutes per side in half olive oil/half canola. Yum. #
  • 00:47 In between writing tomorrow's Baseball Early Bird segments, I snuck in a post about Healing Arts: www.eastern-healing.com/?p=18 #
  • 01:25 OK, proportions on the kohlrabi fritters. 4 cups shredded kohlrabi, 1 egg, 1/2 cup matzoh meal, about half a shallot, salt/pepper to taste. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-10 17:21
Subject: For Your Reading Pleasure...
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Okay, it's official, I'm launching DARON'S GUITAR CHRONICLES.

It's a serialized novel that never would have worked as a traditional print novel because it was too long.

It's a coming of age story, a coming out story, and a period piece about the 1980s.

It's sex, drugs, and rock and roll from the point of view of a neurotic 19-year-old closet case.

Daron: Hey! Watch it with the name-calling!
Me: What? Did I lie?
Daron: Well, no. But I'm not neurotic.
Me: Says who?
Daron: And I'm not in the closet, because I'm not gay.
Me: You just "like guys."
Daron: Yeah.
Me: Uh-huh.
Daron: Don't give me that look. You know it's more complicated than that.
Me: If you say so.
Daron: Hey readers, don't listen to her. Go see for yourself. You'll totally agree with me once you see what's going on.


The first few posts are up for your reading pleasure at: DARON'S GUITAR CHRONICLES.

New content will be appearing every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, starting on Monday the 16th. Please spread the word! Follow Daron on Twitter to get a little reminder each time a new post appears (@daron_moondog). Meanwhile go read what's there to get you started! Comments welcome!

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-10 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 02:11 OK, soft launch is a go. Start reading Daron's Guitar Chronicles, my 1980s rock and roll coming of age novel daron.ceciliatan.com/ #
  • 02:12 New posts to Daron's Guitar Chronicles will be 3x/week starting 11/16. Follow @daron_moondog on Twitter to get auto-reminds each time. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-09 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 16:39 In Charlotte airport awaiting flight home. Utterly fried and exhausted, which is exactly how one should feel after a seminar like this. #
  • 20:28 Landed in Boston, awaiting bag. One foot swelled up on plane. Can't wait to see my cats! Going to get in bed with laptop and some soup. #
  • 20:51 So we've been waiting over 20 minutes and the baggage belt finally started moving! Three bags came out and now... Nothing. WTF? #
  • 20:53 Get this. Those three bags are still going around and around, unclaimed. But at least more are finally starting to come out now. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-08 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 17:56 Just finished another long day of healing arts classes. My brain is completely full now... Soon, banquet dinner! #
  • 22:40 To Rep. Michael E. Capuano: We need affordable coverage for every American. Please vote for reform. bit.ly/1xhcYF #hc09 #MA #02138 #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-07 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 11:03 The Yankees ticker-tape parade is starting right about now! I'm there in spirit, but in South Carolina in reality. #

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-06 02:02
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 02:28 RT @whyilikebb C. Tan's "Why I Like Baseball" writeup of the 2009 Championship Clincher - is.gd/4NDpk #
  • 00:00 RT @DigiBookWorld Want to attend Digital Book World? Use DBWtwitter and save $200 on early registration thru 11/20: bit.ly/3h7UNL #
  • 00:12 In South Carolina at a healing arts conference. Spent 8 hours today learning everything from hip physiology to Iron Goddess meditation. #
  • 00:22 How very odd. My name is being taken in vain in a Huffington Post piece. is.gd/4OvVf #
  • 00:23 going to grab a shower and then go to bed, early I know, but these healing arts things start at like 7am... ugh. #
  • 01:02 I lied. Instead of going to sleep, I blogged over at Eastern-healing.com (www.eastern-healing.com/) about a recent 'wow' moment. #
  • 01:23 Here's my blog post about breaking my teapot and looking for a new one: teawritings.com/?p=92 #
  • 01:41 Please twitter-follow @daron_moondog if you're interested in reading my serialized novel about sex, drugs, and rock and roll in the 1980s. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-06 00:16
Subject: Posted a bit late, but finally posted!
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(This week’s installment. Sorry for the delay–we are having a few technical issues with the Circlet web site…)

Part Fifteen: Jorin

Two weeks. Two weeks passed without Kenet touching me or inviting me to touch him. I began to rack my brain incessantly for a clue to why he would have withdrawn like this. Had I pushed him too far, too fast? Perhaps I never should have suggested we go beyond touching with our hands. I had told him it wouldn’t be clean to take me in his mouth. Was he afraid that was what I wanted him to do every time? Or had something else put the fear in him? Had he seen something like what I had seen with Dubacki’s chastisement?

Had the king said something? Did he suspect something?

But no. If that were the case, then I have no doubt he would have separated us. I would have been long gone from the castle.

I made sure to give myself release quickly before each practice down at the barracks. It was brutish and unsatisfying, but necessary.

Then one night I woke to find Kenet buried deep under the coverlet, (Read More)

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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-05 02:03
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 02:31 Okay, so, you know how sometimes your characters want to speak with their own voice? One of mine just got a twitter account. @daron_moondog #
  • 03:02 Insanity. Email from me at Gmail to a colleague at Earthlink keeps getting bounced back to me as blocked/spam. So I went thru their process. #
  • 03:03 Series of emails to get "IP" unblocked. Ridiculous since is Gmail. Finally given actual ticket #! Replied to THAT & THEIR email addy: bogus! #
  • 17:33 RT @sabr: You can fund your independent baseball research project w/ a Yoseloff grant. If you're a SABR member. tinyurl.com/yfdzomn #
  • 17:44 RT @KalCobalt: Confused by apostrophes? Hilarious, accurate chart helps you out: apostrophe.me #
  • 21:02 I am in north Carolina! Landed just in time to see Matsui two run bomb on MLB.com pitch by pitch via iPhone browser. Now in car with XM. #
  • 21:16 Just passed water tower painted like a giant baseball. In the airport several Yankees fans shared thumbs up with me. I'm wearing pinstripes. #
  • 22:02 Matsui ties record for most RBIs in a World Series game with yankee Bobby Richardson!! #
  • 22:36 Whee! Now ensconced at hotel with game on room TV! Go #Yankees! #
  • 00:17 Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! Yankees! #
  • 00:48 Going to sleep in my pinstripes jersey tonight. Which I can finally wash when I get home Sunday. So glad they won! But don't want it to end. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-04 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 02:39 Going to sleep now. No really. A ton to do tomorrow and Wed. before leaving for healing arts conference in South Carolina. Ack. Good night. #
  • 13:21 This is awesome: Twitter's @big_ben_clock #
  • 15:27 Voted. #
  • 20:12 Conflict of interest! I REALLY want the Yankees to win in 6! But I sold 3 Game 7 tix for $500 ea. on StubHub. Nah, still want 'em to do it! #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-03 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 02:24 RT @whyilikebb The Why I Like Baseball 2009 World Series: Game 4 Recap is here: is.gd/4KMPO #
  • 02:41 Got to get to bed now. Interns coming tomorrow. Mondays always busy, even more since Yankees play game 5 at night. So glad my work is fun! #
  • 13:55 How shall I tell this author that his manuscript reeks of postcolonial orientalism? At least the "indian serpent girl" isn't raped in it? #
  • 20:18 I am tweeting the world series from my other account @whyilikebb #
  • 01:20 My recap of World Series: Game 5, sort of, at Why I Like Baseball - is.gd/4LISR #
  • 01:34 RT @whyilikebb I'm going to guess from the fact that "Who Dat" is a trending topic on Twitter that the Saints are now 7-0. #
  • 01:36 Btw, I made my editorial asst write the postcolonial orientalism letter. Story had worse problems, ie zero characterization. She said both. #
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ceciliatan
Date: 2009-11-02 02:01
Subject: Tweets of Yesterday
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  • 16:42 Absolutely gorgeous sunset going on right now. This time of year in New England the slanted light makes peach cotton candy in the sky. #
  • 20:18 I will be live tweeting the World Series game again tonight on my other twitter account: @whyilikebb #
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