Lost Genre Guild

All right. Nuff lurking already. If you don't know me, I think you need to...lol.
An ex-globetrotter glad to be back home in New Zealand, I believe I have met in person more members of the Guild than anyone else - and what a wonderful bunch you are Want to come down under? Give me a holler and I'll do my best to help at this end. Come in January to get the best of the tropical weather.

(switch tour-guide hat for...oh, some other hat)

I run parts of the LGG website - mainly the bookshelves. Also the blog. Send me your news, I beg of you! And I will gladly make it known to all the subscribers you send my way. I'm excited - it could get really big if we all contribute to it and promote it.

As for me... I write sci-fi and aim on setting up an indy publishing venture pretty soon, since NO ONE out there is publishing my kind of story. My first book Faith Awakened came out in 07 and the sequel's on its way, plus two other unrelated storyworlds that insisted on getting written first. So once I get the legalities sorted, look out for Legendary Space Pilgrims and Cyberdublin, followed eventually by Godspeed, depending on which sequel seizes me first.

I also make book trailers, websites, Muppets, pavlova, and German technical manuals. Come find me at shoutlife or facebook to hear all about it. Not the manuals, trust me, you don't want to hear about those at all.
I've watched at least ten episodes of Star Trek Voyager this week. Turns out it's great for the imagination but not so good for the paint job in progress in the bathroom...

All right, all right, the stories are begging me for it so here's their one-liner-plus collection:

Faith Awakened: A computer technician gets more than she bargains for when she plunges herself and her companions into virtual-reality cryogenic stasis to escape a raging virus.
(Published October 2007)

Godspeed: If you could end world hunger, you'd do it, right? What if governmental experiments caused your miracle fertiliser to become a weapon of mass destruction? Meet Naomi, the Belfast biologist forced to run from her own creation.
(Currently at 10,000 words)

Legendary Space Pilgrims: On a planet that has never seen the sun, a harvester hears a Voice from beyond. It's time to leave the oatfield. Mario and Caitlin escape the mind control of Planet Monday, following the Voice to unknown worlds where wonders and challenges await. Have you got what it takes...to be a legend?
(Currently a final edit pre-pub draft, seeking endorsements)

Independence Monday: Mario, Caitlin and Irina travel on to the planet Sancta where they must prepare themselves to do battle with the evil Baxter government of Planet Monday and free the enslaved population as the Voice commands.
(Currently this sentence is all that exists of this story)

Cyberdublin: Oodles rules the world. But when its global hyperweb network falls prey to sabotage, society spins towards chaos. In Dublin, the heart of the fallen cyberworld, an orphan rebel and her housemates face a reality far less virtual than they're used to.
(Currently a 50k first draft)

Space Brain: An orbiting artificial intelligence put out of commission by the Oodles sabotage finally figures out what happened and begins to take action of its own devising. Back in Dublin, Rachel and her friends find themselves at the forefront of human resistance to the deadly brain from space.
(Currently a fun idea that keeps popping from the back of my mind to the front)

Okay, I really have to go now and find the Tardis so I can escape into the middle of next week and not have to worry about Christmas. Still, have a good one for me - I'll be hiding out in another time continuum...

Hugs and LOLs to those who want 'em

Hi Grace!

I'm nearly done reading Legendary Space Pilgrims. I even converted it to a pdb file so I could read it on my new toy (IPod Touch).

Should have a review sometime in January.

Ooh, thank you! I look forward to it

You're from New Zealand? That's cool, I have goats from there. (Arapawa goats)

I love your username. I am a cat person myself. My cat is sitting/laying/balancing/sleeping on top of the back of my office chair right now. Once I go to bed, she'll join me. She always does. She's pretty good at avoiding my flouncing around at night.

anyway welcome to the group and tell us more about you.

I'm a cat person too, but sadly the wonderful house I'm hoping to move into has allergics in it. Mind you, I've known people to get over that... maybe I can convince them.

Hey, Grace! Welcome! Glad to see you here. You're certainly a go-getter!

Welcome Grace and thank you for all your work.
I love animals of all sorts and I am allergic to them all. I just have to be careful to wash my hands after handling them. Let me see, I currently have 3 1/2 cats, 1 3/4 dogs, a hampster, a ginea(?) pig, a chinchilla, two toads and a freshwater and saltwater tank of fish.

Scincerely,

Scintor@aol.com

Wow, that's an impressive list of pets! Sounds like there's certainly hope for a cat-filled future, if only the others believe it...