Review of PERIPHERY by Julia Watson.

Of my story, she wrote, "Silver Skin" was one of the most imaginative of the bunch, with a mechanized substance that encases the body like a second skin playing a role both in the sexiness as much as the plot. This story also boasts giant, man-eating turtles, a touch which filled me with geeky glee.

I love my giant people-eating turtles.

You can read an excerpt of the first chapter of The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover here.

I've created a Facebook Profile.

And sold a reprint of "17 Short Films About Hades and Persephone" to the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica.

A lovely review of Periphery, which has my story "Silver Skin." It's even mentioned in the review!

I have cover flats for The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover!!!

Better still? I have an ISBN!

I'm REAL!!!

The Tale of an Erotica Writer Part Two, also at Circlet Press, on making your stories stand out from the crowd.

I have an article online here at the Circlet Press website, entitled "The Tale of an Erotica Writer." Part two will appear on Thursday.

I've had a couple of short articles accepted for the Circlet Press website. Links next week, when they go up!

Interview with Sacchi Green and Rakelle Valencia at Lust Bites, on their new anthology, Lipstick on Her Collar, which has my Elspeth Potter story, "Poppies Are Not the Only Flower."

Should Aspiring Authors Establish a Web Presence? at Romancing the Blog.

From one of the comments, the free hosting I'm using temporarily at my domain is apparently a cheap thing to do, but I am cheap; I don't want to pay for months of a website when I have no content other than a bio and publications list. I won't have anything more until the book is closer to coming out. I console myself with the fact that the book is already sold; I am not using the site to attract an agent, but to appear in google searches, so when I do have real content, I will actually get hits.

I'm not going to go crazy with the website, either, not while I'm still writing.

Lunacon was fun, because I didn't pressure myself, but I still ended up doing some useful things. I handed out a few of the business cards with the book's title, publisher, and release date, as well as links to this blog and my email address. I also ended up in a long, amusing conversation about the eunuchs in The Duchess, Her Maid, The Groom and Their Lover, and historical eunuchs in general, at a Saturday night party--some friends of mine in the group were egging me on, and we got pretty absurd. I pointed out that the eunuchs in my book were only fun because Their Love is Forbidden. Well, forbidden for a few chapters, anyway. Given the kind of book this is, it didn't stop them for long.

One of the business cards went to a friend of a friend whom I met completely coincidentally when we shared a cab to the train station; I mention it because it turned out she had written for Harlequin at one time. Small world. Talk to everyone, and be amazed.

This publicity business gets time-consuming even if you're only doing the minimum. I bought a domain for my future website, and then decided to put up a bare bones page, so the domain could start registering on search engines, with the idea that by the time the book is actually listed for sale, searchers can find me at victoriajanssen.com.

My domain purchase meant I got a free bare bones hosting service, exactly what I needed. Except, apparently I shouldn't have done my own HTML coding. The free hosting service was set up for people who didn't know HTML, and I actually had a lot of trouble figuring out how to make my codes work with their system. I spent a whole afternoon on this, and ended up with something that wasn't perfect, but at least had my keyword codes. I'm going to leave it alone for now, as I need to get back to writing!

I hosted my writers' group on Saturday, and drank red sparkling wine to celebrate some of our members being on an award ballot. Sunday, I wrote. Only 77,000 words to go!

Harlequin's Spice line has its own forum here.