Bliggoty, bloggety, bloggery, whee
I have a blog now. Look at me.
Ok, that’s silly. I’ve put off starting a blog because I knew I couldn’t think of anything intelligent to say. I was right! It’s like losing your virginity: it will seem better in retrospect.
I’m a historical novelist with one presently published book (THE PHOENIX), three past published books (back in the ’90’s), one short story (TOM: or, An Improbable Tail) that’s in two anthologies and a current e-zine, and two FREE short stories.
My second new historical novel, COUNTERPOINT, is (very tentatively) set for publication in 2009.
Information on aquiring the published ones follows this entry.
Since THE PHOENIX was published I’ve been lucky enough to make friends with many readers (write to me!! I’ll answer!) and other writers–Alex Beecroft, Erastes, Lori Lake, Victor Banis, Rick Reed, Dorien Grey, Ron Donaghe, and William Maltese to name only a few. (My abject apologies to those not named.) Enough name-dropping for one day.
I’ll close my virgin blog with information:
THE PHOENIX can be bought on Amazon.com and Amazon.com.UK, independent brick & mortar stores, and autographed copies from me. Very soon it will be available for the Amazon Kindle. My website is www.ruthsims.com
I hope soon to find out how the hell to update my website myself instead of having to rely on someone else. But being a techo-idiot that may or may not be possible.
The story TOM: or, An Improbable Tail–a story I considered just a fun bit of fluff, has taken on a life of its own and is in two anthologies: Best Gay Romance from Cleis Press, Charmed Lives from Lethe Press (both available on Amazon) and will soon appear in Forbidden Fruit e-zine at http://www.forbiddenfruitzine.com/
My FREE Short stories can be found as follows:
“Mariel” — Blithe House Quarterly http://www.blithe.com/
“The Curse” http://www.lulu.com/content/448400
Hello! I’m answering your email here because my email programme has suddenly gone caput! And on a day when I’m supposed to be doing an author chat on one of my groups. Isn’t it always the way?
If you sign in to your WordPress blog and go to where it says ‘dashboard’ at the top left, you should see a drop down menu with the dashboard for the Macaronis on it as well as your own. That should enable you to be able to post on the shared blog in the same way you can on your own.
Erastes is setting up a yahoo group so that we can all talk to each other and figure out who’s posting, about what, when
Mean time let me go and make sure your blog is in the links and you’re all set up to post 
Do you see this ‘leave a reply’ box just below? If so, then that’s the one you use to reply to someone’s comment. Mind you, it won’t alert them that there has been a reply, so unfortunately unless they’re checking back frequently, they won’t know that it’s there!
Although I can’t reply by email, however, I can receive them, so this sort of works!
I’ve changed you from ‘contributor’ to ‘author’ on the blog. (I don’t know what that means, exactly, but I’m hoping it will make a difference if you try again.)