Camille Alexa

Visiting Boston, leaving Montpelier, heading to Austin, SALE TO PSEUDOPOD!

: camillealexa; February 8th, 7:13

Whew! Superduper thanks again to lovely writing fellow Todd Wheeler for putting me up for a whirlwind visit to Boston. Here's a picture of the commodious guest cottage where I stayed:

Todd's witty and hilarious daughter told me the usual tenants were spiders and ants, who didn't even pay rent! That girl is going to make a fabulous humorist someday, just like her dad. [PS - of course I stayed in the house proper with the rest of the family + two cats, snug and warm.]

I've set out driving across the country (vertically again, this time 'round). We left Montpelier yesterday. Here's a shot of our last meal in Montpelier, at That's Life Soup. Our tomato bisque took two days to prepare. Pretty and delicious!

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In writing news, I finally got around my shyness about sending a story off to Pseudopod (yes -- I'm shy about certain markets, without rhyme or reason), and they're producing my story "Gretel" in audio! I'm pretty excited!

See you in Austin soon!

"Industriously Yours" to be performed at STEAM Fest 2010!

: camillealexa; February 4th, 20:30

My short play Industriously Yours (written as Miss Camille Alexa) is a winner of the STEAM Fest Steampunk play contest! Along with Nick of Time by Mister Drew Davis and The True History of Henry Rayne and the Airship Pirates, Industriously Yours will be performed at the 2010 Steampunk Festival, AKA the Steampunk Theatre Entertainment Art & Music Festival (or STEAM Fest).

the play:

In hopes their daughter will forget her Attachment to Rupert, a young man of dubious Social Standing, Cecile's parents have sent her for an extended stay of no certain duration to the Sisters of the Blessed Cog in a remote mountain abbey. Cecile, decidedly sick of mountain air, yodeling goatherds, and Rupert's absence, writes in turn various relations and acquaintances requesting materials for a Very Secret Project. Soon Gretna Green and Rupert are just a few stitches, some begging, and some well-timed blackmail away. . .

The Academy Theatre, Avondale Estates, June 19th-20th 2010 just outside Atlanta, GA. More information here.

I credit the fabulous and amazing Miss Tina Connolly for getting me to try writing a play! This is my first play, but might not be my last. I'm only sorry to have missed Tina's "Moon at the Starry Diner" performed at the Portland Fringe Festival in Portland, Oregon.

Crossed Genres Year One anthology; and Abyss & Apex open to subs!

: camillealexa; February 2nd, 10:37

Wow! Thanks, everyone, for letting Fantasy Magazine know you enjoyed "Shades of White and Road "! It made the magazine's top four favorites of 2009, along with stories by (after "Superhero Girl" by Jessica Lee) Aidan Doyle, Cate Gardner, and Aliette de Bodard.

Cover art: Broomstick Aviation by Nicc Balce

The beautiful Crossed Genres Year One anthology is out, a volume of 2009's editor faves from each issue. Representing the Child Fiction issue is my story, "The Good Old-Fashioned Kind of Water." Go! Buy! Read! Enjoy!

And dare I mention Abyss & Apex is open to submissions? A birdie tells me we're particularly in need of good Flash for 2010. Pro rates for Flash! 5 cents per word! Send it to me, my pretties. Guidelines here.

Abyss & Apex 1st Quarter, 2010!

: camillealexa; February 1st, 16:55

Dear friends,

Thanks for your concern! I'm happy to report I did not expire in the Great Train Freeze of O-Ten. I did, however, end up spending 19 hours on a trip that takes about 5 by car, trudging up the icy hill to my mum's house at sub-zero (and that's sub-Fahrenheit-zero!) batting back (quick-freezing) tears of frustration because the Amtrak guy on the bus ( yes --after the second train broke down, they sent up a bus from another state to schlep us remaining passengers the last few stops) was being a jerk. Lots of Amtrak folk are awesome. This guy was not one of them.

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SO! The first quarter 2010 edition of Abyss & Apex is now live! Read it at http://www.abyssandapex.com/

Editorial by Wendy Delmater (

safewrite ):

"On Writing Other Genders"

Short Fiction:
"How We Fly" by Lisa A. Koosis
"The Tortuous Path" by Bud Sparhawk
"Deutoroi" by Samantha Henderson
"Night of the Manticore" by Tony Pi
The Wishing Stone, by Edward Greaves

Flash Fiction:
"Anything Chocolate" by Caren Gussoff
"When White Roses Freeze" by Amy Power Jansen

Poetry:
"Changeling" by Mary W. Jensen
"Small" by Richard Schiffman
"Uttu's Garden" by Gwendolyn Clare
"Waiting" by WC Roberts
"My Wife" by Albert Melear

- 8 degrees, closing in on midnight

: camillealexa; January 29th, 23:28

Weird experience here. I left Boston this morning, headed for Montpelier. The crazy cold front that swept in yesterday turned a lovely, mild winter week into -8 degrees in northern Vermont.

Apparently, locomotive hydraulics don't do so well at -8. I'm sitting in utter darkness in a broken down engine growing steadily colder. Some pretty feisty seniors seated behind me have already tried to get us complimentary wine, to no avail. I feel like I'm stuck in a movie. Stuck in a movie, with very cold fingers. And no wine.

Bummer is, Montpelier is the next stop on the line. So close, and yet . . .

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Camille Alexa

. . .writer, poet, freak.

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