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London is pestering me to write this because time is running out… ticking down… fading away… and I keep smacking her on the nose with a rolled up newspaper and telling her it’s 3 WEEKS and a week is a lifetime and leave me alone.

It’s the Penn Dutch blood in me, you see, we’re always late. I was even 4 days late being born. Not something I mind so long as I can be late to my own death. Three weeks is forever away and pffffft

So here’s the big announcemen…

London is moving. I know, I know gave ya chills huh?

She is moving to my little small town to be a better minion and so we can be face to face to take over the world with boy smut.  I mean it’s not easy to telecommute a yaoi empire! Trust me we’ve tried… the time zone differences alone are impossible and really how can you build a compound able to stand up to the feds from like 10 states away and if she isn’t here in person who will drink the cool aid?

<ahem>

So yes, London and the Shar Pei with killer gas are moving from Arizona to Pennsylvania. And I said okay, I’ll help you find an apartment and all that crap one day while we were on the phone and I hear her in the background as she’s walking the dog say this:

“Oh no he’s a sweetie, he’s a big ol, baby, really Mr. Strange-Creepy-Guy, he won’t hurt you, it’s okay, and I live alone and right over there and the locks on these apartments are shitty and SURE you can easily break in and rape and murder me and the dog? He’s a sweetheart and will let you!”

Okay, maybe she didn’t ACTUALLY say it that way but she may as well have. And I’m thinking…London on road trip through the south, alone… and had flashes of her becoming some cross country trucker’s bitch in the back of his cab. Don’t laugh, it’s happened.

So what was I supposed to do? I said “Hey…I’ll fly out there and drive back with you.”

Mind you, I’m not agoraphobic or anything but I LIKE staying home. I LIKE not leaving my office. I LIKE not seeing real people. I feel all safe and squishy and happy sitting in my office knowing I can burb and fart and scratch myself without consequences.  But I also like London to not be kidnapped and found in a ditch.

So. February 17th 2008 I am venturing from my cave to fly to Detroit, to Minneapolis, to Tucson. Where London, the dog and I will load up her things in her car and start a road trip home.

We’re going to go to Tombstone, we’re going to go to Roswell, we’re going to go look for Diamonds at the Diamond Crater National Park, we’re going to wing it and stop to see cheesy road side stuff. We are hopefully not going to end up some truckers bitch.

There will be some (maybe) modifications to the posting of chapters but they will go up. We will take pictures and hopefully cause some trouble and hopefully arrive safely home in a few days time.

Cross fingers for us and be very afraid…very afraid!

As I’m sure is already well known, Heath Ledger died the other day. He was 28. When I went to my husband and said ‘guess who’s dead under thirty’ his first guess was Brittany Spears. My first guess would have been someone like Amy Winehouse, who, by the way, entered rehab today. I don’t think any of us could have guessed Heath Ledger.

It’s going to make seeing the new Batman movie more emotional. I’ve heard his performance as the Joker is haunting.

The Joker isn’t why so many of us sighed over him. That popularity had far more to do with cowboy hats and flannel shirts.

I made my husband take me to see Brokeback Mountain. He agreed because he loves me and was one of several very pained looking husbands in the theater. The movie was good, groundbreaking, sexy, romantic and all that it had been whispered about but it also dragged slowly along at points and when we look back now, really didn’t change the movie industry a great deal. Oh sure, fag-gate on Grey’s Anatomy wouldn’t have made such a splash maybe and maybe more people like Neil Patrick Harris would still be firmly in the closet but nothing really has changed. There hasn’t been another Brokeback made since.

I don’t live within the same universe as hollywood. What I saw in our small little corner of the world while waiting for Brokeback to start, was a theater filled with middle aged women. Not teens, not the standard demographic of yaoi fans, not twenty somethings or gay men. 50 + married, white women. In small groups or with sighing husbands.

To me, that’s the legacy of Brokeback and in a way it’s Heath Ledger’s as well. It’s proof that the craving for our brand of romance isn’t a mere three or four years old, lurking out there, namelessly waiting for cowboys to kiss.

As much as we adore pretty boys, none of us wish them to check out while still pretty. Heath Ledger gave us something other actors were too timid to attempt. For that fictionalized slice of reality, and of our own hearts, thank you Mr. Ledger.

Crazy crazy here! So Calendar got finished and printed and done (still have copies about if you want one!) and Heroes & Ghosts got into a really great print job and done (now on amazon! woot!) and believe it or not we got the magazine done and printed. Is it 100% what I would have liked? Naw but what is? I had a gnawing debate about trimming the edges but it really is so much easier to read with them untrimmed and it didn’t cut down the centerfold at all. Both the husband and the minion told me to stop freaking out over a little thing but I just want it to be grand! This isn’t just my baby, it’s a chance to showcase all the wonderful yaoi lover creative sorts out there and I really want to do justice to them!

Which would be stress enough but Embers ended this week too. Did you all know I tend to get all weepy and upset when the last chapter of a story goes up? I always get a touch blue over it… There is more for Liam and Deseem to do but the story has resolved the first levels of conflict and the rest of the stuff that happens needs has a very solid ’same bat time same bat channel’ type feel. It needed to be it’s own book soooo Embers had to come to an end.

That just means… drum roll please… new story! WOOT!

Actually, stories…

Since it’s Friday, I’ll spill.

Saturday chapters are now going to a store called If I Lay Here, the picture below is a teaser of one of the boys. I’d tell you what it’s about but than I’d have to shoot you and we wouldn’t want that now would we? It is modern set…

Monday’s we’ll be revisiting our dear swordsman friend Tarin Morris because I want to play with his messed up pretty head some more. I will give a warning, it will be a slow build to smexy m/m goodness but the fun angst tragedy level will be high. This is the second of the three parts of his tale so I highly doubt it will be as long as say Embers was but ooo Tarin’s going to meet his match!

Midweek will stay the chapter for Is Yet… I want to take it to twice a week but Tarin has been such a good boy waiting now for so long! It might get moved to Mondays but it’ll stay at once a week until the second third of Tarin’s story is told.

What’s in the works? Ah, bounty hunters, elves, vampires, Englishmen, demons, saints, accountants and maybe a few demigods… maybe… LOL <ahem>

OH and All Souls Pass is aimed to be the next in print and Yaoi Magazine Issue 2 is aimed for April!

I’m starting to think the Weather Girls were right… it does seem to be raining men here!

WOOT, okay I fall down dead now okay?

Oh way back like two…two and a half years ago… there was a running joke that one day <shakes a fist at the sky> ONE DAY… we’d have a magazine and we’d bring yaoi goodness to everyone and it would be a format to let other people share their m/m smexiness with the WORLD…

But we would always sober up and come to our senses.

Until now… when we, ya know, actually did it.

84 pages of yaoi happiness… 4 original stories, a centerfold of Deseem, 2 manga and original articles… and ah…stuff… my mind has fallen and can’t get up…

So go see for yourself…

http://www.yaoimagazine.com/

If you can’t get a copy… spread the word…or submit something…but take part in the yaoi revolution and help TAKE OVER THE WORLD! <insert evil laughter here>

The other day, Sir Edmond Hillary died. I went to the husband and said oh guess what and his response was…. who’s Edmond Hillary? The minion had the same response. Le Sigh. If you don’t know, go google him and learn something why don’t ya!

Anyway… it was the man’s humility that always impressed me. It was how he could face these huge risks and challenges and still be so humble.

Some of you know, my husband and I have a couple of irons in the fire. Well, one of them has gotten bigger and we’ve been presented with what will be a huge risk or a huge shiny opportunity. I am fairly sure we’re taking it but goodness, it scares me.

We were given this chance on the day Edmond Hillary died. A man that took great chances and risked life and limb and all I’m risking is humiliation and financial ruin. Seems paltry in comparison but I’m a wimp. WIMP WIMP WIMP WIMP

Wish me luck lol

On a happier note…

I’ve uploaded a sample from the sketch I have from Rah of one of the new boys… I will take ahh the first 10 questions posted about it! One question per post pleasssse to be fair =)

Annnd yes stories plural because I’m crazy and nutty and stupid. <stuffs her favorite swordsmen for hire behind the door> YOU DIDN’T SEE THAT DID YOU??

Hello everyone,

I’m kind of an old school internet user. I’ve now officially been on line since 1993 or there abouts and have the aol bills to prove it. Do any of you remember the days when aol was a per hour charge? <dies>

Being old school makes me a bit snotty about things. You know like the concept that main stream media outlets suck off blogger’s because ooo they’re cooool. Ah, no, they’re still the same geeks hiding in their apartments and basements and going without sunlight. They’re just dressing better now.  Blogging isn’t something I want to be proud of, it feels dirty and slightly unsatisfying and I’m sure my random thoughts on life should be kept behind closed doors but hey, everyone is doing it… kind of like masturbation. I loath the day I’d write a blog….loath it with a fury.

But here it is… the sapayne.com blog. Loosely titled: I also write smut. Because I do. Write smut that is. Silly romantic fluff between hot guys. Did I forget to mention it was gay/yaoi smut? Ah well, silly me. And I’ve wanted a place for readers, you, to post back out side of the subscribers message board. More importantly I wanted a place to make announcements and hints with the occasional bitch and moan fest.

Is it wrong that I feel dirty for <shudders> blogging?

Bleah

There is a reason for this… In case you all didn’t see, Heroes & Ghosts is in print, an actual honest to god print copy. With an ISBN number and it’s on amazon and it looks rockin’ hot. Go there and buy or review please. You can get a copy through amazon directly from me for less than the amazon price and yes I have copies in stock =)

2008 Calendars are all shipped out and up to date until this week. If you’ve gotten yours and like it, you can review it on amazon as well!

You can find links to both on betterwithboys.com

The first issue of Yaoi Magazine will be printed mid-January annnnd if all goes well, you can pre-order a copy this weekend on yaoimagazine. com

Whew… that’s a mouth full of news… next <shudder> blog will be hints on the new story coming up after Snowflakes & Embers is over. Or was that stories…. hmmm