Anyone who, between now and November 30, A) Posts in the DP forum (you may need to register to do so, if you are not already a member.  When you register, please also send an e-mail to drollerie_interact@yahoo.com with the words “forum name” in the header and the name you registered in the body of the text) and B) Guesses one of my top two favorite forum posts as DokodemoElisa will be entered in a drawing to win one of two copies of Kinlea Keeper OR (if you can’t wait until the end of November to read Kinlea Keeper) a copy of the Curse, the second book in the series, which will be coming out by February.

HINT: NEITHER of my favorite posts are posted in the Word Association thread.

You can post your guesses along with your forum name as a reply to this post or e-mail it to me at dokodemoelisa@yahoo.com.  Happy forum-going!  -E.G.D.

Sunday, November 1st, come prepared to win a copy of one of our upcoming releases (we’ll be talking about them more in the next few days), and to chat with our authors about books, or whatever else strikes your fancy.

And without further ado…

Sarah Avery is hosting Heather Ingemar’s post about how her first writing mentor helped her get serious

Nora Fleischer has my own little character vignette about a moment of encouragement in the early life of my heroine from Faerie Blood

On Meredith Holmes’ blog, Heather Parker talks about how a pair of cats and one well-timed remark from her husband gave rise to Middlewitch

Jessica Howe has a guest post from John Rosenman, who wants to give credit to several people who have helped his writing career

Imogen Howson is hosting Catherine Schaff-Stump, who describes her reaction to Sweetest Day

Heather Ingemar has a visit from Fraser Sherman, who sings the praises of people who may surprise you–or not, if you’re a writer yourself

I’ve got Sarah Avery, who tells us about one of the nicest things her husband ever did to assist her writing

At Heather Parker’s blog, Nora Fleischer gives thanks to the first author who ever gave real praise to her work

John Rosenman hosts Meredith Holmes, who thanks several people important to her and her writing efforts

Catherine Schaff-Stump has a post from Jessica Howe, who wants to tell us about the land where her muse has gone to play

And last but not least, Fraser Sherman hosts hosts Heather Ingemar, who finds that Sweetest Day has something in common with her own writing efforts

Thanks again all for reading all our posts. Which, we daresay, is all part of the theme this month!

Currently open anthologies include:

Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic edited by David Sklar and Sarah Avery, an anthology of retold Greek myth suitable for a YA audience, and a ghost story anthology, both edited by Deena Fisher.

We do not have a definite date to re-open, but expect it will be on or around the end of January, 2010.

We test all the books in all the formats we offer before uploading them to the bookstore, but we’ve had buyers tell us that downloading the books with Safari on a Mac sometimes causes them to come out garbled. I don’t know how that’s even possible, but please try downloading with Firefox if you run into that problem, or email me at dfisher@drolleriepress.com and I’ll send you the book immediately.

Unfortunately, the sale wasn’t picked up by Fictionwise at all, or by Amazon, at least for some people. We can’t control how they price the works, we can only tell them the sale price and give them the opportunity to offer it to you. If you’re a Mobipocket buyer, the sale will be available there through the end of the day today. If you buy the book at Drollerie Press and would prefer a different format, or want to read it on more than one device, you’re welcome to do so. If a book isn’t available in your preferred format, let us know and we’ll have it formatted for you within 24 hours.