Bewitched bees? That idea sounds very cool!

Since we're listing book projects, I'll put in a shameless plug. Covenant, the first volume of my Deviations series, is forthcoming from Koboca Publishing this year. Koboca ( www.kobocapublishing.com/index.html ) is a small press headquartered in the Tampa, FL, suburb of Wesley Chapel. Release is slated for November. I'm going over the final edits from Koboca's editor and giving the manuscript a last run-through before I send it in. The book is scheduled to go to print with Web info up in August.

From my pitch:

"Long ago the Masari and the Yata hunted together in peace, until the species they drove to extinction included those possessing nutrients necessary to Masari survival. The Yata then became the only source of those nutrients. Deviations tells how these peoples cope with the reality of being sentient creatures forced to play the roles of predator and prey, and how several of them try to thwart long-established conventions in the hope of overcoming their biological imperative. In Deviations love triumphs in the midst of death. The series focuses on the social, ethical, and spiritual dilemmas surrounding both the literal cannibalism of the societies involved and the many ways in which their different communities feed off each other. "

I've got more info over at
home.earthlink.net/~emalcoh...ions.html

I'm currently drafting the fifth book in the series. (I have an acceptance letter for what I thought would be just a trilogy, but the characters weren't finished with me.) We're doing it one book, one contract at a time, and Koboca is interested in the "second trilogy" as well. Because of the way the series is structured (the "first trilogy" can stand alone if need be), I want to submit the synopses for Books #s 4, 5, and 6 as a set once I've completed drafting them. Book #4 is drafted and is being workshopped, I'm past the halfway point on writing #5, and I've written the beginning and the end of #6, which I *think* will be it for the series.

Re underlining etc. -- Tribe is not particularly html-friendly. It will create automatic hyperlinks, but as you can see above, I've placed spaces between the URL and the parentheses, because Tribe has erroneously read closing parens as part of the URL and created non-functioning links.

I NEVER said your writing is crap! I just stated what I like to write. lol

I just finnished my third novel called "Remember Red" about a parking garage in a major metro area that houses a alien creature that likes to eat young virgins!