However, a novel has been rolling around in my head for some (very long) time, and perhaps — just perhaps — it’s time to pull some of those words out onto paper.

So here’s my page on the NaNoWriMo site. Drop by and giggle. Befriend me if you’re also doing a NaNoWriMo idiocy novel-writing spree. And forgive me if I’m slow in getting back to you about social occasions.

adapted from Danny Boy (trad) by Elaine Miller

Oh Tranny boy, the cel phone, it is ringing
I chase it to the livingroom and hall
The ringing stops, and the house phone starts its calling
‘Tis you, ’tis you, and I think I missed your call.

But call ye back ’cause the phones are in my lap now
This time I’ll hear that ring and answer
And I’ll be here, just yearning for your voice, now
Oh Tranny boy, oh Tranny boy, I love you so.

And when you call, I’ll feel my heartbeat flying
And I will hear, and speak to you with glee
You are the one I want the most, and I ain’t lyin’
And we’ll see each other in a day or three

Then I shall wait, impatient at the airport
Until then my dreams are of you, sweet boy
And on the phone, you’ll hear me say I love thee
I’ll simply hold that thought until you fly to me.

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“Danny Boy” karaoke music, for those who like to sing along:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nQncqR9WN4

The roughest rough draft of Murphy’s Law is now 0.007 done. Yes. Almost one percent.

This is obviously why I didn’t begin this foolish sorta thing before.

Every time I get a note from an editor confirming my acceptance into an anthology, I do this kinda jump-up-and-down thing. I’m doing it twice over right now — My piece *Fee Fie Foe Femme* will be published in Best Lesbian Erotica 2005 (edited by Tristan Taormino and Felice Newman) AND Best of Best Lesbian Erotica, Volume 2. (Edited by Tristan Taormino)

Um. In the stores November-ish, I think.

I’ll put a link to ‘em up here where they’re available:
http://elainemiller.com/write/buybooks/index.html

So, Um…

http://write.elainemiller.com/buybooks/index.html

Did the reading of Follow That Bus! last night — one interesting note: for a non-queer event, and a non-queer book project, by my count, 4 of the 7 live readers were queer.

Geez, eh?

It must be a conspriracy.

-E

Here’s my story (noted below): Follow That Bus!
http://www.cbcradio3.com/issues/2003_12_05/main.cfm

All aboard for a night of weird, wild and wonderful tales of commuter
literature.

Featuring readings by:

Jeremiah Aherne, Jacyntha England, Matt Hern, Catherine McNeil,
Elaine Miller, Allen Moore, and John Vigna.

ISBN: 1-895636-55-8

$18
Come celebrate the launch of Exact Fare Only 2, our follow-up volume
of good, bad and ugly rides on public transit.

Tuesday, December 9

6?-8 p.m.

The Cottage Bistro

4468 Main St., Vancouver

free ? licensed ? music

I have once again committed the grave sin of being anthologized — this time in a mainstream (non-kinky, non-queer) press, with a (surprisingly) non-kinky, non-queer non-fiction piece. But it *is* entertaining, and I’ll be reading it to the assembled.

The Book being Launched: Exact Fare 2.
The Publisher: Anvil Press http://www.anvilpress.com

The Name of My Piece: Follow That Bus!

The Launch:
Date: Tues. Dec. 9th, 6:00-8:00
Where: The Cottage Bistro, 4468 Main St. (at 29th)
Vancouver, BC, Canada

There’ll be about 6 readers, and a band is coming on a little after 8:00.

I dunno yet which band, or which other readers, but I’ll post the info at
http://elainemiller.com/blog/
for the terminally curious.

Do come by if you have the chance…

-Elaine

ps: The CBC picked up on my piece, and it’ll apparently go up on its website by Friday (Dec 5)

Radio 3 website http://www.cbcradio3.com

Hooray!

Dedicated surfers of my site or readers of Xtra West may have seen this one before… Hooray for Scarlet Letters!
http://www.scarletletters.com/current/093003_nf_em.html

Once upon a time I worked with Lezzie SMUT! magazine, first as a lowly submissions-getter, then as one of the editors on the board. Back in ‘94, one of the things that had just begun to have a great effect on our work as queer pornographers was the Butler decision — you know, where the powers that be decided that pornography of any sort is very bad for us poor women who need protection from such stuff as sex. [snort]

Since the heavy powers wielded under the Butler decision had immediately been brought to bear against (1) Trish Thomas, a butch dyke author of some pretty dang hot smut and (2) Eli Langer, a queer artist expressing his emotions about his childhood abuse, we knew we were in for a difficult haul.

Now, I can’t draw so goodly, but I was moved to create a wee single-panel cartoon on the matter, which was featured in Lezzie SMUT! issue five. Clicky-clicky for a Very Big Version of the image.

It’s something I wrote a few years back.
Music by Elaine Miller.