Good Morning, Good Day and how the heck are ya!?!  It has been a whirlwind two weeks since I attended I-CON32, a scifi/anime/cosplay convention in Brentwood, NY.  I met awesome people!  Many of them would make McGyver look like he had 3 thumbs -- why?  Because they made their own costumes!!  One gentleman even BUILT a rolling chair with two turrets that emitted smoke!  Yes!!  It’s true.  

I will put up a post with all of the pics for you to join in the fun vicariously.  Some of you may have seen them on my Twitter timeline already as I was live tweeting! :-)  Thanks for all of the shout-outs Jane-Holly!

But the really big news is through Cynthya BrianKate, a woman I met at the con, I will be a guest on the radio show, IN GOTH WE TRUST tonight! Thursday, March 30th at 10:30 pm Eastern.  You can listen in on the web:  http://wioxradio.org/index.html!

The hosts of the show tonight will be Chelsea Goodwin and Rusty.  We will speak on many topics including the horror genre, my book Fury From Hell (of course!).  And, since this show loves all things GOTH, the conversation may venture off into topics of the occult and spirituality -- all perfectly in line with my book which has Wiccans, demons, furies and the occasional divination reading...

I will be live tweeting during the show so if you have any questions feel free to tweet them to me on: @NoteBkBlogairy.  Use the hashtag #InGothWT so everyone can see your tweets!

See you all at 10:30 pm EDT tonight!!

Yes !!!!

750 !!!!!!!!

We made it !!!!! 

I wanted to sincerely thank each and every one of you for making it happen! Now it is going to be a real properly published book! For me, it has been an important a project of almost 5 years and it is hard to describe how happy and thankful I am! 

The book is finished, so, hopefully, it will not take too long for Inkshares’ story editors, line editors, copy editors, designers and marketers to turn it into the final real deal. I will keep you updated.

Thank you very much again ! 

At ease, faoii. There are no orders tonight, only words.

I am 28 years old today. 

I know it doesn’t seem like a particularly important milestone, but look around you. Somehow, in one year, we have gone from The Last Faoii sitting on my shelf, consigned to gather dust for the rest of eternity to this. An entire army of people willing to lift a blade to make sure that it becomes more than just a dream. That it becomes something real-- a sword for our daughters to wield when it seems there are no more heroines. I had given up a year ago. I knew Faoii was a story worth telling, but had lost hope that it would ever happen. It was on a whim that I decided to try Inkshares for one final charge at an unattainable victory. Who would have thought at the time that so many would come to the call?

I don’t think I ever truly expected to be where I am now. I play many roles, depending on the day. I am a mental health activist, a political blog writer, a teacher, a sign waver... and a faoii. I didn’t expect to be these things-- Blades, on many occasions I didn’t even expect to see this birthday. But now I’m here, and I am, as always, eternally grateful to be able to say that I fight many wars on many fronts-- but there is only one where so many people stand behind me in the name of a tale that no one else but us can make happen.

I know that everything seems uncertain, faoii. Inkshares can’t tell me when our story will be published or even when they’ll request the manuscript that waits so tentatively on that shelf. It would be so easy to lose hope; to regress to where we were a year ago. But we will not.
 
I will continue to fight for this story until there is no more breath left in my body. And I am honored to have you at my side during the battle.  In 28 years, I have never wanted to be anywhere as much as here. Shields up.

Faoii-Tahani