Apologies for the lack up updates, folks. March kind of got swallowed by my day job.

The podcast is in development. My first draft was a little too difficult for me to follow, so I’m trying it more scripted than it was. Still going to follow a REALMS story from beginning to end, so stay tuned!

It looks like you’ll get to meet a couple of more residents of the REALMS, namely Raina Asimah and her partner Fen. She’s a djinn, he’s a werewolf. Together, they fight crime.

No, seriously, they do. They’re members of the REALMS universe’s supernatural FBI, and they’re after a grey alien who’s stolen the ultimate superweapon. Think In Plain Sight meets The X-Files. More as I have it, but I’m told that’s in the cards in the near future.

I’m also finally in the process of forming Loose Canon Enterprises. The mission of Loose Canon will be the publication of great, fun alternate history stories. We’ll play fast and Loose with the Canon of history.

Our first project will be a fund-raising effort both for the startup and for charity. I’m putting together the pictures now for a 2013 calendar of the Realm of the Sidhe, namely, Ireland. The photos of very real locations will be accompanied by quotes and snippets from the denizens of REALMS NEXT DOOR’s Sidhe Realm that I don’t anticipate becoming available anywhere else. I am working toward the prototype being on display at Shore Leave in August.

More later, but that’s where the super-busy me stands right now! Thanks for reading!

I have been remiss in updating, so I figured I might try something new. I’m putting together a series of pages here, as well as a new podcast, on the writing process. It’ll be a walk-through of how I work on writing a story, from the initial anthology invite in this instance to the final, turned-in story. I’m looking for a new mic for my Macbook now, as the one I have is not really one that plays well with my computer.

Every year, I try to put autographed books up for those who’d like to give them as Holiday gifts. This year is no different. If you’re interested in ordering, please e-mail me at terri@terriosborne.com and put “Book Order” in the subject.

I have a very limited number of copies of the following books available, and they’ll be available until I run out:

Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Prophecy and Change featuring my first professional fiction sale “Three Sides to Every Story” ($10)
Star Trek: New Frontier: No Limits featuring my short story “‘Q’uandary”, which garnered some lovely feedback from the one and only Suzie Plakson herself ($10)
Star Trek: Voyager: Distant Shores featuring my short story “Eighteen Minutes”, detailing from the Doctor’s POV just what happened during those three years he was lost on the planet in the episode “Blink of an Eye”. ($10)
Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: Wounds featuring my novella “Malefictorum”, a locked-room murder mystery on a Starfleet vessel ($15)
New Blood featuring the Realms Next Door story “Love and Other Excuses”, and introducing the Coteanno vampires. ($15)

I thought I had more copies of Star Trek: Corps of Engineers: What’s Past, but I only see two on the shelf. If I find more, I’ll move them into availability.

I’m really sorry, Whovians, but I only have one copy of The Quality of Leadership, so I can’t make any copies of that available. I love y’all, but not enough to give up my only copy of the book.

Autographs are absolutely free. Prices for each copy are listed. The older books are significantly down from cover price, I admit. I’m interested in getting the books into my readers’ hands instead of on my shelf here.

Shipping in the U.S. will be either Flat-rate Priority Mail or Media Mail, your preference. I’ll give you a shipping amount when I receive your order.

Anyone overseas? I’ll figure out the shipping for you as well.
I will happily accept Paypal and checks.

So, would you like an autographed book?

I know a lot of you have probably been wondering where on Earth I’ve been.

Well, I’ve been a busy little bee. Day Job has been occupying more of my life, enough to get a promotion and now I might be in a position of auditioning for a new job. Time will tell on that.

I’ve been writing like a crazy person whenever I get more than five minutes to compose a thought. I already have more Realms Next Door stories in my idea file than I will possibly ever live to write.

I’m working on the Realms Next Door wiki, which is a “Rough Guide” to the various realm and something of an online universe Bible for me.

But my biggest project of late is unrelated to writing. It’s Project Own Your Awesome!, something I started in my private blog in 2010, but thought would be good to bring to the larger scale of the whole Internet.

Yeah, busy little bee, that’s me. Speaking of which, I need to go work on a Realms story that’s due at the end of the month.

Yours truly was asked by the great and glorious Jay Smith over at the fabulous H.G. World zombie podcast to contribute an episode a few months back. I’ve just received word that casting will begin shortly on my piece, which I believe is still entitled “Last One Standing”.

And before anyone asks, yes, the title was taken from the Nickelback song “Savin’ Me”. I write to music, and that song was a massive influence on this particular story.

Don’t know about you, but I look forward to hearing it. 

Sharing the audition spotlight with me on this is fellow Star Trek author Dayton Ward, whose “…And Then One Night, All Hell Broke Loose.” will, to be sure, be chock full of zombie and military goodness. I expect no less from one of my favorite Marines-in-a-past-life.

UPDATE:  Yes, the title is still “Last One Standing”.  For those who are interested in auditioning, your audition information can be found here.

Tags: Upcoming work

Folks, it’s been brought to my attention that I’m still listed as a confirmed guest on Farpoint’s website for this year.  Unfortunately, and I thought I’d let the staff know back in August or September, prep for the trip to Ireland in August is taking up all of my resources for the year, unfortunately. That’s killing pretty much every con I usually attend for the year, starting with Farpoint.  Maybe 2012. I’ll have to take a look at the situation on that front later in the year.

With the new year comes a new terriosborne.com!

Welcome aboard!