http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/ Home page of Brighid's Fire Books, specializing in first fiction 2010-01-01T17:14:06-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000126 Yes, indeed -- 2009 is behind us and 2010 beckons. And I think it's appropriate to start the year with a couple of announcements. First, we have announced the winners of our 2009 Fiction Manuscript Contest. If you want to... Brighid's Fire Books 2010-01-01T17:14:06-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000125 We almost didn't make it in time but, per our contest rules, we are indeed ready to make the announcement of our ten finalists in the 2009 Fiction Manuscript Contest. As a courtesy to our authors, we'll defer making the... Brighid's Fire Books 2009-10-01T20:34:35-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000124 It's always with a certain amount of trepidation that we launch our annual contest in the aftermath of a year in which we had to cancel due to insufficient entries. It's a bit like getting back on the horse after... Brighid's Fire Books 2009-04-01T14:04:13-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000123 This has been a tough year at Brighid's Fire Books, I won't try to kid you. I'm thankful that I was able to pull through it without having to close the doors on this book imprint altogether. And it wasn't... Brighid's Fire Books 2008-12-31T13:31:11-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000122 I think we might have given everybody a scare when we mentioned that, due to having to cancel our 2008 contest, Derek and I were considering whether or not to continue with it at all. Feedback occurred and we listened... Brighid's Fire Books 2008-10-04T13:38:01-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000121 We're ready to rock and roll with our 2008 Fiction Manuscript Contest. As a matter of fact, we're kind of surprised at how fast the first two months of this year flew past. If you're interested -- and we really... Brighid's Fire Books 2008-03-01T08:27:35-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000120 Derek and I decided to get a jump on 2008 by announcing our 2007 contest winners as close to midnight as we could arrange. And just because I'm nice and just because I like you, I'm not even going to... Brighid's Fire Books 2008-01-01T00:05:45-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000119 Oh, did you think we were late this year? Now, really ... whatever gave you that idea? We simply sent out the finalist announcement to our email list first. After all, that's where are entrants are and those are the... Brighid's Fire Books 2007-10-02T07:25:53-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000118 It's about time I updated this front page, don't you think? The entry period for the Fiction Manuscript Contest has been over for coming up on a month now, so that stuff about getting your entries in was just a... Brighid's Fire Books 2007-05-21T11:49:54-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000117 Did you enjoy April Fool's Day? I'll be honestly curmudgeonly and confess that I detest April Fool's Day; no doubt my sense of humor is faulty. I just glad it's an optional quasi-holiday. But never mind that. There's another very... Brighid's Fire Books 2007-04-03T09:11:01-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000116 March is Small Press Month (you knew that, right?) and we have a double celebration going on here at Brighid's Fire Books. First, we're celebrating the way we usually do, with our official Call for Entries for the 2007... Brighid's Fire Books 2007-03-01T00:02:08-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000115 Well, okay, it's been pretty quiet in here at any rate. I blush to confess it but that's because nothing much has been happening, outside of paperwork ... not the kind of thing that is interesting enough to post here.... Brighid's Fire Books 2007-02-13T08:33:33-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000108 Good-bye 2006, welcome 2007! We've announced our Fiction Contest winner, on time as usual. We're particularly happy about our winner this year, because we move away from speculative fiction with a thrilling action/adventure by Robert Mestrovic called Reclamation. I was... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-12-31T20:48:53-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000106 Yes, that's right ... Brighid's Fire Books now has its own lovely new online bookstore! And it has a lot of lovely new features, too! There's a full-fledged shoppping cart system, a wish list (and you don't need an account... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-12-12T21:42:15-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000104 I bet you thought I got lost, didn't you? We're pretty busy here, reading through these great contest finalists and still on target to announce the 2006 winners on New Year's Day 2007. Meanwhile, there's this holiday gift giving season... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-12-06T19:46:23-05:00