http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/ Home page of Brighid's Fire Books, specializing in first fiction 2008-03-01T08:27:35-05:00 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 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000092 It's been awhile, hasn't it? If you remember the news reports of flooding in upstate New York, then you know where I've been. The summer months were enlivened by alternative between flood cleanup and repair and manuscript partial reading for... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-10-02T09:45:21-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000070 In Druidry, the festival of Alban Hefin or Summer Solstice celebrates the time of maximum light "when the countryside around us revels in colourful and fragrant splendour." It is the time when the sun is at its strongest and most... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-06-19T08:25:37-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000019 Yes, I'm in the middle of a server move here and I'm hoping I can arrange matters so that this site won't go down during the transition. I'm also trying to get the various bits of software I use to... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-06-09T22:55:06-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000018 Here at Brighid's Fire Books, we're coming up on another end-of-countdown event -- the release of our next fiction title. Yesterday's Falcon is an wonderful Authorian fantasy by first time novelist Tim Newman, our second place winner in the... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-04-29T12:51:09-05:00 http://www.brighidsfirebooks.com/blog/archives/#000017 Derek and I were looking at the calendar and we noticed that April 30th falls on a Sunday this year. We also realized that U.S. post offices are not open on Sundays, so that the "postmarked by April 30th" deadline... Brighid's Fire Books 2006-04-27T13:15:34-05:00