torsdag 29. september 2011

Moving to BeritEllingsen.com


Moving to a new site!

BeritEllingsen.com will house my blog, news, links to publications and writer blogs, and other tidbits.

For now, all the chapters of The Empty City that have been published online are there.

Very shortly they will be moved to the new EmptyCityNovel.com website which is dedicated to the book.

See you all at BeritEllingsen.com!

Love,

Berit

(Image: Still Life by Caravaggio)

torsdag 22. september 2011

The Versatile Blogger Award


My writer friend Vanessa Wu has a great blog with insightful book reviews, commentaries and posts about the writing life. Go check it out!

She has kindly awarded me the Versatile Blogger Award. Thank you so much Vanessa!

As per the rules of the blogging award I will give the award on to 5 other blogs.

The bloggers I want to reward have great blogs with personal and insightful and cool and funny posts, poems, pictures, stories and commentary. They are:

Chris Galvin Nguyen

Solange Noir

Melissa Dominic

Nathan Crowder

Michaela Hutfles


I enjoy all of your blogs, including Vanessa's, and your blog posts inspire me to make my own blog more personal.


The rules also state I have to say 7 things about myself.

1) As a university student, I seriously considered applying for a job as forensic biologist with the FBI.

2) I'm a hobby cat whisperer. My two cats are rescues with behavioral problems. It took some advice from dog whisperer Cesar Millan to make the cats happy and harmonious animals.

3) I dislike computers but I have so many of them they outnumber me 4 to 1.

4) My sister had the chance to meet actor Kevin Costner last fall. I said she ought to run up to him and yell "Oh hiiiii mister Costner I'm sooo happy to meet youuuu I just looved you in Water World oh my gooood!" "I can't do that," my sister said. "No one, absolutely no one liked Water World." :)

5) I read 1984 when I was 11. That was not a good idea. Then I read Naked Lunch when I was 17, in bed with a cold. It just made me feel worse.

6) I once got locked inside the entrance at the door to the morgue at 10 in the evening. I prepared to spend a very long and scary night when fortunately a late working German saved me. Thank you!

7) I dislike digital items because they are so finicky, but my PCs outnumber me 4 to 1.

onsdag 21. september 2011

Candle in the Attic Window out now


Candle in the Attic Window - An Anthology of Gothic Horror

with my story The Ascent

is out now!

Click the link to win the book in competition or giveaway at Goodreads!