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Skyla Dawn

Always be yourself. Unless you suck.

About Me

Full-time author with a book already out and one scheduled for next year. Marketing and P.R. Director for Mundania Press . Secular humanist and confirmed atheist. Feminist and founder of Nothing But Red . Unabashed Whedonite. 'Nuff said? ;-)

Oh, and you should totally visit my website . All the cool kids are doing it.

(Below is the little promo I made for my next book, Bloodlines.)

Wanna read some free stories? Check out my website, specifically my eSerial, Children of the Apocalypse .

My Interests

Writing, not-reading, Joss Whedon, Toasters, music, secular humanism, vegetarianism, Red vs Blue, Chinese romantic comedies, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Veronica Mars, cancelled TV shows, learning Japanese

I'd like to meet:

You mean besides Joss Whedon? How about myself in ten years. Might be interesting. ;-)

Okay, okay...anyone interesting. Writers. Artists. Humanists. Atheists. Vegetarians. Browncoats. Toasters. Whatever.

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And now onto my "friending" policy....

I never used to have one 'cause I didn't really have any friends, but now that I blog more, requests come out of the woodwork. So here it is:

1. I will friend just about anyone. Exceptions are people who seem crazy. You know who you are. Even when I frequented metaphysical forums, I thought the people who believed in giant, shape-shifting reptiles who drink blood and masquarade as the royal family were nutjobs. If you scare me because you talk about aliens coming down to drink tea with you and how a bath in cayenne pepper is going to save you from the upcoming plague orchestrated by the Illuminati, I'm sorry but I can't be your friend. I'm just weird that way. **Extra note: I don't care if you believe these things, I just don't want to hang out with the people who talk about nothing but David Icke and such.

2. This is pretty much me: I'm a pro-choice, pro-equal marriage, pro-secularism, pro-animal rights, atheist environmentalist vegertarian feminist Liberal. Yes, "big L"--as in the party. Also, I tend to swear. Like a whole fucking lot. I don't expect you to agree me with me, I don't expect you to like me, and I don't spend all day discussing my views. But that's me. And if you happen to be the opposite of that, and decide to friend me, that's cool--we can be friends. But just know I'm going to be a little leery and worried about your sanity. ;-) **Extra note: I have plenty of friends with opposing views--that's cool--but if I find out you're just friending me 'cause I'm an atheist and you want to convert me (yes, this has happened), I'm going to delete you 'cause that's obnoxious. Live and let live, m'kay? I don't spend my day attacking your belief system, so please leave me to my lack of one in peace. I don't want to debate, I just want to be left the fuck alone.

3. Don't stalk me. No, really, I'm not making a joke. It's not flattering--it's creepy. I like compliments and all that, but please don't send me pictures of you and talk about weird sex dreams you had. You don't even know me, dude--back off. Especially if you're from Turkey. No, I'm still not making a joke, and for those of you laughing now, I'm going to send my next stalker to YOUR MySpace page, LOL. **Extra note: no, I don't assume everyone is a stalker--usually I'll give people the benefit of the doubt. Just please don't creep me out.

4. I defriend people who fill up my bulletin space with twenty messages a day. I don't care that you found a cool new quiz or a funny joke, jackass. It's just bad manners to post constantly about that crap. If I'm that interested in you, I'll subscribe to your blog. Also, if you're the kind of person I mentioned in rule #2 and your messages are aimed at saving the heathens--even if you don't send out twenty a day--I'll still remove you.

And so my ends friending policy. No, I'm not usually such a bitca, I just like to be upfront. ;-)

Music:

Artists: Sarah Brightman, Damien Rice, The Doors, Chihiro Onitsuka, Utada Hikaru, David Usher, Evanescence, Linkin Park, Reefer Madness Soundtrack.

Genres: Alternative, Opera, J-pop, J-rock, K-pop, Folk, Irish Drinking Songs, Bollywood Soundtracks

Movies:

Romeo & Juliet (1968), Serenity, Kill Bill, A Tale of Two Sisters, Lost In Time, Reefer Madness: The Movie Musical

Television:

Veronica Mars, The Office, Buffy, Firefly, Angel, Wonderfalls, Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, South Park, My Name Is Earl, Arrested Development, Dexter, Invader Zim, La Femme Nikita

Books:

Pride and Prejudice, The Time Master Trilogy, Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, The Art of War, The Gashlycrumb Tinies, Jillian Jiggs, His Dark Materials.

Heroes:

Johnny the Homicidal Maniac. Not for the homicidal part, but because despite his flaws, he's self-aware.

My Blog

*throws keyboard across the room*

I'm having a hell of a time right now. Keyboard keeps randomly not working--I don't know what the problem is. I've checked the system for viruses and everything is fine. *sigh* The light stays on,...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Mon, 19 May 2008 01:35:00 PST

Yogurt: Its For Women!

This is like my new favourite thing EVAH! Look, I like yogurt and all, though there are only two brands I can actually eat (because the rest use gelatin, which I don't eat--I have to hunt ...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Tue, 13 May 2008 08:29:00 PST

Behold!

That would be my temporary licence (minus some personal info). See there? Yep, my name. I'm *actually* allowed on the road with another licenced driver in the car. I'm shocked all to hell, but ser...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Tue, 13 May 2008 04:56:00 PST

This *Is* Satire...Right?

Um...For reals?This was on Feministing today, and I'm still trying to wrap my head around it. June 7 marks the 43rd anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court decision Griswold v. Connecticut. This was th...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Tue, 06 May 2008 08:07:00 PST

Contests, CotA, and Other Stuff

On a less ranty note...Newsletter will go out in a few days, but here's a sneak peak at what I'll be talking about.Children of the ApocalypseThere's definitely something about Merri in May's chapter.....
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Wed, 30 Apr 2008 04:34:00 PST

You know what? Frak Off!

I have all kinds of shit to be doing right now (among other things, conference is in a few days--yay!), but something really upset me this morning, so naturally I thought I'd complain about it.Thankfu...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:32:00 PST

Do You Like To Dance With Danger?

This is a busy year for me. Besides putting together and releasing NBR, I have work in two more anthologies (well, I *think* the second will be out by the end of the year), as well as my second novel...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Thu, 24 Apr 2008 10:58:00 PST

Why I <3 Piers Anthony

No, it's not because he's an awesome fantasy author. Nor is it because he's a vegetarian (we all know vegetarians are my favourite kind of people). I heart Piers Anthony because of something he rece...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Fri, 18 Apr 2008 05:55:00 PST

NBR, My Sari, and Other Stuff

I haven't seen any Nothing But Red paperbacks yet (takes longer to ship to Canada), but they've arrived to US customers. Contributor and fellow organizer, Angela Todd, posted some photos on her blog....
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 05:02:00 PST

A Relief...

M'kay, so you know how I deleted nearly all of my personal files from my computer in November because I had a depressive episode and got all self-destructive?  No?  Well, I did.  That included every f...
Posted by Skyla Dawn on Sat, 12 Apr 2008 12:20:00 PST