2006 Archives
12/25/06 Dearest Friends,
Yes, we have reached the wonderful holiday season at the end of 2006.
Happy Holidays from everyone at Butches Babes and Bards.
We have enjoyed entertaining you with our work. It’s been a great year for our site. This website is relatively new and we are slowly building it to contain more and more work from our talented authors. We hope to spend many more seasons with you by celebrating and writing about life and love between women. Our goal is to create one moment that captures your heart and revives the strength of your belief in romance, love, and a special woman. If you’re just stopping by, take the time to browse to each author’s special web page.
AnnieSA, Bliss, Cherokee Echols, Jaye Morgan, and JLNicky have written and provided stories, art, and song for your pleasure. Tis the season and we have our Christmas stories too. Here is a quick link directly to some of them:
STORIES:
The Christmas Gift by AnnieSA
Snowbound For Christmas on the City Of San Francisco by Cherokee Echols
The Christmas Wish by Cherokee Echols
Not A Christmas Carol by Jaye Morgan
The Christmas Angel by JLNicky
Again, Happy Holidays from Butches Babes and Bards! Remember, although emotions run the gambit from happiness to sadness at this time of year, and can sometimes overwhelm you, hold onto the fact that you are a strong woman and a beautiful soul. If your feeling healthy, happy, glad, and gracious about one thing, treasure it and savor it for that moment when life is not going so well. Pull it out and wrap it around you to enjoy once again that electric, crisp, joy. Although we are sad this year is ending soon, we will treasure this time we’ve spent together and will hold tight to the beauty of the memories. And there are so many new possibilities to be found and treasured for next year too. You’re a huge reason why we write, so we can share with you and get back the pleasure in the sharing. We care about you and yours. Please be careful and be safe. Spend time with loved ones and send out at least ONE Christmas card or Happy Holidays card. Share the spirit of the giving season and donate to something. Make a small resolution that will make you feel good inside, and keep it.
With our love and thanks,
Butches Babes and Bards
Donation links can be found on Bliss web page: DONATE HERE
10/02/06 Hi folks. Here is another update for BBB. We have posted the next couple of chapters of Jaye Morgan's Fire & Water Book Two of the Ashe Series. You can start reading here. Or you can pick up in chapter seventeen and work your way up. Either way you’re going to be highly pleased.
I have not been able to write much since I started my Master's program but luckily we will have a few Halloween stories that will be posting closer to the holidays.
Don't forget to visit Bliss' Home Page and check out her donation links to the various contributions you can participate in. She has updated her pictures to include some beautiful vistas of New Mexico. Enjoy. You may want to listen to her beautiful voice also, as she shows her talent off on her 'A Capella' link page.
I have also updated my personal pictures since a few friends came to visit and decided to take a whole schmorgasboard of pics of me. Vanity aside...damn I'm cute!!! Check it out here! JLNICKY Home Page That's about it for the changes this month. We will be updating again around the middle of the month. Talk to you all later. If you have any questions shoot me an email at BBBWebmistress
Thank you, JLNicky
9/05/06 Welcome to this weeks update of the BBB website, Hi I am JLNicky.
I just wanted to let you know this months recent change that has occurred for our website.
Excitingly, AnnieSA has posted a brand new video for our watching pleasure. Its incredible and you can see the large and small versions on her homepage. Additionally, she posted the conclusion for Promise Me Again. This romantic story will lift your spirit and make you smile.
Please take a moment to glance at our How To's if you want to expand your basic knowledge of computer geek-hood. I'm trying to add at leaset one 'How To' monthly. Check back often.
After analizing the feedback and hits on our site, we have decided to begin updating bi-monthly instead of weekly. This will give us a little more time to produce some longer pieces. We hope this doesn't displease to many people. We will still be posting as soon as the product is available. We will only be announcing the updates twice a month. Thanks.
So enjoy our bards work and let us know "Feed the Bards" for their hard work. If you have any questions, requests, feedback, or just want to visit a home page please feel free to peruse the sites and or shoot us an email.
AnnieSA email annie101@mweb.co.za
Bliss email 4bliss@gmail.com
Cherokee Echols email cherokeeechols@butchesbabesandbards.com
Jaye Morgan email jayemorgan@butchesbabesandbards.com
JLNicky email jlnickymaster@aol.com
Spread the word, BBB is a great place to be.
JLNicky, webmistress at BBB
8/13/06 Welcome to this weeks update of the BBB website, Hi I am Cherokee Echols.
This week we will be spotlighting the very talented, multifaceted, prolific little hottie JLNicky. Not only is Nic a fantastic writer she is also the web-goddess for BBB. So if you like what you see on our website drop her a line and let her know… she is your typical femme and loves the attention and adoration <g>.
After a stint in the US Air Force Nic went to college in the south before settling in the Bay area of California with her two beautiful Dalmatians Vicey and Jade. She is a biologist by education and a computer nerd by trade. Oops, sorry honey, that is an IT Specialist. We are all very excited for her here at BBB, as she has just been accepted into the masters program for a Masters of Science in Information Technology with studies in System Design and Programming Specialization. Yeah, I don’t know what that means either but she is real excited about it and hey that is all that counts.
JLNicky has been writing for many years providing the online community with PWP’s, stories of romance, speculative fiction and erotica. She can spin a yarn in a matter of hours or draw you into a novella that she writes on for months. Her talents are never ending. She hopes to one day write that great American Lesbian novel. So do your self a favor and take a tour around her web page there is something there for everyone. Including stories that have been translated into French and Spanish!
Remember if you don’t have time to set in front of the computer to read we provide you with Adobe PDF downloads of each completed story for your connivance.
This week for your listening pleasure Bliss has two new songs on her site the classic Stevie Nicks hit Landslide and the Heart classic How Can I Refuse both fan requests.
For your reading pleasure JLNicky with be posting a triage “Bancu and JLNicky Chatter 2006” a PWP written online with forum pal BanCu.
We also have added a new tutorial in the “How Do I” section forBurning a CD with Nero 6. Check it out!
August 11 was our very own AnnieSA’s birthday so if you haven’t already, stop by her site and wish her a happy birthday. She has been feeling ill but has promised to have a new video and the next part to her story Promise Me Again out as soon as she is feeling better.
If you would, please take a moment to visit Jaye Morgan’s page and read some of her spine-tingling horror or fantastical fantasy stories then drop her a line letting her know how much you enjoyed it. She is having a bit of writers’ block and the fan mail just might be what she needs to get her over it.
8/07/06 Welcome to the weekly update of BBB. Once again, I am Cherokee Echols inviting you to look at the stories by the five bards on our site. Or just sit back and enjoy a FanFic video by AnnieSA or song by Bliss.
AnnieSA does an amazing job with her FanFic videos causing me to go for a cold drink more than once. She brings her talents to us from Cape Town, South Africa. She is of Dutch heritage and as you can see by her picture on her personal page, she is a little hottie, too! Too bad ladies she has a girlfriend she is absolutely crazy in love with. AnnieSA is a remarkable little dynamo helping to care for her family, holding a management position in a large printing company, writing, developing her videos, playing sports, and making time for her girlfriend Karen. Although, AnnieSA post her stories in English her first language is actually Afrikaans. Be sure to check out her stories while you are on her page looking at her sizzling FanFic videos.
For your reading pleasure, Bliss is posting her Sci-Fi short “Tempico Terror”. Tempico Terror—Is it an emergency or an unscheduled lock down? Ensign Sheerah Riane must discover which it is. What or who will she find along the way?
Or if you like you can read one of the previously posted stories by JLNicky, Jaye Morgan or my own work, Cherokee Echols. Enjoy the reading material. Thanks for visiting.
7/29/06 Welcome to another week of updates from BBB. Hi, I ‘m Cherokee Echols and I want to thank everyone for taking the time to look over our site. The five bards on BBB came together to provide you with some (hopefully) entertaining stories, a little music and maybe even a picture or two to look at.
One of our more prolific writers Jaye Morgan brings her stories to us from England where she lives with her long term partner. Jaye is a very multifaceted talent and a great asset to our site. She has the ability to develop whole worlds in her mind and then bring them to life for us in her stories. You will be able to read this for yourself in her story “Ashe” and “Ashe Book II: Fire and Water” (still in progress).
Jaye loves horror movies especially those with vampires. So why not combine her two loves and write horror stories? A word of caution be sure to leave the lights on! Jaye is an all around great writer with Fantasy/Sci-Fi, Horror and even some Fan-Fic. A little secret about Jaye is she is also a wonderful poet. I hope we can get her to post some one day.
WhenJLNickyand I where talking about Jaye she had this to say "If someone doesn’t capture this fantastic talented glorious writer they are going to regret missing out on all the profit they would have made from this Anne McCaffrey/David Eddings/Tolkien/Anne Rice - Juniorette!!!" LOL I think that means JLNicky is a big Jaye Morgan fan. Why don’t you pull up Jaye’s page and look for yourself. If you want a short quick read, I suggest “Room For The Life” or “And So To Bed” but if you like, the long read then “Ashe” is definitely the story for you!
This week for your reading pleasure, another Authors Challenge byJLNickycalled “Space Between”. Space Between – Colonel Beck Garrett begins a pen pal relationship that grows into something much more. Her confidential mission up in space as part of a four-man team of NASA astronauts doesn’t allow her to meet the mysterious pen pal until word comes that the mission is ending. The space between could just turn out to be a heartbeat away.
We also have for your listening pleasureBliss’s rendition of the Carpenter’s tune “Yesterday Once More”. I just love to listen to this woman sing! What a range she has, too! Because of editing her story “Solo Hike” version 2 for publication, she was unable to get “Tempico Terror” finished for this posting so keep coming back and hopefully she will get it done soon.
7/22/06 Welcome to another update of the Butches Babes and Bards web site. Hi, I am Cherokee Echols and I would like to thank everyone who has signed up to receive the updates. If you want to recieve these updates in your email click on SIGN UP FOR NOTIFICATIONS and we will email you this ramble.
We are very excited here at BBB to announce Bliss just received the good news of the acceptance of her short story “Solo Hike” version 2 for publication in the up coming anthology “Wild Nights” edited by Reese Szymanski. We will keep you posted on the publication date.
Bliss is new to the writing scene as an author but has participated as a beta and reader for some time. When she retires in the next few years, she hopes to devote herself to the art of writing. Not only does Bliss write she also sings beautifully and you should really take the time to check out her songs on her personal page. If you have a particular favorite you would like to hear send in a request and she will try to record it for you. She has a new song she just finished for her site “Come In From The Rain” that is a wonderful classic written by Melissa Manchester.
She is currently working on a Sci-Fi short that will be included in next weeks updates called “Tempico Terror” keep and eye out for it. Bliss is a woman of many words with a beautiful voice so take time to give her site a look.
For your reading enjoyment, we also have a short story by the tantalizing and prolific JLNicky called “Hard As Stone” originally written as an ‘Authors Challenge’ just added to her page.
Hard As Stone – Twig is thrown into jail after accidentally killing her abusive husband. She meets and becomes friends with Stone the quarry rock breaker, and heart stealer. Enjoy their story.
While you are at the BBB site take a look at the other author pages Jay Morgan and AnnieSA will not leave you wanting with their talents! Remember if you don’t have time to read their stories now we offer PDF down load so you can take the stories with you and read at your convenience.
I hope you enjoy the site and if you have any suggestions or comment please don’t hesitate to drop us a line.
Enjoy! Cherokee Echols
7/15/06 WoooHoooo! We are off and running. Over 50 new subscribers and more every day. WOW! <breathing deeply> OK. NEW stuff: You can see a newly posted speculative fiction story by JAYE MORGAN on her home page Click Here ;called Room For The Life. Very Good Stuff!!!! Also, Jaye sent in her Chapter Eighteen of the Fire & Water story (totally great stuff) Click Here. I think this weeks ramble was on Cherokee Echols but she is a tad busy with work so suffer me once more. She has posted a brand new on going story called Three Rivers Indian Territory (Click Here). I do hope everyone had a wonderful, SAFE, relaxing July 4th. I am still tweaking the website for small things so if you see something NOT working refresh the page, test it, THEN send an email. Talk to ya'll next Saturday. Welcome to the BBB. JLNicky
6/25/06 NEW stuff is going to be announced for the grand opening next week soooo i'll not list everything here. I linked all the PDF's for everyone except for unfinished work. A couple of links were messed up but are now working. Grand opening next weekend JULY 1st
6/17/06 Here is the weekly update for BBB website news. Whew busy week. This time I have added two cover pics on AnnieSA homepage. I've added 4 more stories for Jaye Morgans homepage and chapters 13 - 15 of Fire & Water. We finally added the audio for everyone's homepage and the main site (go check them out...YAY). Woohoo I have added a scrolling marquee to everyone's homepage to list the latest 3 stories/songs for each author. And last but not least...I added an animated gif of a dancing hottie onto the main page above the audio controls. Hope everyone takes a gander. This site is still under construction so make sure you REFRESH YOUR SCREEN often if you are looking around. JLNicky
6/6/06 Just wanted to post today for evil's sake. Lots of stuff happening on the website. I've loaded 1 (unfinished) story for AnnieSA, an A Cappella music section for Bliss (she is really good), Jaye has some additional stories, and about 8 more stories and two more pictures for JLNicky. The link issue is fixed if you were having problems. We will be attempting a prebroadcast for this Whats New so you may get it in the mail if you have signed up for notifications. Grand Opening is still scheduled for July 1st, 2006 <sweating a bit> Site is still under construction so make sure you REFRESH YOUR SCREEN if you are looking around. JLNicky