Our Next Newsletter

If you are an author wishing to advertise your work in our newsletter, please contact Doris Ross for details.  At present, we are able to offer advertising space in our May/June 2012 Edition newsletter for free.  This may change for later editons, and we will let you know when it does.  Likewise, if you wish to be a contributor to our newsletter, please contact us.  We are currently looking for material oriented around science fiction, fantasy, or gaming.  Just put “Newsletter” in the subject line and e-mail us at @trinitygateways.net">trinityinquiries@trinitygateways.net.

Printed copies of our May/June 2012 Edition newsletter will be distributed for free at Ancient City Con in July later this year.

February has decided to grace Jacksonville with some winter temperatures.  We’re in the 30s today, though it feels like it’s 10 degrees colder.  We’re not sure why but it seems to want to make up for the late spring temperatures we had last week.  We’d just like it to make up its mind.

Submission Call

TrinityGateways.net is happy to announce that we are accepting submissions for a short story horror anthology.  The anthology is entitled Shadows of the Mind and will feature horror stories with a disturbing aspect.   The acquisitions editor is LJ Gastineau and the cover artist is Doris Ross.   Accepted submissions will be paid 1/4 penny for each word.  Please see our Submissions Page for further details and submissions guidelines.

New Content Posted

We’ve got new material for our readers.  LJ Gastineau has added another chapter to A Tail to Remember and Doris Ross has uploaded another episode of Spartans: The AWOL Squad as well as two more chapters of her abridged rough draft for Descent Into Darkness: His Beast.  Tricia Sparks is currently working on content for the Writer’s Desk, which isn’t ready to post.  She’ll have new material up for the next update.

If you’d like to what’s posting when, check out our Schedules page.  It’s been revised recently, so if you’ve already seen it, you may want to look at it again.

One of the major things that’s different is that our Trinity authors now have their own blogs.  The blogs will have no set schedule for new posts but you can now subscribe to them — and our homepage — to be notified of new things.  Additionally, users can now leave their comments for all to see.  We review everything here, so feel free to tell what you think of what you’ve read, ask questions, or give suggestions.  We’d love to hear from you.

Today’s Update

We have new story updates for you from our resident authors.  New chapters have been posted for Descent Into Darkness: His Beast by Doris Ross and two new stories have just launched: Spark of Vengeance by LJ Gastineau & Tricia Sparks, which will be updated with fresh chapters monthly, and The Intervention, the second part of the The Good, The Bad, & Chronically Stupid mini-series by Tricia Sparks.  Look for them under the Featured Stories menu or access the author’s pages under The Trinity menu.

Also, our Schedules pages have been updated through March.  We’ll be adding to it as we go along so be sure to check it out every now and again.

A New Release!

Doris Ross is happy to announce the release of her latest e-book, Descent Into Darkness: Her Lord!  You can now purchase Her Lord from Amazon for the Kindle, and from Smashwords.com for just about every other format.  It should be available for sale at most major retailors within a few weeks.

As with her previous release, Descent Into Darkness: His Own, the ebook of Her Lord includes materials not previously posted on the site: a map, an appendix/glossary, and bonus chapters.  If you would like to read sample chapters of either His Own or Her Lord, click HERE.

Some of you may be wondering why this live build is taking so long.  The answer is simple: the webmaster (me) has a day job.  The unfortunate reality is that the demands of the Evil Necessity that is the day job must be met.  It slows everything down.  We do, however, hope to have everything — or almost everything – up by Monday.

In the meantime, apologies for the inconvenience.

Website Migration

We will begin website migration the first weekend of November. We will do our best to minimize any possible site outages. The site will be converted to WordPress at the same time so it will look different by the time we finish, and should be a bit friendlier to use.

The migration will only affect TrinityGateways.net. It will not in any way affect DorisRoss.com. Any issues or delays in getting the site online after the migration has been completed will be posted in Doris’ blog on her site.

Update Hiatus

As stated on our Updates page, this is the last scheduled free content update for 2011. We will not, however, be idle as we roll through the holidays. Aside for the website migration and redesign, we are embarking on an anthology for which we will begin accepting submissions. More info on that project will be posted after the migration process has been completed.

Regularly scheduled updates for free content will resume on 1/29/11. However, unscheduled posts may be made during the hiatus period if time permits.

In the meantime, thank you very much for a great year! We hope to continue the trend as we move into 2012.

Look for those posts in the next day or two. Meanwhile, Tricia and LJ both have new material for your perusal.

In the meantime, thanks to everyone who stopped by to talk to us or picked up our newsletter — you are all awesome! Thanks, too, to Spooky Empire for having us, to all the other authors who were there, and especially to Linda S. Cowden for putting us forward as panelists.

Just A Heads Up

TrinityGateways.net will be migrating to a new server in early November. We hope that the transition will be a smooth one and any time when the site is offline will be minimal or non-existant. When we do this, however, the site will look dramatically different as we will be switching to WordPress for our builder. We will post a reminder message the week before it happens.

Meanwhile, enjoy this update!

Doris Ross has moved her Author’s Page

If you’ve paid attention to her posts on that page, you’ve been forewarned of this change. All links to the page www.trinitygateways.net/dross.html have been redirected to www.dorisross.com. This sister site will host all of her material and her blog. It’s a WordPress site, so the look is different from the TrinityGateways.net layout. Be sure to pop on over and check it out.

An Unscheduled Update & A Bit of Schedule Confusion

For those of you who follow the Descent Into Darkness novella series, the next two chapters of the third story are available for your perusal. The sidebar button for the series will take you to the new page.

LJ got the post schedule confused and has provided the wrong chapter for this update. Instead of Chapter 21 for A Chance In Time, she has Chapter 7 of A Tail to Remember. Chapter 21 of A Chance In Time will be posted as soon as she’s written it. She apologizes for the mix-up.

Spooky Empire

The Orlando, FL, horror convention takes place in two weeks and Doris and LJ will be attending as guest panelists. Between them, one or both of them will be featured on five writing panels. LJ has included specifics on those panels on Author’s Page post. For more info on the convention itself and accomodations go to www.spookyempire.com.

Our next update will be on 10/10/11. The Updates Page will list what’s to post for October as soon as Doris finds the schedule that she’s misplaced.

That’s all for now. Until next time!

Remembering the Day

Today’s the anniversary for a tragic moment in our nation’s history. We remember those we lost, who we were with when it happened, what we were doing. Very few people who witnessed the events of 9/11 — by being there, watching the news, taking a phone call, or stumbling across news posts on the internet — have forgotten what it was for our country to experience them.

Take a moment to remember our dead, be thankful for the survivors, and to reflect on just how precious a gift our everyday lives are.

On Another Note

Today is also LJ’s birthday. It’s hard to be happy when the day of your birth shares the date with infamous tragedy, so she can use some cheering up. Drop her an e-mail to wish her Happy Birthday at LJGastineau@trinitygateways.net. She’ll appreciate.

Until next time!