Another story published!!!

  • Okay, shameless self-promotion time again.

    I got another short story, horror/ghost story, published! Blue Kingdoms: Shades & Specters. I am sooooo excited.

    Unfortunately, it's not yet available in bookstores or at amazon, but the publisher is working on it.

    And I'm just thrilled to get my name into print again. Twice in one year. (heehee).

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Awesome. If you have any advice for a wanna be author let me know by PM and I'll pass on my daughter's email address to you. She really wants to be an author.

  • Congratulations. Wonderful achievement.

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

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    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Congrats and that's very cool!

  • Wonderful to see an individual with your proven qualifications in SQL, having a life outside of technology. It should prompt all of us techies to widen our outlook of what life is about and enjoy more of it.

    Thanks for the inspiration.

    If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

    Ron

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  • Cool! where do we pick up our personalized autographed copies of the book?

    Sounds like a good read as long as it's not a horror story about a botched upgrade gone horribly wrong coming back to haunt you for years.......:D

    ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Your lack of planning does not constitute an emergency on my part...unless you're my manager...or a director and above...or a really loud-spoken end-user..All right - what was my emergency again?

  • Matt, How did you know the plot of my tale???? Not only an upgrade gone wrong, but the entire Board of Directors standing over a poor DBA's desk demanding answers while Microsoft is on the phone saying your license doesn't cover "that"! @=)

    Actually, it's a period piece horror story that's set in a world that could be ours, but isn't quite.

    If people want copies of the first or second anthology, you can PM me for arrangements. I'm selling a few direct and yes, I will autograph if you want me to. @=) But I'm not going to pimp publically beyond that because I don't want to make the site owners mad.

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • And thanks to everyone for the congratulatory posts. I'm just soooo thrilled about this.

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Brandie,

    Congratulations!! The royalty checks are coming.

    Kind regards,
    Gift Peddie

  • Outstanding! Congratulations, Brandie!

    --Jeff Moden


    RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
    First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
    ________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

    Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.


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    How to post code problems
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  • All,

    Blue Kingdoms: Shades and Specters is officially on Amazon.com in both print and ebook versions! WHOOHOO!

    The original book: Pirates of the Blue Kingdoms (which also has a story by me in it) is also available on Amazon in ebook version only.

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    (Select Distinct Snoopy-Dance, 4HoursStraight from HappyBrandie)

    WHOOOHOO! (because saying it once just isn't enough)!

    Brandie

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

  • Congrats again then.

    And a WOO HOO to go with it.

    :w00t:

    "The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood"
    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

  • Brandie,

    Congtrats to ya!

    Do we need to be scanning YouTube for Snoopy-Dance footage?

    I will have to exercise my One-Click amazon order button when I get home.

    "Key"
    MCITP: DBA, MCSE, MCTS: SQL 2005, OCP

  • Congrats!

    You selling autographed copies?

  • As a matter of fact, I am. @=) But the copies on Amazon aren't actually autographed.

    Brandie Tarvin, MCITP Database AdministratorLiveJournal Blog: http://brandietarvin.livejournal.com/[/url]On LinkedIn!, Google+, and Twitter.Freelance Writer: ShadowrunLatchkeys: Nevermore, Latchkeys: The Bootleg War, and Latchkeys: Roscoes in the Night are now available on Nook and Kindle.

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