21st August, 2010 - No Comments
I have not been active on the blog for some months. Life is complicated and my focus has turned in other directions. Click Here for more details on that. In the writing world, I’ve had a few more rejections and made a submission today. The Old Ones was rejected by The Pedestal Magazine on April » Read More
27th March, 2010 - No Comments
Today I got organized. I set up the next two months of Flash Fridays, sorry I’ve been lax about that the last couple weeks. I noticed that a lot of the upcoming flash are tagged with “dead” or “death,” so just a warning, there are not many happy stories coming. I also prepared and submitted » Read More
2nd January, 2010 - No Comments
I made 37 submissions in 2009. 29 of them in the final three months of the year, after returning, inspired and renewed from DragonCon in Atlanta. Of the 37 submission, 29 have been rejected. I wrote a lot of new flash fiction this past year, 7 of which were submitted, and most of the rest » Read More
28th November, 2009 - No Comments
I got some interesting story bits and characters. Doa and Tio definitely beg to be written about independently. They will probably be an upcoming Friday Flash piece before they become a full fledged story. But I have failed at the writing of a novel this month. I have failed at making the necessary time to » Read More
8th October, 2009 - No Comments
Since the last report, I’ve done the following: Submitted The Albion to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. Sumbitted Say Goodbye to Flash Me Magazine. Submitted Samantha Reborn to flashquake. Submitted Twin Circles to Cicada Magazine. Had May 9th, 1999 rejected by Chiaroscuro. Had The Albino rejected by The Magazine of Fantasy & Science » Read More
30th September, 2009 - No Comments
How to Get Rejected John C. Snider, Ginjer Buchanan, Bill Fawcett, Toni Weisskopf, Stephen H. Segal, Stacy Hague-Hill, Lou Anders Easy Rejections: Long cover letters Shaped manuscripts Pitching in costume Submit a marketing plan Spam submission Inappropriate topic Assuming familiarity Disrespect of genre Getting the editor’s name wrong Not understanding the genre Filthy submission Strange » Read More
26th September, 2009 - No Comments
I realized it had been a while since I’d mentioned where my stories were. I’ve been updating my News page, but here’s a summary of the past two weeks for the curious: Twin Circles was submitted to and rejected by Fantasy Magazine. Crow Spirit was submitted to Strange Horizons. Thirsty Dagger was submitted to Weird » Read More
11th September, 2009 - No Comments
Thirsty Dagger was rejected this morning by Fantasy Magazine. Tonight I submitted Twin Circles to them. I’m debating posting updates with each submission and rejection, or just updating my news page and every now and then posting a summary here. Read More
9th July, 2009 - No Comments
I got a rejection letter from The Pedestal Magazine for Dream Child on Tuesday. I sent it out to Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show today. Yay for finding new markets recently. Have gotten some feedback on my narrative statement and some very good suggestions. Much more work to do on it. After that, research » Read More
29th June, 2009 - No Comments
So, I did it. I wrote a short story in about a week, typed it up today and put it in an envelope, to be taken to the post office shortly and put in the mail to L. Ron Hubbard’s Writers of the Future Contest. It’s a strange little thing, only about 2300 words, about » Read More