Tag: sf

Spring 2024 News

Really excited to be in ON SPEC Magazine again. I recently signed a contract for “Shambolic Manor” a short story set at UBC that features a ghost, a party and Wreck Beach! Think it comes out near the end of 2024.

Last time I was published in ON SPEC, I lived in Edmonton, AB where the magazine was located.

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Polar Borealis # featured my Valentine’s story “Cupid’s Rebellion”. This is set in a local cafe that I enjoy going to! The story is available as a free download Issue #29 at https://polarborealis.ca

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March 14, 2024 – So pleased my odd little story “The FLD Robotics Corp Series: How to” (a 314 word very short story) made it onto the Pulp Literature Bumblebee Flash contest shortlist! Wasn’t one of the winners, but I like placing. Now to find a market for it!

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Buy ‘The Lady M’ from Pulp Literature Issue #40 Autumn 2023

My short story “The Lady M” is available for purchase from Pulp Literature. It’s in their Issue #40 and available at:

https://pulpliterature.com/product-category/pulp-literature/issue-40-autumn-2023/

It’s great to be named on the cover! Pulp Literature does a wonderful job of the print versions. They also have a digital version available.

Happy Canada Day!

maple leaf for Canada day

Hope everyone had a great Canada Day! I went to the airport and picked up Jessica after her three week trip to Europe! More on that later, but she participated in FEST! A film festival for emerging directors and students. Her latest film was shown there. More photos once I get permission 🙂

June was great for writing. I got another flash done for the Wordos Solstice night, which makes me happy.

The Lady M Accepted!

The Lady M story is accepted for publication

My wer-skunk short story “The Lady M” received a tentative acceptance for publication, pending edits, from a prestigious Cdn SFF magazine! I’m waiting for the contract to properly announce this with full details, but it’s made my month! I’m so pleased! This was the story that won a Finalist position in WOTF 2022 Q1.

November 27, 2022

I’ve been thinking again about issuing a small book of my previously published short stories and poems. It would be more or less a labour of love because I doubt that it would sell widely. However, a lot of my friends have shown interest in it.

If nothing else, as a testament to small magazines that featured work over the years. I challenge anyone, for example to find issues of that Sudbury, Ontario SF magazine that I had two short stories in during the 1990s. Don’t know whether I will or not. It could be a fun project to get me into the big world of Amazon and how to do a future novel or series.

Writing Life

It’s hard to get time to write, but it’s also hard not to write 🙂 because I have so many ideas and projects to work on.

Currently, I’m working on an idea for our Wordos Halloween party – we each write a flash fiction piece and read it out during the meeting.

It’s fun and a challenge. Much of writing is puzzle-solving, I find, although I do love using language, creating metaphors, etc.

For this challenge, we get 1000 words and three prompts, one of which or all of which we can use.

My story is going to be called “Shambolic Manor”… and more on that once it’s done!

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