I’ve sold another short story! This one to a great market.
I’m not allowed to fully announce until they have a full table of contents… but I am excited!
This story was recently revised after Wordos critiqued it. I’m certain that helped it to sell!
So your writing group can be extremely helpful!
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Murderbugs audio book has launched on Audible: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DG9TW95B/
Now, you can hear the Tomato Liberation / stinkbug story, and many more very entertaining stories as narrated by L. Connor McGeverly
My news this week is that one of my flash stories made the long list for the Pulp Literature Hummingbird Prize! Winner to be announced July 15, 2024. See https://pulpliterature.com/announcing-the-2024-hummingbird-prize-longlist/
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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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.
To back the Kickstarter for “MurderBugs” where my “Tomato Liberation” flash story will appear, click here.
I’m so pleased that one of my Wordos stories will appear in this anthology, edited by Mike Jack Stoumbos. It features many upcoming talents from the world of science fiction and fantasy writing.
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.
Anniversary of Neo-Opsis Magazine’s publication of The New Tudors – coincidentally my calendar has a Hogarth picture of Henry VIII – though my story was a #spaceship based one.🎉💕 Thanks Karl and Stephanie Johanson.
Thinking about annual goals is difficult for me. I hate setting wildly optimistic ones but later having to admit, that life and the day job got in the way of the creative writing.
Maybe the best thing for me in 2023 is to have a few key phrases to stand in for formal goals:
I think many writers put undue pressure on ourselves I regards to performance goals.. Every screenwriter thinks they should output more. Every novelist is in awe of someone who writes more novels per year than they do. I believe the key is still balance. Those who sacrifice quality of writing for quantity of words don’t keep their audiences. Balance is key, write as much as you can write well.
My between Christmas and New Year activity proceeds. The ‘knitting’ MOW that now takes place at Christmas is my first priority, but I’m also getting a few short stories out to SFF markets.
