A new year, working on the Dracula novel. Wrote a couple of new short stories and sent them out into the world. Sending stories and poems out–you think it is your best work until you look at it six months or a year later and wonder: what was I thinking? Who wrote this crap? Thing […]
The Monsters Next Door anthology. This was published in August of this year by Critical Blast. Delighted to be included is such great company. All the stories are top notch and well written. Would love to hear comments on the story.
So, I’ve been negligent with posts. The novel takes a lot of time and I really haven’t sent out many short pieces. That said the novel, my own twist on Dracula is coming along. Right now we are vacationing at the beach and I have intentions of using this time to kick out about 20K […]
I keep a spreadsheet of all the stories I send out and track rejections from the beginning of the year. So far this year the running number is 17 as of this date. Two slightly positive rejections out of that lot. One story, “A Pit of Unicorn Ashes,” made it through the first round of […]
Was privileged to participate in the March Futurescapes speculative fiction workshop this month. Received some great critiques on the first pages of my WIP novel, tentatively titled, “Last Days of a Prince.” It’s a twist on the Dracula story. Feedback was very encouraging which provided a nice kick in the pants to keep working on […]
Welcome to the new year. We came down to Florida in early January. It was heart wrenching to see the damage from hurricane Ian. Our street and the entire block around the condo complex was circled by a four foot high mound of trash–stuff that had been removed from the first floor units that had […]
I’ve been focused on trying to finish two novels, one about dragons living in the forest above Asheville, NC and the second, a twist on the Dracula story. The dragon story is not working and I’ve decided to put it away for a while. These things happen, what you visualize in your head doesn’t translate […]
I have been remiss in postings. Life gets in the way, things with house, which always seems to need something done, outside work and just things in general, that is, the practical side of life. On the positive side of things, we were able to see Hamilton at the Kennedy Center in earlier September with […]
A good month. Two published works at the end of May and first week of June. Both are literary (not my usual fare. The first, a story called, “A Prediction of Rain,” published by the Novus Literary Arts Journal, was a bit floating around in various incarnations for a few years. Quite pleased with the […]
Have a few new stories coming out over the next month or so. There will be a new story, interview podcast and reading of my story, “Ghost Bike” sometime next month. I’ll talk about the other pieces when they get closer to publication. Meanwhile, I was looking to submit a flash piece to a market […]