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July 2023 Publication

| August 8, 2023

I had one new publication in July, which was my poem “The Whale Shark’s Stars,” which appeared in Strange Horizons. This is an interlocking rubāʿīyāt, which is a slightly complicated format, but I was pleased at how well it worked for this poem! You can read it on the Strange Horizons website!

July 2023 Recap

| August 3, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 102 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 50 (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 38 New Submissions: 26 Stories out at the end of the month: 107 The numbers are a bit all over the place this month, though the overall top and bottom line seem […]

Fun for Friday: July 2023 Prompts!

| June 30, 2023

July begins tomorrow, which means today is the perfect day to post my July 2023 prompts! This month’s prompts are mostly randomly generated, but the first column comes from the Kick in the Creatives July art challenge (with minor modifications). This month’s art challenge there is also to draw upside down, so you might think […]

July 2022 Recap

| August 2, 2022

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 122 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 62 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 47 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 105 July was a little slower on the submissions front. I have quite a collection of microfiction stories, and sometimes […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, Early July 2022

| July 6, 2022

Reading: I’ve finished reading a bunch of histories for research for my July project, so I’m back to reading books to review, The Ode Less Travelled, and miscellaneous marketing books. Watching: Ms. Marvel is AMAZING, we’re loving the third season of Umbrella Academy, and we’re catching up on the remainder of the season of Owl House and Stranger Things. There’s […]

Fun for Friday: July Writing Prompts

| June 24, 2022

July will be here before we know it, so it’s time for the July writing prompts. This month, I picked a bunch of onomatopoeic words, a bunch of color words that are also somewhat summer-y, and some very random words. Of course, you can take the color words at face value and write about them […]

July 2021 Recap

| August 3, 2021

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 150 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 94 (+1) (+4) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 114 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 173 Slight ramp up of submissions this month, even though it was a little slow on the rejection front. […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, July 2021 Edition

| July 7, 2021

Reading: Aside from books for reviews, I’ve been poking at some H. P. Lovecraft fiction and related materials. I read “The Colour Out of Space” because a friend had referenced it and I thought it might work to reference it in a story I’m planning. Having never read Lovecraft before, my reactions to it were, […]

Fun for Friday: July 2021 Writing Prompts

| June 25, 2021

July is still a few days away, but today’s the day to get your fresh writing prompts for the next month! It’s summer in the northern hemisphere, so we’ve got some July-inspired words, but also a lot of fairly random words. As always, I’ve tried to include some that have more than one potential meaning, […]

July 2020 Recap

| August 6, 2020

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 102 Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 43 Stories withdrawn: 1 (+2) Resubmissions: 62 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 114 Some reasonable numbers this month in terms of resubmissions! Also, this month was good for acceptances! I’ve signed the […]