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Kickstarter Recommendation: Neon Hemlock’s 2024 Novella Series

| March 13, 2024

I backed last year’s Neon Hemlock novella series Kickstarter, and I’m looking forward to this year’s as well! From last year, I’ve reviewed Hybrid Heart and The Killing Ground, along with Suzan Palumbo’s Skin Thief, a collection including short stories and a novella, and I’ve got more of these on tap to review! If you’re curious to […]

Post-Apocalyptic Reads

| October 13, 2022

I have two post-apocalyptic novellas: Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse and Barren. The former is a much more recent apocalypse, one that hits just before the book begins. The latter is an apocalypse that hit within the main character’s lifetime, but she’s lived in a post-apocalyptic world for longer than she spent in the pre-apocalyptic world. If […]

Returning to Long Form Writing

| August 8, 2022

I started the year deciding that I didn’t want to write longer works for 2022, unless I came up with an idea that absolutely had to be longer. And I wound up with one of those ideas. And then a second one, when I realized the first one wouldn’t work as I had planned it. […]

Reading Beyond the Apocalypse

| March 1, 2022

If you enjoy reading post-apocalyptic stories, you might enjoy a couple of my books! Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse is a novella with chapters based the major arcana of the tarot deck. Without warning, most of humanity stopped speaking. Acting in silent unison, they overthrew the world in service to an unknown force. Their takeover […]

November 2014 recap

| December 2, 2014

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 8 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 9 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 5 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 4 So first off, NaNoWriMo. Yeah, that happened. Here’s what I posted to Facebook last night: “So I didn’t finish my […]

June 2014 recap

| July 2, 2014

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 4 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 4 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 5 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 5 June was a fairly slow month for me. I received some rejections that I had been waiting on for a […]

May 2014 Recap

| June 3, 2014

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 3 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 2 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 4 Another month, and another acceptance! I’m proud to announce that my short story, “Veli tis Artemidos,” will be appearing in […]

July recap

| July 31, 2012

By the numbers Stories out at the beginning of the month: 5 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 3 Resubmissions: 3 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 5 Not much action on this front, really. I haven’t finished a new short story since February, so it’s pretty much just been a […]