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WriteHive 2025 Recap

| July 21, 2025

July 11-13 was the WriteHive annual online conference for this year, and as I have for the past couple of years, I attended and participated in a bunch of events! On Friday night, I was the interviewer for an interactive fiction Q&A with Livia J. Elliot. This was a fantastic Q&A, with Livia providing a […]

June 2025 Recap

| July 3, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 61 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 36 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 3 Resubmissions: 23 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 45 My June numbers were a little bit lower than they’ve been in past months, in part because I’ve continued […]

May 2025 Recap

| June 5, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 60 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 30 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 32 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 61 My May numbers are a tiny bit up from April, which is exciting! It’s also kind of surprising, because […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, June 2025

| June 4, 2025

Reading: Books for reviews, at the moment. I’ve got a few other things I’d like to crack open, but I’m sort of barely keeping up with other reading right now. Watching: Our latest “must watch” is Murderbot, of course, which we’re really loving! It’s a bit different from the books (I’ve only heard the first book, […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, May 2025

| May 14, 2025

Reading: Still working through Wonderbook and still reading some fiction to review. Amusingly, I had time to kill at a K-pop concert I attended solo last week between the soundcheck and performance, so I found a seat and read a third of a novel. Antisocial, yes. But it was nice to have a little time to […]

April 2025 Recap

| May 6, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 53 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 14 (+2) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 22 New Submissions: 7 Stories out at the end of the month: 60 I had thought my submissions in April had been a little higher than March, but it turns out they […]

March 2025 Recap

| April 3, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 44* Acceptances received: 3 Rejections received: 17 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 19 New Submissions: 11 Stories out at the end of the month: 53 March was, predictably, a little slow on the submissions front, though I did get a bunch of pieces I […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To, April 2025

| April 2, 2025

Reading: Primarily books to review, along with the appendices in Wonderbook. I’ve also just gotten my copy of C. D. Covington‘s Filling Your Worlds with Words, about linguistic worldbuilding, which I’m looking forward to tackling! Watching: We watched Skeleton Crew somewhere along the line, and I forgot to mention it here. Definitely recommended if you love the […]

February 2025 Recap

| March 6, 2025

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 42 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 13 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 10 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 40 February was slow on the submissions front, and while I’d like to blame the shorter month, the reality is that […]

What I’m Reading, Watching, and Listening To: February 2025

| February 26, 2025

Reading: Wonderbook and books to review, along with assorted Wikipedia and other articles as I start preparing to write another historical superhero novella! Watching: It’s mostly been K-pop and other music-related content, but we did recently watch The Undertaker and Mick Foley’s Hell in a Cell Retrospective, which is their recap of one of the […]