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February 2025 Stories

| March 4, 2025

I had two new stories out in or around February. (One was technically January, but I didn’t realize it was out until after my January story post!) As I mentioned previously, I had four stories selected for the Hawthorn & Ash anthology, and the first of those has appeared on the Iron Faerie Publishing website. “Glaistig” […]

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 […]

Fun for Friday: Weird February History

| February 14, 2025

Time for more weird history to inspire your writing or maybe just pique your curiosity! February is called “The Strangest Month of the Year” in this article on Medium from 2018. While it doesn’t delve too deeply into historical events, one might argue that the events it covers from seven years ago are recent history, […]

Fun for Friday: February 2025 Writing Prompts!

| January 31, 2025

It’s time for the February 2025 writing prompts! This month, I decided to use random words from Random Word Generator. Column 1 is nouns, column 2 is verbs, and column 3 is adjectives. I like to think of organizing the columns in this way to suggest a sort of basic sentence as the prompt, wherein […]

February 2024 Publications

| March 7, 2024

I had three pieces come out in February, all flash fiction! Small Wonders reprinted my story “Grandmother Firebird,” which is a sweet and cozy multigenerational tale of daughter, mother, and grandmother. My story “The Glass Cauldron Shattered” appeared in 99 Fleeting Fantasies, an anthology of flash fiction pieces. This one takes a look at magical […]

February 2024 Recap

| March 5, 2024

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 116 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 41 (+3) Stories withdrawn: 4 Resubmissions: 41 New Submissions: 8 Stories out at the end of the month: 115 February has continued January’s trend of being a good time to finish pieces. One of my new submissions this […]

Fun for Friday: February 2024 Prompts!

| January 26, 2024

It’s time for the February 2024 writing prompts! As per the usual, I’ve pulled these in from other sources, though I had to do some digging since this year is a leap year! The first column is from a 2023 Kick in the Creatives February “Faces” prompt list. I added the word for the last […]

February 2023 Recap

| March 2, 2023

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 71 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 58 (+1) (+5) Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 88 New Submissions: 6 Stories out at the end of the month: 98 My submissions numbers are back up to closer to normal again, after a long while of struggling with […]

Fun for Friday: February 2023 Writing Prompts

| January 27, 2023

It’s time for the February 2023 writing prompts, and yet again, I’m borrowing my lists from other sources. It’s the combination of the three, I think, that will lead to interesting things. Words in the first column are from the Kick in the Creatives February 2023 art prompts. They’ve got the most variety! Words in […]

February 2022 Recap

| March 3, 2022

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 129 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 67 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 2 Resubmissions: 60 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 119 February is a short month, but it feels like this February flew by. There weren’t a ton of rejections, […]