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Holiday Reading: Cross and Circle

| December 26, 2017

If the weather outside is making you want to curl up under a blanket and read, might I recommend my novelette Cross and Circle? It’s a contemporary fantasy story set around the winter holidays, making it a good, short, post-Christmas read. Here’s the summary: Evie and Carlotta are expecting the imminent arrival of their first child when […]

Cover Reveal: Scenes from a Quiet Apocalypse

| December 21, 2017

The latest book I’ve been working on is a weird, experimental piece using the major arcana of the tarot deck as its outline, so to speak. I wrote the pieces of it during the Write Like You’re Alive challenge in August this year, and then decided that it was worth prodding into the shape of […]

2017 publishing

| December 14, 2017

It’s the time of the year when authors are making lists of the stories and other items that they published in 2017, which are eligible for awards. Most of my short stories that were published this year were reprints, but I’ve got a few things to mention! Short Stories: “Justice is Blind,” published as part of Bards […]

Upcoming projects

| June 6, 2017

Since posting my May recap, I’ve come up with a few projects that I’ll be working on the coming months. My goal is to put out a new ebook every couple of months for the rest of the year. The first of these was Unfixed Timelines, which collected a bunch of my alternate history stories with […]

June 2015 recap

| June 30, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 11 (miscounted last month) Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 18 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 21 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 15 Holy cow, looking at the numbers for June, I have to say I’m a little impressed. I’ve been doing an awesome […]

May 2015 recap

| June 1, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 16 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 18 New Submissions: 3 Stories out at the end of the month: 10 May has been a busy month! I finished and submitted three stories (runners, shoes, and game), and I found four previously published […]

April 2015 recap

| April 30, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 6 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 3 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 4 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 6 The numbers this month seem a little low to me, but I think that’s mainly because I’ve got stories out at markets that have a longer […]

March 2015 recap

| April 1, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 9 Acceptances received: 0 Rejections received: 11 (+1) Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 9 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 6 My numbers for the month are a little bit down, which is in part because I’ve pulled two stories out of circulation. In one […]