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May 2016 recap

| May 31, 2016

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 20 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 13 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 15 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 22 Well, I didn’t get as much done in May as I had hoped, in part because I spent a week in Kansas City for […]

April 2016 recap

| May 2, 2016

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 22 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 12 Stories withdrawn: 1 Resubmissions: 11 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 20 April was a strangely slow month. I did finish one new story and got that started in circulation. I also got an acceptance, […]

“Vodyanoi” reprinted in Outposts of Beyond

| April 7, 2016

My story, “Vodyanoi,” which originally appeared in Beyond Science Fiction last year, has been reprinted in the April 2016 issue of Outposts of Beyond, available here. If you missed it earlier, check it out now, in print or e-formats!

February 2016 recap

| February 25, 2016

I’ve decided to go ahead and do the February recap a few days early, and include the last few days of February on the March recap. By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 18 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 10 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 10 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the […]

January 2016 recap

| February 2, 2016

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 16 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 13 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 14 New Submissions: 1 Stories out at the end of the month: 18 Hard to believe that a month has already passed! I’m still putting 2015 on plenty of stuff, but I’m finally starting to remember what […]

“Origin Story” is out!

| January 20, 2016

My first story to be published in 2016 is now out. My short story, “Origin Story,” appears in the debut issue of Black Girl Magic Lit Mag, which came out on January 15th. And look at that fantastic cover! Love it! My story started out thinking about how the zombie apocalypse might play out in Seattle, […]

2015 in Review

| December 31, 2015

It’s the end of the year, and time to look at 2015! (Updated 1/1/16 because of a last minute rejection on the 31st.) My numbers for 2015: Stories out at the end of 2014: 4 New Stories Written: 11 Old Stories Making the Rounds: 13 Total Submissions: 176 Total Rejections: 151 (+1) Total Acceptances: 8 Stories out at the end of […]

Sparx and Arrows is now available!

| December 29, 2015

 I’ve just published my first collection of short stories, Sparx and Arrows. It contains five super hero stories featuring Kara Sparx and three different incarnations of the Huntsman. It’s set in the Cobalt City universe, which my friend Nathan Crowder originally developed. But he lets other people play in his sandbox, so Jeremy writes his Kensei series in that universe […]

August 2015 recap

| August 31, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 18 Acceptances received: 2 Rejections received: 15 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 17 New Submissions: 0 Stories out at the end of the month: 18 The numbers this month are oddly symmetrical, and yet not. I got word of two story acceptances: “Veli tis Artemidos” (a reprint) will be […]

July 2015 recap

| August 4, 2015

By the numbers: Stories out at the beginning of the month: 15 Acceptances received: 1 Rejections received: 19 Stories withdrawn: 0 Resubmissions: 21 New Submissions: 2 Stories out at the end of the month: 18 Another month of really good submission numbers! I was able to get one story that had been sitting idle back into circulation, […]