Yup, my mind went off on a wander of its own a few weeks back and I ended up with a short article on uses for onions other than in food. Sent that to the newspaper to file for next time they had a gap, and – they had one almost at once. So my …
Category: My writing updates
Another story sale
Diabolic Publications has contracted my short story, TRAPPED for their Ether World anthology. I note too that their contract is fair, and easily read and understood. More and more small press publishers are cleaning up their contracts to this standard and it’s good to see.
Luisa is Many things to many people.
Back in the 1980s, I started writing a series of mystery tales about Deetctive-Lieutenant Luisa Garcia of the Los Angeles Burglary and Homicide Squad. Over the 1990s I sold a number of them to a small USA print magazine, but even when that market collapsed on me, I continued to write another Luisa Garcia story …
Yes, book contracts signed…
Last month I was offered a contract for my Sherlock Holmes new (14) short stories collection. REPEAT BUSINESS is now my first book sale for 2013. There is a suggestion that it may be offered to Large Print markets in the UK too. Not as a single collection, but as a duo since they prefer …
Possible Book sale
Some time ago I re-read my volume of the collected Sherlock Holmes short stories. Around the same time I received a fanzine on that subject and the two things, along with one or two other items promptly set off the sort of chain reaction that such events can in the writer’s subconscious. Over the next …
Story Speed May be a Record.
yesterday afternoon at 1pm I sat down to write a story that had been flapping about the back of my head for weeks. I finished the work shortly before 5pm, filed to flash drive and wandered off to have dinner. Then this morning I submitted the story – at 9.52am. At 10.11 I had the …
Weird Western Story sale
Yes, I just signed contracts for Lone Star Jackson – Outlaw, with Dave Riley’s Steampunk Trails. Pleased about that since I’ve been selling to Dave for years now and I always like to sell him another ‘weird western.’Â In fact I was counting the other day and find that of the specific sub-genre Weird Western …
Katalagein, my Third Book for 2013 is out.
Well, depending on your definition of book that is. Katalagein is a short story collection of most of my SF/F cat stories, which were published all over the place between 1996 and 2011. Several were award winners, one appeared in Further Adventures of Xena Warrior Princess, (and appears here by very kind permission of ACE,) …
Articles Appearing.
And the local paper (Dannevirke News) has been having a binge on my consumer and savings articles recently with The Useful Potato, Oats: a Remedy from the Kitchen Cupboard , and Other Uses for Salt, all out. I do an article whenever something strikes me as interesting (previous ones have been about Digital TV – …
We Won. We Won! (er. sorry, just a bit excited.)
My friend/collaborator and I met up at the national SF Convention Au Contraire 2 last weekend. Our alternate history SF novel, QUEEN OF IRON YEARS was on the voting ballot for the Sir Julius Vogel – for Best SF/F book published the previous year and by an NZ author. And I guess from the headline …