yes, I’ve just received an email to say that my horror stories, Little Girl Lost, (H/SF) and Sowing on the Mountain, (H/M) have been accepted by an Ontario horror anthology, and that I should receive contracts early in New Year. I’m really pleased with this sale, those involved are professional as is the word payment …
Category: My writing updates
Third Book Sold for the Year
well, not exactly a book but a short story collection. Shortly after I returned from Melbourne, I was discussing a cat story that I’d sold to a regular anthology publisher, and I started wondering just how many cat stories I did have. I’ve always written one or two each year and after 20+ years that …
Matching Win
Yesterday I thought it was about time to go on-line to the International Cat Writers association and see if they’d posted the AGM announced information on final Award results. That’s when they read out and present to you – if you’re there – the MUSE MEDALLIONS for the current year. I found that the new …
Rare Breeds Society
yes, I belong to that, and yes, they do a very smart glossy newsletter/magazine. In which, when it arrived this week, I had a short true-life item about the gaggle – Goose Events. Recently someone who had to be escorted down the lawn, since the geese are in laying mode and terminally belligerent, asked why …
Sold a Book!
That has to be one of the happiest headlines a writer can type (apart, of course, from such titles as “Book is NYT Best Seller”, or “book’s sales pass a million.”) But as both are unlikely to ever apply to me, I’ll settle for Sold a Book! Yes, I was offered contracts for my standalone …
Win/Nomination.
The mail car stopped at my gate about half an hour ago, I strolled out and collected that which had been delivered, and on opening a large flat envelope find that I’ve received the Certificate of Excellence from the (International) Cat Writer’s Association, for my story – The Domen – in the May issue of …
Story Sale
Yes, this morning I had an email confirmation that my story, Arafel, will be appearing in the Strange Christmas anthology. That makes about 14 of my stories sold and scheduled to be out this year. Not a bad year to date.
New Anthology Arrived.
This is Strange Halloween from Whortleberry Press. It’s a nice production with twenty-two stories, great cover, and solid editing. I had one of my “Detective Luisa Garcia” stories in this one, (The Mailman,) which I wrote specifically for the anthology although, as I’ve also sold the collection of ‘Luisa Garcia’ stories to Cyberwizard, which collection …
Allsorts.
To me, writing isn’t something you do by finding one tiny narrow niche and sticking to it forever more. That is something that produces burnout, boredom, and a strong desire to move on – sooner rather than later. But then sticking to that tiny niche has never been my forte, even if many in the …
We Like the Story
and, happily, the end result has been that The Book has sold to the Crooked Cat Press anthology Fear, which will be out this year in two volumes. (Also for anyone who buys Lucky Break magazine, yes, that was my story on the letter page of the September 3rd issue. And it’s quite true. Yet …