yup, SALT OF THE EARTH, a short humorous item appeared in THAT’S LIFE magazine early January 2015.
Category: My writing updates
Looking at My Writing Last Year.
Looking back on 2014 I had a certain amount of status quo there. Eleven stories published in 2013 in anthologies and magazines, and twelve in 2014, so not much difference. Twenty-one articles in 2013, twenty-seven in 2014, a minor improvement there. But books may be the major change this year. 2014 saw only one book …
LETHE PRESS ACCEPTED MY DISASTER NOVEL
Yup, I’ve signed contracts with Lethe Press for my disaster novel (set in New Zealand in 2039) – VESTIGES OF FLAMES. I’ve sold a short story or two to Lethe published anthologies in the past, finding them professional, competent, and producing a nice result. So I’m delighted that FLAMES should be out with them sometime …
New Book on Track
and I began the new and final book for my Four Seasons’ Quartet well before Christmas and hope to have it done and away to the publisher by the end of January. Working title is Spring of Decisions, and it’s the fourth after Summer of Dreaming (Winner of the YA Vogel,) Autumn of the Wild …
Another Story sale
yes, SHEEP MAY SAFELY GRAZE has been accepted by BREATH AND SHADOW magazine. I’m pleased with this sale, the story was one of a pair I wrote dealing with the life of an ‘old-time’ shepherd, and now both have sold and should be out next year.
More Consumer Articles
yes, our local newspaper continues to find these useful, and, judging by the comments I get when shopping in town, readers quite like them too. Latest have been DON’T WASTE THAT ‘USE BY’ BUTTER and (uses for) HALF A ROLL OF WALLPAPER.
Two New Books Sold
yes, my shrieks of delight, the first when I received the acceptance and the second when when the contracts arrived this morning, made the cat jump. Although he should be used to that sort of reaction by now. And yes, although the duo will appear from Wildside Press in one volume as Sherlock Holmes:Beastly Mysteries, …
More Consumer Article in our Newspaper
My subconscious works in its own way entirely. I am not to blame for the results. So if you think this a very odd list of recent articles, well, you may not be wrong, but that’s the way it works. continuing consumer-savings articles in the local newspaper have included 10 THINGS TO DO WITH A …
A sale and trouble
another story sold with INTO THAT GOOD NIGHT contracted by THIN PLACES anthology from the Guideposts organization. The only problem was that for some unknown reason no matter what I did, the contract file appeared to be security-locked and wouldn’t print. I tried a cut and paste, and it wouldn’t drop into a new file …
Running in Small Tight Circles
I’m currently revising books. One YA, and a mystery theme collection, both to be published by Cyberwizard once the revision is completed. I’m going back and forth between them with the editor, and as I have a third unsold book I want to revise as soon as this pair are clear, I have a feeling …