yes, a New Zealand theme anthology in which I have my story, Unbroke To the Potter is about to appear. In The Museum will debut April 1st – no, not a joke – and will also be available at the National SF Convention over Anzac weekend in Auckland. It’s taken a long time for this …
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Books/Stories in
An excellent Friday, the sort that can hardly be beaten. I received several packages of books/magazines. For a start I got my copies of Tales of the Talisman. This contained my story Realities, and the rest of the magazine was excellent too. Very good reading, and tomorrow with luck I’ll also be posting a friend’s …
Mystery Tale sold
Yes, Over My Dead Body has accepted a story of mine, The Nit-Picker, for publication on their site. I first sold to them (believe it or not) back in spring of 1994 and it’s nice to know that after 20 YEARS they are still going and I’m still selling to them. That sale made my …
In the Top Ten.
And just heard from Whortleberry Press, in whose anthology, Dandelions of Mars (A Ray Bradbury tribute anthology) I had my story, Third Floor. The anthology placed in the top ten in the Best Anthology section of the annual Preditors and Editors poll for 2013. Very pleased, not only that I had work in a top …
Small Press Problems.
It often isn’t their fault, but small presses come and go. Sometimes they last for many years, other times they vanish before they actually publish anything. Best example of that is one to which I contributed a short story for their first anthology many years ago. In September I received the acceptance – in October …
New Article.
Another in my irregular consumer series – DEALING WITH HAY FEVER – appeared Saturday December 7th 2013 in the Dannevirke News(paper). As Christmas bears down on me like a runaway train, I’ve been hurling out articles, stories, and reviews in all directions. (And that isn’t even counting cards and letters.) And, while all of such …
Article Out
WHAT’S FAIR AND RIGHT (A brief cynical look at a Few Expectations.) appeared in FREELANCE WRITERS MAGAZINE issue of December 2013. This started as a light-hearted complaint about publishers, and went on from there to cover dogs, cats, homes, and other thoughts.
Story Sold
yes, as it closes in on Christmas more and more editors close out anthologies and transmit the decisions so they’ll be able to have a break over Xmas/New year. Contract signed for“EndlessFreedom.Com,” which is to appear in the anthology Strength From Within: Stories of Recovery.
Early Appearance – Belated Knowledge
Quite by accident a couple of weeks ago I discovered that a story of mine had appeared. This was a horror/mystery story, See You On The Other Side in the Dark Bard anthology out from Indigo Mosaic Press.The anthology was apparently published in late July, however I wasn’t told and had no idea that it …
That was the Week That was!
25 January 2014
It was also just over a a week in time where events ran into a number of areas in my usual blog and left me breathless. It started on Saturday the 18th with my having decided several days earlier to email the nice chap who was my editor for a short story collection due out …
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