Certain events suggested that it was time I should double check the original catalogue of my short work, and then bring the three sections (stories, articles, and poems) up to date. A friend and I began a couple of weeks ago with updating short story sales to anthologies and I got that posted. I now …
Category: My writing updates
My Subconscious is WEIRD!
Recently I got the guidelines for the special issue of a regular magazine. David, the editor, is someone with whom I work well, and I always like the anthologies he produces besides the magazine. But I didn’t think I had any bright ideas for this one special magazine issue – Martians and Earthlings. Yes, David …
New Book Out
author copies have just arrived this week for WHERE THERE’S SMOKE:The Fire That Changed the Law. This is the book that my friend and collaborator Linnette Horne and I have spent several years researching and writing. It covers four fires that occurred in Wellington over the four years from 1967 to 1971, one of which …
And another one (doesn’t) bite the Dust
Yup, Penumbra emagazine has taken THE DOMEN for their May issue. And I’m delighted about it for two reasons. The other – apart from a good sale to a well-done site – is that as a member of the (International) Cat Writer’s Association time was getting short for me to have a published specifically-cat story, …
Attack of the Flash Fiction
I have no idea where/if I’ll sell these, no idea how many my subconscious is planning, and no idea what started it. But last week I was seized by a flash fiction story, you know, the sort that run around 800-950. I wrote it, revised, spellchecked etc. and filed, before turning to write several letters …
Story sale.
I was delighted to get an email recently to say that my story, OPENER OF DOORS, has been accepted. The Mystical Cat anthology is the perfect place for the work to alight (since it’s all about a women and her cat and this is the work that won the 2011 Muse medallion) and I look …
Anthology here
Yes, Whortleberry Press’s latest, Strange Mysteries 4, landed in my mailbox this afternoon. As always, neat cover, nice presentation, and a very good choice of stories. I have a story in that – Cursed Are They – and my friend Steve has promised to review the anthology sometime in the next few days. (I prefer …
Not Quite a Writing Update
It may end up that way, but right now it’s a moan. There’s been an American theme anthology open for submissions for a while now. Very odd and interesting title, very restricted theme, and initially I had no intention of writing for it. My subconscious – as it often does – had other ideas. I …
Crossover sale
and another sale, my story, Before All This (Modern Stuff) has just been accepted for David Riley’s LOW NOON (invitation only) anthology. I was pleased with this sale, I’ve been selling Weird Western stories to Dave for years and they’re always fun to write. This will be about the fifth of his anthologies in which …
Two Sales
A week that was pleasant enough for this writer. One story rejected – it appeared to be more a case of they didn’t like my style (because they liked the story) but it was clear that if I rewrote the work and returned it they’d have wanted it nearly halved, and written in a leaner, …