I’m getting two blog posts for the price of one with this entry. My latest author copy arrived in mid-January. A very nicely presented copy of Strange Valentine, the newest anthology from Whortleberry Press, and in which I have a short story. The anthology has a good lineup of work, amongst which I was pleased …
Category: My writing updates
Thunder
No, not the weather, my Ocicat. And right now he is not pleased with me. Yesterday I fired up the computer to write a quick letter – remembered around 11am that before Christmas I’d been invited to submit a story to a new anthology edited by an old acquaintance, and checked the details. Hmmm, interesting. …
Paperback of The Questing Road
is due out at the end of january. I’m looking forward to seeing my copies and having them available at our 2012 natcon and seeing them available at the Oz natcon (Continuum 8)- which I hope to attend as well (baring acts of Ghod.) I’ve also been clearing short work submissions off the table this …
Subconscious still out-speeding trains
And in the last week I’ve done another three stories. Finally however, I seem to have caught up – temporarily anyway. But while I have other work done/to do over the last 3, and next 3, days, I get the feeling that my ability to produce a short story fountain is only briefly in abeyance. …
Warning, subconscious on the loose!
And yes, mine seems to have gone a bit mad this last couple of weeks. I had the idea for a short story about 12 days ago. Scribbled down the basic plot and went off to do something that had to be done outside. Sat down and found I had a second plot. Scribbled that …
Another sale
Yes, the ghost tale I mentioned an update or two ago as being written, was completed and sold. Arafel will be out very late next year in Whortleberry Press’s Christmas anthology and, as it’s a ‘cat story’ it will also be eligible for the Cat Writer Assoc.’s Muse Medallion in 2013. Now if I can …
And the other Shoe
Yes, I opened my email the other day and discovered that I’d been awarded the MUSE Medallion by the (International) Cat Writers Association for my short story – Opener of Doors – published on the Hazard Cat website August last year. Judge’s comment: “I was hooked from the first page. May all of us have …
Xmas Story Clearing
I find that at this time of the year a lot of anthology editors are clearing their desks, so that it can be a good time (Sept/Oct.)to get submissions to them. At least this seems to be working for me. A 2012 Halloween anthology has just accepted my ghost story, The Mailman. And it may …
Still Selling
I was delighted to receive a cheque recently, not a really large amount, but reasonable. It’s the last six months worth of royalties on sales of The Key Of The Keplian. And I’m delighted because that book first appeared from Warner Aspect in 1995. So after 16 years it’s still selling. Not just available, but …
Just Caught the Tide
The other week I glanced at a list I have and saw that unless I got two stories away I’d miss having them in their anthologies. So I saved the letter I was writing and moved on smartly to emailing the stories. One advantage of leaving things until the last moment is that you often …