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Writing Outside Your Genre
For the last two years, I have participated in a couple of NYC Midnight’s writing challenges, specifically the Short Story and Screenwriting Challenges. Last year, I made it to the second round of both contests. Right now, I’m waiting on results from the first round of each contest to see if I advance again (results for the…
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Firsts
This week, I am embarking on a couple of firsts for my writing career. The first “first” came earlier this month when I was invited to contribute a story to an upcoming anthology. I’ve never been asked to submit anything, so that’s exciting! The topic for the anthology is “tales of the forbidden, the rare, the hidden,…
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Rejection Goal: 100
This week, I was going to talk about how busy I’ve suddenly become. I was going to tell you all about how I heard back from the publisher that requested the full transcript of Gas Giant Gambit, and how they were just telling me they hadn’t gotten a chance to read it yet. I was going…
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Perseid Prophecies
*”Perseid” is misspelled in the URL because I misspelled it in the title of this blog! But even though I can easily fix both, I won’t be fixing the URL because then all the links I shared will break. Oh well, just goes to show you should always spell check! I’ve got some great news…
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Where to Submit Horror, Sci-Fi, & Fantasy Short Stories
Over the last little while I’ve seen a number of people on social media asking where they should be submitting their short stories. As a writer of horror and sci-fi, I’m not really in a great position to make suggestions for, say, romance, comedy or drama. But, I can offer a few suggestions for those…
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Research & World-Building in WWII
As I embark on a new project, I thought this week might be a good time to discuss research and world-building, which, for me at least, are intricately connected. This is especially true for the project I have just begun – the seven-part series I am temporarily calling The Cobalt Fist. If you read my…
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Short Story News!
I’ve finally done it! After 40+ submissions of short stories and the Gas Giant Gambit manuscript, I finally did it. My short horror story “SSID” was published by Alex Parker Publishing on February 1st last week. This is not only the very first time one of my stories has been published; it is the very first short…
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The Cobalt Fist
Well, I’m finally doing it. I’m going to write the Cobalt Fist books. Let me back up a bit. For around ten years, I’ve been thinking about a story. Before I wanted to be a writer I thought it would make a great comic book. But it was my wife who said, “Why not write…
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Gas Giant Gambit: A Blurb
I’ve been busy writing away this week, trying to catch up with my New Year’s Resolution of writing one short story every week that I am not working on a larger project like a novel or screenplay (I’ve fallen behind, but I am hopeful that a truly short but impactful flash fiction attempt will catch…
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Editing
After finally getting notes back from a publisher on a short story that looks like it might see the light of day, I’ve been busily working to bring it up to snuff. And it occurs to me that this may be a good topic for a blog. Specifically, dealing with a gatekeeper of some sort…
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