Tag: short story
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Perseid Prophecies Issue 2: Summer 2024
On Monday of this week, July 1st, the second issue of Perseid Prophecies was released. I’m especially excited about this issue as it features Perseid‘s very first original short stories submitted by authors. If you’re not familiar with Perseid Prophecies, allow me to give you a bit of an introduction.…
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Rejection Goal: 50/100
As some of my regular readers may know, I’ve set a goal for myself to hit 100 story rejections before the end of the year. This goal isn’t to simply send out garbage to get those rejections, but is an attempt to accept that a certain amount of success in…
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General Short Story News!
That’s right! Time for a news break! If you are a regular reader of this blog, you may recall a few weeks ago, I wrote about some “firsts” in my writing life; one of which was rewriting an old story from scratch. To briefly recap, I was asked to contribute…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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!…
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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…
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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…
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