Tag: submitting content
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General Writing Update
I’m a day late with this week’s blog due to some household hectic-ness over the first half of the week, but this are slowly returning to normal. A lot has happened in the last little while, so I thought I’d share some general updates. Buckle up! Gas Giant Gambit Let’s…
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Goodbye ’24, Hello ’25
With the new year arriving in less than 12 hours from the time I sit here writing this, I feel it’s a nice time to take a look back at what 2024 has given me, and then look forward to what is yet to come. 2024 This past year was…
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Rejection Goal: 90/100
With two weeks left in the year, I have officially hit 90 rejections for short stories and manuscripts. Unfortunately, given recent events (especially adopting a new dog that has needed some extra care and attention to help him adapt to his new home) as well as the length of time…
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Perseverance: What it Takes to Make it
This week I’m tackling a subject that, by all rights, I probably shouldn’t be. I mean, to be frank and fair, I have not “made it” in any real sense of the word yet. For those keeping score, I have had one short story published, another accepted into an anthology…
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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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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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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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