I've had a flurry of them this month. Lots of Pack Dynamics shorts coming out in the near future, even! It's taken those stories a long time to move, but moving they are.

Pack Dynamics stories:
"A Particular Skill Set" (Chambliss's origin story) will be forthcoming at the end of this year/beginning of next from The Worlds of Science Fiction, ( Read more... )

So that's a relief. I like the story way better. My Writing Buddy thought there was a much bigger story inside it trying to get out, and he might well be right, but I took a weed-whacker to it anyway and managed to get it down to 7800 words from over 8100, so. He's not wrong about there being a lot of characters in the thing, but they're all ( Read more... )

I've ginned up a sub packet for Eldritch Plumbing, and it will be out the door tomorrow to a snail mail market. This puts my submittable wordcount on the year so far at 62,300. I finished (for certain values of "finishing") Ghost Ship last night, and gave it to my Writing Buddy today. I don't hate it, and if all goes well it will add another 7500 ( Read more... )

But I think that's Draft. It is, at the least, END. That's 1400 words net on the thing on my day, and it's coming in at 8145 ( Read more... )

And I think I'm going to do away with the stowaway altogether. She's cute, but she's also a needless complication distracting me from the actual story ( Read more... )

This puts me at 42,500 completed, submittable words in the first three months of the year.

Understand that I wrote 36,200 completed, submittable words in all of 2012. And ZERO in 2011 ( Read more... )

I got in the last bits of edits on the Janni story (unless and until I hear more from the folks who have it) and re-read Ghost Ship. I didn't outline it, but I re-read it. Yeah, it doesn't know what kind of story it wants to be and I'm almost afraid to ask. There's no dramatic tension, not really, it doesn't pop like it should, and neither the ( Read more... )

So I'ma post the story I wrote for that here. It will also go on the backs of my business cards, in rotation with the other two. I've decided I don't like the title much, so I'm excising that.

And, go:

Everyone loses the race against Death sometime, but I wouldn't go without a fight. I raised my sword, while he stared down at me in what might ( Read more... )

I've incorporated the crit I got for Unquiet Neighbors. It still needs a title, so I'll sleep on that. I gave it to my Writing Buddy tonight, and I guess I'll wait a week and see what he says about it. But that one is thisclose to being done and ready to sub. Unfortunately, it's also over 11,000 words, so markets will be thin. Bah. But, you know. ( Read more... )

And there is something wrong with it, but I can't put my finger on what. It's dialogue-heavy, but... I think that's okay, really. Maybe it's because there's not a whole lot of there there in between the dialogue. Blech.

I've also reformatted the Bear Story into a plain text doc for submission to this antho, seeing as they take simsubs and the ( Read more... )