Delighted to be able to announce that my Vampire Romeo&Juliet story, "Star-Crossed," will be published in the Venus anthology of Superversive Press's Planetary Fiction series!

It's been kind of a strange year, you guys. I've had a flurry of acceptances for stories starring Ben (my werewolf PI, for anyone who's new), and it looks like I'll have ( Read more... )

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... )

I haven't posted one since February! You guys are allowed to poke me for them. So, from Glam!Ben. Setup: Ben is recovering from a paralyzing wolfsbane drip, and Bauman is the bad guy trying to be a supervillain, holding a shotgun.

Bauman just smiled. "I'm going to surround myself with your wife as soon as I take you out of the picture for good. ( Read more... )

Yeah, so, Glam!Ben was rejected. A personal rejection, I think the very first personal rejection I've ever gotten from these fine folks. She said she wanted more depth and complexity from the bad guys but loved the humor and the little twist where Ben's not actually the Alpha. (This is not, particularly, a spoiler for my flist. No one who knows Ben ( Read more... )

Which, I suppose, is better than a slow one ( Read more... )

And I like this story. I like it a lot. The Mighty Sarcasm of Ben plays a large role, he gets to be stressed and chop his sentences, I have gun geekery and a tiny bit of Shakespeare, and Janni kicks ass. The Damsel in Distress is Ben, this time, which I haven't actually done in fiction I could sell for awhile, so it's a nice change. He ends up ( Read more... )

At the bottom, just in time for me to meet with the Writing Buddy. It took a one-hour writing sprint that garnered 1500 words, but it's done.

Yes, I got lines about sparkly vampires in it. This is me and the Mighty Sarcasm of Ben we're talking about, here.

So now I can collapse for a few minutes before my meeting.

Damn insomnia anyhow.

But. My house is quiet (other than an importunate cat, who has finally come to terms with the fact that she may not sleep on my stomach right now and is instead sleeping by my leg), so I'm getting some work done, because deadlines wait for no writer.

The one I'm working on right now is the 99fiction Flash Contest, with a ( Read more... )

1. Print out Angry Bitter Angel, in a different font, read it over, and red-pen it. This should be my final pass, or at least I hope so. Then I can start shipping it out too. Printing it was an exercise in frustration because my printer randomly decided to be a butthead, but I have it, finally. All 34 pages. Standard Manuscript Format will probably ( Read more... )

I now have a fully-formed Plot for Glam Ben. I have a villain, I have a motive, and I have ways for Janni to be Awesome ( Read more... )