TODAY IS THE DAY ( Read more... )

As you may or may not know, I went to #SuperstarsWriting a couple of weeks ago. For Craft Day, I selected "Novel Beginnings," taught by Eric Flint (of whom you may have perhaps heard), and fired off the first section of the Thing I like to call "Hitman in Hell" to him for a personalized critique ( Read more... )

And I'm not quite sure how that happened. But Christmas stuffs is done. Spreadsheet and LJ sticky posts are updated. And I realized the other day that the Book Of Faces has not been crossposting to LJ since March. So that's awesome. Sorry about that. I aten't dead ( Read more... )

Apparently I have had three stories come out in anthos that I haven't yet added to the Sticky Posts. I would plead "busy," but I'm not, actually (though I should be).

So, here's what I've been up to lately:

Man-Made Hell was published in the "To Be Men: Stories Celebrating Masculinity" anthology, edited by Sirius Métier and published by ( Read more... )

Woke up to a contract in my inbox from "Fantasy for the Throne: One-Sitting Reads" (which is exactly what you think it is) for my Abducted Werewolf story "Primitive Life Forms." It appeared originally in the PulpRev Sampler, and I'm delighted it's found a second home in a place where I'll actually be able to hold it in my hands ( Read more... )

One of my very favorite stories has been accepted into the To Be Men anthology. Always nice when the editor tells you "You sent me exactly what I wanted ( Read more... )

Shut up, we will not speak of the rejection I actually started my year off with ( Read more... )

Number 21 on my year goes to StoryHack. The story known in these parts as "de-wolfed Ben," which was my Writers of the Future non-winning Finalist, will grace their pages soon.

You guys, I am so happy about this, you have no idea. It's a 9000-word behemoth hard-sell thing, but it's one of my very favorites.

And now you'll get to read it too!

So, it's not quite time for me to do a writing year-in-review post yet. But I will say that I blew past my 150th rejection on the year without even noticing (only thought to check today, and had 152--and then another came into my inbox making it 153 ( Read more... )

"Full Ride," my story about a guy who sells the soul of his future yet-to-be-conceived child to the devil for success Right Now, is up at the Centropic Oracle!

Naturally, he tries to cheat, and naturally... well. You'll just have to listen to it, won't you.