My cup runneth over. Two of my stories came out today. You can now read the... thing known in these parts as "the terribad story" here, along with five other groaningly awful flash fiction pieces.

The illustration is awesome.

I apologize deeply, but, as the icon says, regret nothing.

It will be coming out March 31. My first Steampunk Werewolf Western, "Of Were-Critters, Widow Women, and Water Rights," appears in it, and I'm excited to see it in print.

This means I have release dates for three of the remaining five stories that have acceptances. "Bear Essentials" is coming out on April 29, and "War of the Were-Mice" is coming ( Read more... )

Y'all remember the Terribad Story I did for "Unlikely Acceptances"? The Hubby and the Boy both maintained that I was under-committed, because I refused to typo or use homonyms wrongly.

Well. The TOC is outAnd THERE I AM. I got the email earlier today and wanted to wait for the official announcement ( Read more... )

• Sat, 21:07: Very sad to hear that Paul Walker has died. :'(
• Sun, 09:49: Stories don't spring fully-formed from keyboards like Athena from Zeus's forehead. Usually we patch them together like Frankenstein did.
• Sun, 11:11: My terrribad story "War of the Were-Mice" is off to the Journal of Unlikely Story Acceptances: http://t.co/OeonlPqmaj

• Sat, 13:36: Alas. The movie device "music montage goes here" doesn't work in prose.
• Sat, 13:46: Actually, considering the fact that this THING will never be published ANYWAY, I guess I can do what I bloody well want!
• Sat, 19:58: At least the Terribad Story is giving me an excuse to exercise my penchant for awful metaphors. Whee!
• Sat, 22:40: ( Read more... )

• Fri, 16:45: OMG THOR2. YES PLEASE GIVE ME MORE OF THAT. #somuchflailing
• Fri, 18:20: String of "better class of rejections" continues. Le sigh. Hoped this was The One for that publication. Of course, I hope that every time.
• Fri, 18:35: And I should stop obsessing over these submissions and work on the terribad story. Someone kick me.
• Fri, 18 ( Read more... )

• Wed, 13:56: I just had a red-shafted flicker, a chickadee (I've never seen one here), & a downy or hairy woodpecker in my tree, all at once. #OHWOW
• Wed, 13:59: AHA. It was a downy woodpecker. Tiny little bird with a tiny little beak (relatively speaking). Awesome!
• Wed, 14:00: We also have a giant flock of robins, and the magpies have been ( Read more... )

At the bottom of this Terribad Story ( Read more... )

• Tue, 13:27: Week just keeps getting better and better. NOT. I love ordering a book in "good" condition only to receive an ex-lib with a broken binding.
• Tue, 13:41: I think they expect me to send this thing back, at my expense, which will probably cost more than the damn book did. Yeah, no.
• Tue, 13:46: Emailed bookseller; if I have to send it ( Read more... )