So, I sent not!IronMan to one of the premier markets. They kindly said it "wasn't right" for them, but ( Read more... )

NanoPals on Twitter today asked, "How does religion play into your worlds? Do you allow your personal beliefs to flavour your work? Wha do your characters believe? What kind of book do you prefer to read - one that heavily includes personal faith or one that shies away from a characters viewpoints. Do pious characters bother you if they stray too ( Read more... )

And there I am as an Honorable Mention. Yaaaay. I got the certificate in the mail too. That was for Won His Soul, BTW.

I was excited for the first Honorable Mention. Really, I was.

This, however, was my eighthI wonder. If one gets ten, is there a special award ( Read more... )

I have decided that my protags in the new thing I'm outlining live in a trailer park for over-55's. This means that old farts are taking on eldritch horrors. I am amused by this. And, you know, it's different from the norm, so ( Read more... )

I was waffling at one of my more sensible friends about printing out this ridiculously-lengthed story, and he said "Well, do you want to be a writer?" And, you know, this is the best thing I've ever written, and printing these things out and actually shipping them used to be a Thing before the internet ( Read more... )

Annnnd Won His Soul has garnered its second rejection ( Read more... )

Won His Soul has garnered my eighth Honorable Mention at Writers of the Future. Framed!Werewolf was rejected and so I need to hit up Duotrope's again.

God.

So, yeah, I've been staring at the damn steampunk werewolf western for two solid days now, going "durrrr." My preacher and my protag have about done all that's productive with this conversation, and so I need to get the plot moving again ( Read more... )

I'm 6500 words into the steampunk werewolf western, and it has come to a screeching halt. I thought I had a place for this scene to go, and I neglected to write it down, and it is gone like the proverbial wind ( Read more... )

I'm actually not being sarcastic. Got a rejection last night for the Squonk story and immediately flipped it to Writers of the Future, since they haven't seen it yet, the deadline is the 30th, and there's no way I'm going to finish the steampunk werewolf western in time. It is stalled like a big stalled thing. Still waiting on word for Won His Soul ( Read more... )