So when I did my "yay I qualify for active SFWA membership" post a while back, I figured I still had a long wait ahead of me. I thought I had to wait until the qualifying work was published. However, thanks to questions asked by someone else on Codex, I learned otherwise ( Read more... )

The Clockwork Dagger rough draft is DONE.


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I am thrilled/ecstatic/delighted/[insert happy adjective here] to announce that as of today, I have accepted literary representation from Rebecca Strauss of the McIntosh & Otis Literary Agency.

She loves Normal. She adores Celeste and all her superpowered friends. She even likes the warts-and-all rough draft opening chapters of Minstrels of Fate. ( Read more... )

The big announcement is tomorrow! Can you feel that crackle of suspense in the air? ...Uh, no? Well, worry not, tomorrow all will be revealed if i don't keel over from stress first!

Later this week, there will be News. That is News with a capital 'N.'

Tune in later, same Bat Channel, not quite the same Bat Time.

My Writo de Mayo story, "A Recipe for Rain and Rainbows," has been accepted for Mountain Magic: Spellbinding Tales of Appalachia to be published by Woodland Press.

Am I happy? Well, I ran through the house screaming, "I'm in the anthology! I'm in the anthology!" So yeah, I'm a wee bit ecstatic about this.

Huge, HUGE thanks to nanoljers for running Writo ( Read more... )

I posted an excerpt of Normal as part of a thread on Fangs, Fur & Fey. A direct link is here.I also jumped into Miss Snark's First Victim's latest contest regarding query letters and the first 250 words of the novel. The judge reads slush for an agency I planned on querying. I had my submission all ready last night and woke up at the appalling ( Read more... )

Last week it felt like everything was going wrong at once. The past two days, it's like all the good stuff is happening at once. Go figure.

Today turned out to be publication day for me in two very different venues.

First of all, my story "Junk and Mothballs" earned runner-up in the WOW! Women on Writing Summer Flash Fiction Contest. You can ( Read more... )

I posted back on the 6th that I made it through the first elimination round on a very excellent flash fiction contest.

Last night, I finally had an update.

I'm in the top ten. o_o

This means at minimum my story will be published on WOW! Women on Writing, I get a prize pack of stuff, and I get interviewed on their blog. o_o I don't know yet if I ( Read more... )

My story "Brains for Breakfast" received an honorable mention in the Ligonier Valley Writers zombie flash fiction contest! (And this isn't the same contest that I posted about last week, either! I'm still waiting for word on that one ( Read more... )