Do you know what's more awesome than Eragon!? (Besides almost everything?)

Getting more things published!

The Heir

Adventuring Parties?Two out of six. The rest will be published on the 5th, 7th and 9th of July. It's a small series ( Read more... )

Working my way through @lunaquarterly's "Best Of" antho, & methinks Abishan just found his favorite. X) #amreading pic.twitter.com/5Bq82cbbvO
- Danielle E. Shipley (@DEShipley) July 24, 2015

:D

Best of Luna Station Quarterly, the First Five Years

So, the first story I ever got published is in an anthology now. You all should buy it.

Two things ( Read more... )

My book is out.

It came out on the 8th.

I now have an officially published book.

I still don't believe it. My copies are coming in on Thursday. I probably won't believe it then either. It feels like some sort of dream and I keep on wondering when I'll wake up.

But it's out.

It's real.

And it's amazing.

Do you know what makes publishing a story even better?

Getting an unexpected review of it.

Do you know what's even better than that?

Getting an unexpected review and recommendation of it on io9.

The io9 review

Or here if you don't want to click the link:

A bit of lighthearted fun to end this week's fiction offerings. I love little ( Read more... )

Lookit! It's a Thing That is Published. That is Mine

And today a story I wrote is now published in Luna Station Quarterly number 19.

The story is called, Ceilidh McCallum versus the Super Evil Fairy Lady. Which is pretty much all you need to know what it's about.

This is also the first story I've gotten paid for. Huzzah!

I'm taking a creative course over the summer for fun.

It's a beginning writing class so it really is just for fun. For me at least.

Our first assignment was to describe an object in detail that meant a lot to us. Or had some
value. We had to make the object come alive. So. This is what I did:

( Lightsaber )

I sold a short story.

It'll be published in September.

I made five bucks.

How is it almost September already?

In less than a week I’ll be mailing off my manuscript to the publisher for them to read and to say this is wonderful/awful/meh. And I’ll be one step closer to being a published have a book in my hands writer. It’s still something I can’t wrap my head around. I’ve spent so much of my life working towards this goal that I can’t actually believe it’s ( Read more... )