Well, "Industrial Still Life in Winter" has been published in issue #6 of Protodimensions Magazine

My peice for the NPR 3 minute fiction contest, round 5 was rejected, but I'm going to resubmit that to somewhere.  Weird Days if I can't find a better market.

Still need to get around to sending Out of Time to pseudopod and/or some other markets.

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Just found out that I didn't get picked.  So, anybody know a good market for ghost story flash?

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Yeah, I'm going to try to do it again.Cheating a little this year as I technically wrote the prologue chapter as a short story that I've submitted to Protodimensions ezine.  Don't know if I will actually include that in the book or not.  Anybody else trying it?  Want to be buddies?

I've joined this ning group called Thinking Ten.  It's a flash fiction community.  Feel free to check out my second entry here: http://thinkingten.ning.com/profiles/blogs/moving-day

So I took a week-long break from this to focus on a free-lance project.  But lets get right back into it.

Cheri soon discovers that her great aunt Ezra had served a governmental mathematical consultant for years, and been involved in a mysterious Lockheart foundation that was researching a group of items imbued with cryptic powers.  At the same time ( Read more... )

So, you may have noticed that I am skipping step 3.  This is because step 3 is long form character sketches.  I'm definitely not ready for that.   So, I'm going to go ahead and start step 4, with the idea of filling step 3 as they become pertinent.  The other reason Step 3 doesn't really appeal to me at this point is that I only have 2 1/2 major ( Read more... )

Step 2) Take another hour and expand that sentence to a full paragraph describing the story setup, major disasters, and ending of the novel.

Cheri Ezra Browning leads a dead-end life, complete with useless degree and meaningless food service job, until she receives notice that her great aunt has died, leaving her a large crumbling mansion as her ( Read more... )

Step 2) Take another hour and expand that sentence to a full paragraph describing the story setup, major disasters, and ending of the novel.

Cheri Ezra Browning leads a dead-end life, complete with useless degree and meaningless food service job, until she receives notice that her great aunt has died, leaving her a large crumbling mansion as her ( Read more... )

Step 1) Take an hour and write a one-sentence summary of your novel.

"An unsuspecting woman receives an inheritance that pulls her into a world of powerful relics and secret societies."

Expect step two a little later.

Although I'm not sure if I like that one, or this one better:

"A young woman leading a dead-end life is drawn into the hidden world of ( Read more... )