In Defense of Lending Books
I went to a writing conference this weekend and really enjoyed it. I met some fun and interesting people, learned a bunch of stuff, and also got several ideas for several of my ongoing projects. But there were a couple …
Category: Writing
Bit Parts in Print
We are currently on vacation, so I haven’t been staying quite on-top of things as usual (so, below an already low bar). Anyway, I just found out that my story Bit Parts has come out in print in a best-of …
Jacked-In the Beanstalk
Way back in 2020, there was a weird thing happening–people all over America were receiving unsolicited packages of seeds. No one was sure exactly what was going on with this, but the consensus was that the seeds were being shipped …
Second-Hand Eyes
My story Second-Hand Eyes was just published by Flash In A Flash. FiaF is not a traditional publication–they send out stories to all of their subscribers a couple of times a week. They’ve used a couple of my other stories …
Graveyard Again
One of my very first story sales, way back in 2018, was the story Graveyard–in Metaphorosis magazine. Recently, the editor of Metaphorosis wanted to try an interesting experiment–to publish an anthology of stories both as they appeared in print and …
Skin Deep
Okay, I admit that I am pretty excited by this. My story Skin Deep just came out in the Gilded Glass anthology edited by Kevin Anderson!! Not only that, but I am sharing space with Jonathan Maberry, Sherrilyn Kenyon, Kristine …
R.I.P. Again
My story R.I.P. just got published in a new anthology! The story was originally published in Ink Stains magazine in 2019. The theme of the anthology (and its name) is Freedom, and the topic works well for R.I.P. which is …
I am an Illustrator!
No, I didn’t write this book! But this is one of many books by my friend, the award-winning Robin Owens, who has written 30ish books in various genres. She recently got the rights back for a series that was published …
Farmers in Anthology
My story Farmers, which came out in October, is now available in print, (and also for Kindle) in an anthology of stories from Little Blue Marble! (I should note that you can also read the story for free here :-). …
Redux
So, embarrassingly, I had a story come out a couple of months ago, and I completely missed it! I was updating my log and figured I’d check on the Vanishing Point website to see if there was any update on …