Writing and Pumpkins and Turtles, Oh My. Let us go in order. Writing. A couple days ago I received a hold notice for my story “Stanley.” The magazine in question (I won’t reveal that until I have final word–I’m not sure why–though I will say it’s one I subscribe to and have wanted to break […]

I just finished writing a short story today. It clocked in at a whopping 7,200 words, which doesn’t seem like much until you try to submit a story longer than 5,000 words to a magazine. There are a number of magazines out there that do accept manuscripts into the 7,000, and sometimes even 10,000, word […]

Looking at my last blog post, I see over a week has flown by without so much as a peep from me. I guess I don’t have much to say. There is little to no news on the writing front. I haven’t gotten any more acceptances. I have this sci-fi (ish) story that I wrote. […]

I consider myself very lucky this year. It’s one thing to have some work published, but something else completely to work with, and be published alongside, authors you admire. Being welcomed into the Bad Moon Books family, I have the great pleasure of seeing my novel in print with writers like Michael Calvillo, Lisa Morten, […]