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December 2021 Update: welcome and wishing you all success

Blog Chatter for December! First off, welcome to any new followers! I know there will be at least a few or more this month, as I know several joined a writer's group I'm in after Fyrecon wrapped up. I hope this blog will help you with your creative endeavors. Fingers crossed and wishing us all much success.What a blast Fyrecon was! I really enjoyed having my first experience on a roundtable, two

November Update: my 50k project, my story promo scheduled, and Fyrecon this month

Blog Chatter for November! It's that crazy month when some of us tack on a 50k project on top of our other obligations and deadlines, but I didn't want that to stop the monthly blog, which I generally aim to release between the 3rd to the 9th at the start of each month. I hope the listings below help. Apologies if I missed anything or if any details have changed. I did try to double check most of

On cooler winds, promises of candy and change: October 2021 Update

Blog Chatter for October! Usually I love this month for the cooler weather and the promise of Halloween vibes (candy and spookiness are wonderful, wonderful aspects of life). I'm also looking forward to having more work finally, after drying up nearly all my funds. Living in a super expensive country is tough when poor. October is going to be packed with a ton of English teaching (business

My Writer Friends are Snagging Some Major Wins! (September 2021 Update)

Happy September! I'm enjoying the cooler weather here in Japan, though I'm not enjoying the continued covid-19 situation. Fingers crossed for no more lost work due to sudden covid-19 related cancellations, and here's hoping for financial recovery on the horizon.In the meantime, I'm not letting up on my submissions. August has been a bit of a lull in my writing obsession, but I'm still at, and

August 2021 update

August update.Hope you all got what you wanted subbed in July. I managed to hit the main subs I wanted to get in, Augur, Spirit Machine, Mysterion, Things with Feathers, and a few others.I just signed the contract for a short story to be published in the Dark Cheer: Cryptids Emerging anthology with a tentative publication date of early 2022. Now I need to work on writing edits as requested for

Striving for a decent pace in the jungle of July

July update, here we are. In June, I managed to submit a fresh story to WotF. This story received edits and commentarty from Wulf Moon, and I very grateful for the professional treatment. I took it all to heart, cut around 2000 words or more, strengthened setting and plot, and I think I had a solid story by the end. Fingers crossed for another SHM. 2nd Quarter was a fail, which was a bit of a

June Jitters Over Market Closures

Hi Everyone. Happy June, usually my favorite month as it's my birthday, and many of my friends have birthdays as well. My daughters were very creative thanks to encouragement from my girlfriend, and the three of them secretly prepared art and cute little presents to surprise me after we came back from a birthday lunch of all-you-can-eat shabushabu. Now to stay motivated despite the humid weather

May We All Find Success, Happiness, and Persevere

Hello Everyone! As always, feel free to skim past the blog chatter and straight to the list of deadlines and windows so you get to the submitting. I added a bunch and will continue adding more as I have time. Deadlines coming up on 5/14, 5/15, 5/30, 5/31, so get to it. There's a bunch of news in the blog chatter, so do take a look when you have time.CongratsFirst of all, congrats to all the

April 2021 brings more places to sub, more stories to write, and my new mailing list to sign up to

Hello Everyone,First of all, I have added a mailing list which you can find to the left or right here. Please sign up if you like what I'm doing on this blog. Some of you mentioned that the monthly lists of submission deadlines help a great deal, so I hope that is the case for others as well. Let's give each other as much help as we can in this difficult industry. I will aim to update the

March Past the Blog Chatter and Go Directly to Deadlines

No blog chatter for this post. Just straight to submission windows and deadlines. Happy Writing and Subbing, Everybody! It's a busy freaking month. I don't think I even included everything, but I got most of it listed for now.New Updates:Added Cricket to the list of publications which are higher-paying and without specific deadlines (middle grade, 25 cents)Classic Monsters Unleashed had its pay