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Dreams of Steam is now for sale!

It's officially gone from "coming soon" to "get yours today."

Read about it at Kerlak's website and order your copy online at
Amazon or Barnes & Noble.

Get to it!

Table of Contents:
Flight of the Dragon - Rachel Pixie
Dead Man's Hand - Jared Millet
The Bunker - Stephanie Osborn
Black Rhino - M. Keaton
The Ballad of Angelina Calamity - Angelia Sparrow
Endeavour of the Rose - Sidney M. Reese
Blood and Brass - Kimberly Richardson
Five Copper Bowls - Dale Carothers
For the Love of Steam - Missa Dix...

Dreams of Steam!

Well, well, well! Kerlak Publishing's Dreams of Steam has a cover and a book trailer! It also includes a story called "Dead Man's Hand," by some guy whose name looks almost exactly like mine.

Where Was I?

Oh, yeah... Finished "The Merlin House" and set it loose into the wild (cross fingers). In a way, it's a riff on the same ideas as the "backwards" episode of Red Dwarf, only done with horror instead of humor. Also, I repolished last year's flash fiction piece "Tag" and sent it off as well.

I'd like to trim down "Venera" again before I send her back out into the slush pile jungle. It did okay at Writers of the Future, but I'm learning that I'm sending stories off to that contest before they...

Quick Note

Just got Honorable Mentioned again at Writers of the Future, so I guess I better get serious on queueing up another story.

WotF's honorable mentions are nice - they're the nicest form rejection letter you can receive - but they still don't tell much except that you're in the upper few percent of the marginally competent. What I find myself wondering, though, is if a story doesn't even make the semi-finals, is it even worth sending out to other pro markets? Logic would say "Of course" because y...

Statement of Intent

Now that I'm past the 100-page mark on my 7th or 8th draft (I've lost count) of Nightfall in Majadan/The Blood Prayer, I'm going to take a break for a week and start over on my time travel story, "The Merlin House." The deadline for a certain anthology I'd like to send it to is July 4, so I've got that much time to wrestle this sucker into existence.

As you were.

A bit of news:

"Dead Man's Hand" just got picked up for that Steampunk anthology. More details when it comes out. Of my short stories, this is the one that's turned out the best so far, I think. Can't wait to see it in print!

Status Update

Not much to report. Both my in-process short stories are stalled out at the moment, but it'll be easier to get the momentum going on the Oil Rig Story. Unfortunately, the Time Travel Story is the one with something of a deadline. Hopefully that'll help. Work is sucking all my energy at the moment, but that's no excuse. Jack London managed to write while working as crew on a Pacific schooner, for crying out loud.

ImagiCon is this weekend; in fact, I'm heading there in half an hour. They'v...

Photographic Evidence

It exists. Shelter of Daylight #3, April 2010. "The Rendezvous" starts on page 98. Buy your copy at Genre Mall.

It's Official

I'm in print! The April 2010 issue of Shelter of Daylight is now up for sale at GenreMall (and pretty much nowhere else) for $10.60+S/H. It features, among many other fine pieces of fiction by a variety of up and coming writers, my story "The Rendezvous".

It still doesn't feel real - but I'm sure it will when my copy comes in the mail and I order a bunch of others to give and/or sell to people.

And I'm off work, and it's a clear blue sunny day, and not too hot outside, and I'm about to go hav...

My Schtick

Schtick (n.) Yiddish slang meaning "gimmick" that has come to mean "someone's signature behavior." - Urban Dictionary

I can clearly remember wanting to write since I was seven: comics, sci-fi, fantasy, and what have you. I've always thought of myself as an aspiring writer of Speculative Fiction. It never occurred to me that I'd turn into a "Louisiana Writer" but apparently I have.

The mystery story that I recently sold, "Rougarou," is set in the contemporary, albeit fictional, town of Whatl...