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My Writing Career Bucket List

I’ve got my head so full of developmental edits for Gas Giant Gambit this week, I thought I’d do something simple for today’s blog. So, just for funsies, here are my top ten writing career bucket list items! In no particular order: That’s all for now! Back to the dev edits! See you next week!

Gas Giant Gambit Updates

The last few days have been extremely exciting and I have a number of updates to share! Developmental Edits First and foremost, I have received the first round of developmental edits! Despite being assured at the beginning of the process that there were no plot or structural changes needed, I was still anxious about this. […]

Writing Outside Your Genre 2: Electric Romance

Almost a year ago I wrote a blog about writing outside your genre. At the time, I was waiting to hear where I had placed in the first rounds of NYC Midnight’s 2024 Short Story Challenge and Screenwriting Challenge (I made it to the second round in both contests, but crashed out in the third). […]

Gas Giant Gambit: A Space-Western Heavy on the Western

This week, I had my very first guest appearance on a podcast! I spoke with Glen Weatherhead of the Creative Writing Wizard website and podcast (if you missed it, you can check it out on YouTube and Spotify [it may also be elsewhere, I’m not sure all the places Glen posted it]). We talked about […]

Reading Goals for 2025

Last year I discovered Goodread‘s Reading Challenge and set a goal of 15 books for myself–and reached it. 15 was, admittedly, an easily attainable goal. That said, I had my doubts I would finish, given the fact that many of the books I read are extremely long (The From a Certain Point of View Star […]

Goodbye ’24, Hello ’25

With the new year arriving in less than 12 hours from the time I sit here writing this, I feel it’s a nice time to take a look back at what 2024 has given me, and then look forward to what is yet to come. 2024 This past year was such an exciting time for […]

Rejection Goal: 90/100

With two weeks left in the year, I have officially hit 90 rejections for short stories and manuscripts. Unfortunately, given recent events (especially adopting a new dog that has needed some extra care and attention to help him adapt to his new home) as well as the length of time it often takes for a […]