Busy with the Business of Writing

Almost two months since my last entry, and a lot of things - mostly good things - have contributed to this radio silence.

Some of the not-so-good things: the day job getting busy. As I've said elsewhere (author bio included!) I moonlight in grocery retail, and now that the warmer weather has arrived in the Miskatonic Valley, cookout season has launched as well, and that means busier shifts at the store where I work, which sadly, cuts into the number of spoons I have at the end of the day when I start writing or typing up my drafts. Needless to say, it's given me a few ideas involving Innsmouth fishpeople having beach parties, or as they would call them ...regular parties.

Also, I had a bout of Really Bad Allergies, to the point that I thought I had contracted strep throat, but thankfully, the only prescription I needed was Sudafed and frozen yoghurt for my scratchy throat (really, the nurse at the CVS Minute Clinic told me to treat myself to some fro-yo for lunch).

But! the good things outweighed the not-so-good: "Brother Swanwing" and "The Thing In The Graveyard" were bought by two anthologies and my King in Yellow story "Paper Masks", which had ended up in limbo when the anthology I sent it to just vanished, will appear in a third anthology alongside some Wicked Awesome KiY Writers (Will reveal more when the book goes live). I'm also working on a Holy Grail story for a King Arthur anthology, and consequently listening to the wonderful audiobook version of The Once and Future King, one of my all-time favourite modern retellings of the King Arthur legend, second only to perhaps John Steinbeck's sadly unfinished but still excellent The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights. Wish me luck on this one, as I'm trying to bash the manuscript into a publishable form.