"She's Using a Machete to Cut Through the Red Tape"
Been a while since I updated, and that time has been rather full. Real life has thrown some challenges: the day job got especially crazy, which has infringed a bit on the writing, and my allergies packed up my sinuses so hard I ended up seeing an ear/throat/nose specialist who put me on a couple of different medicines. Now that my airways have cleared up, I can better address myself to my writing, and come bearing a lot of news.
First, and foremost, this Friday, I will be wending my way to eldritch Providence again, joining several folks from the New England Horror Writers for A Night of Horror!at the Books On the Square bookstore. For the first time, I'll read "The Handmaid of the Key", a tale I'm immensely proud of, and which I have the honor of reading in the hometown of the Old Gent whose work inspired it.
On Saturday, October 13th, starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, I'll be at Die With Your Boots On, Salem, Massachusetts's awesome premiere Gothic boo-tique, to sign books with the lovely folks from FunDead Publications. Should be a ghoulishly good time!
Also, I've set to work putting together my first-ever collection of short stories, some already published that have reverted back to me, some never before seen in print, one written with this collection in mind. I'd planned to send this off to a recently opened call for short story collections.
Until I realized one of the stories hadn't quite reverted back to me, due to problems with the contract for the original release, including the fact that the publisher (who will remain nameless, since I don't want to create drama) hadn't sent the contract til after the book went to press. I'm not even sure what legalities come into play with that situation, and so I'd rather play it safe, and so I've shelved the collection for the time being, I'll work on preparing it, a little bit at a time each day till I find another market to send it to. Another open call will present itself, and by then, I'll have this book ready for it.
But in the meantime, I have two stories which went live today:
-"The Ink Eater": My first ever children's story appears in the October issue of Spaceports and Spidersilk. In it, a young girl finds something with a strange appetite lurking in the stacks of her local library. You can order it over Here
-"The Nastiness in the Cold Box": another tale of Herbert West the ReAnimator, in which Lovecraft's mad scientist has to use a very strange means to fend off his latest experiment gone wrong. It now graces the pages of the October edition of Deadman's Tome's free to read magazine, which you can find over Here!
I've also submitted a few things here and there to various markets (admittedly, I've mentally lost track of them, though I have them notated in a small ledger I'd created for this purpose), and I'm still working on three stories to be finished in the next few months, hopefully before the December madness. I'm also penning my first ever article, based on a strange sight that I saw in our yard the summer that I turned twelve, It's something I haven't spoken much about, but I'm ready to open up about it now.
First, and foremost, this Friday, I will be wending my way to eldritch Providence again, joining several folks from the New England Horror Writers for A Night of Horror!at the Books On the Square bookstore. For the first time, I'll read "The Handmaid of the Key", a tale I'm immensely proud of, and which I have the honor of reading in the hometown of the Old Gent whose work inspired it.
On Saturday, October 13th, starting at one o'clock in the afternoon, I'll be at Die With Your Boots On, Salem, Massachusetts's awesome premiere Gothic boo-tique, to sign books with the lovely folks from FunDead Publications. Should be a ghoulishly good time!
Also, I've set to work putting together my first-ever collection of short stories, some already published that have reverted back to me, some never before seen in print, one written with this collection in mind. I'd planned to send this off to a recently opened call for short story collections.
Until I realized one of the stories hadn't quite reverted back to me, due to problems with the contract for the original release, including the fact that the publisher (who will remain nameless, since I don't want to create drama) hadn't sent the contract til after the book went to press. I'm not even sure what legalities come into play with that situation, and so I'd rather play it safe, and so I've shelved the collection for the time being, I'll work on preparing it, a little bit at a time each day till I find another market to send it to. Another open call will present itself, and by then, I'll have this book ready for it.
But in the meantime, I have two stories which went live today:
-"The Ink Eater": My first ever children's story appears in the October issue of Spaceports and Spidersilk. In it, a young girl finds something with a strange appetite lurking in the stacks of her local library. You can order it over Here
-"The Nastiness in the Cold Box": another tale of Herbert West the ReAnimator, in which Lovecraft's mad scientist has to use a very strange means to fend off his latest experiment gone wrong. It now graces the pages of the October edition of Deadman's Tome's free to read magazine, which you can find over Here!
I've also submitted a few things here and there to various markets (admittedly, I've mentally lost track of them, though I have them notated in a small ledger I'd created for this purpose), and I'm still working on three stories to be finished in the next few months, hopefully before the December madness. I'm also penning my first ever article, based on a strange sight that I saw in our yard the summer that I turned twelve, It's something I haven't spoken much about, but I'm ready to open up about it now.
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