What’s Doing?

A lot has happened to me over the past year and I’m afraid the associated stress, anxiety, and depression (notice the abbreviation of those three words is S.A.D?) have taken a toll on my health and state of mind, not to mention my writing productivity. To say that I’ve been burned out and dispirited would be an understatement.

Nevertheless, I push forward—albeit slowly. It’s June and the most I’ve finished in 2019 are three short stories and the first draft of a SF novel. However, three of my short stories from 2018 were published earlier this year in two anthologies, Rewriting the Past (March 2019, Greater Lehigh Valley Publishing Group) and Beach Pulp (April 2019, Cat & Mouse Press).

Also, one of my latest short stories, “Take a Cue from the Canine,” just took Honorable Mention in the Bethlehem Writers Group annual contest. More on that in a week or so when they send the award certificate.

I’m currently finishing a short story to be submitted to a winter holiday anthology on Wednesday, June 26. After that, I’ll get to work on a tale of the macabre for a horror anthology with an August 31 deadline, followed by a detective noir story for yet a third anthology.

Eventually, I hope to start revisions on that SF novel that’s been dragging on for three years.

Tomorrow (Sat. June 22), I’ll have a table in Creator Alley at the Lehigh Valley Comic Con at Lehigh Carbon Community College from 10AM to 4PM tomorrow. If you’re in the vicinity, stop by and say Hi!