“The Tiny Man” accepted by Stupefying Stories

Happy Christmas news: woke to another acceptance email this morning – this time for “The Tiny Man” from Stupefying Stories. It’s my second acceptance from Bruce Bethke, and this one will be published mid-2014 as part of a themed anthology. I don’ t yet know what the theme will be, but I’m looking forward to finding out. This story is a fairy tale in a contemporary village that still contains the remnants of yesterday.

It is the time of year when family and social events begin to take over – the kids on holidays, various end-of-year celebrations. It can be difficult to quarantine time to write undisturbed. I have so many ideas for stories, I can’t keep up, and I keep on revising the ones I’ve already written, hopefully resulting in their improvement. It’s all good – without life, there would be no writing, and I can’t complain about the difficulty of choosing between ideas. So – I have set a goal for the holidays of completing a rewrite I have in mind, which I can hopefully work on even while the kids are around.

And… in a few days The New Gothic will be published. Can’t wait! The stories I’ve read in the galley so far are fabulous. More on that to come.