Summer is a time when book sales typically slow down, at least for anything that’s not a beach read. To combat slow sales, many authors have found that it helps to schedule more book releases. I’m definitely seeing the summer slump in my own sales numbers, but I also happen to have a bunch of unpublished short stories… Continue reading Upcoming short stories
Category: Short Stories
Only two more chapters!
I’m only two chapters away from finishing the first draft of Gunslinger to the Stars! This book was supposed to be finished a month ago, but life got busy and my chronic disorganization got in the way. Of course, these last few chapters are taking WAY longer to write than I thought they would, just like all… Continue reading Only two more chapters!
New short story: “The Gettysburg Paradox”!
The 4th of July was kind of crazy for me. Sold fireworks for twelve hours, then put on a fantastic show at the house of my friend and cowriter, Scott Bascom. But yeah, it was pretty exhausting. However, I found time over the weekend to publish a short story. This is one I wrote two… Continue reading New short story: “The Gettysburg Paradox”!
Making Progress
I’ve been making good progress lately on Gunslinger to the Stars. My original deadline for the rough draft was today, but I think it will take no more than two additional weeks to finish it. There’s about four chapters left, and I’m so eager to write the last one that the others will almost certainly fly by.… Continue reading Making Progress
General update and new short story goals
I may not have blogged much in the past couple of weeks, but I have been busy. First of all, I’ve renewed work on The Sword Keeper, and this time I’m going to finish the damn thing. Too much time has passed already, and the story is too good to let it languish on my hard… Continue reading General update and new short story goals
New story, new release!
I have a story out in the latest issue of Perihelion! To read “L’enfer, c’est la Solitude,” click here. It’s free to read! Those of you following the blog for a while will recognize this as a story I wrote almost exactly two years ago. Here’s what I said about it back then: I can’t stand people… Continue reading New story, new release!
Can you make a living writing short fiction?
This question has been on my mind for the last couple of weeks, ever since I made a couple of semi-pro story sales. From all of the classes and conventions I’ve attended, the answer has been no, but I’m starting to wonder if that hasn’t changed in the last few years. First of all, it’s worth pointing… Continue reading Can you make a living writing short fiction?
Recalibrating
One of the things about being a creative person is that it’s very hard to keep an organized daily routine for very long. Usually you’ll have one that works out well for a couple of weeks before something happens to make it fall apart completely, and then you have to recalibrate and start over. Nothing necessarily… Continue reading Recalibrating
I sold two short stories!
Fantastic news! I sold not one but two short stories this week! “L’enfer, c’est la solitude” will appear in Perihelion in March or April. And sometime over the summer (probably in June), “The Curse of the Lifewalker” will appear in Sci Phi Journal. Two semi-pro sales in one week is pretty fantastic, especially after garnering more than 175 rejections over the past… Continue reading I sold two short stories!
Still alive (though it may not seem like it)
Sorry for not posting to the blog in a while. I seem to be chronically disorganized, and updating the blog is unfortunately rather low on the priority list. But I’m still alive, and still writing. Gunslinger to the Stars is coming along well, though it’s not been without its hiccups. I’m about halfway through right… Continue reading Still alive (though it may not seem like it)