Milestones

I know I haven’t posted much here but I have a good reason. You see… I’ve been posting elsewhere.

As most of my handful of readers know, David Steffen and I have started a zine together called Diabolical Plots. It is a site for writers and fans of the genre that keeps those of us that are simply too brilliant for real life to entertain, speculative fiction. We cover the full gamut of medium in which this genre lives including movies and video games. Go check it out if you’ve got a minute.

In the meantime since my last post I’ve hit some personal milestones in my writing. Most exciting among them is my 50th story submission that went out this weekend. Sadly, I received a rejection within hours. Thank you, Escape Pod. :)

I refuse to take that speedy rejection as a sign to bury my head in the sand.

I’ve also got my Race score up to 11 EDIT: Sorry Dave! Wrote this thinking I would go back and cal my score and forgot. Oops!

Another milestone is that I mailed my 5th consecutive submission to the Writers of the Future contest. The past two submissions have come back as honorable mentions so I’m hoping for at least that this time around. The first round of HMs has come out and I wasn’t on the list so either my rejection is in the mail, my story hasn’t been read yet or, hopefully, it has been set aside for a possible finalist or better.

Another milestone, which is kinda giggly, is that I submitted a story to an erotica market for the first time. It’s a risque story that I wrote last year that I’ve just run out of scifi markets for. It wasn’t written with erotica in mind but it has some rather explicit sex on screen, at least for me.

Lastly, there are some changes coming to the website soon. I’m going to change the front page focus to accent my visual art and photography. Writing is still a big part of my creative identity but the current site layout doesn’t really allow me to showcase my art.