Sunday, October 11, 2009
The Telescopes plus End of the World
News of another acceptance arrived just now - this for the Robert Essig edited antho called Through The Eyes of the Undead, stories told from the zombie POV. A lot harder to write than you might think! Mine is the sad tale of a woman called To Kill A Dead Girl Walking. The title is a riff on a song by The Telescopes, from the unbelievably great Taste album.
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
More print!
Another acceptance - this one a comedic piece for a book taking the piss out of all those zombie survival guides, kind of a Carry On Zombies if you like - called The Morons Guide To The Inevitable Zombocalypse from the Library of the Living Dead Press. Compiled and edited by Timothy Long.
My effort is called Zombiebowl and is about entertainment during the apocalypse. Happy to be a part of this, its a great idea!
If only this film poster was real...
Sunday, September 27, 2009
Accepted!
Victory dance time!
A Splash of Orange was a winner and one of fourteen stories chosen for the ReadMe Publishing sci-fi anthology What If?
The book is scheduled to go to print in October and will be available on Amazon and the usual places thereafter. I'm very, very happy this particular story made it!
Here's the full list of futuristic tales chosen for the collection -
A Splash of Orange was a winner and one of fourteen stories chosen for the ReadMe Publishing sci-fi anthology What If?
The book is scheduled to go to print in October and will be available on Amazon and the usual places thereafter. I'm very, very happy this particular story made it!
Here's the full list of futuristic tales chosen for the collection -
1 Extra Good Care – By Valerie Hodge
2 Not Your Ordinary Little Green Men – By Kelli Wilkins
3 Danger, Maybe – By Marian Powell
4 The Rocket Ship – By Ian Lamberto
5 The House That Doomsday Built – By Justin Woolley
6 Journey to the Surface – By Dixie Sorensen
7 The Last Soldier – By John J. Rust
8 What if Rose Was Right – By Grace Gannon Rudolph
9 Herd Mentality – By Paul A. Freeman
10 Precipitation and Devotion – By Stevie Poppe
11 A Splash of Orange – By Harper Hull
12 Austin 2009 – By Derek Rutherford
13 We Don't Do Windshields – By Don Magin
14 Teleporter – By Jennifer Caddell
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Newsfest/50 Grand
Lots of writing and subs going on, as usual
Good news
A Splash of Orange made it to the final round of a sci-fi story contest, so fingers crossed there.
Also, one of the writing groups I am part of is sending out manuscripts for a 50-story collection with several stories by each of us. It is codenamed Fifty Grand and is a very strong anthology covering all sorts of genres. I have 4 stories involved. And with a bunch of us behind it, it will get a good push until it reaches the right hands. Excited about this! Starting with UK based publishers as most of the collective are based in England, and I think all of us are actually British by birth.
Good news
A Splash of Orange made it to the final round of a sci-fi story contest, so fingers crossed there.
Also, one of the writing groups I am part of is sending out manuscripts for a 50-story collection with several stories by each of us. It is codenamed Fifty Grand and is a very strong anthology covering all sorts of genres. I have 4 stories involved. And with a bunch of us behind it, it will get a good push until it reaches the right hands. Excited about this! Starting with UK based publishers as most of the collective are based in England, and I think all of us are actually British by birth.
Thursday, June 11, 2009
Undead Yay!
Two pieces accepted for a zombie poetry anthology - seriously!
Ten Little Zombies - a childlike, nursery-rhyme death spree in 10 stanzas.
The Undead Shall Have No Dominion - hardcore serious time! Inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem with a similar name only, er, about zombies.
The shuffling ghouls are being good to me at the moment.
In other news -
A Splash Of Orange was returned to me with a very, very nice long letter of mainly praise but, as I sort of feared, the ending was too 'out there' for them. Which is fair enough, I suspected the grand finale may be a little too much. Into the rewrite folder!
New stuff - a short story called Judas at The Gates of Hell which has nothing to do with Iscariot or Hell. It actually ended up being a steampunk piece that reads like the beginning of some mammoth trilogy in the manner of The Dark Tower. It was far too fun to write so must be crap! I'd like to see where the main protagonist goes though.
Ten Little Zombies - a childlike, nursery-rhyme death spree in 10 stanzas.
The Undead Shall Have No Dominion - hardcore serious time! Inspired by the Dylan Thomas poem with a similar name only, er, about zombies.
The shuffling ghouls are being good to me at the moment.
In other news -
A Splash Of Orange was returned to me with a very, very nice long letter of mainly praise but, as I sort of feared, the ending was too 'out there' for them. Which is fair enough, I suspected the grand finale may be a little too much. Into the rewrite folder!
New stuff - a short story called Judas at The Gates of Hell which has nothing to do with Iscariot or Hell. It actually ended up being a steampunk piece that reads like the beginning of some mammoth trilogy in the manner of The Dark Tower. It was far too fun to write so must be crap! I'd like to see where the main protagonist goes though.
Friday, May 1, 2009
Worst Month Ever
Long time, I know.
I finally went ahead and seriously tried to quit smoking, 3 years later than I intended but a year sooner than I expected :)
It has been (and still is) awful. I'm on day 22 without a smoke, symptoms du jour included throwing up, migraines and possibly blacking out for 2 hours. Still not sure about that one.
I felt a hundred times better when I was lighting up. I know it will be worth it, but the journey to get there is horrible.
Anyway, writing stuff. I can barely read a book right now, let alone write anything. I have been keeping up with the little 1000 worder contests that a writers forum I frequent run every week. I've come up with little pieces including one about a psychic on the Titanic, (A Great & Terrible Gesture) one about a loving couple's last morning on Earth (Terminal Sunday) and my favourite, God's Librarian, a tale of how higher powers look after the world's great and classic authors until they can write their master work.
Summary: Yes, I am alive and hope to be back up to speed really soon.
I finally went ahead and seriously tried to quit smoking, 3 years later than I intended but a year sooner than I expected :)
It has been (and still is) awful. I'm on day 22 without a smoke, symptoms du jour included throwing up, migraines and possibly blacking out for 2 hours. Still not sure about that one.
I felt a hundred times better when I was lighting up. I know it will be worth it, but the journey to get there is horrible.
Anyway, writing stuff. I can barely read a book right now, let alone write anything. I have been keeping up with the little 1000 worder contests that a writers forum I frequent run every week. I've come up with little pieces including one about a psychic on the Titanic, (A Great & Terrible Gesture) one about a loving couple's last morning on Earth (Terminal Sunday) and my favourite, God's Librarian, a tale of how higher powers look after the world's great and classic authors until they can write their master work.
Summary: Yes, I am alive and hope to be back up to speed really soon.
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