Archive for January, 2009

The sky turned purple this morning. No really. It was the Aliens. You see the Aliens (the Oxnats if I’m going to be formal, though I still prefer “Ox”) have been trying for months to make the space stations orbiting Earth livable. They’ve been living in those spaceships hoping to move into a more permanent residence. The Chief [...]

So Cosmic left a comment the other day saying that I should just post the story that was recently rejected on my Blog. Much as that would be cool, I wouldn’t be able to get it published anywhere else if I did that. Technically, people from the industry see content posted on blogs as being [...]

January 15 was the deadline for the Sinful Flash Fiction Challenge. 7 flash fiction (or short story) pieces for each of the deadly sins. I didn’t do it gracefully, but I finished within the deadline (Just!). I wrote two stories a day for the last two days. I’m not sure if this does or doesn’t [...]

Literary Agent Colleen Lindsay is holding a neat contest on her blog. Essentially, she got tried of people trying to pitch their novels to her over Twitter and one of her friend said she should hold a contest. The rules are: All queries must be 140 characters or less. Including punctuation and spaces between words. [...]

What a crappy way to end the day. I just received an email letting me know that “Broadcasting Live” has been rejected from inclusion in the Tesseracts 13 anthology. This short story has now been rejected 3 times (although the first two times it was under a different title). It was a nice rejection though. [...]

The following blog post summerizes this contest a lot better than I can. http://www.dailywritingtips.com/is-your-novel-ready-to-go/ The contest is essentailly for anyone who has completed a novel already and is willing to let the public users of Amazon vote to get your book published by Penguin. The deadline is February 2. Here is the official site for [...]



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      November 24, 2009
      A Great Collection of Horror,
      This is a mixed collection of well written horror stories, some with hints of gore, some a smattering of science fiction, and still others contain bits of humor. What's truly fun about this collection is that not all of the authors have been published before, so it's giving new writers a chance showcase their works in an otherwise "hard to break in", horror market. Who knows, the next Stephen King may be lurking amongst these creepy pages.
      Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars”
      by By DelGal's Book Reviews (Delaware, USA)  Amazon.com Creatures of the Night

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