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Tuesday, August 11th! Where has the time gone. It’s been an amazingly long couple of weeks and I have lots of updates for you. 1) I sent out two Flash Fiction stories two weeks ago to the “Creatures of the Night” contest put on by Absolute Xpress. The contest closed on August 1st at midnight [...]

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. [...]

Well here is my word count since December 1. Monday (Dec 1) – 1,288 words on Gift of Talismans Wednesday (Dec 3) – 753 words on Gift of Talismans, and developed pitch for Beloved Child on Zeros 2 Heros website Sunday (Dec 7) – 1,438 words on Gift of Talismans. Monday (Dec 8 ) – [...]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I have spent the last week working on two projects. One you are aware of (my short story called “Gift of Talismans”), the other I announce on this blog today. On the website called Zeros 2 Heroes, a community of like minded comic book geeks (of both the writer and artist kind) [...]



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      February 3, 2010
      Chinese Whisperings are 10 stories about 10 different people. The twist in this collection is that each new story takes a minor character from the story before and makes him or her into the main character. The whole thing works extremely well. It is not a novel in chapters, and therefore slightly disconcerting when you meet the person or persons from the story before in a completely different setting. But it works wonderfully.”
      by Heike Margot Heike Margot's Blog The Red Book

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