So perhaps I wasn’t as ready to start a new novel as I thought, but I needed to do something while I wait to see what happens to my novel “Ice Debt” (see this post – update 7). But I was stuck. I love building worlds but it wasn’t coming to me this time. I [...]
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 [...]
I received my rejection letter on Friday of last week and I’m posting now because I’ve been away on a camping vacation. It was a form letter stating that my novella was not chosen for Quarter 2, nor did it make any level of the finals, or get honorable mention. Oh well. It would have [...]
I read a blog post today that bothered me. You can read the post here written by Andy Shackcloth. The summary of the post titled “Why you shouldn’t write your novel” is as follows: – You need to be able to market before you should even think about writing your first book. – You should [...]
Another rejection for my short story “Broadcasting Live”. That brings the total up to Five. It was a form-email rejection. Thanks but no thanks (Sigh). Where should I send this story next? I just posted 6 new markets on my links page. I’ll have to go through them tonight to figure out which one I [...]
Just an update on the outcome of the submission to the Fantasy and Science Fiction Magazine.
Published in April of 2009, this anthology holds Tina's first and second published stories. 
