Friends, Romans, et cetera – the new issue of the literary monthly The Legendary has now been posted on-line, and it contains not one, but two pieces by me 🙂 In the fiction section you’ll find “The Frog Boogie” –
Gravy
You will forgive me for not reporting the rejections I receive, because that is also happening during all of this, but the close of this crazy week brings my third offer of publication from a lit mag., which officially puts
Okay, now I just think I’m being pranked
Another of my stories has been picked up for publication – “Marvin Karl and the Whatsit He Found on Tuesday” will appear in the April edition of Front Porch Review. The reader said “I am reminded of Garrison Keillor –
Sweet acceptance
Good news today! My short story “How to Be Depressed in the Sunshine” will be published in an upcoming issue of the literary magazine A Few Lines. I originally wrote this one a couple of years back – it’s been
Submitting feels like the right word after awhile.
Sending a freshly-edited batch of short stories into the ether. Literary magazine guidelines always make me feel so inadequate. I’m afraid my story probably isn’t an incendiary mind-torpedo of subversion that peels the doubt-flesh from our meat lives and makes
The Dreaming Space
As I said, I wrapped up my evening at a reasonable hour last night, feeling satisfied about a productive coffeehouse writing session and relaxed after treating myself to a little bedtime reading. I never spend enough time with BOOKS. I
Words Update
This new short story is threatening to become not-so-short. Judging by the short stories I have completed so far, I apparently like to hang in the 2-3,000-word range for a piece, but I’m past 2,000 words on this one and
Feeding data into the targeting computer
What I do with this Duotrope thing now depends entirely on my goals. Since it compiles statistics for both acceptance rates and response times, it would be relatively simple for me to blast my stories out to some on-line lit
I have joined a cult
You know you have dizzyingly given yourself over to something or someone when you want to talk about it or them for an unusual portion of your time. And I am turning utterly into a lit. mag groupie. I don’t
Shameless, but well-earned, plug
Although I strive to do creative work, I tend to approach my goals regarding that work in an extremely methodical fashion. Sooner or later, some voice in my head will suggest: “You know what would help you break this down?