We moved to Virginia in July 2024. Some ways it was exciting, other ways it was traumatic. So many things to accomplish: finding new doctors, changing address’s on everything (you don’t realize how many things have to be changed), setting up new utilities, driver’s license, health insurance. It can be and was overwhelming. Good things–new […]
Moving and other things. After 40+ years in the same house we are moving to a different state and a shiny new home. One reason is to be closer to Becca and Erik. It’s a 55+ community near Richmond. Have spent the last month packing, donating and throwing the residue of life away. Good memories […]
So a lot of things have happened and I got behind. Had a swollen cornea which would not go down with standard eye drop meds and required a corneal transplant. The first one in early December of 2023 didn’t take and after about three weeks surgeon did a full transplant. This one seemed to heal […]
A new year, working on the Dracula novel. Wrote a couple of new short stories and sent them out into the world. Sending stories and poems out–you think it is your best work until you look at it six months or a year later and wonder: what was I thinking? Who wrote this crap? Thing […]
The Monsters Next Door anthology. This was published in August of this year by Critical Blast. Delighted to be included is such great company. All the stories are top notch and well written. Would love to hear comments on the story.
So, I’ve been negligent with posts. The novel takes a lot of time and I really haven’t sent out many short pieces. That said the novel, my own twist on Dracula is coming along. Right now we are vacationing at the beach and I have intentions of using this time to kick out about 20K […]
I keep a spreadsheet of all the stories I send out and track rejections from the beginning of the year. So far this year the running number is 17 as of this date. Two slightly positive rejections out of that lot. One story, “A Pit of Unicorn Ashes,” made it through the first round of […]
Was privileged to participate in the March Futurescapes speculative fiction workshop this month. Received some great critiques on the first pages of my WIP novel, tentatively titled, “Last Days of a Prince.” It’s a twist on the Dracula story. Feedback was very encouraging which provided a nice kick in the pants to keep working on […]
Welcome to the new year. We came down to Florida in early January. It was heart wrenching to see the damage from hurricane Ian. Our street and the entire block around the condo complex was circled by a four foot high mound of trash–stuff that had been removed from the first floor units that had […]
I’ve been focused on trying to finish two novels, one about dragons living in the forest above Asheville, NC and the second, a twist on the Dracula story. The dragon story is not working and I’ve decided to put it away for a while. These things happen, what you visualize in your head doesn’t translate […]