Writing, Editing, and Various Geeky Pursuits
Wow, not just any monthly update, it's also a year-end wrap-up. Obviously, 2020 was a brutal year on several levels, but I was productive. Over the year I submitted three short stories—"The Ghosts of Glenmirror," "The Day It Came from Beyond Outer Space," and "In the Time of the Martians"—and two essays (still secret), all … Continue reading Writing/Editing Update, December Edition
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Well, November was a blur on several levels. It started with the election of a new president and ended with the old president still in denial about losing, while soaring pandemic numbers in Minnesota (and elsewhere) ruined a lot of Thanksgiving plans. In between I was working on a pile of manuscripts, on top of … Continue reading Writing/Editing Update, November Edition
For this post, I'm turning my blog over to my friend, fellow author, and occasional partner in crime, William Leisner . . . I, like Scott, am excited to be a part of Crazy 8 Press's upcoming anthology Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2021. My story, "Lost Gold and Quicksilver," is set in the barnstorming era of … Continue reading “Lost Gold and Quicksilver”: An Excerpt
Things got weird here in Minnesota with an annoyingly early winter storm. Most everything melted away by Halloween, but, obviously, there wasn't much of a Halloween with the pandemic on an upswing. We didn't even give out candy in our neighborhood, which was sad—we missed the costumes, and I missed eating the leftover candy. Tales … Continue reading Writing/Editing Update, October Edition
I'm excited that my story, "The Day It Came from Beyond Outer Space," is a part of Thrilling Adventure Yarns 2021, currently funding on Kickstarter! This is the second volume anthologizing a wide spectrum of genre stories in homage to the pulp magazines of yesteryear. I love classic sci-fi of the forties and fifties, so … Continue reading “The Day It Came from Beyond Outer Space”: An Excerpt
As I wrapped up a crazy late August, I had to dive straight into a super-busy September. I'd taken on a number of overlapping gigs after estimating the number of hours each one would take, how many pages I'd be able to do in a day, and so on, carefully totaling the hours per day … Continue reading Writing/Editing Update, September Edition
Available for preorder on Kindle, Castle of Horror 4: Women Running from Houses, including my story "The Ghosts of Glenmirror," has a publication date of October 13, and will also be available in trade paperback. "Women running from houses?" you might be saying. "What's that about?" If you Google the phrase, you'll see for yourself, … Continue reading “The Ghosts of Glenmirror”
The last half of August got a little crazy with a number of deadlines rushing at me, and all month I had a feeling like it was a week earlier than it really was, so the last week was particularly frantic. I'm dropping a few things without any real updates out of the post this time … Continue reading Writing/Editing Update, August Edition
Even with all the craziness in the world, I'm trying to make this year a return to publishing for myself, working on three pieces for anthologies and on three more things for self-publishing. Part of the original inspiration for the PODs was to have new print books for convention appearances . . . of course, … Continue reading Writing/Editing Update, July Edition
Jim Kjelgaard (author of the famous Big Red and Irish Red) published the novel Fire-Hunter, the stone-age story of Hawk after he is expelled from his tribe, in 1951. It went through several paperback reprintings throughout the 1960s before going out of print. In 1991 it was republished, with the blessing of the Kjelgaard estate, in an expanded edition … Continue reading From the Vault: My Battle Against Plagiarizer Frank X. Harris
