Friday Update 12/27/24

Last update for the year! Next week I’ll have a lovely review for you all, but this week I’m under a deadline (ugh!). Hellebore #3 is due to the editor on the 1st and as of today I’ve got three chapters left. (about 7k) I have done nothing but write (and recover from high wordcount…

This week is all about words! I’m through the opening stages of Vampire Exposed (Hellebore Court #3), just shy of 8k. Since I’m about to start chapter 4, this means Exposed will be slightly longer than the previous novella. I’m looking at a total of 25-27k to wrap it up. This is nicely within my…

Lots of movement happened this week and a bunch of things were crossed off the to-do list. First, short stories on submission: Beholder rejected from Interzone, sent to Analog Raze rejected from Azimov, sent to Interzone Lovelace still pending at Analog Next, my scifi short story for the #30 issue of Boundary Shock Quarterly is…

Happy Turkey Day to all my US friends, I hope you feasted well. Due to the holiday this week, my work hours were few right at the start. I made good progress on my Scifi short story, it’s about 2k from the end, which will be satisfying to send off to the editor. I’ve been…

This week my main goal was to put some words down on my scifi short story for BSQ Magazine. I’m close to 8k on that and closing in on the expected 10k total to finish it off. That will happen next week and in more than enough time to give it a fine-toothed proofread before…

This week I’ve broken ground on my new scifi short story for BSQ magazine. According to my outline I’m looking at about 10k total. Now that words have started, that’ll build up quick. I’d love to wrap it up next week. The Veldura house is moving soonish. We don’t have official orders yet, but our…

This has been an admin heavy week due to US Election Nonsense. I’ve made progress outlining my next scifi short story (looks like it’ll be roughly 10k, a thriller) but on days when I didn’t feel like the creative voice could do the thing, I reverted to my forever long list of admin work. I…

This week was much more admin focused than usual. I’m between writing projects and the current one (scifi for BSQ) requires some additional worldbuilding/culture building, so I’m taking my time with that. Instead, my focus was on things like cover art for next year’s short story publishing, scheduling my next Vampire serial in December on…

This week I brainstormed, outlined, wrote, edited, and submitted a short story to an anthology call for Fae-themed stories. I’ve submitted to this editor before and she’s published my work several times, so we’re a good fit. Now we wait for acceptance/rejection. Speaking of rejections, I received a rejection for a MilScifi short story, but…