Friday Update 7/26/24

Still swimming! The deadlines keep coming and they don’t stop coming. This week I wrote a fantasy regency short story. I happen to have a novella series set during the golden age of sail which Also happens to fall during the regency era AND CONVENIENTLY it’s a fantasy world full of ghosts and witches and…

This week I tried something new and had to spend a day recovering. I’m trying to do more of my writing through dictation. I want to reduce the amount of hours I spend typing, but also see if I can use it to speed up my writing process. It’s a thing that takes time, however,…

Friday Update 2/2/24 In an unusual move, this week I decided the big plan I had for Fated to the Wolf needed to be cut down to something more compact. It’s a story meant to go in an anthology with a collection of other shifter authors and the target length is 20k. While they would…

Friday Update 1/26/24 Progress was made this week! I’ve finished and submitted a Hellhounds short story to an anthology for consideration. Cross your fingers for me! I think it’s a good one. I’ve also tackled the initial stages of publishing for the next three short stories. Preorder will be populating in all the stores over…

Friday Update 1/19/24 A lot has happened this week and almost all of it is the kind of admin work that no one tells you is necessary when they say “hey, you’re really good at this, have you thought about publishing a book?” First: my unnamed Hellhound short story is marching along. I’m half way…

Short update this week, because I had one goal and one goal only: To finish this Bone Witch short story for a Valentine’s anthology coming up. I did it! I wrapped up the story on Thursday and I turned it in today to the editor after a proofread and some tweaks <3 I’m excited to…

Friday Update 12/22/23 The last Friday Update of the year because, let’s be honest, I’m not going to pay enough attention next week to realize it’s friday and there won’t be any work to update you all on! But this week’s update is excellent because I get to report that my latest short story is…

Friday Update 12/7/23 This week I brainstormed, outlined, and have started writing the next HORNETS short story for BSQ magazine. This is a mystery, but it’s also a Hornets, so there’s going to be power armor, specialized guns, and explosions. I’m 1300 words in and I haven’t quite figured out the personal/backstory subplot yet, but…

Welcome to December! This week I gave myself a day to recover from traveling and organize the bags. I did some reading and watched a few youtube videos about Captain of Industry, which is a game about production lines and efficiency. And just writing that line makes me laugh because of course I would watch…