October 2011

As you may know, I read slush for the wonderful Apex Magazine.  I previously posted some tips for submission, but someone asked me to write some up, and I ended up with different ones.  Who knew! Here they are: There are a lot of decent stories out there.  You have to better than all of them

I lived!  Fortunately, I knew quite a few people in the room at the Pikes Peak Romance Writers meeting, although I have to admit I kind of went into extrovert mode for a while and thus into an altered state in which I can’t quite remember everything that happened.  Weird, that.  I finally got to talk to

Halloweenish collection for #middlegrade Tales Told Under the Covers: Zombie Girl Invasion & Other Stories #ebook http://t.co/TstujT8E # Kids Write: Whatever you write is a victory. http://t.co/mnYD51sq #pubwrite #forkids #middlegrade # Hah! Yes. @jaymewrites My friend is trying to understand why I use Twitter. "So, it's like a giant bookclub…?" she asks. # Powered by

My daughter signed up for the Young Writers’ Program this year (her first).  Then sat down and wrote like 500 words.  Okay, November hasn’t started yet, but who am I to tell her she has to wait?  I’m not that foolish. — You’re a kid.  You’re a writer (or you just like making things up but

Now available at Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles, and OmniLit.  Coming soon at other online bookstores. Hand of Glory by DeAnna Knippling Young adult/Crime/Coming of age.  An MMORPG Noir…I think I’ve been playing too much World of Warcraft and Rifts lately. This cover was designed by the excellent Zachary Lin.  The story was actually written to fit the inspiration from

Now available at Smashwords, Amazon.com, Barnes and Nobles, and OmniLit.  Coming soon at other online bookstores. Hand of Glory by DeAnna Knippling Young adult/Crime/Coming of age.  An MMORPG Noir…I think I’ve been playing too much World of Warcraft and Rifts lately. This cover was designed by the excellent Zachary Lin.  The story was actually written

Another post for kids who write… Anything you write is a victory. Almost every writer (no matter what age, no matter how famous they are, no matter how well you think they write) has moments or even whole years where they go, “THIS IS AWFUL.” Sometimes that feeling hangs around, even after the story is

**** Recommended, for horror enthusiasts only though. This was a straightforward but spectacularly EWWW horror short story. A couple of exterminators have to clean up a house that’s rumored to be haunted and discover more than they bargained for: it’s either going to be a retread or it’s going to be a classic, depending on

*****Highly recommended. A cop, a dad, or a superhero? The main character’s daughter, who, if I remember correctly, is sixteen or seventeen, has the same superpowers as her father, but chooses to use them with the young guns. A nice story about reconciling the irreconcilable. Superteens…gotta love ’em.