With just over 24 hours before the submission deadline, I sent in my story for the “Necking” anthology. This was a challenging story to write. I put a supernatural twist on it and nearly went insane keeping all the characters/pronouns in place since there are three guys together for the entire last half of the [...]
28Feb10
“Necking” Submission Completed
I had a geeky moment this afternoon.
While Will and I were out running errands, he took me into our neighborhood Borders (at 100 Broadway) and showed me the six copies of Nerdvana in the LGBT section. It was very exciting to see a book with a story of mine on the shelf and so we [...]
29Dec09
New Story & Nerdvana Update
I wrapped up the first draft of the short story that takes place inside of a So You Think You Can Dance-style show. I’m glad it’s finally out of my head as it was making it difficult to do anything else creative. It took longer than I expected, but I had trouble with one of [...]
Since June, once I knew the results of the Delacorte contest, I’ve been working to revise Neutral Zone. Some of this work is pretty straight forward since it’s about restoring scenes I removed to make the competition length requirements. The rest hasn’t been so cut and dried. I’ve been adding in more scenic elements becuase [...]
23Nov09
“Rivals” On Sale Now!
Short story “Rivals” (Dreamspinner Press | eBook ISBN: 978-1-61581-293-6) went on sale this morning. It’s part of Dreamspinner’s “Nap-Size Dream” series. In case you missed it the first time, here’s the blurb for the story: “Hockey player Mitchell Turner’s high-school crush on cross-county adversary Alex Goodman never came to anything… until they meet again four [...]
20Nov09
Delays, Piracy, Editing…and More
A few things to talk about on the writing front today:
For some reason, Nerdvana hasn’t come out yet. It was listed on Amazon and other sites as releasing on November 17, but it remains in pre-order state. I don’t know why that is. As soon as it becomes available, I’ll certainly write about it here.
“Rivals,” [...]
Over the next two weeks, I’ve got two stories coming out:
On November 17, Nerdvana (edited by Fred Towers / StarBooks Press / ISBN: 1934187577) hits book stores with my story “The Adventures of Jake #1.” I’m looking forward getting this book, not only to see my own story in print, but to read what [...]
A great way to start November: In the November Dreamspinner Press Newsletter, just out this afternoon, “Rivals” is listed as “Coming This Month.”
That’s exciting!
I got my galley proof for the short story “Rivals” this week and did a couple corrections on it. If everything stays on track it’ll be released the week of Thanksgiving, which is appropriate since the story’s first scene is the day before Thanksgiving.
The release of the short story “Rivals” gets closer every day and it’s been exciting watching the publication process at work. Unlike Nerdvana, for which I submitted the story, found out I was in, signed the contract and sat back and waited for the book to publish, the process for “Rivals” has found me much [...]
