Merry day! Fire up the blog again at long last! What? It's Ash Wednesday? Well, okay, we can keep the bacchanalia a bit more solemn and austere, if that'll help.
I just found out yesterday that my short story, "ROSEBANK NNL," got accepted as part of a collection that's tentatively being titled Boroughs of the Dead, Volume II. It's a bunch of NYC-set ghost stories, and the theme inspired me to take a mental visit back to Staten Island. It was the first story I ever submitted for publication, so I fully expect to get a big head and start lording it over all my friends now (except for the ones who have already been published, including my wife).
Seriously though, this is certainly some great fuel for inspiring me to write more often again. I've already started on another story for a different anthology. It may be too weird to ever go anywhere, but at the very least I can use the practice. I've also still been plugging away at Suckers, my way-too-long-in-gestation vampire novel, although it's been hard to get my momentum back since NaNoWriMo. I think it may help to give my latest draft a complete read-through, to get me firmly back in the world of the story.
There's still a ways to go before I'm actually, literally (ha ha) published. The folks behind the anthology are going to send me a line edited version of the story, which I'll then have to approve and sign the contract for. Then there's the wait until the thing actually goes to print, and possibly another wait until I actually get paid and get a copy of the book. I remember how long that took in my wife's case, so I'm expecting there to be at least a few months until I can fully consider myself the barest definition of an author. Nevertheless, I'm excited to see how all of these steps play out. More news to come as everything progresses!
I just found out yesterday that my short story, "ROSEBANK NNL," got accepted as part of a collection that's tentatively being titled Boroughs of the Dead, Volume II. It's a bunch of NYC-set ghost stories, and the theme inspired me to take a mental visit back to Staten Island. It was the first story I ever submitted for publication, so I fully expect to get a big head and start lording it over all my friends now (except for the ones who have already been published, including my wife).
Seriously though, this is certainly some great fuel for inspiring me to write more often again. I've already started on another story for a different anthology. It may be too weird to ever go anywhere, but at the very least I can use the practice. I've also still been plugging away at Suckers, my way-too-long-in-gestation vampire novel, although it's been hard to get my momentum back since NaNoWriMo. I think it may help to give my latest draft a complete read-through, to get me firmly back in the world of the story.
There's still a ways to go before I'm actually, literally (ha ha) published. The folks behind the anthology are going to send me a line edited version of the story, which I'll then have to approve and sign the contract for. Then there's the wait until the thing actually goes to print, and possibly another wait until I actually get paid and get a copy of the book. I remember how long that took in my wife's case, so I'm expecting there to be at least a few months until I can fully consider myself the barest definition of an author. Nevertheless, I'm excited to see how all of these steps play out. More news to come as everything progresses!
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