I have only just discovered Rubyetc, and I love him

Eeeee! I’m getting ANTHOLOGIZED!

I started writing a LONG time ago, but I started publishing about five years, during my first few months at Southern New Hampshire University. One of the first poems I ever published, a sonnet called “Ode to Apollo” is now included in this groovy anthology.

It is so flattering that people wanted to include my little poem, and it is so amazing to realize how far I’ve come. I wrote that poem for writing club my sophomore year of high school. It was the best I’d ever been paid for my writing, too, when I sold it.

If anyone wants “to be a writer” (especially if you have a hard time finishing/polishing novels) GO WRITE AND PUBLISH POETRY/SHORT STORIES. It is so much easier than getting a book deal and its basically the writing equivalent of an internship. Go learn the ropes. You’ll love it.

I hadn’t heard of this until just now. Anyone have thoughts/opinions on this?

I love this editor! She has so much character and really shows what a good editor can be for her clients! And these horror stories...just another reminder that the literary industry is a business like any other business.

Some of the only existing fan art for my stories. One of my greatest hopes for publishing is that my work will find its way to fans who like to draw. I know what my characters look like, but I can’t draw them! Someone HALP!

My first author interview! Ahhhh! So exciting! :D Thank you, PJ Byer!

I just got offered representation and publication of my novel.

So that just happened.

Feeling Like Death Never Felt So Good

I’m going just a wee bit crazy, I believe.

It’s finals week for me and I’m in travel-status, which is always a little harder than dealing with ordinary academic workloads while at home. Staying with my family, I don’t always have access to the internet these days, so it’s weird being disconnected.

On the whole, I’m enjoying myself even though I feel like death warmed over. It’s funny how happy you can be even when you feel terrible.

I haven’t yet started my column for the next issue of Miracle, although I’m very excited about the theme they have given me. I’m working on a major project that I think I’ll be able to start talking about in a week or two, but the straw that’s broken the camel’s back this week is a literary magazine that’s just offered to publish my short story, The Loving Glass, pending a few rewrites. I think this is one of my best short stories, but I’ve heard the complaint that it’s really more of vignette then a short story, and now this tentative offer to publish it is dependent on my ability to add in a little context and flesh it out more thoroughly.

Sometimes it’s actually harder to go back and add detail than to take it out, and part of the reason this story lacks so much context is because I know if I think too much about it the premise might very well turn into a full length book, which is the last thing I need right now. I like it as it is, a quick little scene that leaves you with plenty of questions. Editors know best though, and I would really like to sell this story, if only so I can finally share it with all my readers.