The title says it all. Cate Gardner’s newest short story collection, Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits is now available for pre-order! And if you do it now, you get $1.99 off the cover price. Not a bad deal. On top of this already exciting news, Cate is holding a contest (with some spectacular prizes) on

I’ve been writing a new novel for the past few weeks. It’s been slow going, but I manage to put some words down almost every day, which is pretty important. I always feel disconnected from the writing community when I start a novel. I read less blogs and write less posts. Even worse is while

Kate Jonez! I hope everyone will join me in congratulating Kate, the winner of the signed and numbered chapbook, “Tanglewood.” I used http://www.random.org/ in order to determine the winner. Thanks to everyone who participated and helped spread the word. The next raffle will most likely be for my own chapbook when it is released later

We’re five days into the chapbook raffle and I wanted to give you all a quick update. There are currently 15 subscribers. I was hoping to reach a total of 50 before doing the raffle, but I may end the contest after another week no matter how many subscribers there are. If you’d like a

In an effort to beef up my subscriber list, I decided to hold a little raffle. This is as easy as it gets. Sign up to my newsletter on the sidebar or here: Newsletter Sign Up. Once I reach 50 subscribers, I will use a random number generator to choose one person from the subscription

With so many projects on the horizon, I thought it was a good time to start a newsletter. At the very most it will be quarterly. So don’t worry about getting spammed with daily e-mails. You can sign up in the sidebar, or click this link: My Newsletter

Sorry about the lack of posting these past weeks. But I’m still here. I started work on my new novel. No title yet and only about 750 words in, so anything can happen. Otherwise, I’ve been content to hang on to this last bit of sanity. It’s a losing battle, but worth a shot.

Writing and Pumpkins and Turtles, Oh My. Let us go in order. Writing. A couple days ago I received a hold notice for my story “Stanley.” The magazine in question (I won’t reveal that until I have final word–I’m not sure why–though I will say it’s one I subscribe to and have wanted to break

I just finished writing a short story today. It clocked in at a whopping 7,200 words, which doesn’t seem like much until you try to submit a story longer than 5,000 words to a magazine. There are a number of magazines out there that do accept manuscripts into the 7,000, and sometimes even 10,000, word

Looking at my last blog post, I see over a week has flown by without so much as a peep from me. I guess I don’t have much to say. There is little to no news on the writing front. I haven’t gotten any more acceptances. I have this sci-fi (ish) story that I wrote.