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.

I consider myself very lucky this year. It’s one thing to have some work published, but something else completely to work with, and be published alongside, authors you admire. Being welcomed into the Bad Moon Books family, I have the great pleasure of seeing my novel in print with writers like Michael Calvillo, Lisa Morten,

This year, rather than do my normal backyard vegetable garden, I decided to plant only pumpkins. I’ve been wanting to have a little pumpkin patch for years, but when spring came along, I always ended up going the same old tomato, eggplant, peppers, route. But not this year. On the 15th I planted the seeds,

I can’t promise I’ll update my work in progress every Wednesday, but I thought I’d give it a go this week. I’m 3,000 words into an untitled Halloween story that looks as if it’ll never be finished. This happens to me sometimes. I started writing the story, happy with its premise and direction. After a

I don’t usually do this, but I’m posting a short piece I just wrote. It’s pretty much unedited and as rough as sandpaper. But I don’t think I’ll ever do anything with it, so here: What I Am The burning sky falls across my back. I don’t dare look up; hot coals and liquid fire

I’ve been holding on to this news for three days now, uncertain of how to announce it. Finally I decided best to just blurt it out on the blog: My first novel, Soundtrack to the End of the World, will be published by Bad Moon Books! It is tentatively scheduled for a late 2011 release,

Hey all. I wanted to do a quick post about a very cool contest underway at Bibliophilic Book Blog. You can win an ereader of your choice, and all you have to do is fill out a quick entry form. Good luck!

I finally took the (eight dollar) plunge and registered my very own domain name. Some of you may have noticed that when coming to the good ol’ blog, the address bar now says www.anthonyjrapino.com Shazaam! Not to worry though, good readers. The connection to my blog is only temporary, and really just to get some

2010 is looking up. There’s always the trouble of caging the brain-trolls that wriggle free and chomp on my gray matter, but I’ve managed it to some extent. And there’s always the herding of stray shadows leaking from my ears, but I’ve maintained. Luckily, balancing out these atrocities this year is a steady stream of