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Over the last month, I’ve had five drabbles published in the Hawthorn & Ash flash fiction series from Iron Faerie Publishing! All of them were posted in the workshop during development last year, so a big thank you to everyone who offered feedback in those threads. It was invaluable! They’re...

Basically the title. As some of you may recall, I’ve been working on standalone reprints of three novelettes. The anthologies they were originally published in all went wide, so they’re not eligible for Kindle Unlimited. Over the last few months of 2025, I launched them on Amazon; now, I’m...

I tried out Draft2Digital for the first time today, and it turned out to be incredibly easy to work with. I’d set aside all week to work towards the wide launch of three novelettes I reprinted last year, but there’s a good chance I’ll be done tomorrow! So I’m happy for all the extra time, even...

My casts haven’t been expansive enough for listing all the characters to be necessary, but if I ever wrote anything so epic in scale, I wouldn’t have an issue with a dramatis personae. I’d probably stick it in the back, though. That’s where I’ve seen most of them.

@Banespawn covered most of what I would’ve said, so all I’ll add is… 1) Powerful, vivid verbs really enhance action scenes. Slam, smash, crash, shred, ram, shatter, etc. Since economy of words is so critical to maintaining the flow of an action scene anyway, you want to verbs that capture...

I’m similar, except it’s novelettes for me.

I picked up Bannerlord and War Sails in a holiday sale, and although I’ve only been playing for week so far, I’ve had a blast. Over the last week, I’ve also learned Vlandian cavalry are terrorists😭

Our forecast out of this massive storm called for an awful lot of snow (10-14”), but sleet unexpectedly cut into those totals, so we ended up getting the worst of both worlds: considerable snow (7-9”) with a fair amount of sleet mixed in. Not gonna be fun to shovel! And it really needs to be...

Yeah, that’s been my plan so far: use the core conflict to stick the main characters to each other and harness their efforts to deal with it to bring them closer and closer. Though it’s a lot to fit into no more than 25k words. I suppose certain tropes or premises may lend themselves to the...

I’d say plot complexity is definitely bundled in there. The ideas I’ve been entertaining for this specific call are straightforward. Just the core romance and the external conflict that serves as adhesion. Small and focused in scope. Even so, I can’t help but feel they’re going to push the...

Recently, I came across a very intriguing call for novella submissions, and as I rolled around ideas for one, I consistently ran into the same issue: there’s a very delicate balance between an idea with enough complexity to become a novella and one at risk of crossing into short novel territory...

14-day form rejection from Bothered Stories, which makes it my first of the year.

Just started “Stardock” in Fritz Leiber’s Swords Against Wizardry.

My first playthrough was a paladin. What a blast he was! Hard to hit, harder to kill, and he was an incredible healer thanks to Oath of the Ancients. In the fight at he must’ve been surrounded by over half a dozen enemies and never took more than a scratch over three or four turns. The...

My last submission went out yesterday, and I doubt an answer is coming in the next few hours, so my numbers for the year should be finalized: 26 total submissions 15 Rejections (3 Personal, 1 Rewrite Request) 10 Acceptances (3 short stories, 6 drabbles, 1 poem) Five of the drabbles were for...