I listed the totals of what I published over here. Under the cut is the expanded list of everything I published, with links. One of the things I learned while putting together the list: I didn’t blog about at least three of the things I published this year. For example, I never posted about the […]
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I didn’t really write today. Maybe only 1500 words. I needed a break, after writing so hard and fast. I’ll still finish this chapter up tomorrow, and maybe do one more before the end of the year. I went back and looked at my stated writing/publishing goals for 2012. I did most of what I
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Yesterday, I wrote a lot of words. Really. A lot. By the time I finished, I realized I had two chapters worth of material, not one. Approximately 4800 words. Today, I typed up both chapters. They ended up being about 7000 words. (As part of my process, I always hand write everything first. But there
I sold my short story “Sisters” to the Fiction River: Unnatural Worlds anthology. “Sisters” is a story set in T’ang dynasty China, about a little girl who wants to honor her sister. Fiction River, as you may or may not know, started as a Kickstarter project. Here’s a blurb about the project, and the first
I have this week off from the day job, and that’s been oh-so-lovely. This morning, I slept until I woke up, around 10:30. Boy, was that nice. But I’ve also been writing. I’ve finished the first two chapters of the new novel, about 7000 words (7525 words, actually.) These chapters are turning out to be
It’s time for those retrospective things. I figured I’d start with some publishing numbers. Numbers of books sold and monies won’t be available for quite some time. This was a good year for Knotted Road Press, my publishing company. Here are my year end numbers: 11 POD 12 short stories 3 collections 3 novels Total
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Remember that whole plan I had about writing a short story a week until the end of the year? Then life happened. I got really sick for 2+ weeks. The third week, I was recovering, but I couldn’t find any enthusiasm for any of the short stories I’d kind of been thinking about. I figured
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I realized that I had been planning on posting about these, but due to illness, didn’t. The Raven and the Dancing Tiger is available as a paperback. Postcards From Hell is available as a paperback. Walking Gods is available as a paperback. The first one is a novel. The last two are individual short stories
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My brand new, historic fantasy story, “The Tortoise and the Maiden” is available for free for the next week. It’s also available at all the usual locations. The blurb: Bing Yu meets a magical tortoise at the village well. He gives her good advice and helps her mother. But her father needs help too. As
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The short story collection, “Beyond the Garden” is now available as a paperback! I put this collection together and did the majority of the work during Thanksgiving. Today the final proof arrived. It’s such a pretty book. And I’m thrilled with this new age of publishing, when I can produce such a thing. As for
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