Straight Up Witches!

Completely forgot to mention this in the previous post. Mottephobia, my first published short from earlier this year, has been collected and released in the first issue of the e-book anthology, Stories in the Ether. Be a cool guy (or gal) and buy a copy. (And yes, I realize that the title of my story is [...]

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My how time flies. A lot has happened since my last update. I quit a job that was causing me immense amounts of stress, started a new job that is amazing and stress-free, we sold our house back in Ohio, moved into a new house, my second daughter was born, and I turned 29. *whew* [...]

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I’m still alive. The beard is still growing strong. Progress on the book halted for a while but I’m feeling good about it again and back to writing.

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Okay, folks. It’s one o’clock on Saturday morning which means the contest is over. We had seven entries and, as promised, three of them will be receiving a copy of Cate Gardner’s excellent short story collection, Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits. (If you didn’t win, don’t fret, go buy yourself a copy. Right now. I’ll [...]

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Mottephobia, the little piece of flash fiction I wrote earlier this month has been accepted for publication in the Nevermet Press anthology, “Stories in the Ether, Volume 1″. I’ve revised it and added about 160 words while staying under my original goal of 1,000. The new version will appear on their website April 1st, 2011 [...]

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I recently picked up Cate Gardner’s short story collection, Strange Men in Pinstripe Suits, for my Kindle. I’m really enjoying it so far. Because I picked it up during e-book week, I ended up winning a copy of Space and Time with Cate’s story, “Flying Dutchman”, in it as well as a $10 Amazon gift [...]

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10/17/2011 Update: This story is now collected in the first issue of the Stories in the Ether anthology, now available for your Kindle. 3/31/2011 Update: The revised draft is up a day early and it’s got a great little illustration to go along with it. Go read it! 3/22/2011 Update: I have written a revised [...]

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I sent a new short story (“A House Divided”) out into the world this week. As an unpublished writer it’s always scary to let one of your babies leave home. Of course, about two minutes after I sent it I was informed of a minor but critical tense error. There’s just no winning, is there? [...]

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What’s in a name? (Or, why is this blog called Straight Up Witches?) I’ve been struggling to name my work-in-progress for the last three years. I have a working title but it’s rather ridiculous to call it a working title when it simply isn’t working. I was discussing possible titles with my wife and she [...]

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On February 13th, 2008 I wrote the opening line to a short story: “Greg drew the short straw.” Over the last few years those 5 simple words turned into 50,000 and counting. Before I knew it, I was writing my first novel. It’s been a long road and I’ve gotten lost a few times but [...]

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