Wednesday's Writing Update

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

Don't forget about the giveaways I'm having. You have a chance to win Nicole Zoltack's Woman of Honor and other prizes here and Aubrie Dionne's Nebula's Music here.

My short story "Soul Drinker" is featured on Raven and the Writing Desk today. Our theme this month is renewal.

Since April has come and gone, I have my stats. Here they are:
Submissions: 1
Rejections: 0
Acceptances: 0
Stories Written: 2
Total Word Count: 14,861
Submissions Still Out There: 4 

I received my first May rejection for "Sweet Vengeance." I plan to submit it to a contest in the next few weeks.

I submitted "Mage Game" to Sword & Sorceress XXVI yesterday. I think it might've been short listed because a few hours later I got an email saying that they were holding it for further consideration (last year the only email I got back from them was a rejection). I'm really trying not to get my hopes up because I know that market is nearly impossible to get into, though.

I'm behind on Virtuoso rewrites and edits. *sighs* I hope to get back to them at least by next week.

I have my first editing assignment as a Hazard Editing freelance editor. I already started working on it, and it's a good read.

I have some short stories to write and some other things here and there.

We're about to start our summer schedule at the library, so I'm looking forward to having weekends off and getting home between 5:30-6:30 most nights. Downside means I have to get up earlier, but it shouldn't be too bad. I hope to get a chance to get more writing done in the evenings. *crosses fingers*

So what is everyone else doing? How is writing going for you?

100th Post and an Award

This is my 100th post on blogger. It's hard to believe that there have already been one hundred posts already. It seems like just yesterday that I decided to create this blog.

To add to the celebration, I received an award.

Aubrie of Flutey Words gave me this award I've been coveting ever since I saw it appear on the blogosphere.

The rules are as follows:

Five recipients that totally get who I am.
Make up something about the people you give the award to.
Link to the people you give it to.
Link back to the original award post here.

I think several of my fellow blogger followers have already received this reward, so I'm going to make up some things about a few that I've enjoyed following. If you haven't received the award before, and I mention you, then please claim it.

Aubrie is really a fairy princess from the land of Flutestown. No one plays the flute sweeter in that land than she.

Lisa Rusczyk secretly has hundreds of cats that no one knows about.

Christine Rains is expecting her first child, a beautiful werewolf baby.

Angie Lofthouse's writing chair doubles as a magical flying machine that takes her on adventures to worlds unknown.

Crysa hunts down zombies and puts them back in their place.


In writing news, I submitted "Soul Drinker" to The Way of the Wizard anthology. I have six submissions out there. I should be hearing back fairly soon (within the next month) for several of them. I plan to work on a whodunnit mystery short story for Pill Hill Press's Halloween Whodunnit. The story I'm planning takes place in Victorian England and will feature my detective Liam O'Hare from "The Case of the Tom Cat." The title so far is "The Harlequin's Last Laugh."

Well, I must be going. I have just a couple more minutes left at work.