A Change of Plan: Publication and Site News for March and April

Work is in full swing at the moment, life is hectic, and my father died in January, so I’ve not had much time for writing, blogging or posting on boards.

What news I’ve had isn’t exactly great, either. The Cripple and the Brollachan was rejected by ASIM with no reason given, Ideomancer rejected my story about the Gruagach and the Milkstone with the comment that “it felt a bit too much like many other regional horror pieces we were receiving at that time” and Abyss and Apex rejected Fresh Blood and Feathers, saying that although it was well received it still wasn’t good enough and I needed to cut the intro. So, other than two in Bewlidering Stories, and a couple of pending submissions at Aurealis, I got nothin.’

This is somewhat depressing, seeing as I had elected to write this type of tale as a safe introduction to publishing, to build up my profile, rather than going for some of the more avant-garde stuff in my arsenal. It would see, from the last year that the stories l’m doing are not very marketable. Now, I might be stubborn, but I;m not a purist, so it seems top me that  change of plan is in order. I’m going to work up some rewrites of existing tales in a shorter simpler style, with child characters. This will probably take me the better part of the year to do.

I’ll keep going with the blog in the meantime, although I’m still short the post for April, having only just done March.

Down but not out,

S.