Reasons For Moving

HCH preorder available

2009-08-19T02:01:04Z

I haven't written in my writing blog since May? Holy crepes. Anyway... Harlan County Horrors is available for preorder. If you spread that fact, you can win some cool Harlan County stuff, like a copy of the excellent documentary "Harlan County U...

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What's wrong with me?

2009-05-16T20:51:18Z

Well, you want it alphabetically or in order of importance? Specifically, this is how it is: I was just making a spreadsheet to help me keep track of my WS queries. I sent what I thought were "a bunch" on Sunday. Turns out I sent six. But I put ...

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Harlan County Horrors available for preorder

2009-05-13T13:43:14Z

Source Harlan County Horrors is a regional based horror anthology edited by Apex Magazine submissions editor Mari Adkins. It will feature stories by Alethea Kontis, Debbie Kuhn, Earl Dean, Geoffrey Girard, Jason Sizemore, Jeremy Shipp, Maurice Br...

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WS Word Cloud

2009-05-01T20:36:46Z

I made a Wordle of the whole WS ms. Vox doesn't like HTML markup so I have to link.

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Genesis

2009-04-20T15:59:40Z

People have asked me a lot over the last couple of months if I'm nervous or anxious about the contest. Sometimes I have gotten anxious. Right now I'm trying to channel that anxiety into reading mss for friends and working on Nine. If you think ab...

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Publisher's Weekly review is in

2009-04-18T16:27:50Z

The Publisher's Weekly review of my novel (not just the excerpt) has been posted: From Publishers Weekly Every town has skeletons lining its closets, and Blooming Tree, Ga., is no exception. Set in the 1930s, this novel examines the dark past pur...

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Soundtrack of their lives

2009-04-17T03:03:03Z

People talk about having playlists while they write or songs that make a soundtrack of a certain book. WS doesn't have a soundtrack. I used a lot of classical music while I wrote WS b/c I like to use period music and when I wrote the early drafts,...

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Teaser Tuesday excerpt

2009-04-15T19:48:38Z

Today's Teaser Tuesday excerpt is from "Inheritance," the short story that's being published in the upcoming anthology Harlan County Horrors. This is the opening: The kitchen reeked of lilies and Jania's diaper. I scrubbed Becca's lasagna pan w...

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Semi-finalist

2009-04-15T13:49:48Z

I'm an ABNA semi-finalist! I think that warrants an exclamation point.

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Five mss I would want to get samples of

2009-04-14T03:49:02Z

Well I didn't properly participate in Nathan Bransford's "Agent For A Day" but these are the ones I would request: #10 #20 #33 #36 #48 *rereads rules* Actually I guess I have a week to reply to everyone. Most would be getting a standard rejecti...

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