Wow, another acceptance!

I am so pleased to learn that Fiction 365 will be publishing Not For Sale! I really like that story, but once again, it's another romance gone wayyyy wrong. No date for publication has yet been assigned.

I do have to tell the Mister not to worry, though! I do have a couple of non-grim romances on My Slush Mountain; one is currently up in the Harlequin "So You Think You Can Write" contest, and the other is a kind of experimental piece--Midwestern Gothic. Don't let the genre fool you, it's definitely about a relationship, and no spooks enter into the process. I hope I can find it a home!

East Side Gloam

East Side Gloam has finally found a home. It's a little experimental story, in that there is a whole story within the vignette, but it requires the experience of the reader to be able to complete it--you have to know what it is to be in that situation. It was a little hard to find it a home because there are few markets for such a piece. The folks at Postcard Shorts are great!

Read it here!

Yay!

I got an email from Smashed Cat Magazine today; the piece I submitted yesterday, Your Own Best Friend, was accepted and will be published 5/22/2012! It's an experimental piece. I like it a lot, but when I finished it, I wasn't sure it would find a home. Glad to be wrong!

After a long string of no luck...

I have a flash piece with a direct-to-web press: Penitentiary. I am so pleased!

I want to be a teller of romantic tales, but so far, the only things that have been accepted are the ones that tell the darker sides. I suppose that's okay. Getting the darker side published is better than getting no side published. :-)