Happiness is...

Contracts and a check.

*dies of happy*

I need a dancing frog icon.

A year in review

I was going to wait till the actual anniversary of my first sub, but in celebration of contracts I'll post it today.

I submitted my first short story, "The Violet Hour", on August 13, 2004. It's collected four rejections and is out again now.

I've subbed 4 short stories and 3 flash pieces in past 12 months. One sold, and one's been trunked for restructuring. I have 2 more completed shorts waiting on crits and revisions now, and half a dozen incomplete stories waiting on some oomph to get them finished.

It looks like a sad little number, but 13 months ago I thought I might never write a short story again. (I had written some for creative writing classes, and they were painful and bad.)

Whee! I need more stories. And I need to finish this damn novel so I can add some agents subs & rejections to my stylish sub-tracking spreadsheet.

Excelsior!