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Restless Spirits-An Hourlings Anthology is available now and includes a new short story from me. Several other authors from the Hourlings included short stories related to ghosts in one way or another.
Yesterday (6/29/15), I submitted my short story, Fearful Actions, to S & H Publishing‘s upcoming anthology. Its theme is Spies and Heroes.
I’m an author living in northern Virginia with a wife and a cat. In the late ’80s, I worked on the International Space Station project. I recently retired from managing a group of software engineers to focus on writing science fiction and speculative fiction. Learn more.
Lately, I’ve been doing several different writing activities. I’m planning to attend the annual Pennwriter’s conference in Pittsburgh in the middle of May. There’s the logistics of travel, hotel reservations, and picking the talks. With this conference, though, opportunities abound, such as pitching a novel to agents. I’m reading (more like studying) Shifting Mars’ Sands, and preparing an elevator pitch as well as being able to discuss it in detail when I hook an agent. (Yeah, I used “when,” not “if.”)
Also, I’ve been critiquing pieces for my Saturday writers’ group. The pieces range from obvious first drafts to fairly polished drafts. I see a variety of issues. Some are overwritten, providing description of the ordinary, yet ignoring details to further understanding. Others exhibit structural issues from a vague protagonist story goal to extraneous scenes detailing secondary character background that dubiously relates to the story. Still others, plod along, seemingly not advancing the plot or advancing it at a snail’s pace.
I’m an author living in northern Virginia with a wife and a cat. In the late ’80s, I worked on the International Space Station project. I recently retired from managing a group of software engineers to focus on writing science fiction and speculative fiction. Learn more.
Today, I received good news. My short story entitled The Shape of Things to Come has been accepted for publication by Freedom Forge Press in the upcoming anthology. I’m waiting on the contract, but it looks like this is a done deal. I’m excited beyond words! GeorgeI’m an author living in northern Virginia with a … Read more
… or when I read “Two Birds with One Stone” at the writers’ group. In this earlier blog post, I posted my story, Two Birds with One Stone, that wrote for a writers’ prompt for the Round Hill Writers’ Group. If you haven’t read it, please read it now; you’ll understand the rest of this … Read more
I wrote the following short story for the Round Hill Writers’ Group in December, 2011. It was in response to a writing prompt to tell a story based on an idiom. At the group, everyone reads his or her story aloud, so I like to keep mine short, 1000 words or less. I also try … Read more
In August, 2011, one of the writers’ groups I belong to, The Round Hill Writers’ Group, set a writing prompt: Tell a story about a paperboy. I had just started attending the meetings, so I wanted to write the story, but I had nothing. Seriously, nothing! I like to write speculative fiction/science fiction, and I … Read more