Go look! *pokes you to it*

http://www.thewriterseye.com/thewriterseye_fiction_003_1.html

On the Premises picked 10 winners this contest for their theme, "Goodbye to all that." I know because I wasn't one of them. =3  That's one of the first rejections I've gotten where I actually feel kind of disappointed. I really like the quality of the stories featured on that website, and I was hoping they'd feel my writing was on the same level. According to their email however, they got a record 166 entries. I can only hope they didn't pick me because they had to stop at 10 winners. I still think the story I sent them is pretty good, so I'll run it through Critique Circle a couple more times and send it off to someone else. Maybe an Anthology. Hmm.

On the bright side, "All Keyed Up" will be published in the March addition of The Writer's Eye magazine, and I've been asked to speak in a class at Moorpark College on how to get published. Not bad eh? I'll post the link to the story when its available.

Happy belated New Year everyone! I hope 2008 is shaping into as good a year for you as it is for me. On January 2^nd, I got an email from Sniplits accepting Dragon Psychology. I'm thrilled to be one of their authors, and I can't wait for it to be available to the public. As soon as it is I will post a link for everyone.

Looking back over my posts this last year, I'm amazed at the progress I've made. I've gone from an unpublished author with no plans for the future accept to finish some of the manuscripts I'd started, to a published author with a fairly bright future.

I still use too many adjectives. I still whine about getting rejections. I suppose you can't have everything, right?

I'm hoping this year to top my accomplishments last year however. Since last year I succeeded in meeting, and indeed overshot my publication goal, I have decided to shoot for an even loftier goal this year. Since I am effectively trapped in the role of a fulltime student, I am hoping to try and pay for my move to Washington State in November of this year with my writing.

It's impossible. I am aware of that. I am still going to try. The worst thing that can happen is that I fail. Wish me luck everyone. :)