Earlier I mentioned a story being picked up – Our Father’s Eyes – by Cossmass Infinities.  This is now available as a podcast – click here to listen or download.

Been up to my eyes working & writing, mainly due to an idea for a third novel.  Finally gotten most of the plan down, and have a good selection of new short stories to start shopping around as well.

Looking ahead, I’ll probably aim for completing Script Frenzy in April for a new super secret Team Awesome project, then get back to work on draft 2 of Naz.

“Sam was brushing her hair when the girl in the mirror put down the hairbrush, smiled, and said, “We don’t love you anymore.”

Earlier, I mentioned submitting to the BBC Twitter audio book.  This has now been released and is available to listen for free, or to download at their site.

http://bbcaudiobooksamerica.com/

A success for the Team Awesome that is Andy, Nige and myself. At the start of our collaboration, we played around with an excercise from the excellent book “The 3 A.M. Epiphany: Uncommon Writing Exercises That Transform Your Fiction.” The excercise was simple, someone started with a line or two, then someone else carried on the story, until we decided to stop. You’re not allowed to write anything down that night, but start your story the next day. The idea is to see how different the three stories would be even though coming from the same original premise. Your memory and your style would be the major factors in the differences.

Althought my original short, ‘Only Connect’ was a mere thousand words, I liked the strange world we’d come up with between us. A mix of mutants, aliens and prostitution, I knew it could go further. I expanded the story to around four thousand words, and yesterday it was accepted by “Cossmass Infinities” to be released in Jan. I’ll update when it becomes available.

Already a busy month due to writing a fifty thousand word novel, I’ve decided to really push myself and try and get a short story submission in this month, too. There’s actually three that I’d been thinking about due at the end of November. The one that’s most developed is a young adult supernatural story, for the Rebel Books anthology. So, while ‘The Sulphur Diaries’ is almost two days ahead of schedule, I might start thinking about my as yet untitled short.

Four friends who play a lot of co-op lan games find themselves on the wrong side of an apocalypse. Can their finely honed strategies and tactics help them survive, even without extra lives and unlimited ammo?

An oceanographer undertakes a record breaking dive in her bathyscaphe ‘Atlus’, when she runs into trouble.  Down in the depths of the ocean where no-one has ever been before lurks something ancient and ginormous who does not take kindly to her presence.  Actively researched, looking at recent info such as new fossil finds, the bloop and the history of deep sea diving.  This has been great fun to research and write, I know a lot more about bioluminescent fish than I did before, anyway.

I submitted this short story to Pill Hill Press’s ‘The Bitter End: Tales of Nautical Terror’ anthology earlier.  Hopefully find out mid-November.

A woman has just been bitten by a zombie and has locked herself in the cellar as the change occurs.  She writes a note to slip under the door, so that her husband knows what has happened to her.

I submitted this to the ‘“Letters from the Dead” anthology on October 11th and was accepted late last night.

A very heartfelt letter. It will fit perfectly!

I’m extremely happy with this acceptance and it’s helping me focus on a couple more short stories I’d like to finish before NaNoWriMo kicks off next month.

I submitted this to Side Show Fables magazine (www.sideshowfables.com) on the 13th of October.  I’ve just been accepted by them, with some great feedback.

Thanks for sending us your story, “The Many Deaths of Johnny Silver.” I loved this story, and I would like to publish it in Issue #3.

Great work on breaking with form. The interview style worked well, and it really built the myth of Johnny Silver while also giving the reader insight to the colorful characters that make up this circus. Lots of fun to read.

I’m very pleased, I put this through a round of feedback at the Cult workshop, got some great feedback and now it’s been accepted.  A good day!