Chapter 10

I've begun Chapter 10 in my third book! It's getting pretty long. I feel like I'm going to end up cutting a lot of material from the beginning that just doesn't move the plot along or raise the action at the pace I need.

Ooligan Press

I've sent in Star Escaper to a publisher called Ooligan Press. It's run by students out of Oregon State University. Seems small enough, so I might have a chance even though they seem to have an emphasis on West Coast Culture. In other news, I'm on Chapter Ten of the third book in The Federation Wars, which I think will be titled Skypin Nine. Oh, yeah, and I entered the Writers Weekly quarterly short story contest. It's been almost a month now, so I expect the winners to be posted soon. Come to think of it, the winners could have already been posted on the site, and I just wasn't notified because I didn't win. I hope not!

DDN Contest

Published! Not a book, not yet, but one of the poems I sent to the Dayton Daily News poetry contest won. It's something to add to my credentials, for sure. In other news, I'm now working on chapter 9 of bk3 of The Federation Wars. It's turning out to be a lot longer first draft than the other two, so I might have to cut a lot of paragraphs when I'm done.

Chapter 7

Oops! I have been working on book 3 for a while, now, but I forgot to keep track of chapter breaks. Anyway, I've put them all in now, and am just starting to draft Chapter 7.

Salvo Press/ DDN Contest

Sent a Query letter for Star Escaper to Salvo Press. I think the turnaround time is two months. Unfortunately, they only publish about three out of 1200 entries recieved each year, which translates to .25% chance of publication. Also, a while back, I sent a couple poems to the Dayton Daily News Writing Contest. It said on the website "winners will be notified on or about June 1." So that's coming up in a couple months as well.

The Federation Wars

"Not a sound echoed through the empty hallway. There was barely any light. Two figures made their way slowly, carefully, stealthily, to the opposite side…
Rand, the first, rounded the corner and froze. A couple of surveillance droids were rolling down the hallway. In a moment they would spot him."
(Self-Copyright Feb. 2008)

The Federaion Wars is a novel series (planned to be a trilogy) that I have been working on. I am currently writing the third chapter of the third book.
I sent it to BoydMillsPress (it was rejected) but now I think that wasn't a good hit. It is a teen-fiction, Science Fiction (I would say space-fantasy, but that isn't a tag on Writers Market now, is it? Speaking of which, I am hopefully going to use the online version now instead of having to make trips to the central library for research on publishers)

Picture

A picture of me will be posted here as soon as I can get my hands on the digital camera.