It has been so very long since I last posted in here. I’d more or less forgotten about my old live journal account until someone liked some post I did from 2009. So much has changed since the last time I posted ( Read more... )

I joined twitter because I wanted to submit something... anything. I'd been reading up on fiction markets, and some article somewhere mentioned a place called "Thaumatrope ( Read more... )

In august of last year, I performed the wedding ceremony for a couple of my best friends. It was the result of the hot tub and a bottle of wine, and once they convinced me that they weren't joking, I got legally ordained and became a licensed minister ( Read more... )

My brother Phil came home on leave from Iraq on the 14th of this month. Since then, I've had little or no time to do much of anything, other than run around from one little party or get together to the next. I guess I could consider it a vacation, but defining it as a break doesn't keep it from being exhausting ( Read more... )

As much fun as it is to daydream on paper, fiction is not necessarily a good way to make good money, especially not quickly. For every lucky so and so who makes their pile of cash the first time out of the gate, there are thousands of us who struggle just to get into print at all, let alone make enough to pay the bills. Besides, if you do a little ( Read more... )

I got my eye zapped again last week, last Wednesday in fact. It usually takes me a week to recover from this nonsense, and here it is a week later. Today seems a good day to get back in the saddle, and since I haven't updated in a bit, I thought I'd take you, my delightful readership, on today's journey along with me ( Read more... )

There I tweeted again after twitter nagged me. The reason I joined twitter seems to have died away. I swear sometimes it feels like my submissions are poison, guaranteed to ensure that whatever publication I attempt to break into goes under shortly after they reject and/or ignore my work. Just in self-defense, I'd recommend publishing me before it' ( Read more... )

Have the beginning of one of my more oddball pieces.
Genre, modern fantasy, with a touch of sci-fi for fun.

Excerpt from the journal of Doctor Ezekiel Watts ( Read more... )

Dancers
By darb42Episode 1: Branch of the Family ( Read more... )

On Saturday, I submitted a story. It was for this call for submissions. You'd think I'd have learned better by now, but I got in a hurry and messed things up ( Read more... )