Just when I had the gall to call March a busy month…
I kid, things aren’t that bad. There’s just heaps shovelled on the plate at once, and it’s becoming harder and harder to shovel it back off again. I have been preparing my submission for the second-last piece of coursework for my Master’s in Creative Writing, which has taken a lot of my writing time. In the background, I am inhaling books of all sorts, though. In the past few weeks, I have finished Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany, Solar Lottery by Philip K. Dick, most of Tuf Voyaging by George R.R Martin, and am working my way through Star Wars Aftermath by Chuck Wendig, as well as Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury.
Now that all that is off my chest, here’s where some shameless self promotion comes in: I had a piece published on Spillwords called The Intimacy Protocol, a tale very much inspired by the short stories of PKD, about a woman who returns home to find a strange woman living in her house with her husband. The story is under the ‘Short Fiction’ segment of this site, or you can read it here.
I also received news that one of my stories, The Waiting Game, was accepted by Neon Sunrise Publishing for their upcoming sci-fi anthology Dead Signals// Lost Transmissions. In preparation for this, they are starting a Kickstarter campaign on 12th April 2022, but more info will surface on Instagram towards the time. I’m counting down the weeks.
What I’ve been working on in the background: this has mostly been novel prep, background lore and scene work for my novel Trials of the Arborist. I’ll share some details when the time is right, but I won’t jinx anything just yet. I’ve shared aesthetic boards on Instagram in the last two months, so you can find them if you want to see what my mind has been digging around since. I have also been working on adapting a short story I wrote for my coursework, a story called Broken Crackers on a Service Station Table, but again, more details to come.
Thanks again for stopping by, and take care.