Almost seven full months into 2014 and I've amassed over 170,000 words thus far. roughly 130,000 of those are newly written, while just under 40,000 of those are heavily revised words that bloomed into new stories and scripts that have been making there way into the ether. As a result, I have a new story that will be available shortly.
Though, to be honest, this story isn't one that came from those 170K. It's a story I actually sold two years back, but before it saw publication or I saw payment, the publisher fell afoul of economic woes that I do not envy. And the project has sat on the back burner since. But that acceptance proved to me that this bit of flash fiction was worthwhile, if I could just find the correct venue.
Which I did.
I landed in L.A. with my oldest son and his friend a bit over a week ago. And we filled three days with sightseeing and picture-taking and exploring. It was amazing. But that first night, once we arrived at our hotel (post-Venice Beach), I opened my email to find that my story, "I Gotta Get Outta Here," had been accepted for the second issue of a new literary anthology from the UK, Firewords Quarterly. This is very exciting. It will be my second prose story to see print (third overall, as the first story I sold was for an online anthology), and the issue should be available - in print and digital formats - in roughly two weeks. I'll drop a line here, when it becomes available for purchase.
-chris
Though, to be honest, this story isn't one that came from those 170K. It's a story I actually sold two years back, but before it saw publication or I saw payment, the publisher fell afoul of economic woes that I do not envy. And the project has sat on the back burner since. But that acceptance proved to me that this bit of flash fiction was worthwhile, if I could just find the correct venue.
Which I did.
I landed in L.A. with my oldest son and his friend a bit over a week ago. And we filled three days with sightseeing and picture-taking and exploring. It was amazing. But that first night, once we arrived at our hotel (post-Venice Beach), I opened my email to find that my story, "I Gotta Get Outta Here," had been accepted for the second issue of a new literary anthology from the UK, Firewords Quarterly. This is very exciting. It will be my second prose story to see print (third overall, as the first story I sold was for an online anthology), and the issue should be available - in print and digital formats - in roughly two weeks. I'll drop a line here, when it becomes available for purchase.
-chris
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