This month I’m working on anthologies. There are at least ten sci-fi anthologies due in February or early March. I might not have time to submit a story to each of them, but I’m going to give it the old college try.
I’ve completed a mis-mashed fairy tale for “Upon a Once Time” (and need to do a second one for “Upon a Twice Time,” which just opened with the same deadline as the first). I’m about halfway through a story for “Triangulation: Habitats” about the velyr home world city-planet. And I have the bones of a story for the Triangle Sisters in Crime anthology, “Rock & Roll & Ruin.” There will be velyr involved.
After that, I’m looking at “The Wild Hunt,” “Arabian Nights,” “Into the Queer New Yonder,” “It Gets Even Better,” and maybe a collaboration for “Joining Forces.” I might need another shipment of maple candy to get everything done … and a helluva lot of Flat Whites.
What else am I working on? Would you believe a couple of Amish Romance plot lines? The publisher liked two of my plots so much she wants me to expand each of them into a series using the same main characters. I’m not a great romance plotter but I’m having fun trying to come up with realistic plots that aren’t too similar to what’s already out there on the market. I don’t actually write the books — they have a ghost writer for that — I just come up with the plot outline.
I’ve also got another gig copywriting for a blog. That’s always educational because I never know what I’m going to be writing about. It pays better than the romance plots but I have to do more research, so it evens out. If I manage to find another legitimate day job, though, one or both of the copywriting gigs may have to go. I need to concentrate on my own fiction, after all.
Here’s hoping I can get into some of these anthologies and get my name out there on the marketplace. Keep your fingers crossed!
