Outcast cover

I've been allowed to show you the cover to the Outcast antho.
I love it (especially the full version, with more of the plain)- it conveys a sense of loneliness while obviously implying spec fic. Tell me what you think.

Seedy Rom

I thought I'd tinker with something different so I've just finished Street Smarts, a 1500 word Romero Zombie number. It's very hard to write a Rom Zom and get it fresh enough to be accepted anywhere, so I saw it as a bit of a challenge. I haven't read much of the genre so anything I come up with has probably been done to death, but I'll see. I've just put it up for crit.

I'm also getting things moving on my novel again. The planets realigned and it's moving.

It's now submission season again. I have at least 4 stories ready to go out. Fly, my pretties!

Ups and doubts

Pardon Me, Coming Through was just rejected. They said it was well written, but thought it was an alternate history! This in spite of so many words about parallel dimensions. Oh well, I'll try and beat the reader over the head a little more.

I'm also getting frustrated with writing humour. It's far more subjective than say, drama. What leaves one person rolling on the floor merely raises the nose of another. If your work goes through one crit group, then another, then a slush reader, then an editor, then their assistant, and EVERY ONE of them gives you a kill list of the jokes they don't like, what's gonna be left at the end? How on earth did The Colour of Magic ever get published?

Things are also hotting up with Outcast. They just requested my bio, contracts will follow soon and in a week or so they'll be unleashing the awesome cover artwork. I'll add it here as soon as I'm allowed.