Finally got around to using my 133t programming Skilz to sex up some of my sites. The header, Story button and the fiction list header were all hand crafted while staying back at work waiting for a slow chugging process to finish.

I just counted the submissions I have out there. There are 6! That's either a sign that I'm getting more productive, or editors are getting slower.

The other day I was at the Infinitas Writers Group. We'd critted a story and nobody else had brought one. I said "that's okay, I have my flash drive with everything I've ever written! I'll just print one from that", and produced a ribbon from around my neck... with nothing on the end of it.

Everything I've written. Gone.

...luckily I'd backed everything up less than a week before, and new crits are always with my group at Authors By Design. Still, somebody out there has all my stories and a few photos of my kids.

Strange comin's and goin's

Since my last post I have:

-Submitted Hot Discs (formerly Hot Pursuit) to ASIM . It's already gone through reading rounds one and two (they have a GREAT slush system) and it's waiting to be picked up by an editor!

-Submitted Girl Power to Strange Horizons Not sure if it's their cup of tea, but we'll see.

-Submitted Street Smarts to an american Undead anthology (the sequel to the one shown on their site).

-Completed the rewriting of Weeding, my entry in this year's flash fic contest at the NSW Writers Centre.

-Finished chapter 1 of the novel (again!)

-Created a flash trailer (movie style) for Outcast, that will appear on the CSFG web site soon. You can see a cut-down version HERE.

In other news:

-It looks like Christian Girard will unsheath his pen for the NSWWC flash fic comp!
-Outcast is now available for pre-order!