Publishing news~! :D

I'm going to have a 20,000 word e-novella published in May 2011!!

It's a science fiction story called "The Space Station Murders."

Here is my 'tag:'

An ex-cop on a space station struggles to overcome alcoholism and the death of his partner. Against his better judgement, he befriends a station newbie, and the two begin to investigate the murder of their fellow homeless space station residents.


I'm being published with Muse It Up Publishing, an upcoming epublisher. I never thought my story would be accepted.

Here is my author page.

ch-ch-ch-changes...

I have not posted here in so long. Sooooo long...

Well, I have some good news, but I'm going to put that in a separate post.

I could promise I will start updating more regularly. I hope I will, but I'm not positive.

I have, however, updated my web page with my writing credits. I think it looks much nicer this way.

http://sites.google.com/site/aliceroelke/home

And in sad news, Ray Gun Revival is going to be briefly closing its doors, and then reopening at a new address, as a non-paying market. :(

NaNo

Well, I did it. I wrote over 100,000 words in one month.
And not one word of it is going to be submitted to a
publisher. Anyway, that's the plan. :)

I'm glad to have my hobby back. Trying to make writing
pay seemed to add too much stress. For now, I am
just glad to have my hobby back.

Will I never submit a story again? Of course I will! I
just need to find new ways to think about it, so I don't
stress over editors and editing and submitting and
trying to make money at this thing I happen to love doing.

Now if I can just get the site to validate what I wrote...
Then again, it probably shouldn't matter. I know I did it.
That's all that should matter.

NaNo '09

Well, I signed up for NaNoWriMo this year--my first year ever. :) I'm a
Rebel--which means I'm not writing on one long project this month.
Basically I'm going to write 50,000 words of whatever. I'm hoping to get
some work done on a stalled novel (or two?), though.

I'm excited about this, and I think it will be good for my writing. :)

I suppose I should be doing that now, instead of blogging!

*Peace*
~Alice~

trying to get back to work

Today I started editing on my YA Christian fantasy novel. I just did a
little bit. It was pretty hard, but at least I got started!!

I've also done some writing recently. Nothing on my 'important' stories.
They will have to wait until I am feeling a little more confident. But
it's been nice to do some writing, nonetheless.

I recently edited a short story of mine. It needs a little more work,
and then I have to find a market for it--somewhere that publishes sci-fi,
and preferably not Ray Gun Revival. I've sent too many stories there
recently, probably because I'm so comfortable there.

Writing Updates

I've received two acceptances since I last wrote. My story "Sky Voices" will appear (eventually) in Ray Gun Revival. My story "Phoenix" will appear (eventually) in Mindflights.

I've also had a novel turned down. That threw me for a loop and I haven't been doing a lot of writing things right now. To be honest, I don't think I'd care very much if I never had to look at that novel again. Yeah. I got pretty burnt out working on it, and then it wasn't even worth it. There's more to the story than that, my usual angsty stuff. I'm not going into it.

I'm just starting to get involved in a little writing, and a little editing again. It's hard to muster much enthusiasm right now. But a good thing can come from this, I hope. Maybe I will stop writing and editing with a view of pleasing others, and just try to get my stories to please myself--at least for now.

Story Published

My short story, "The Literary Hollow," has been accepted at Ethereal
Tales, http://www.etherealtales.co.uk/.

If you go there, and click on "Sneaky Peeks," you can read the first few
words of it. It will be in the third magazine issue, the one coming out
this month.

It is pleasant to have a story published in a British magazine. I will
receive a free copy of the magazine as payment, and I'm looking forward
to checking it out. :)

~Alice~
http://aliceroelke.googlepages.com/home