Saturday 4 June 2011

Merry Month of May

I'm back from a week in North Cornwall. What a lovely part of the world. I've been inspired. No doubt my next batch of stories will be set in the West Country. We had pasties in Jamaica Inn. 

I particularly liked Bodmin Moor, visiting the  Hurlers stone circles and the granite tor, the Cheesewring.

In writing news I had a merry month. I made two professional sales, a story to Odyssey and a poem to Enchanted Conversation. Enchanted Conversation opens for Cinderella submissions June 27-June 30.
 I made sales to Eschatology and Sounds of the Night, and had a guest blog on Write1 Sub1. I finished Story a Day in May with a total of 36 thousand words (20K is subbed, 16K a bit first drafty).

I was also pleased to be invited to contribute a story to a new publication, The Colored Lens which is edited by my friend Dawn Lloyd.

Wow. I feel tired just writing all this down.

Edited-- Not May news, but exciting news. My Africa/fractals/aliens story has made it into the top ten for the March On the Premises contest.  Keep your fingers crossed for me

14 comments:

  1. Tremendous! And I'm glad to hear you enjoyed your vacation(?)!

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  2. Hey, I just received a warm rejection from The Colored Lens this morning; I'll be submitting again to them in the near future. And your W1S1 post was superb. Oh, and CONGRATS on your merry month!

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  3. A very merry month indeed, Debs. 36K in wordage is very impressive. What do you attribute your increased output this month to?

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  4. Hey Joe, and thanks. And Cornwall was great.

    Milo, keep on trying The Colored Lens, it looks good.

    Hello Sam, I did Story-a-Day in May challene. But the real reason my word count was up was because I counted everything. Usually I just count subbed fiction, which came in at 20K. That's a good month word count, but not unheard of for me. (I write for around 5 hours a day). It was a good exeperience becuase it told me that I'm probally workin at my maximum output.

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  5. Excellent month, Deborah. And two pro sales no less. :D

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  6. Congratulations on the writing!

    And lucky you, I've never seen the Hurlers, although I'd like too. One day, maybe.

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  7. A great month. Yes, fingers definitely crossed for you!

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  8. Wow, many congrats on your sales -and these pics you posted are great.

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  9. Thanks Cate, and Lydia, you're in Wales aren't you? There's some fine neolithic monuments up your way. The Hurlers were amazing, just stuck in a field with me and the kids playing 'it' around them.

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  10. Thanks Simon, and DU, I just loved the Cheesewring. I nicked this picture from Wiki, but I've got a picture just like it on my camera.

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  11. Amanda, Hi. Thanks for the twitterage about 'Last Contact.' It's so exciting to be TOC buddies with Robert J Sawyer-- and you, of coure.

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  12. Hi

    Yes, I'm in Wales, we do have some wonderful old stones.

    I'll have to see if I can dig out some photos, I know I have a few somewhere.

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  13. Hey Lydia, i love the picture of the neolithic tomb, you posted on your blog.

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