In case you’re interested, here’s a list of everything that’s currently out for consideration, as of 1pm today, 4/12/16.
- SF = Science Fiction
- F = Fantasy
- H = Horror
- G = General Fiction (non-genre)
I also included a little preview of what the story is about. Sort of.
NOVELS (over 60,000 words):
- After the Apocalypse (F, superheroes)
NOVELETTES (over 10,000 words):
- “Faded Glory” (G, mistakes)
- “Memories of My Father” (SF, brains)
SHORT STORIES (over 2000 words):
- “A Breath of Freedom” (SF, cannibalism)
- “Committed to Memory” (SF, architecture)
- “Dire Diuretics” (F, your mom)
- “Dreaming of Suzanne” (H, ghosts)
- “Fifteen Years of Favor” (SF, social media)
- “Morning Commute” (SF, travel)
- “Oubliette” (F, holes)
- “Red Star” (F, buses)
- “The Cessation of Pain” (H/G, exotic dancers)
- “The Plumbers and the Princess” (F, pipes)
- “The Wilson Witch Trials” (F, witchcraft)
- “You Don’t Bring Me Flowers” (F, cemeteries)
FLASH FICTION (under 2000 words):
- “Aubade” (SF, reprint, space pirates)
- “Clean Up” (F/H, reprint, vampires)
- “Five Conversations with Lieutenant Mendez” (SF, relationships)
- “New Tricks” (SF, dogs)
- “Playmate” (H, video games)
- “Section 3A” (SF, education)
- “The Birthday Party” (F, parenting)
- “Thoughts and Prayers” (SF, apps)
And here’s what’s currently being worked on:
- balls of steel (F/H, invulnerability, untitled)
- cave through a portal (F, survivalists, untitled)
- chief cook and ass-kicker (SF, disease, untitled)
- Coldwater (F, elves)
- creeping cold (H, depression, untitled)
- emperor norton steampunk story (F, steam, untitled)
- from the 800s (H/G, drugs, untitled)
- ghost vs zombie (F/H, zombies, untitled)
- king of anything (G, feminism, untitled)
- lily the witch (F, crystals, untitled)
- love in the time of facebook (G, polyamory, untitled)
- Make Me Smaller (G, spam)
- Maker (F, magic)
- matt’s laser (SF, lasers, untitled)
- mogreet (SF, parasites, untitled)
- Monkeybutt (G, families)
- neurotransmitter brother-sister superheroes (F, PVN, untitled)
- old man singing on the train (F/H, trains, untitled)
- phones rebel against smartwatches (SF/H, watches, untitled)
- “Pickled Jalapenos in a Broken World” (SF, invasion)
- “Ready or Not” (H/G, dissociation)
- “Rendezvous at Blue Valley” (SF, spices)
- “Reunion with Lady Halia” (SF, giantess)
- save point (SF/F, do-overs, untitled)
- second short-story collection (SF/F/H/G, varies, untitled)
- Space Vampires (SF/H, blood)
- star trek actor on space station (SF, elevators, untitled)
- stone circle murder (F, murder, untitled)
- “Surgical” (H, sex)
- “Terms and Conditions” (SF, apple)
- The Book in the Clock (F, books)
- the birthday party, extended version (SF/F, mini-golf, untitled)
- The Day My Grandma Saved the World (SF/F, vacations)
- “The Filter” (SF, elections)
- “The Man Who Evacuated the Planet” (SF, disaster)
- tooth fairy story (F/H, teeth, untitled)
- traitor game/story/novel (G, mansion, untitled)
I didn’t realize I had so many stories in progress. Dang. I wonder if I could parley this into a Patreon thing.