• After You Press “Send”

    As an author of absolutely no repute whatsoever, I have a tendency to send out stories I have written to editors, agents, even magazines in an attempt to try and get published, or at the very least get representation.  There comes a time when the writing of a particular article or story is finished (at…

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  • Starting Up Again

    Well, here we are again.  I’m back to blogging, this time on my website, rather than my older blog.  I’ve been away for a couple of years trying to get my science fiction books published, and the first book, titled Explorer, should be out later in 2023 or early 2024.  (See the Explorer page on…

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  • Where Do All The Writers Go?

    I’ve been an aspiring writer of fiction (largely science fiction novels) for over twenty years now, and have yet to publish a book-length work.  I have published a few short works, including one poem (free style), but nothing—short or long form—to a paying market.  Not a particularly auspicious beginning to a writing career, especially when…

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  • Fees–Great And Small

    Over the past several months (late 2017 and early 2018), I’ve sent out several short stories to literary magazines around the country.  Some submissions were simply in consideration for publication, while others were to enter contests.  I’ve even scanned the submission requirements of other magazines to which I did not submit.  (For any one of…

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  • Good Enough To Be Published

    Over the past eighteen years, I’ve written three science fiction novels, each about 125,000 words.  That’s just the word count of each of the manuscripts as they exist today, and doesn’t take into account all the re-writing and revisions I’ve made over the years, especially to the first.  The total number of different words I’ve put into…

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  • Being Read

    Recently I read an interview of the literary agent Jennifer Joel in the March/April 2015 issue of Poets & Writers magazine, and she made an astute comment which caught my eye.  I thought about it for a few days and realized she was right. The interviewer, Michael Szczerban, asked her, “What would you love for writers to…

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