With so many distractions, what with getting settled into a new home in a new country (Germany), I knew that my writing would slow down. Add my usual angst and it's a recipe for slow writing progress.
Recognizing this, I set myself a modest goal of writing ten science-fiction drabbles for First Contact, an unpaid anthology submission call from Starry Eyed Press, a co-owned by an old writer friend* of mine, Anja Schӧn, aka A.S. Charly
[*We have met only online, but share credits in at least THIRTY of the same anthologies].
Happily, I finished the ten drabbles (one of them co-credited to Tom Jolly, for improving the dialogue, and all of them were accepted for publication.) The submission call closes November 15th, and the anthology should come out in "probably Spring 2025".
It doesn't count as a writing progress, though it is news: my author interview for Inner Circle Writers' Magazine should be published in the near future. It will feature answers to assorted interview questions about my writing and my life, laid out between with lots of photographs of me. This was not one of them:
