Hello, everybody! I hope everyone had a great fourth! I know it’s been a little while since I updated. I’ve been busy editing and reworking parts of Molon Labe, which will eventually become my fourth published novel (Either ‘A Once Distant Memory’ or ‘A Kiss After Dying’ will become my third. I am not sure which one yet. Kiss is done, but I have submitted it to several places that publish novellas. A Once Distant Memory needs a total rewrite). In addition, I have been writing articles for the Incidental Inkblot, and trying to get some essays published with the big literary publishers.

All too often, we indie authors live in our own little world of self-publishing. While it may do well for some, we do not have the opportunity to reach a wider audience by doing this. When we submit stories to anthologies, submit essays to magazines, conduct book reviews, or even comment on other people’s blogs, we are, in a sense, raising our visibility. While writing fiction is fun, and publishing on Amazon feels great, we cannot neglect that there are other outlets out there where we can submit our work. Neither can we forget the art of the short story. Too many indie authors are pushing short stories aside in favor of longer works because people typically will not pay .99 cents for a short story (they’ll pay three bucks on a coffee, but I digress). It’s time to bring back the short story; I am going to be editing a few more chapters of Molon Labe this week (the novel broke 160k last week) and then editing two of my older stories, That Hideous Strength, and Long as I Can See the Light.