This summer I took a break from the boring admin tasks of keeping 35+ short stories in circulation by letting them lay fallow after coming back with rejection slips to focus my time on revising my first novel. My tracking spreadsheet turned red over the last three months. Only a few recent short stories that have garnered positive feedback from editors were kept in circulation. All the rest I didn’t bother with when they came back.

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If you haven’t noticed yet, it’s back to school season. This is the perfect time for struggling writers to pick up some office supplies on the cheap. Last week OfficeMax sent me a grocery bag with a 20% off for everything inside. I braved the horde of back to school zombies roaming the aisles to pick up items that aren’t normally on sale: a box of 9×12 kraft envelopes (50-count), a 9x12x3 cardboard mailer box, Sharpie markers (four pack), and clear packing tape. All the stuff I need to get my snail mail submissions back into circulation after taking the summer off from boring admin tasks to focus on revising my first novel.

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The biggest question I get from readers (okay, only one person asked): where can I find your short stories?

You can check out the credits page and track down where I been published. Some of those magazines are hard to find or no longer available. Or you can check out the newly added books page, featuring the two anthologies with five of my short stories.

On a related noted, check out the sizzling cover art for the Fem-Fangs anthology (Pill Hill Press / Fall 2010) that's coming out soon with my short story, "Dead Enders".