Friday, January 1, 2016

New Year's Resolutions

I'd like to take a break from my regularly scheduled post (how to make your writing show not tell) to talk about New Year Resolutions. What are mine? How can I work a shameless plug into this post?

First, I resolve to finish rewriting Love Transcends, a collection of new and previously published short stories by yours truly. This has been a difficult book for me. One of the stories, "Mining Chernobyl," was my first professional payment on a publication. Unfortunately, the company has not been able to push the anthology out. Since I do not have rights to republish until at least 90 days after publication, we've had to wait. Not to mention rewriting several stories, removing one and making it into a novel itself, and finally adding a new story to fill the hole this left. Best of all is that the cover art is done by my wife, Trisha Hammerquist.