Saturn as seen from Titan, painting by Chesley Bonestell

Saturn as seen from Titan, painting by Chesley Bonestell
Favorite astronomical painting

Thursday, May 29, 2014

Marcy's Struggle available digital anthology

Marcy's Struggle is already out in digital form with four other author's stories available from Smashwords and Amazon.  The print version will be available probably next week.  Some of the stories in this anthology are of a sensual nature.  I don't know which ones yet as I've not read them.  The title says Sweet and Sensual.  Mine is Sweet.  Here are the links.  First from Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/442711 and is available for $2.99.  The link for Amazon is a long one so here it is: http://www.amazon.com/2014-Summer-Collection-Sweet-Sensual-ebook/dp/B00KMJB4NG/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8qid=1401350991&sr=1-1&keywords=2014+Summer+Collection
The cover is attached.  Laura Shinn and Rebecca Vickery are great to work with.  This story of mine was rejected by another publisher.  Marcy finally gets closure on romance after being left hanging in my novel A Change of Heart.

Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Short Romance Story Accepted

I received word today that my short romance story, Marcy's Struggle has been accepted by Victory Tales Press for their summer anthology coming out very soon.  I read through the edits and agreed with everything except the blurb briefly describing the story.  My first two paragraphs of my synopsis was taken as the blurb which made it sound like Marcy's love interest, Ross was the one with the struggle.  Yes, he has a struggle but I wrote back and suggested three additional sentences emphasizing Marcy is the one who has the struggle in trying to convince Ross she's over Leroy and wants Ross in her life.  I don't know if they will accept my addition or not.  I'm waiting on word from Laura Shinn about that.  This story will release as an anthology to Smashwords and Amazon as an ebook and later will come out in print.  At this point I don't know who the other authors are but I'll probably recognize their names, at least some of them.  Now poor Marcy will have closure with romance in her life.

Wednesday, May 14, 2014

Writing and trying to heal

I am 47,000 words into my new science fiction novel The Silver Dart.  Also I received a wonderful review of my ebook SF novel Higher Mission.  Joy gave me five stars and wrote a nice long review on Amazon.  I left a comment for her and hope she reads it.  Likewise, I received the 50th vote for my free read Ice Rink Romance which had to be five stars because it has lifted that story from third place back into second place on that website.  I'm trying to work on my youtube for Higher Mission and have made a little headway.  I'll have to do some art work myself to get what I want before I publish it.
I'm over a month into healing from my back surgery and am still in pain.  It is wearing me down and I'm unable to do the things I need to do.  Sue, my poor wife is having to do a lot of things.  My doctor told me I'm healing just fine.  Define "fine."  I see him again in early June.