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I was a finalist for the 2017 Al Blanchard Award for my story, “The Case of the Lethal Liqueur” and was awarded an Honorable Mention at Crimebake this past weekend. Here are some pictures.

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William Kent Kreuger and me. Went to his Master Class on setting and was inspired.

I just submitted “Light of the Sun” to another anthology. Wish me luck!

When I went to Crimebake I heard about an intensive one day writing course provided by Mystery Writers of America-MWA University 2.0-that will be held in Boston on February 14. I immediately searched for it but it wasn’t open for registration.

Well, I was able to register on 12/30, so I am good to go! I’m really looking forward to it. I love these types of events, not only for the educational meat of the classes and panels, but for the chance to network with other writers.

I’ve been slacking. Though I hadn’t realized just how bad until I looked at the date of my last post-4/14/14-Yikes!

I have done some writing in that time, but to be honest, not a lot. I have let my time get taken up by other things. Things like (in order): gum surgery (never want to do that again!), a new grandson and all that entails (baby shower, birth, baby sitting, learning how to feed a baby again, etc), which I would do again in a heartbeat, and wrist surgery (both wrists) which I wouldn’t want to do again, but am definitely glad I did do it-no more wrist pain!

Now that I don’t have the excuse of wrist pain, I have to get going again and get my story written. I have some great things in mind for the story and I have actually gotten my characters on the literal road. I also have one or two ideas bouncing around in my head that I want to get written – a horror short story that I have recently found a publishing possibility for (so now I have to write it) and a supernatural/romance/mystery that I have had in the back of my mind for a couple years.

So no more slacking!

I was really happy to get my new story, “The Light of the Sun” submitted to Emby Press for one of their anthologies. Let’s just hope they pick my story. In the meantime, I think I will also submit it to a few other contests/magazines as I really like this particular story and its characters. I envision a series of short stories with this group of characters.

But now it’s time to get back on track and write some more on my novel (novella? It started out as a novella, but has now reached the point where it will likely be a full fledged novel. Which is great!) I need to get my characters on the road, literally. I do find those types of scenes a little difficult to write. It’s hard to put some action into riding in a truck. But I’m going to do it! I have some ideas about obstacles and emergencies they can encounter on the way. Especially in NYC – I plan some major adventure there!

I just have to get typing.