42

I received my 42nd acceptance of the year this evening, this time for a confession.

41

I received my 41st acceptance of the year late this afternoon, surpassing last year's 40 acceptances with several days left in the year to nudge the total up another acceptance or two.

Published

My erotic crime fiction story "Mutable Memories" appears in the anthology Men of the Manor, which was published in October, though my copies didn't arrive until today.

Reviewed

Lirtle reviews Men of the Manor at Prism Book Alliance and has this to say about "Mutable Memories," my contribution to the anthology:

This is raunchy and irreverent and I love it. Young men all around, behaving like the free sexual beings they’re fortunate enough to be able to express themselves as, thanks to the lives they lead. This is rife with straight-faced tongue-in-cheek humor. This definitely qualifies as more Downton Abbey erotica for your dining pleasure. Enjoy it. I know I did. This is another author of which I want to read more of his work. And the title, yeah, it fits. Nicely plotted short story. 

4.25 stars

Read the entire review here.

40

I received my 40th acceptance of the year today, this time for a story I submitted to an anthology in May 2013.

Fifty-three

I finished and submitted my fifty-third short story of the year this evening. This one's a 4,600-word confession I started writing February 1, 2009. Until I picked it up again a few weeks ago, all I had written was the opening scene.

Interviewed

I'm interviewed today on the Boo Books blog about "Little Spring," my contribution to the anthology Haunted, which they released last month. Read the interview here: http://boobooks.net/boo-blog/.

Fifty-two

I finished and submitted my fifty-second short story of the year this evening. This one's a 5,000-word private eye story.

Published 3x

"My Quirky & Strange Son" appears in the January True Story, "The End of the Year" appears in the January True Confessions, and "High-Rise Hook-Up" appears in the just-published anthology Hired Hands.