Fifteen

I finished and submitted my fifteenth short story of the year this afternoon. This one's a 5,300-word confession I started writing on August 4, 2014.

19, 20

I received my 19th and 20th acceptances of the year this afternoon. Both are for confessions.

18

I received my 18th acceptance of the year this afternoon. This one's for a story I think is an alternative history mystery. Or, maybe, sword and sorcery with no sorcery.

17

I received my 17th acceptance of the year late last evening. This one's for an erotic fairy tale.

Reviewed

Catherine Dilts reviewed "Atonement" (Mystery Weekly Magazine, April, 2017), and summed up the story this way:

"Atonement begins with a bang, and continues relentlessly to a powerful closing."

Read the entire review here.

Published

Coming April 25 from Deep Desires Press:

One Knight with the Swordsmith's Daughter.

All the women of Miriam’s village lust after Sir Humphrey of Fox Glen, newly arrived to attend to his aging uncle, Sir Edmund, Earl of Northwoods Shire. When the young knight commissions a new side arm from her father the swordsmith, Miriam discovers why.

Unable to reveal to anyone that she actually smiths the swords her father sells, and unable to reveal her own carnal desire for the young knight, Miriam listens to the village women’s bawdy comments about Sir Humphrey yet keeps her thoughts to herself, until a chance meeting at the waterfall where she bathes changes her life.

Miriam finds herself keeping more secrets than any woman should. But if she gets too close to Sir Humphrey, it might mean revealing her family’s secret. Does she dare risk her family’s heritage just to quench the fire in her loins?

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Fourteen

I completed and submitted my fourteenth short story of the year this morning. This one's a 6,100-word private eye story I began August 17, 2015.

16

I received my 16th acceptance of the year this afternoon, this time for a confession.

Thirteen

I completed and submitted my thirteenth short story of the year this evening. This one's a 2,000-word bit of crime fiction begun March 9.

Twelve

I completed and submitted my twelfth short story of the year. This one's a 3,500-word confession I started on March 30.

15

I received my 15th acceptance of the year this afternoon. This one's for a bit of crime fiction.

Eleven

I finished and submitted my eleventh short story of the year this evening. This one's a 3,000-word confession begun July 23, 2015.

Published

My story "Atonement" appears in the April edition of Mystery Weekly Magazine.