Thank You to All Backers… Surveys are out and I hope you backers get them back in quickly. That way everyone can get books and workshops and such. And the chance to write for Pulphouse directions will be sent at the beginning of each month as an update for backers only. Speaking of reading for Pulphouse, I only have a few of the Holiday ones left to read, a few more of the Fall and the Light themed ones. The last two themes I have not started reading for yet, but making good progress overall. By the end of March I should be all caught up, barring crazy things happening.…

Rejections Mean Nothing… Sending stories to editors is a game, one worth winning if editors start buying your work. It is fantastic free advertising for your overall work and you actually get paid for it, and then can republish the story later. All win-win-win… But so many writers take rejections from editors personally. I hear it all the time. And that is just flat wrong. No editor I know rejects a story and remembers the writer and puts some sort of blame on the writer. We can barely remember the writers we buy. Stories we reject we don’t care about in the slightest. Let me give you some help hints…