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==October 22==

I blinked, and it's October. So, what have I accomplished. Not as much as I wanted to. I did submit five poems to Strange Horizons. They were all rejected, but two had additional comments from the editor, so I'm very pleased.

My story, "Lockdown," was accepted for "Collective Madness" from Collective Tales. I'm excited.

I am going to write 50,000 words for November, but due to their new AI policy, I will not be participating in NaNoWriMo.

==August 11==

The Quills Banquet was last night. To give more people a chance to get an award, each writer could only submit two works per category. It was great to see how many different authors won awards.

I was fortunate to receive three. An honorable mention for unpublished haiku (untitled), a notable read award for a poem I published last year (Never the Netherwood) and a Gold Quill award for Nonfiction (The Ted Bundy Files: A 1976 Companion).

The book is a compilation of documents, interviews, and tests that my father collected on Ted Bundy. I am the editor and received the award as my father passed away in 2018.

==July 28==

June and July have been really busy. I'm finally editing a novella I hope to finish in the next month. Then I'll set it aside and work on editing a novel that's been waiting for far too long.

I'm also helping my daughter with a novella of her own. Once she gets that done, I'm going to help her publish it. :)

I already have my NaNo project decided for this year. It'll be a sequel to a Cozy Mystery I wrote three years ago. (Which means, I'll probably edit that one next so I'm ready to write the sequel...)

My poem, "Midnight Musings" is now out in Write Where You Belong. I'm pleased with it. Now I just need to submit a bunch of poems to different places. I've been lax with my poetry of late. This is my official announcement that I have to get off my duff and start writing poetry again. :)

==May 13==

My poem, "Midnight Musings" has been accepted in the LUW anthology, "Write Where You Are." It'll be published in July or August of this year. I wrote the poem specifically for the anthology and am tickled it was accepted.

I need to submit more. I have one poem and one story out, and they'll probably both be rejected. I also just submitted some poetry and stories to the League of Utah Writers annual writing contests. (fingers crossed). I submitted fewer entries than last year but entered more categories. I never know what will resonate with the judges, but I hope to get an award or two.

==May 2==

Well, I didn't manage to write 30 poems in April. I wrote 15, though, which is better than I've done in a while. Most were haiku, but I did manage a couple of longer poems. I'm still editing those.

It's out! "Lost Between Light & Shadow: A Collection of Dark Poetry" is available on Amazon and Ingram Spark. It wasn't supposed to be released until the 30th, but when we made some edits and uploaded the changes, Amazon decided that, even though we were within the window to make the edits, it was going to publish the book right away. But, better three days early than ten days late, as happened to a friend of mine.

This is the first collection I've edited, and I think it tured out pretty well. :) There are some wonderful poems by amazing poets and I'm grateful they chose to support me by submitting their work!

I submitted poems to two magazines in January. One rejected all my poems. The other accepted one. I'm so happy about that. The poetry editor is awesome! Now I need to write more!