Living the Dream?

Haven't posted on here in a while, so I figured I'd update things. I currently have three stories in print: "Stone Breaker" appeared in Wolfsinger Publications' magazine Mystic Signals, "Panorama of Failure" appeared in Black Matrix Publishing's Realms #2, and, most recently, "Oumings in the Dark" appeared in Black Matrix's Encounters #4. So there you go.

In other news, my manuscript for Mary of the Aether is under consideration by a publishing house called Belle Bridge Books. I queried them back in September, and they asked to read the full manuscript. Unfortunately, I didn't actually expect to generate interest, so I had to scramble to get it ready.

Aether Again?

Just learned about a whole bunch of book publishers that I previously knew not of over at Duotrope's Digest. They are smaller publishers than, say, Tor or Baen or whatever, but there are a lot of them. So I decided to go ahead and query some of them about my novel that used to be called Mindy Lightbearer (it is now called Mary of the Aether). Hey, I have this whole, completed novel sitting on the hard drive. Might as well not abandon it. Live the dream, Mary Lanham, wielder of the Aether. Don't let the Devourers stop you from seeing print.

Mindy Idea

Taking a page from the "Book of Ideas" by Orson Scott Card, my next short story will be based on the novel I wrote last year. Card's "Ender's Game" originally appeared as a short story in a science fiction magazine. So I figure I could adapt an idea from "Mindy Lightbearer" into a short story and get that published. Then I could tell a publisher at some later date, "Here is a novel I wrote, based on a short story that appeared in Clarence McFranklin's Magazine of Tremendous Nostril Stories" or whatever.

So thank you, Mr. Card, for your ideas and your fabulous new cologne fragrance (available at finer Macy's and Piggly Wiggly stores near you).

Also, the term "Lightbearer" will be going the way of the dodo. I'm not sure what to replace it with, as of yet, but it will be something based on the Greek word for light, "phos." We shall see.