Writer Math
March 12, 2024A short short story on rejection and perseverance: I received a short story rejection this week that really landed hard. Naturally, I felt a little a lot bummed. As I logged the response in my short stories submissions spreadsheet, though, my attention caught on the respectable number of green lines (acceptances) among the red (rejections). I don’t write a ton of short stories. In the past 10 or 12 years, I’ve logged 25 submissions. Of those, 8 have been accepted and published. 32%! Not bad. But when I looked closer, 7 of the stories in my spreadsheet had been submitted…
December 2023
What I’m reading Breakneck — Marc Cameron The Missing Hours — Julia Dahl Everyone on This Train Is a Suspect — Benjamin Stevenson Lone Wolf — Gregg Hurwitz Resurrection Walk — Michael Connelly The Searcher — Tana French Small Things…
November 2023
What I’m reading Distress Signals — Catherine Ryan Howard The Storyteller — Dave Grohl The Murder Rule — Dervla McTiernan
October 2023
What I’m reading The River We Remember — William Kent Krueger Happiness Falls — Angie Kim Just Stay Away — Tony Wirt The Spy Coast — Tess Gerritsen Demon Copperhead — Barbara Kingsolver