The count as it stands.

I want to find some kind of widget that will let me keep track of Accepted/Pending/Declined stats for the coming year. Until I can find such a thing I'll keep it updating it here.

Story Submissions:

Accepted - Pending - Declined

0     -     1     -    1

News for 2016

Hello to all my lovely readers.  I appreciate your page views and the occasional smattering of commentary.  I figured that I would go ahead and give everyone a heads up concerning my plans are for the current year. There are quite a few in the works and i'm hoping to keep things exciting in the coming year.

1. A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing will be coming off the site mid-February. If you're trying to finish it up, then please keep reading until then.  I'll be making it available through the self-publishing markets so that it is in a place where people can still access it. 
2. A new serial is coming. I'm currently in the outlining phase of the story and am looking forward to a more consistent schedule than I had for A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing.  If you would like a sneak peek of the first chapter then click on the link for "The Nurse Summers Serials" My goal is to tell this characters story entirely through the serial format.  
3. My first full length novel will be out through self-publishing as well. For those of you who have read A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing, it's the modern day story of Patch.  This is where he started for me, and his story is one that I have planned for four books.  
4. Lots of work editing and finishing novels.  As of right now I have three half written novels that need to be finished. I also have two finished novels that need to be edited.  One of them is the one from item number three, while the other is one I'm looking to submit to traditional publishing houses.  
5. There will also be plenty of other short stories that I will be playing with over the next year as I try out new ideas.  Sometimes they work while at other times they are little more than a train wreck.  But stay tuned as I might share pieces of them here.  
6. I will also be trying to get pieces that I think will sell into magazines and homes throughout the year.  The goal is a submission a week, this will be tough, but if you're going to set a goal go big. 

This is where I'm at right now as of January 1st.  I've already made my first submission for the year.  I'm still working and hope that you'll join my on my journey by finding my author page on Facebook. I'm also on Twitter where I post notices about updates to the blog.

A Christmas Goody

So, I've been shopping around a flash fiction piece for the last few months only to have no takers. In honor of the Christmas Holiday and all the travel we'll be doing I'll be posting it here.

Click on the link on the right for "Terminal Scribbles" and I hope your travels keep you safe.

Technical Difficulties.

Hello, I've discovered some technical difficulties while working on the right side links to the story. I apologize for this. As a result, please use the following link for the time being until I can get it worked out.

Chapters 1-5

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Reorganizing and House Cleaning

I'm going to be doing some reorganizing of the site over the coming week. As a result some older posts may go away, while others may be combined into shared pages.  I apologize if something you were looking for goes temporarily missing, but it needs  to be done from time to time.

Until then, I want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Facebook Page

I'm letting people know that I would love to have some more followers on the blog or on Facebook so I've decided that I'll do a little challenge to my readers.  If we can get to 50 Likes on Facebook/followers of the blog I'll post the last chapter and epilogue of "A Wolf in Patchwork Clothing" early. Otherwise it'll be posted sometime on Friday of next week.

It's your choice, but I would love to be able to share the ending...

Also, If I can figure out how to do a generic link to the Facebook page I'll post it here.

Free stuff

Sorry for the delay, I just got back from a vacation and life is being difficult. Nanowrimo planning is taking more time in planning that I thought it would and so my evenings have been surprisingly busy. I guess that is the cost of being an ML.

Sadly that means the story is delayed but to make up for it I'm handing out some free e-books from Thursday 10/15 - Saturday 10/17.  So if you want to read more about Patch get the book and read the story at the end of the collection, The Last Day of School.  The link is below.

http://www.amazon.com/Escaping-Sanity-Travis-Coleman/dp/1507631723/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1444886793&sr=8-1&keywords=escaping+Sanity

Please enjoy the stories.