I’ve gotten quite a few books over the past few months. I’ll report in my findings as I chew through them. I spent all day Saturday building several new sets of bookshelves for our living room. Then filling them. It looks lovely. Then we lugged the loveseat in front so the baby can’t get at them. You can take my word for it though, they look nice.

In awesome news, I discovered over the weekend that my Mercier’s Flight has received an Honorable Mention over at the Writer’s of the Future Contest. Link when they’ve posted it. It’s the furthest a story of mine has gotten over there (though it’s probably the only one that’s deserved it) and I’m pretty excited. I’ve resumed submitting the story to markets in the hopes that it’ll sell somewhere so you guys can read it.

I meant to take a picture of myself with the envelope, but completely forgot. I suppose I could fake it with another envelope, but I don’t like to deceive my more sensitive readers.

At any rate, the experience made me appreciate electronic submissions all the more. It’s been a long time since I’ve had to mail a submission anywhere. Almost two bucks to mail a 30-odd page story! That would get expensive pretty quickly.

Well, back to the grind. I’ll be working on polishing up at least one of my Story Every Day pieces, and hope to pump out at least a couple more flash stories this month.