I won I won I won!!! First place… I may have cried at the person notifying me. Poor Joni. To be fair, it had been a very long week at work, and I hung up on someone else to talk with her, and then she said I won…!

Check out the Writers of the Future post here.

At some point, I should take a pic with all my Honorable and Silver Honorable Mentions… just to share with everyone else who is feeling down and remind them to persist. I have a lot, y’all. I’ve been working toward this for a couple years now, entering every quarter, so if you’re working toward it too, know I believe in you! Keep working on your craft, keep writing, keep submitting.

Persist!

In an unprecedented (for me) move, I’m going to post twice this week… once today and once for the blog hop on Wednesday. I thought about spacing these out “better”, but then I decided with the coronapacolypse and the end of the world (that doesn’t seem to be ending) I would be better off doing both now. Before something else happens and I forget or run out of time or just can’t face it for a while.

So!

In reverse order… I got a phone call last week to tell me one of my stories IS A FINALIST in the Writers of the Future contest! Woo! It’s being judged this week and next week with 7 other stories and then they’ll let us know how we placed.

Finally jumping from Honorable Mentions and Silver Honorable Mentions to Finalist (no matter where I place) makes me jump up and down and squee. (If I knew how to emoji that here, I’d do it!)

Second, my short story REBOOT is on presale now - another win for me! It has a beautiful cover, thanks to my friend Cat (see the acknowledgments) and I’m excited to share it with you all in May.

Amazon and Barnes and Noble and I just realized I haven’t put it on Smashwords which distributes to Apple and Kobo and other places, so I still have some work to do!

Please reach out to me if you like something I’ve written, or if I’ve distracted you from the present, even if only for a little while.

Stay healthy and stay safe!