Great news!

Book five in the Laconia series, Dad and I Are Sort of Human, has been accepted by Eternal Press. We are still working out the details but I will announce the release date once it has been decided.

Phantom Limbs is Published!

Just got my contributors' copy and $15 check in the mail, since I was on vacation. So happy and proud! Click here to buy.

I've been anthologized!

My short story "Attempts to be a Mormon Bohemian" was published in an online issue of Aoife's Kiss in 2007, and it was voted best of issue! And is now published in Wondrous Web Worlds 9!

If anyone has read it, and my bio within, and wondered about it, I think they did that to protect me back when I was under 18. I would have sent them a new bio if they requested it but the one they have is pretty funny.

Whee!

All's Well That Ends Well

The greatest short story I ever wrote, "Phantom Limbs", has had difficulty finding a home. I sent it first to Aoife's Kiss, a magazine where I had my first story ever published back in 2007. The reply back, from editor Tyree Campbell, was the most enthusiastic response I have ever received, including the phase "oh absolutely, gobsmacking yes!"

However, he suggested that I try sending it to a bunch of publications that could pay me higher rates and give me more prestige, listing them for me. I tried each one in succession, a process of many months. Eventually I went back to him and said he could have it.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Nothing.

Finally, earlier this week, more than a year after our communication, he found me again! I had slipped through the cracks of his busy life. He wanted to know if the story was still available.

Upshot: at some point in the next few months, depending on where he finds a slot, I will be published in Aoife's Kiss and receive $15. Even better, I have a friend in the industry again.

Great news!

Let me proudly link you to the first poem I have ever sold (though it was written on commission rather than a completely original work): http://www.metta-physics.com/2011/07/poetry-e-equals-empty-scared-by-donaya-haymond/

You may remember some earlier blog posts about sci-fi stories and poems I was hired to write on Elance. Five short works for $100. I'm very pleased. I presume the other works will be meted out.