Merry Christmas!

And State of the Doug

I've been meaning to post more here, but meaning to falls a bit short of actually doing it. We've been serially ill. Nothing serious, but it sucked a lot of the energy away.

Elder Scrolls

I haven't finished more ES fiction or mods. My old Windows computer died. I got it for free, so I can't complain. I will probably get a new one at some point. Modding tools are easier on Windows, as much as it pains me to use it.

Novels

I have finished a novel-length work. I hesitate to call it a novel at this point. Maybe it can be edited into submission. There are more in progress.

Short Fiction

I sold seven (?) stories last year, and three (?) haven't been published yet. So those should come out next year, and I'll announce them here. I have ideas for eight of the 2025 Raconteur Press anthologies. We'll see how many I get done. One so far…

Next year I will post some of the published stories from last year here.

In a few minutes, as a sort of Christmas gift, I will post the story that got rejected last year. Bizarrely, I only received one rejection since starting to try writing again. Seeing it was almost comforting. Normally I'd hold on to the story it in case it fit into an open call, but looking at next year's open calls so far...I don't see one that would work.