Novel query

ESP has now had my novel submission for 6 months now (as long as my short story career). They estimate 3-6 months for submission replies I sent off a query today. They estimate another 1-3 months to reply to queries.
With the geological pace maintained by the industry, I'll be published in no time!

18!

I finished a new flash piece (story that's less than 1000 words). This is the shortest I've written, only 600 words. It's off to Asimov's and that makes 18!

Analog submission lost

The Analog excitement was for naught. Either the submission or the reply got lost in the mail.

Analog Submission in Promising Territory

I have some hopeful news. I have a submission that's now been at Analog longer than any of the rejections listed on the statistics sites I use: Duotrope, Ralan, and Submitting to the Black Hole.
That could mean that the Dr. Stanley Schmidt (the editor of Analog) is giving it a second look. Or it could mean my manuscript got mangled in a mail sorter in the post office way back in October. Only time will tell...

17 points!

I FINALLY made some writing progress after stalling for a month. I got a big new project done for the quarterly Writers of the Future (WotF) competition. And I finished polishing another piece that had been sitting on the back burner since November. That was another Liberty Hall one. So I'm up to 17! Almost to 20!

Liberty Hall flash challenge, 15 points!

I tried something new on Friday. I went to a site called Liberty Hall, a writer's website. They have a weekly Flash Challenge. You sign in and it shows you a trigger: a phrase, or a few words, to give you the idea for a story. Then a timer starts and you have 90 minutes to write a complete short story. I tried it out and I thought it went quite well. I didn't have time to go back over it, so it probably had some typos, but the story is decent enough. 1300 words total. I gave it a quick polish yesterday and sent it off, so that brings me up to 15 points! :)

14 points!

FINALLY got another new story out the door for the first time since halloween. It's posted up at Jim Baen's Universe now, where I can get very useful feedback from the slush readers and my fellow writers. up to 14 points!