Time to get my thumb out and step up

Last year I made a bit of a private resolution. That resolution was that I would get published. With what seemed to be somewhat indecent ease, I was accepted for a number of publications and have some stories out there that I’m reasonably confident will be accepted at some point this year.

However, due to the usual ‘life’ and my absolutely amazing ability to procrastinate, I haven’t got as many stories out there as I should. 2014 will therefore see me using duotrope correctly and getting more submissions out there.

Tonight, or tomorrow night, I shall also be finalising my Angry Robot submission, Shattered Lands is going to them for consideration. Whether or not anything happens as a result of that does not matter, I shall be getting it out to as many people as I can. I unfortunately slowed down when I started to look at other stories and editing for the Raus! Untoten! series.

I also have to finish my Pater Syn story for the next edition of How the West Was Weird and get that submitted.

On top of that, I’m going to edit like mad for the Raus! Untoten! series and get the remaining 18 stories done, dusted and over to the publishers for adding into the pipeline.

2014 is going to be busy, but I’m determined to have fun doing all of the above. The fact that I’ve had to retire from martial arts for the foreseeable future due to a shoulder that is, quite frankly, fucked, will mean that I have another two evenings spare to do all of this.

As the title says, time to get my thumb out and step up.