A Nyte's Tale

It’s time for an update on my writing progress (for those of you that are interested…and you know who you are). *Just kidding.* My first book is finished and still waiting to find an agent that will fall in love with it. My queries have been put on hold for now because my focus is my new position at work. It is extremely stressful, and by the time I get home, my brain is exhausted. So I guess when I say that my first book is “waiting to find an agent”, I suppose that is not exactly the truth. There are a few queries, that I previously sent out, which I still have not received a response from the agents. Let’s be honest though, I probably won’t hear back from them. I am okay with that because I have decided to put that puppy to rest for now. I have a third short story submitted to Glimmer Train. Even though this story has already been submitted, there are a few edits that need to be made to make the story better. This story means a lot to me because its about my grandparents, who are ve...

I am giving anyone reading this post fair warning…stop reading now if you don’t want to join my pity party. Another stressful week gone by, another short story turned down by Glimmer Train. I was so hopeful for it to be published. It had been in review for 65 days, and I had researched on the internet that they would probably give the results for the winners in one week (Nov. 30th). I was so close, or so I thought. I didn’t even get an email notification. Nope, I just happened to check my account today and saw the dreaded “Completed” word next to my submission, which meant they would not be publishing my story. This story was the first short story I had ever written and submitted to any publication. My second short story was rejected last week. I have to say that I feel pretty down tonight about this whole writing business. I hate to admit that I am actually so disappointed about it, I feel like I don’t want to write anymore. Yeah, right. Give me a few days of moping around, ...