It is my great pleasure to announce that Allure was purchased and published in American Outdoor Magazine. Which means, I have transformed into a published and paid author. Allure is their first fiction story to be featured; the editor enjoyed the piece and decided to publish fiction for the first time in the magazine’s history. I still retain the rights to the story, and it can be read online in flash fiction section: click me for Allure. Hopefully, this will be the first domino to fall in my career. Either way, it is great to be able to hold a glossy page with my name besides one of my stories. Here’s to the future!
Also, I know that I have been gone for some time. This lack of updates is because my graduate program is coming to an end, and I – in order to be a productive member of society – need to find a job after graduation. As it is looking, I have an opportunity – a great opportunity – to get back into information technology. I will not stop writing, but I know that I will be losing four hours a day out of my writing time… indefinitely. But, I have some good things coming over the horizon for the rest of you. As I write this, a group of my new flash fiction is being reviewed by Harvard Publishing for a contest, a couple of short stories are under review at McSweeny’s and One Story, and I am collaborating with a local artist to produce a short story combined with a series of paintings for a local book release.
I will discuss the project in the future, but I will mention it is an odd project because our mediums and process are fundamentally different. However, we both have a similar style – if you were to translate us into one another’s mediums – and outlook on the world. The story we have decided to bring to life is an amalgam of our two minds. It should be interesting, and I hope to find a way to offer the finished books to those that are interested.
