Accepted @ Shine

November 13, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

I’ve been lucky enough to have two pieces accepted for the January issue of Shine 🙂 My flash piece, “Not So Smart” will be published as will a short and, sadly, true poem called “Coffee”. I will, of course, post a link when they go live, but in the meantime I just wanted to brag a little 🙂

In an unrelated note (I swear it’s unrelated) Shine is having a flash fiction contest. I can’t enter because since I am such a regular submitter Pamela has asked me to be a judge. I’m incredibly flattered and I can’t wait to read all the entries — but if you write flash fiction you should enter. There’s no entry fee and there are some pretty good prizes, so head on over and check it out.

In NaNoWriMo news my word count is just over 43,000 words and my daughter, who is ten and set herself a word goal of 10,000 is at just over 4,000 🙂 Yay!

I tried to enable commenting on this post but in less than two hours I’d already been swamped with spam. Sorry ðŸ™

NaNoWriMo, Published

The Doll Published At Burst

November 9, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

The Doll, is now live at Burst. I’m very happy with this story, when you start reading it, it may sound somewhat familiar, a bit like “A Merry Christmas” or “This Year’s Toy” but keep reading — you’ll be surprised, pleasantly I hope LOL

In other news, I’m still working hard on my NaNoWriMo novel. So far I’m at 30,000 words, putting me at about double the word count I would need to be on track to finish in a month — yay! Best of all, I’ve read back over some of what I’ve written and it’s no worse than any other first draft, so hopefully getting it all edited and ready to shop around won’t be too painful an expirience. I’m very excited about it, in case it doesn’t show. This year for NaNo I bent a couple rules and decided to a) work on a novel-in-stories and b) work on a piece I’d already started (though I’m only counting words I’ve written since November 1st). The end result is that I’m nearly done my Haven novel-in-stories which I’ve tentatively titled “Blood and Stone”.

My NaNoWriMo profile, including a short excerpt from “Blood and Stone” can be found here –> Midnyte. Please take a look and send me a NaNoMail to tell me what you think. I wish I could leave this post open to comments so you could tell me here but alas, the spammers make that impossible.

Flash, NaNoWriMo, Published

Wrong Turn Published

November 1, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

My flash piece, Wrong Turn, is now live at Sorcerous Signals. I still like the story, shame about the second sentence though LOL Why is it I never notice these things until after they are published? Eh, my bad. Now you’re going to go read it just to see what’s wrong with the second sentence aren’t you? I’d like to tsk tsk you but I’d do to the same, so I can’t 🙂 While you’re there read all the stories up for offer and be sure and vote for your favorite 🙂

In other news I’m doing NaNoWriMo again this year — though instead of aiming for 50,000 words I’m aiming for a completed novel-in-stories. My Haven novel-in-stories, as a matter of fact. Currently I’m at just over 2,000 words, which isn’t a bad start. I’m hoping to get about 5k today though, so keep your fingers crossed for me 🙂

If anyone is interested my NaNo Profile is here and I’m always happy to have more buddies 🙂

Poetry, Sale

The Sepultress Accepted

October 22, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

Yay! My day had been going steadily downhill then I opened an email from NewMyths.com with the subject “Acceptance”. My poem, The Sepultress, has been accepted — I think it will be in their inaugural issue December 1st — I’ll let you know if I find out otherwise.

Poetry, Sale

The Whip Accepted

October 17, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

My rictameter entitled “The Whip” has been accepted by Oysters and Chocolate. I’m very pleased. This is my second poem they’ve accepted and I have plans to write even more erotic poetry “someday” so it’s very rewarding to have what I have written so far be so well-accepted.

Yay! 🙂

Flash, Sale

Accepted At Mississippi Crow

October 12, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

My flash fiction story, Swapped, has been accepted for issue #7 of Mississippi Crow. Swapped is one of my favorite pieces of flash and I can’t wait to be able to link to it and show it off 🙂

Flash, Published

Sex on the Beach Published

October 1, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

My drabble, Sex on the Beach has been published at Shine today. This is my third time and fourth piece featured in Shine and I encourage everyone to go take a look. Also, a good friend of mine, BD Wilson has a kick-ass story in Shine this month as well — read that too, you’ll thank me later. Really.

🙂

Just Stuff

Layout Changes

September 28, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

I apologize for the site being down briefly this afternoon, I was upgrading the blog script and then playing around with new layouts. Unfortunately, none of the layouts I liked would accommodate my ‘Pages’ links, and, frankly, I’m too lazy to try and figure out how to incorporate them — for today anyway.

Okay, back to writing.

Flash, Published

Published @ The Flask Review

September 18, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

Wow, they don’t waste any time over there at The Flask Review; not in reviewing submissions nor in publishing them. Issue 12 is up and online — including my flash fiction piece, Not So Smart. I hope you enjoy it 🙂

Flash, Sale

Accepted @ The Flask Review

September 17, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

My flash piece, Not So Smart, has been accepted for Issue #12 at The Flask Review. Yay.

“Not So Smart” is a story that was inspired by a Word of the Week prompt at NaNoLJers. Again, I find myself surprised by the high proportion of WotW stories I’ve written that have found homes in markets, surprised, but happily. I think I’ll take this as a cue to write some more WotW stories, now all I need to do is fine some “spare” time before November arrives and brings NaNoWriMo with it.

I’ll post a link to the story once it’s published 🙂

Published

Published @ Barfing Frog Press

September 16, 2007 R. Parrish Leave a comment

Barfing Frog Press — how could I not submit something to an ezine called ‘Barfing Frog Press’? I sent them a piece I wrote three years ago, before we bought our house. Unfortunately, it’s based on a true story — sorta 😉 You’ll have to read it in order to see what I’m talking about.

Case Closed @ Barfing Frog Press

Rhonda Parrish