m. c. de marco

As part of being back on the wagon, I wrote a new story this week and submitted it to Writers of the Future—-at 11:50pm Thursday night, thanks to their new online submissions policy. Today I finally got around to logging it and my NaNoWriMo novel in my giant writing spreadsheet, and I noticed that I’d gone over the million word mark back on November 30th. Since I started writing in the summer of 2001, I also managed to do the whole thing in just under 10 years.

I found my way from Dean Wesley Smith’s twitter feed to L. M. May’s posts on learned helplessness and Barry Eisler going indie. I read Barry Eisler’s long two part dialogue with Joe Konrath about self-publishing.

Paramourtal is up for sale in Kindle format and many more at Smashwords, thanks to the ceaseless efforts of editor Kevin Hosey.

The Kindle version of Paramourtal is now up at Amazon, along with the trade paperback:

Paramourtal, a paranormal romance anthology featuring my story, “Sympathy From the Devil,” is now available from CreateSpace. The Amazon listing will be up sometime in the next couple of weeks.

It’s time for me to plunge into the guts of the website and resurrect the To Appear block, for my upcoming story “Sympathy from the Devil,” to appear in Paramourtal, a paranormal romance anthology coming out this summer from Cliffhanger Books. Check out their website for more details…

Via a mailing list: GigaNotoSaurus is a new market for longer science fiction and fantasy stories (up to 25,000 words), paying a flat rate of $100. Check out the submission guidelines.