Just wanted to share some good news. We’ve finally been published again. Just when we were beginning to think we’d turn 26 without another publication to our name, we were runners up in a competition, which means our story, Missed Call got put into an anthology. (The anthology’s available to buy at www.the-pages.blogspot.com if anyone's interested) We’d only really sent the story off ‘cos we’d just turned it into a novel and wanted to know if we were on the right track. The only real criticisms of the story were the over-use of exclamation marks and the swearing, which shouldn’t be used for competitions. Oh $*%~! The photo's us celebrating our 26th last month.
Another short story’s still under consideration for an Australian magazine, so hopefully we’ll have more good news to report, though we don’t hold out much hope. We’ve got 5 short story deadlines for March we’re trying to reach, though we have just scrapped a story due in on the 16th and written a totally new one. There’s nothing like pressure to make you work. The novel, Missed Call has just been finished. It only took us about 6 weeks to write, but now needs extensive redrafting, as on first word count, it’s 258,700 words. We’ve never written one that long. So the book’s currently a victim of the editorial version of the Texas Chainsaw Massacre and a lot of the starring words won’t survive for the sequel.
C L Raven, hacking and slicing like a thing possessed.
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