Stats

J published his stats. He’s doing a lot better than I am. These are my paid sales.
SF: 12
Fantasy: 9
Horror: 2
Sword & Sorcery: 4

In addition to this, I have a 20 or more stories in flash contests and other free venues that I don’t count, and usually aren’t that good. I expect that I made under $100 total sales, which is a little discouraging. There’s not much incentive to submit anymore. I used to do it for the glory, but that wore off. I still write a bit, but not as much as did three or four years ago. I have 11 unpublished stories, 4 of which are out waiting to be disparaged by editors. I have about 20 stories that I think are good enough to be finished that are partially written. I have a partially written novel (about 30,000 words) that I really want to go back and work on someday, because it has some of the best stuff that I’ve ever written in it. I have a 23,000 word novella in the style of H.P. Lovecraft written in the early seventies in longhand, that I think is good enough to type up.

My plan is to retire as early as I can and spend my mornings writing, and then have someone find a trunk of my stuff 100 years after I am dead and finally become famous.