The last story that I sent out before I stopped submitting is still out and hit 120 days today. The editor has accepted stories from me in the past, but most of those sales came after a query. Well, I refused to be sucked into his little game. I’ve written it off as lost. I deleted all my market bookmarks so I won’t be tempted to check duotrope, speculations or the black hole.

I have spent a little time formatting two books. One, titled Darkles, will be a collection of my weird tales, and the other, working title Tales from the Silver Streak Bar and Grill, will be a collection of SF. That leaves the high fantasy stories and I am not sure how to collect them. Most are part of a cycle, but the structure is too sparse to tie them together.

I’ll need to think about ways to market any books I finally put together. Putting them on Kindle and the other eText sellers will be easy. I have some of the artwork for Darkles and I am working on a website for it. eJim has been positive about his POD book experience, but I am not fond of the concept. I certainly don’t expect to have enough sales to justify iUniverse and LuLu is over priced. I still have my Indian contact who wants to make a print run, but I am not so sure.