mmerriam | The Obligatory 2010 Writing Year in Review Post.

2010 Stats
Sales: 11
Rejections: 70
Publications: 14
Approximate Word Count: 258,000
Short Stories Finished: 2
Novelettes and Novella Finished: 1
Novels Finished: 2
Anthology Edited: 1
Works-in-Progress: 2 Novels – 4 Short Stories

Pieces Sold
Novel:
"Last Car to Annwn Station" to Carina Press.

Novella:
"Should We Drown In Feathered Sleep" to Carina Press.

Short Stories:
"And The River Shall Be Your Bed" to Tower of Light.
"Ectobytes" to Chaos Theory: Tales Askew.
"Fourth Dimensional Pony in the Concourse of the Lost" to Golden Visions Magazine.
"Starry Night" to Golden Visions Magazine.
"The Shipmaster's Widow" to 365 Tomorrows.
"Wings" to Absent Willow Review.

Reprints:
"And A Song In Her Hair" to Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fantasy II.
"At the Edge of Twilight, Melissa Remembers Flight" to Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales.
"Jenny's Magic" to Hazard Cat.

Pieces Published
Novellas:
"The Horror at Cold Springs" by Sam's Dot Publishing. May, 2010.
"Should We Drown In Feathered Sleep" by Carina Press. November 2010.

Short Stories:
"A Hot Cup At The Last Station" in Bards and Sages Quarterly. July 2010.
"And The River Shall Be Your Bed" in Tower of Light. July 2010.
"By Moonlight" in Aoife's Kiss. June, 2010.
"Doors Through the Place You Live" in Ray Gun Revival. January, 2010.
"Ectobytes" in Chaos Theory: Tales Askew. June, 2010.
"Fourth Dimensional Pony in the Concourse of the Lost" in Golden Visions Magazine. October 2010.
"Starry Night" in Golden Visions Magazine. July 2010.
"The Shipmaster's Widow" in 365 Tomorrows. February, 2010.
"Wings" in Absent Willow Review.. November 2010.

Reprints:
"And A Song In Her Hair" in Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fantasy II. November, 2010.
"At the Edge of Twilight, Melissa Remembers Flight" in Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales. September 2010.
"Jenny's Magic" in Hazard Cat. October, 2010.

2010 was a really good year, to be honest. 2010 saw two of my novellas, Should We Drown in Feathered Sleep ( Carina Press, Amazon, B&N ) and The Horror at Cold Springs ( The Genre Mall. ), published as stand-alone books, even as other writers and editors told me how novellas don't sell. Both novellas garnered several positive reviews. I also had the pleasure of editing an anthology for the first time, Northern Lights: 20 MinnSpec Tales ( The Genre Mall ) a project I was very excited about. I also had a reprint of "And A Song In Her Hair" appear in The Best of Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, Fantasy II, and saw the sale and publication of "A Hot Cup At The Last Station," a story that could never seem to find a home despite editorial love in the rejections.

My word count for the year was the highest ever, despite the fact that I felt like the words were coming too slow. That high word count happened because 2010 was the year I made the conscious choice to focus more on longer works, novels and novella, with me finishing a novel I had started the year before and then completing another novel. I also finished a novella, began a new novel, and outlined two more. Because of this shift in focus, I only completed two short stories, though I have four more in progress. At this time I only have six short stories out on submission. In the past I have kept a dozen or so out circulating.

The biggest news of the year was selling my first novel, "Last Car to Annwn Station," to Carina Press. I cannot tell you how overjoyed I am at this.

Were there disappointments? Sure, but I refuse to let those disappointments spoil what was--for me as a writer--a damned fine year.