m. c. de marco

Paramourtal has been slightly delayed but should be out sometime this month, with my story still in it. I have seen the proofs and it’s looking good.

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…

Thanks to some fellow Odyssey graduates for pointing me to the latest Writers of the Future contest news. The first set of honorable mentions for last quarter has been up at the new location of the WotF blog for a while now. The second set appeared in a press release last week; yours truly was honorably mentioned. The semi-finalists and finalists came out yesterday in another press release.

My shortest story yet was published today at Thaumatrope, an sf/f/h twitter fiction magazine. I dimly recall submitting it, apparently in response to a call for steampunk and/or holiday stories, but I figured Bad Elf had killed little Timmy and buried his body in the slush pile.

To submit your own 140 characters of immortal speculative prose, all you need is a twitter account.

A little horror story of mine will be appearing when least expected. More details will follow as they become available.

I got another mysterious Honorable Mention certificate in the mail yesterday. I hadn’t seen my name on the Writers of the Future blog back when the finalists were announced for last quarter, but this time when I checked back I found myself listed after all. I thought the story was pretty good, although possibly doomed by thoughtless typos, so it was a relief to find out they also thought it was passable.

I’ve been wondering what became of my WotF entry from last quarter, and today I think I found out. I got an Honorable Mention certificate in the mail, along with my SASE. This could be a stray certificate from another quarter—-my name was not mentioned on the WotF blog this time—-but the timing suggests this quarter.