short stories – Page 6 – Joanne Anderton

Mar 26

Out Hunting for Teeth!

By Joanne

Yesterday I received the very, very exciting news that my short story Out Hunting for Teeth has been accepted into Midnight Echo #6! And seriously, just look at that TOC! I’m humbled (and a little terrified) by the company. Out Hunting for Teeth was inspired by Goya’s etching of the same name This image really struck me …

Mar 20

Random updates on the state of things

By Joanne

Debris is starting to feel like OMG, this might actually be a real book! I’ve seen sketches of the cover (a cover! REAL books have those!) and a few people around the place have been reading it and saying some nice things. One of them even rambled nice things about it at Galactic Suburbia a …

Jan 22

Belated story news

By Joanne

Well, I’m back. Actually, I’ve been back for a few days. However, I returned from no internet access to very slow internet access. There will be a proper writing-retreat related post soon, maybe tomorrow, but it will require more patience than I have now. It just took me all night to upload four photos. *sigh* …

Oct 25

Kinda like Alien just without the chest-burstyness

By Joanne

So, I’m incubating a novel. This wasn’t an unplanned novel incubation, so the symptoms aren’t all that surprising. I knew the story I wanted to write next. I have worldbuilding ideas scribbled in a notebook and I met the main character and her dog a few months ago. But only recently, like in the past …

Aug 28

Short stories: more than just filling in the time between novels

By Joanne

So, while I wait for the novel brain to recover, I’m playing with short stories. That sounds like I don’t appreciate my short stories for who they are, but I do, really *pets them and hopes they don’t get offended and walk off in a huff* I’ve always felt that short story writing and novel …