It's been awhile since I've gotten around to blogging, and this year has been full of big changes for me. I got a new job in 2022 in Farmington Hills, and the drive was pretty long, an hour and fifteen minutes, from my home in Flint. A great opportunity presented itself in March to purchase a home in Center Line, MI. My drive now is only 20 minutes and what a difference! The awesome thing, too, is that my employer okayed a second work-from-home day so that means I'm saving even more gas money and wear and tear on my car!
The upstairs of the house was an unfinished attic so we finished it with paneling and drywall and now I have an awesome office upstairs with room for my sewing and scrapbooking as well as my library and computer. I've got a lovely double window that looks into my neighbor's garden.
The downside to this is that I've not been able to connect with any local writers and now my writer friends from Flint Area Writers and the Buckham Gallery literary artists are so far away. I've made the commitment, however, to keep attending the FAW critique group every other Friday. And I've submitted a piece to the upcoming Buckham anthology on diners and drive-ins. It takes place at the Starlight Diner and the Gennesee Valley Mall in the 1980s.
I do have some other publication news! My short story, "The Campaign," will be published in Kai's Recurring Nightmares by the Great Lakes Association of Horror Writers. They are doing publicity for the anthology on social media now. Recurring Nightmares is actually a charity auction and all of the funds are given to a literacy program. For a donation, your name is entered into the hat so to speak and can be drawn as the name for the next anthology. So it's titled "Your Name's Recurring Nightmares." The writers must include your name as a character in the story and one other element of the donor's choice. This collection required the name Kai and the need to incorporate DnD's iconic dice. I opted for a obvious use of the dice by writing about a DnD campaign that goes horribly wrong. I loved writing the characters in this story!
My other forthcoming publication is a horror poem for another GLAHW anthology about Sweet Sixteens. In my poem, Haze, a teenager takes some Ecstacy, walks through a cemetery and runs into an alluring mare. All I can tell you is that the mare isn't what she seems.
I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying your summer! Let me know what you've been up to.
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