First, the bad news. Well, my depression's been flaring up a lot lately. It's made it hard to work on anything, even the projects I have real responsibilities to. Sales the past month have slumped. My laptop decided to update when it need to which then locked my Microsoft Office programs, which means I had to go in, and pay to unlock it before I could work on anything, even when I felt up to it.
It's hardly all bad though, I have a few exciting prospects to make sure you all know about.
This one you'll know if you follow me on Twitter or Facebook, but I'm writing for an actual Horror website now! (Now being the past year, give or take...). I've been writing for the website iHorror.com! Go check out some of the articles I have up! Meeting and working with some great people on there, to be sure.
While this month's sales aren't hot, they were over the summer. Class 5 is up to 26 ratings and 10 reviews for an average of 3.58 out of 5 stars, and Hannah (which got new cover art over the summer) has 4 ratings and 2 reviews, for an average of 4.5 out of 5 stars!
And for a little bit of extra bonus news, that I've been sitting on for the past several months to ensure things work out, I sold my first short story! That's right! I'm announcing that my short story "Sunday School" was accepted to be published in an anthology titled Transcendent by Transmundane Press! Edits are being worked on now, with a release hopefully by the end of the year. I've got a little more than just news though, check out this cover art!
I'll try to post a little more often, so I hope you'll stick with me while I ride out this rough patch.
Shaun, first of all, congratulations on the short story sale! That's really exciting stuff, and you deserve it. Your writing is so much better than a lot of stuff out there, and I'm glad more people will get to find it through another avenue.
ReplyDeleteI'm sorry to hear about the depression. It sucks, and the cycles seem to be unavoidable, but just keep on plugging along when you can and try not to beat yourself up when you can't. A good support system makes a world of difference.
Great that you have a steady gig on iHorror! I'll have to send my oldest son over there—he's a huge horror movie fan and is always looking for good ones (and bad ones, too, since the awful movies give him something to creatively tear apart).