2024 YEAR IN REVIEW

With mere hours to 2025, I quickly threw together my annual Year in Review. Featured in 25 anthological publications (one of which was a supplemental edition of my story 'The Harvest Wheel') and my first published novel 'A Man Called Boy'.

It's been a another crazy and dramatic year and I spent most of it writing, redrafting, and re-reading earlier stories to craft their sequels. Flash fiction, short stories, novelettes, novellas, and novels. Fantasy, Science Fiction, Horror, Steampunk, overlapping into a couple other genres and each other.

When the dust settles from some life changing events promising to kick off the next year, I hope to put out more. My novel 'The Sky is Made of Stone' should be out next year and work has already begun on a sequel to 'A Man Called Boy'.

Thank you to the publications that accepted and published my work this year:

Cloaked Press, Dragon Soul Press, Iron Faeries Publishing, World Stone Publishing, Parsec Magazine, Stygian Lepus Magazine, Black Ink Fiction, Red Cape Publishing, Fiction Atlas, Blue Planet Press, and Dusty Attic.

And thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of my novel or any of the other publications. Have a great 2025.

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