My Story is a Winner!

I learned yesterday that my short story The Naked Truth won second place for the Reality theme in the Accentuate Writers Services short story contest, and will appear in a print anthology to be published later this year by Twin Trinity.   Their first anthology, Elements of the Soul, is currently in press, and should be out in the bookstores soon.  You can pre-order it online at a discounted price here.

I am thrilled beyond words about this!  I hadn't written any fiction for quite a long while, having gotten discouraged by a string of rejections of my short story submissions.  I know, I know, all writers get multitudes of rejections, it's expected, it goes with the territory, many classic novels were rejected dozens if not hundreds of times before they were finally published... I know all these things, but last fall when I discovered that I can actually publish my non-fiction articles immediately and get a few bucks for them, the fiction fell by the wayside.  I haven't lost the dream of someday becoming a published novelist, however, and now the fact that one of my stories was judged to be worthy of printing in this anthology has encouraged me enormously.  I'm working on a new story that I plan to submit for the Death theme in September.