I really must post more...but I've been busy. Writing, editing, searching for markets...not blogging. But I really need to add it to the schedule more. I have made 133 subs so far this year. 54 of them have been rejected...some of those more than once...but I am trying. I have a goal of 50 subs a month as a ballpark. So far, with all those subs, I have only 9 acceptances, but obviously--especially since some of the rejected pieces were submitted last year--I am waiting on an answer for most of them.

I decided at the end of last year that I was going to make some changes to my social media presence. As a result, I tabled Patreon--where I was terrible at posting--and, instead, joined Substack as a creator. The secret motivations behind this were twofold: It would allow me to beef up my poetry tutorial stats It would be a new place to show off my poems…

It's been a busy two weeks so far. I've been writing a poem a day and submitting at least one piece a day. So far, I am sitting at 17 for the year. That's an entire extra week's worth. That feels pretty good. The majority of these pieces have been new, and most have been submitted to paying markets. That's a change from most years where I have done more "for the love" submissions.

Scant hours to go before 2024 is in the rearview mirror and 2025 is on the doorstep. Feels like it's been both a very long and really short year. I have been part of some amazing things this year. Projects I am extremely proud of--Dastardly Damsels; Sleeve of Hearts; and my own poetry collection Two Dozen Stars…

This is a time of exploration and adjustment for me. I want to go into the New Year with a fresh start. As part of that, I am rethinking my platform presence. So, I have officially closed my Patreon creator page (if you still find it, it's an accident) and started fresh on Substack. So far, I am loving it.

(Today's guest post by my dear friend, Wyndie Deaver, shows that you don't have to devote a huge amount of time to get visible results...) I hate cleaning. It’s gotten worse since I moved in with Dad. Going from an apartment to one bedroom was bad enough. But all my teenage disdain for housekeeping returned, so I let stuff pile up and up and pray none of it topples over.

Hey horror fans! My name is Lee Andrew Forman, and I'm primarily a horror and dark fiction writer. First, I’d like to thank Rie Sheridan Rose for hosting me on her blog, The Rogers-Vincent Home for Wayward Spirits and Bar-B-Que Grill! Next, I’d like to talk a little about my latest book, The Bury Box. The Bury Box is an exploration of death through the eyes of a child.

Well, it's been a minute since I touched the website at all. So, today I decided to finally do something I have been contemplating for quite some time. Consolidating all four WordPress sites into one. In the end, this will make life much easier and help me keep it organized better. But for now, it's a hot mess. I started out by deleting the extra pages with the same title...until I realized what they were, so now I have to go and retrieve the info off them all before trashing them.

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! The Gathering by Rie Sheridan Rose  “Is he here yet?” someone whispered, glancing around the shadowed clearing. It was just past twilight, and …

The Ladies of HorrorPicture-Prompt Writing Challenge! I'll Fly Away... by Rie Sheridan Rose  They say the end is near… that the world as we know it lies doomed to a destruction we could have preve...