Doug Goodman

Hello.  It has been a while.  The last post was in July, but hopefully the posts should turn up more regularly now.  I am going to do some obedience work with Ryder, and Mojo and I will be attending a cadaver dog seminar in early November.  I am working on a second novel, and I am also building a few short stories as well.

As part of all this, I am dusting off the website.  I cleared out some HTML cobwebs and brushed off the old code.  I changed out the monthly story for the first time in too long.  (Go check it out if you get a chance.  I have Queen Anne's Corpse up.  Since Arkham Tales is now listed as a "dead market," I thought it was time to post the Corpse to my website.  Besides, it will be up in October, and how can you not post a story about corpses in October?) 

I have heard several times writers referring to published novels as not so much being finished projects but being in a state of doneness at the time.  I completely get that.  When posting Queen Anne's Corpse, I had to resist the urge to rewrite.  I changed one word, but that's it, I swear!

A couple of weeks ago, I also re-read about five of my old short stories that never published and sent them off as submissions.  They still sounded good, so I thought "Why not?"  Already, oneof them has been rejected, which oddly enough has a "back to the grind" feel to it.  Good to be back.  Now let's see if any of those rejections can change into acceptances.