I’m terrible at it — tooting my own horn.  I haven’t written lately because I’m still amazed any of you might be interested.

However, there are four big writerly things I should have posted about this year and I only ever posted about one.

Many of you have read “Blue” which won second in the 2016 Writers’ Guild of Texas Flash Fiction Award.  I think it might even be linked somewhere on this page, if not you can always click here.  Well, to add to my WGT honors, I am happy to say  I won both first and second place in the 2017 WGT Flash Fiction competition with “Spin Me Charlie” and “A Dark Fog” respectively.  Read “Spin Me, Charlie” here and “A Dark Fog” here. I’m really proud of this accomplishment and effectively broke the competition.  You can only win one title per contest now.  (Crazy, but I wish I’d won third too!)

I mentioned in a previous post about book three in the short story anthology “Short and Sweet” by Grace Publishing, edited by Susan Cheeves King coming out in April.  In addition to that good news, I’m happy to say book four in the “Short and Sweet” anthology by Grace Publishing just came out and is available on Amazon.  It was another instance of “Happy Mail”.  I’m always amazed to see my name in print.

So there you have it, folks.  Four biggees.  Two contest wins and two traditionally published works.

I will try to keep everyone apprised of big happenings sooner to when they actually happen.  Books are still in the works.  I’ll be seeking beta readers soon.  So hit me up…

I’m also one of the judges for the Granbury Texas Writers’ Bloc Fiction Challenge each month.  Enter that competition so I can be wowed by your genius.  (And yes, I’m speaking directly to you, Howard.)  Seriously though, it’s great fun.  Learn more about it here.

Read something good,

Leah