Blog Post #2 - Short and Sweet

I'm still learning my way around this whole blogging thing. I am supposedly -- supposedly -- updating this thing every Wednesday and Sunday. Well, today is Sunday and I forgot to do it before now, which is 6:15 pm. 

In the interest of keeping this short, because supper is almost ready. I will simply say that this week I submitted two short stories, a new one and one that has been making the rounds. I also did some work on the cozy mystery I am ghostwriting.

Ghostwriting is something I have come to enjoy over these past few years. I started out by doing an autobiography for a former member of the writers group I was a member of back in Doylestown. He was a fairly well-known clinical psychologist. I enjoyed the experience, though I have since learned how to do it better.

My next ghostwriting gig took place a couple of years later and was easier for me, as it was a science-fiction novel. I'd previously (and subsequently) written and published a fair bit of sf over the years, so that was fun. My client thought I did a good job, as well. I started getting a few more jobs in that line, until I now have a dozen or so ghostwritten works to my credit.

After that I wrote a post-apocalyptic sf novel for another client, and a sort of high fantasy novel for another. And now I am writing the second in a series of paranormal cozy mysteries, after having written one non-paranormal cozy for a different client. I can't go into much more detail about these works due to non-disclosure agreements, as I'm sure you can understand.

Perhaps next time I'll discuss a bit more about how I got interested in writing in the first place.

For now I'll close with a piece of art. This is a barn in Solebury, NJ, not far from New Hope. I painted in plein air about 20 years ago, in oils.



Comments

  1. PT DillowayMarch 21, 2021 at 9:56 PM

    Ghostwriting would be neat to try. If you want to show off the comic book art you did for me feel free.

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  2. harry bellMarch 28, 2021 at 11:52 AM

    I'll be interested to see how you get on. I started my blog in 2004 with the intention of giving it a kind of fanzine-like quality. Over the years I've pretty much kept up the posting but the lack of response is quite dispiriting and now I more or less use the blog as a useful compendium of my artwork. If I want to know when I painted something, the blog will tell me.

    Anyway, good luck with yours!

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  3. A.L. SiroisMarch 28, 2021 at 4:09 PM

    Frankly, I'm doing this because I'm hoping to use it as a way to help me publicize my writing. And, I suppose, to a lesser extent, my artwork. I think you are handling your blog really well, Harry.

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