Donna Maree Hanson, Author, Phd in Creative Writing

Finally after a lot of hard work on the part of Michael C Pennington at Aurora Wolf (and Alaskan based small press), Novus Creatura is available on Amazon.com

There isn’t a cover image yet though, but I am very confident of the production quality. Michael advised the contributors that he had done 3 proofs and he also consulted the authors to get them to go over the proofs of their own story. I really appreciate the care he and co-editor Linda have put in to get the anthology into production. I am also grateful to John JAM Miller for organising it. Novus Creatura was an anthology that was caught up in the Lame Goat Press fumble. Lame Goat, which had taken on a very ambitious schedule, went into a spasm and dropped a quite a few projects. I have been lucky that the two I had stories in were championed by the editors. Static Movement published Deep Space Terror and now Aurora Wolf , Creatura. Michael has also been very generous with us, sending contributor copies. When I get back from England in October I will be putting my order in as I want to see the other stories as well as my own in print.

On the writing front, I’ve been sending stories out. I’ve had two rejections in a paranormal romance anthology but now that I sort of know what they are looking for I am working on story number three and hoping that it is the lucky one. I have four other stories out, two with the same collection. I have one of those stories lined up to go elsewhere.

I also have a story in a competition and need to send in a new one before I leave next week. Egads! I didn’t realise.

I have another story half-drafted for another anthology that I am aiming to get into. Make that two short stories half-written for two anthologies I want to get into. I really do want to get them done before I go because when I get back I will need to pull up the socks and go back to novel writing. I have had fun with the shorts while they lasted.