My contributor copies for my story “Sin and Toil” have arrived! This is my fifth published story in On Spec. My previous stories include: A Ragman’s Vow, From the Sea, Touch the Dead, and A Terrible Loyalty. There’s already a bit of a review (though more commentary, I suppose) over at Apex Magazine, on “Sin and Toil”. Update We had a bit of a sump pump malfunction so that last couple weeks have not been as productive as I would have liked. I’m nearly ready to deploy the complete Lazy Designer series to those who have purchased it from my direct buy site. Hopefully this week. A couple weeks after…

In case you think I’m just repeating myself, this is not the same post as my earlier announcement. This science fiction story is called ‘Sin and Toil’ and I’m very pleased that they’ve chosen it. For those of you counting this makes six stories that I’ve placed with On Spec. Three have been published already. I am not sure when the other three will show up in print but I imagine at least one will appear in 2013. The stories that are available are: A Ragman’s Vow From the Sea Touch the Dead And the stories that have yet to appear: A Terrible Loyalty A Primer on the Ins and…