Showing posts with label acceptances. Show all posts
Showing posts with label acceptances. Show all posts
Saturday, February 14
Wednesday, February 11
WolfSpider - Accepted!
Three Crows Press accepted Wolf Spider! ^_____________^ It was getting so close to Valentine's Day that I was beginning to assume they weren't bothering to send out rejections, but poking their livejournal this morning suggested I'd hear today or tomorrow. $0.01 a word! Awesome eZine! Can't get the victory rhumba out of my head!
On the back of that, I've sent Pluvial to All Hallows. It seems more in their stride than Ruin, and I've got slightly stronger credits than before!
On the back of that, I've sent Pluvial to All Hallows. It seems more in their stride than Ruin, and I've got slightly stronger credits than before!
Friday, January 23
Foody Friday: Chicken Tea Supreme
This one kinda proved why people might look at me askance for posting recipes. You can learn from my mistakes, okay?
This is a bit of a quick one because I'm going out. I've made qite a few changes to the original recipe, because 2 oz of tea is a lot, it didn't taste great, and no one needs that much sauce for only two chicken breasts.
Ingredients
2 Chicken Breasts
3 tbsps Stock
500 ml Water
0.5 oz Earl Grey
250 ml Coconut milk
1 tbsp Butter
2 tbsp Plain Flour
Equipment
2 saucepans
Strainer/Sieve
Overproof dish
Instructions
Put chicken into stock and put in oven on 200 degrees.
Boil water. Add stock and tea. Simmer for four minutes.
Strain into second saucepan. Give first saucepan a quick wipe.
Add coconut milk to tea/stock mix. Bring to boil and simmer for a few minutes.
Make a roux with butter and flour in other saucepan (melt butter and add flour bit by bit until you have a smooth thick paste).
Gradually add the mix to the roux to make a thick sauce.
Taste a few times. Don't add sugar. No, really. Add more stock, if you don't like it.
Wipe now empty saucepan and boil your veg in it.
Drain chicken.
Put everything on a plate. Or, as the original instructions suggested:
Sources:
Perrier-Robert, Annie; The Book of Tea (in France Le Te); Hachete Illustrated; 1999
In unrelated news, Trapped has appeared on Flashes in the Dark. Enjoy!
This is a bit of a quick one because I'm going out. I've made qite a few changes to the original recipe, because 2 oz of tea is a lot, it didn't taste great, and no one needs that much sauce for only two chicken breasts.
Chicken Tea Supreme
Ingredients
2 Chicken Breasts
3 tbsps Stock
500 ml Water
0.5 oz Earl Grey
250 ml Coconut milk
1 tbsp Butter
2 tbsp Plain Flour
Equipment
2 saucepans
Strainer/Sieve
Overproof dish
Instructions
Put chicken into stock and put in oven on 200 degrees.
Boil water. Add stock and tea. Simmer for four minutes.
Strain into second saucepan. Give first saucepan a quick wipe.
Add coconut milk to tea/stock mix. Bring to boil and simmer for a few minutes.
Make a roux with butter and flour in other saucepan (melt butter and add flour bit by bit until you have a smooth thick paste).
Gradually add the mix to the roux to make a thick sauce.
Taste a few times. Don't add sugar. No, really. Add more stock, if you don't like it.
Wipe now empty saucepan and boil your veg in it.
Drain chicken.
Put everything on a plate. Or, as the original instructions suggested:
slice chicken finely, and arrange in a fan shape with baby veg and a garnish of parsley
Sources:
Perrier-Robert, Annie; The Book of Tea (in France Le Te); Hachete Illustrated; 1999
In unrelated news, Trapped has appeared on Flashes in the Dark. Enjoy!
Thursday, January 1
Happy New Year!
New Years also demand new resolutions, but like most people, I tend to recycle the old ones. They're perfectly servicable, after all:
1 - Keep Writing
2 - Keep Revising
3 - Keep Submitting
However, I've been struggling to find a work to describe where I want to go with my writing. Too vague to be goals, too specific to be ambitions. 'Resolutions' fits perfectly. So, here are my long term resolutions:
1 - Write approx 3 Erotic novellas, and several short stories
(Selkie, Bliss, another, and WolfSpider and other short stories)
2 - Write at least 2 pulpy adventure stories
(The Dark, that moon-out-of-sync idea...)
3 - Complete at least one Greenhelm trilogy
(fairly striaghtforward, that one)
4 - Write 3 children's/young adult stories
(House with Too Many Doors, Tower in the Wood, Deliberate Changeling)
5 - Write approx 20 ghost stories. Get at least 10 published, then consider anthologies
(though evidence suggests I might need to get all 20 published before thinking of anthologies...)
One day, I'd like to come back and strikeout the ones I've achieved, like I did with yesterday's cleaning list!
A good way to start a new year: with a submission! I discovered Flashes in the Dark about, oh, ten minutes ago, and I've sent Trapped to them. Ruin came back from All Hallows yesterday, and I'm going to send Pluvial to them soon.
I also edited an chapter of Greenhelm and a chapter of The Dark. Greenhelm has been much neglected of late, and I've been putting off The Dark because I've made a decision to change the setting, which of course requires a lot of minor changes. I was never comfortable setting it in Lesotho, so I've moved it to a fictional island in the South Pacific.
I spent most of today making enough chicken soup to last me the month. Also, a huge pan of beef and bean chilli. No more cooking for me in January!
ETA: And Trapped has been accepted! That's insanely prompt ^_^ It will appear on the site on the 23rd of January!
Edit again: I've updated the site to reflect this. I've also instigated the most recent rejig (I really have to learn to leave the layout alone!) which splits the writing up by pseudonym. I've also included Winter08's site-specific story, which was originally written thanks to prompts at
the_literatzzi.
1 - Keep Writing
2 - Keep Revising
3 - Keep Submitting
However, I've been struggling to find a work to describe where I want to go with my writing. Too vague to be goals, too specific to be ambitions. 'Resolutions' fits perfectly. So, here are my long term resolutions:
1 - Write approx 3 Erotic novellas, and several short stories
(Selkie, Bliss, another, and WolfSpider and other short stories)
2 - Write at least 2 pulpy adventure stories
(The Dark, that moon-out-of-sync idea...)
3 - Complete at least one Greenhelm trilogy
(fairly striaghtforward, that one)
4 - Write 3 children's/young adult stories
(House with Too Many Doors, Tower in the Wood, Deliberate Changeling)
5 - Write approx 20 ghost stories. Get at least 10 published, then consider anthologies
(though evidence suggests I might need to get all 20 published before thinking of anthologies...)
One day, I'd like to come back and strikeout the ones I've achieved, like I did with yesterday's cleaning list!
A good way to start a new year: with a submission! I discovered Flashes in the Dark about, oh, ten minutes ago, and I've sent Trapped to them. Ruin came back from All Hallows yesterday, and I'm going to send Pluvial to them soon.
I also edited an chapter of Greenhelm and a chapter of The Dark. Greenhelm has been much neglected of late, and I've been putting off The Dark because I've made a decision to change the setting, which of course requires a lot of minor changes. I was never comfortable setting it in Lesotho, so I've moved it to a fictional island in the South Pacific.
I spent most of today making enough chicken soup to last me the month. Also, a huge pan of beef and bean chilli. No more cooking for me in January!
ETA: And Trapped has been accepted! That's insanely prompt ^_^ It will appear on the site on the 23rd of January!
Edit again: I've updated the site to reflect this. I've also instigated the most recent rejig (I really have to learn to leave the layout alone!) which splits the writing up by pseudonym. I've also included Winter08's site-specific story, which was originally written thanks to prompts at
the_literatzzi.
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