At Long Last

IT'S OFFICIALLY HERE!

They roll in from unknown places, mysterious and unexplained. They take root, take over, spread to all corners and refuse to be eradicated. no one can say why they came, but there's no arguing that they're up to no good. These plants are out for blood, and getting rid of them will take a certain kind of hero - the best kind.

Twenty-five tales of evil weeds to entertain, enthrall and change the way you look at the unwelcome invaders in your lawn. From feral tumbleweeds to ravenous seaweed, from alien life forms to migrating asteroid fields, in these pages you will find fairy tales and weird westerns, space romps and chilling horror stories.

Scary or silly, wicked or wily, these plants are here to stay.

Wandering Weeds Now Available:

Print in Createspace store: https://www.createspace.com/4081868

Amazon print version: http://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Weeds-Tales-Rabid-Vegetation/dp/1481158767/

Amazon Kindle ebook version: http://www.amazon.com/Wandering-Weeds-Tales-Vegetation-ebook/dp/B00AHGKUUM/

And Starting Monday, Dec 10

The Wandering Weeds Blog Hop!

(more links to be added soon)

http://francespauli.blogspot.com

 http://katiemjohn.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/wandering-weeds-anthology.html

http://katiemjohn.blogspot.co.uk

http://mpaxauthor.com/blog/

http://lmaskill.wordpress.com/my-blog-writing-editing-and-other-stuff/

http://www.adrianeceallaigh.com/

http://vossfoster.blogspot.com/

 http://ericjguignard.blogspot.com

 http://jaletaclegg.blogspot.com/2012/12/free-short-story.html

http://wanderingweeds.blogspot.com/

 rebeccalbrownupdates.wordpress.com

http://david-j-west.blogspot.com/

I'm waiting on a final proof copy before signing off on the published work. Sorry this has been so slow. A lot of things are happening backstage so to speak that have nothing to do with the anthology except to slow it down. But it is coming. Promise...

It's coming. I promise...

Thanks for all your patience. The book is in the final layout stages. I think I've tweaked everything that needed tweaked. I'll let you know any news as soon as I know.

The book looks great!

Latest Update...

Hall Bros. Entertainment is finalizing the files. We should have an anthology soon. Stay tuned for information and a release party...

Galley Time Folks

The Galleys have been sent! Watch your inboxes for your first peek at our book, and a fabulous surprise as well.
:)

Thanks, everyone.

Frances

DANGER Will Robinson

Okay folks, we are down to the wire. The stories have been edited and contracts and requests sent out, but we still have some things that are not turned back in, and there are authors in danger of losing their spot in this anthology. We have a March 10 deadline for getting everything in to Jaleta, and I want everyone to make it!

Seriously, after falling in love with all these stories, if we have to cut one I will cry. It wont be pretty.

So, look for a letter today in your email. If you have things not turned in and you do NOT get this letter, we may not have your current or correct email address. Be  proactive and get in touch with us ASAP.

Everyone else, get those contracts, bios and pics and dear heavens EDITS back into us as immediately as you can. Weeds is waiting for you.....but not for much longer.

Thanks in advance for hopping to it,
Frances

Tentative Table of Contents

Frances and I have been busy. First round edits have all gone out. If you didn't get it, please email me ASAP. Some of the stories need a lot of work. But be assured that we still love them. We wouldn't have accepted them otherwise. We also understand that many of you are first-time author newbies. Please feel free to ask either of us questions. Editing is painful, but necessary to really make these stories shine.

We also put together a tentative table of contents for the anthology. Here it is:














(Maybe. Technology hates me today.) We color coded for length, so we don't get too many of the same length close together. We're moving forward with negotiations on the contract, too. I'm excited to see this coming together.

Update!

Hi, people.

Great news- we've got another publisher who's excited to take on our anthology. Cyberwizard Productions has bowed out, too many projects and not enough time or money for them to do it justice. They've been gracious about the process and no hard feelings. Hall Brothers Entertainment has offered to publish Wandering Weeds. We're in negotiation with them now on terms and such.

 Edits are proceeding. If you don't hear from me or Frances in the next week or so, please email me and let me know we missed your story. Things have been crazy in my life the last few months and I've dropped more than one thing lately. wanderingweeds@gmail.com

We're hoping to start finalizing this thing soon. I'm aiming for a late spring publication date if we can make it happen. Tumbleweeds are starting to tumble!

Houston, we're green to go!

Good news - we have the green light from the publisher. We've got the acceptances finalized. I'm thinking of shooting for a spring release, but only if we get moving.

Frances and I will be sending out edits in the next month or two. I'll be sending out contracts over the next week or so. If you don't hear from me by the end of November, please send me a message.

I'm excited for this anthology. If any of you know an artist or two who would like to play with illustrations, please send them my way. They'll get the same deal all of us do: discounted copies from the publisher and bragging rights. Details will be spelled out in the contract.

So, yee-haw! Let's beat those weeds back where they belong!

Almost there

I know I keep promising a final list of stories. I apologize. My life has been turned upside-down. We still have two stories we're on the fence about (we'll be in touch soon, promise!), but we've made decisions on all the others. Thank you to everyone who submitted. We had a lot of fun reading all the stories. Writing rejections was one of the hardest things I've ever done. It's a learning experience for us as editors. Frances and I have never done this kind of thing before.

Here's the list of the acceptances in no particular order



The Souls of the Wicked by Francis Pauli
They Call the Wind Mariah by Jaleta Clegg
The Tumbas by M. Pax
Weeds by James Hartley
Tumbleweed by Robert Borski
Cowchip Charlie by Charlene C. Harmon
The Colors of Blood by Kevin J. Childs
Tumblers by M. Baker
Desert Oracles by Katie M John
Feral Tumbleweeds by Monique Guilland
Fair Weather, with a Chance of Tumbleweeds by Andrea Tantillo
Legends of the Tumbleweeds by Duane Ackerson
Garden of Legion by David J. West
Sleeping Beauty by Louise James
Duncan Derring and the Lady Luck by Bryan Thomas
Beyond the Fence by Rebecca L. Brown
Thistle by Terry Alexander
Fun with Weed Eradication by Berin Stephens
I survived the sargasso sea by Eric J. Guignard
Crispy Fried Pickles at the Mad Scientist Café by Katherine Sanger
The Great Tragedy of the Illustrious Empire by Audrey Young
Oh, Dark Tumbleweed by Brian D. Mazur

We'll keep you posted on updates as we work with the publisher.

Update - Almost ready to close subs

Thanks for your patience. Frances and I spent a while discussing stories last week. We have two that we're still on the fence about accepting. Decisions should come later this week. We'll post a list of accepted stories then. We have enough for the word count, although we have room for a few more if you know anyone dying to get in to this volume. They just need to submit them ASAP.

Thanks for writing such fun stories. I'm excited for this collection to hit the shelves. It's a fun one.

Weeds Update

I know we promised a final list soon, but life has a way of interfering with deadlines and emergencies and the flu. We're still working through the files. You should get an email from us in the next few days with the list of accepted stories. Frances and I are also working our way through some initial edits. Once we have the anthology mostly put together, we'll be sending it to Cyberwizard Productions for final typesetting and edits.

Timeline to publication? I don't have a date but I expect it should be sometime early in 2012. We'll be in touch with more information as we have it.

Thanks for your patience!

Captain's Log, stardate April 26

Just a note to let you know we are working on finalizing the anthology. We're reviewing submissions and sending out some rewriting suggestions. This is shaping up to be a fun story fest. Who knew that evil weeds would be such an entertaining topic?

Thanks for all who submitted to us. We appreciate your efforts whether you were accepted or not. Frances and I are both writers, too, so those rejections were hard to write and send out. We have felt your pain.

We should be getting in touch with those who were short-listed and letting you know our decision on your story. Once we have all the acceptances out, I'll post the ToC for you here. This has been a fun journey and definitely another learning experience for me. I'm looking forward to seeing the anthology in print.

For those unsure of the details, the anthology "Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation" will be published through Cyberwizard Productions. Once we finalize the acceptances, you should receive a contract for your story. We are not offering payment for this anthology, but you will have the option of buying as many discounted copies as you want while the anthology is in print.

Thanks once again to all the talented authors out there. Good luck in your writing!

Acceptances and other good news

Hi. If you've submitted a story to us, you should have heard back. If you haven't, please drop me an email at wanderingweeds@gmail.com.

We're getting the anthology into shape. We've had lots of great stories submitted. Sending out rejections has been the hardest part of editing this. I'm a writer, too, and I know how bad those rejections can sting.

The anthology is almost full. If you know someone who was thinking of writing a story, tell them to hurry and get it submitted. Once we hit our word count of acceptances, we're closing the slush pile.

Thanks for your participation in this. It's been an eye-opening experience for me as a first-time editor.

First round of acceptances will go out Monday

Hi, everyone.

Sorry for such a long wait. Life happened.

We will be contacting everyone next week, so if you submitted and don't get something from us by Friday, please drop me an email. Include the name of your story so I can double check that we have it in our pile. This editing thing is more complicated than I thought, so it's taking longer than we expected.

The anthology is about 2/3 full, so if you know anyone with a story about evil weeds, have them send it in. It doesn't have to be set in the American West or have tumbleweeds, just some kind of evil plant life as the villain.

We're waiting for more good stories to read!

Deadline Extended!

Due to a lack of evil weeds, must be the weather, we're extending the deadline. The anthology will be open until filled. We'll post a real date when we get close to closing.

So if you've decided not to write that story because the deadline was too close, think again. Think of how much fun you could have writing about weeds devouring an entire town, or weeds from space conquering our planet or some other planet, or zombie weeds that will not die. Wait, those are growing in my front yard...

We're eagerly waiting for your submissions! Email your stories about weeds to wanderingweeds@gmail.com

Full guidelines are here: http://wanderingweeds.blogspot.com/2010/09/calling-all-authors-anthology.html

We're not through Weeding...

We're still looking for stories of Wicked Weeds of all varieties. The deadline is Dec. 31, but if you have a great story not quite finished, just let us know. We can be as flexible as those evil balls of thorny dehydrated vegetation.

For those wondering about payment, we are with a real publisher, Cyberwizard Productions, a small press. There is no payment for the story, but you can buy as many discounted copies as you like to resell. You do get all the bragging rights you want.

And if things work out, you may get some awesome bookmarks and possibly righteous weed seeds, meaning some useful and different garden seeds to try. It depends on how many stories my co-editor and I get to read. We're excited about this subject and thrilled to put this anthology together.

How many anthologies about evil tumbleweeds exist out there?

Status Update

We're rolling in some really vicious, evil weeds here at the editing offices. Good thing it's virtual and so are the tumbleweeds! I'm stocking up on weed killer all the same.

Keep sending them, please. We still have plenty more room for more weeds, just make sure they're bad.

We're in the process of contacting those who have submitted already, so if you haven't heard from us yet, it's coming.

Calling all authors! Anthology submissions open!

How would you like to join us for a trip to the dark side of desert fauna? We're talking seriously deranged tumbleweeds. We're looking for stories up to 5000 words long that deal with tumbleweeds - feral, vicious, deadly, twisted, radioactive - we don't care what, as long as those weeds are BAD, and we mean wicked BAD.

Write up that weird west tale you've always wanted to tell. Submit it to our anthology. We want everything from science fiction to fantasy to horror to everything in between.

Deadline for submission: Dec. 31, 2010
Send your stories, .doc format, to: wanderingweeds@gmail.com
Please include your contact information and a short blurb about your story.

Guidelines:

Submit your manuscript using standard format (word docs only, please!). We aren't too picky, as long as we can open the file and read your story, we're happy. We want stories that have been polished, spell-checked, and edited by at least the author. Proof-read before submitting, please!

We are not interested in profanity of any kind, extreme violence, or steamy sex scenes. Keep it PG-13 and you should be good. Please, no profanity. Made-up cuss words are fine.

Story length can be 1 word up to 5,000 words. Flash fiction and poetry will be considered as long as it fits the theme.

If accepted for publication, the author will receive one contributor's copy and the right to purchase as many copies as desired at the cost of printing. If you want to sell it, you can keep your profits from the sales. This is a print-only anthology.

There is a possibility of creating an ebook version, if we can work out how to be fair with the royalties. If your story is accepted, we will be in touch.

This anthology will be published through Cyberwizard Productions, http://cyberwizardproductions.com