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.
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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.