Progress Report April/May 2026

Not as many things finished or even worked on but I’ve worked on a couple of way longer stories. Most notably the YA-Sci-Fi/Science-Fantasy novella I mentioned last month. Finished it and sent it off. 20,000+ words! Then I suddenly found a call for an “LGBT Arthurian Fantasy” anthology so I wrote up something I had been intending to do for years as I had already mentioned one of the characters in a flash fiction story.

Edited an older story that I sent off to a market and dreamed up the ending for another story that is on the back burner.

Wrote up another longer story, seven pages in one day!! Also wrote a bunch of the regular flash fiction stories, a couple of reviews and the QSF column for May.

As for the romance novella/novelette I mentioned last month, I got back into doing that once I finished other stuff and I now have twenty-seven pages done.

I’m trying to keep up with the four-pages-a-day thing for at least five days a week but I get lazy sometimes and just don’t do it.

And speaking of those near-weekly flash fictions, I’ve been doing those for ten years as of this month—-not bad!!!

That’s about it for now! —–jeff baker May 21, 2026