As usual, I wrote the weekly and monthly flash fictions. I posted my tenth anniversary Friday Flash Fiction story (which I’d written a couple of months earlier) and gave myself a break for a couple of weeks on the Friday stories.

Sometimes I make it to doing the four pages a day, sometimes it’s close to four, sometimes I just write a page or so and sometimes I slack off. Oh well, it’s progress! I’m amazed I’m still keeping at it!

I am still on a novella/novelette jag. Worked on two of them I’d started earlier and left off. One from an idea I had almost fifty years ago, and had used the characters in a couple of flash fiction stories.

Started a paranormal Gay romance novellette/novella (there are markets for them!) with a character I’ve written about before (he’s Bi.)

Worked on a novella (fourth different one mentioned here!) that I’ve been working on for a couple of months or so. Getting close to the end, just have to tie some of the sections together.

Worked on a new mystery short-story (not a novella!)

Wrote a couple of reviews and the QueerSciFi Column. I don’t have a nice backing of four or five QSF columns at the ready this time.

But the big writing news is I finally replaced my old laptop! It’s a delight to not have to go to the page where I typed-out numbers (12345…) and symbols (!@#$%…) and paste them elsewhere!

It makes me feel spoiled. Even if this new one is a bit selective with spellcheck and I have to do the spellcheck manually. No big. I was relying too much on the automatic thingie anyway.

That’s about it for now!

—-jeff baker, June 21, 2026.