My story titled: “Red Spinny Dress” won third place in the 2023 Bucks County Short Story Competition. This is the second time I’ve entered and the first time accepted. The
I entered a story story into the 2023 Bucks County Community College Short Story Competition. The story is called “Spinny Red Dress” and is about the last days of one
Perfect Beach Day is now being sold by BrowseAbout Books in Rehoboth Beach DE, and Farley’s Book Shop in New Hope PA. I dropped off books at BrowseAbout on Friday
A Company Name Every book has to be published by a publishing house, and so since I’m self-publishing, I started a new company: Uncle Fuzzy Press. This is the latest
One Final Edit I just hired a gentleman to do the final proofreading on all the stories and front matter in the book. He will have the proofreading done in
A Big Milestone Wow – I hit a significant milestone yesterday, I hit 3,000,000 words written since starting to keep track. That includes any stories only including revision or complete
10 Stories Edited I hired a Beta Reader to take a fresh look at the 17 stories to be included in Beach Misses. She’s returned 10 of them and will
Off to the Editor Took a huge step this week. I sent the entire book of short stories to the editor. I should have the comments and corrections back in
Scary but Fascinating. I took the first step in self-publishing this week. I sent one of the stories from the Beach Misses series to three beta readers I found and hired online.
In a seriously stupid move, I crashed this site. While updating a post on this site, I was having trouble getting the post to display as wanted. I know blogging
PERFECT BEACH DAY – Books are in!
Thanks for visiting my website.
For the last several years, my artistic focus has been writing. I tried my hand at a short story contest in a local anthology and really loved the writing process. Since then, I’ve written dozens of short stories, a few novella and novel-length works, and a whole lot of plots. This site will predominately showcase my writing and have some family and quirky stuff tossed in. My current project will be the lead, with past projects below.
Feel free to contact me if you see something that interests you, find a spelling mistake, want to read one of my works, or especially if you are interested in publishing my latest novel.
This site is a work in progress; I am still figuring out how best to present my writing. Suggestions are welcomed.
Lonn
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Work In Process:
- Meant To Be – due to a computer crash, I lost the last edited version. So I’ll need to take a step back and do the final revision again.
- Stacy Fischer Can Dance The Tango Considering making this a serial posting. A friend suggested I start a fo-fund-me page to have the book published. I was thinking more like asking for 10¢ a chapter if you liked the chapter. That may be whacked.
- The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth – If Perfect Beach Day gets any traction from bookstore sales or my personal website sales, I will put this at the top of the list and try to have it ready for 2024.
- Red Spinny Dress – This is a story that I wrote a rough draft for two years ago, but then I got busy with other stories for various competitions. At the witching hour right after Christmas, the preverbal lightbulb went on and I was running through the story. I took another look at it and realized the problem. The first chapter is a good short story worth working on. The rest of the story is not. Suddenly I realized the full story wasn’t about the real conflict with the protagonist. So the story meandered around chapter one’s theme and went nowhere. I opened up K.M. Weiland’s Novel Outlining program and figured it out on the first page – I did understand the real conflict. I do now and am re-plotting the story. The good news, the first chapter fits well. This will be my next full-length work to work on. (NOTE: Chapter 1 is being re-written for submission to the Bucks County Community College Short Story Competition. If by some chance it wins, I will still continue the novel version.)
- Canal Ghost: Just when you don’t need another story to write, one pops into my head. I started a story for the Bucks County Community College short story contest but it was too long at the halfway point. I stopped it and shelved it but it kept coming back in those wee hours. Every morning, I would write down the ideas that came to me and by the end of last week, I had to give it a go. So I plotted out the entire story. Now the question is: when to write it?
Work In Process:
- Meant To Be – due to a computer crash, I lost the last edited version. So I’ll need to take a step back and do the final revision again.
- Stacy Fischer Can Dance The Tango Considering making this a serial posting. A friend suggested I start a fo-fund-me page to have the book published. I was thinking more like asking for 10¢ a chapter if you liked the chapter. That may be whacked.
- The Cat Who Saved Rehoboth – If Perfect Beach Day gets any traction from bookstore sales or my personal website sales, I will put this at the top of the list and try to have it ready for 2024.
- Red Spinny Dress – This is a story that I wrote a rough draft for two years ago, but then I got busy with other stories for various competitions. At the witching hour right after Christmas, the preverbal lightbulb went on and I was running through the story. I took another look at it and realized the problem. The first chapter is a good short story worth working on. The rest of the story is not. Suddenly I realized the full story wasn’t about the real conflict with the protagonist. So the story meandered around chapter one’s theme and went nowhere. I opened up K.M. Weiland’s Novel Outlining program and figured it out on the first page – I did understand the real conflict. I do now and am re-plotting the story. The good news, the first chapter fits well. This will be my next full-length work to work on. (NOTE: Chapter 1 is being re-written for submission to the Bucks County Community College Short Story Competition. If by some chance it wins, I will still continue the novel version.)
- Canal Ghost: Just when you don’t need another story to write, one pops into my head. I started a story for the Bucks County Community College short story contest but it was too long at the halfway point. I stopped it and shelved it but it kept coming back in those wee hours. Every morning, I would write down the ideas that came to me and by the end of last week, I had to give it a go. So I plotted out the entire story. Now the question is: when to write it?