Updates

I finished Boogeyman and subbed it off to Dark Discoveries and am now somewhat impatiently waiting for a response. Still have not heard back from Beyond Centauri and I now am pretty sure I will never again sub anything to that publisher (insert irked face here). Working on a new story titled Grandmother Dearest which my Husband assures me qualifies me as "one sick puppy". When I am finished with that I might try sending it to Pseudopod, or maybe I'll send Boogeyman there if it gets rejected by Dark Discoveries. I think that one might lend itself better to a podcast. Right now my short term goal is to sell something for enough moolah that I will qualify to join the Horror Writers Association at least as an Affiliate, so I am only subbing things out to places that will achieve that for me. I think when I am done with my latest short story I am going to go back to the screenplay that my Husband and I wrote together. I sent it out to an agency that did coverage for me and indicated that they might accept it if I did a major rewrite and indicated what they wanted changed. I've been putting that off, because it's a pain in my butt, but the payoff could be huge so I really need to buckle down and finish the darned thing. I'm waiting for some mood music I ordered from Nox Arcana, I think that will help me stay on track ;)

TTFN

Skulls

I love skulls. Always have. Not because I am a dark goth weirdo, I just find them fascinating from an artistic perspective. I used to carry a skull key chain (which got me a lot of sideways looks considering I am a suburban Mom). I have skulls in both of my fish tanks (I love fish!). My teenage boys love me because I buy them all kinds of clothes with skulls on them. So I have an idea for my picture for this blog and my upcoming Facebook page, but I had to tell my husband that I want a full sized skull replica for my birthday which is on the 24th. It will also make a nice interest item to place on one of the bookshelves in the library in my house that my husband is currently working on. I'm excited! Oh, and my son says Hi! See ya!

Two weird dreams in one night...

Often I get fodder for my stories from dreams I have. I guess I am lucky that I dream every night and I always remember them. Some of them are quite weird. Last night I had two of them because my lovely male teenage children woke me up in the middle of the night when they decided they needed a midnight snack.

So the first one I can only remember had something to do with flooding and trying to plow a field with help from my Ex Husband who later hooked up with my MOTHER! Dude. Can you say YUCK! On both counts.

The second one was very vivid, I remember lots of colors from it. Yes, I dream in color. Always have. I have previously had a real estate license, so I dreamed that I was acting as a real estate agent trying to help my current boss find a new house in some kind of surreal desert gulch kind of setting. The houses were really neat, architecture wise, and the area was like a busy touristy area. We got lost though, I found the house once but when I went to take her back to it we couldn't find it. Figures. We did find it right before I woke up. I remember that the house was a dark teal color with wood shakes as the exterior, and the interior was like a lodge kind of thing with wood beams and a stone fireplace and slate floor. Very nice. Nothing I think I can make a story out of though. Oh well.

Welcome to my blog

Welcome to The Stuff of Nightmares, the blog of Carolanne Patton, writer of Horror and occasionally Science Fiction. I thought it was about time I start a blog since I have a couple of stories published. You can read Robbing the Cradle in the 6th issue of Sex and Murder Magazine (www.sexandmurder.com) and Night Thief will be in the coming first issue of Night Chills Magazine (www.blackmatrixpub.com). I have a flash fiction piece currently offered out to Beyond Centauri Magazine (man they take a long time to get back to you!). Right now I am working on a short story titled Boogeyman while occasionally thinking about adding to a feature length screenplay I started called Walter's Crypt. One of these days I am going to start a novel (yeah, we all say that don't we?). One of my short stories would actually make a good prologue for a novel, I might take it in that direction. Anyway, that's all for now, I better get back to the actual writing and stuff ;)