Pear Noir has accepted 3 poems--2 to be published in the regular journal and one, apparently, to be published as a postcard. Pretty sweet.

At the beginning of the year I posted a to-do list. Since my birthday just passed, I thought I'd revisit it and figure out a summer to-do list.

WRITING TO DO: Summer, 2010

Poetry
1. complete the manuscript for Habit of Doubt, or whatever it ends up being called
-needs more poems about mom, Huntington’s Disease testing, Sword of Damocles, etc.

Short Fiction
1. develop Solum stories collection
2. place Solum stories in good print journals

Novel
1. finish a draft of Clay
2. finish Zombietown & place

FINANCIAL TO DO Summer:
1. pay off smaller student loan

ETC. TO DO Summer
1. read 100 books
2. lose weight

Verse Wisconsin accepted "The Book Store" for their special issue on work. Also, The Dead Mule accepted a chapbook of poems from RICELAND called MY MOTHER MAKING DONUTS, which is forthcoming in June.

http://www.troubadour21.com/series/clbledsoe/the-idealists-part-xii/