The Grand Adventures of Daisy Donnie

Unfortunately the publisher I sent parts of the manuscript to have passed, with this pleasant (and rather quick) letter to that effect:
Thank you for sharing your work, The Grand Adventures of Daisy Donnie, with us.
Unfortunately, this manuscript is not quite what we are looking for at this time.
Please keep us in mind for any future submissions.
One [...]

I’ve gotten off my ample arse and started submitting DaisyDonnie to publishers.
The first off the bat is Edge and Tesseract books in Canada who specialise in Science-Fiction and Fantasy novels. One of the major problems I’ve had with Daisy Donnie (other than a singluar inclination to actually buckle down and submit the book to a [...]

True, they are members of the Penfolde family, but that isn’t revealing much.
They have a terrible past, but let’s be honest here — who doesn’t?
Granted, at twenty one and a bit, they’ve had their fair share of parties, drugs, running and encounters with famous people… but they can’t be said to have a lot of [...]

DaisyDonnie has been suffering of late. I haven’t been here for a good month what with being busy with writing lots and lots of words in the right order to make new stories.
But a facelift was in order, and I hope you like it. No longer are there the interminably long menus, dropping off the [...]

When I was little I absolutely loved a particular TV show. I don’t know why I did, whether it was the stories, the hardware, the fact there was a woman in a lead role, the man in charge or simply the concepts. It was the first TV show I actually noticed and my first experience [...]

He woke with a killer headache and instinctively felt between his legs. Satisfied, he opened his eyes. They focussed finally and unfortunately they were pointing at a television screen, high in the corner of the room, a room that turned out to be a shop, a shop that turned out to be a burger bar. [...]

Daisy Penfolde turned from the swings and walked away, trying to ignore her daughter’s squeals of delight as she ran to Caroline Rook’s waiting arms…
She felt numb, but all things considered, that was at least something. With her legs on automatic, she moved through quiet streets without even the tears to mourn the loss of [...]

It’s been a few weeks — well, nearly a damn month — of hard work and supposed cashy money to offset the lack of creativity. Course, I’ve written four short movie scripts which I’ll post in a subpage on the site, but other than that there’s been no DaisyDonnie action whatsoever.
This is about to change [...]

Pinpricks of distant light fall upon the earth and the moon. This light is millions, billions of years old.
There comes a sudden flash of orange and green; and something falls through from another reality: A ship.
It is listing, dying slowly; damaged perhaps beyond repair. If there is anyone still on-board, they’re either unconscious or dead. [...]

I and my good friends once owned a domain. It was a nifty domain (think it cost us $30US for a year at the time). It was for a street magazine I’d conceived on the flight back to OZ from the UK.
We let it go. There simply wasn’t the time to keep the magazine going [...]