Category Archives: Short Story

COSine 2024 – After-Action Report

Posted on January 26, 2024 by fpdorchak

Last weekend I attended my fourth COSine conference. My schedule had been the following: Sat 9 a.m., Main Events: Give Yourself Permission to Suck Sat 2 p.m., Lobby Nook: Encouraging Advice for Artists and Writers Sat 5:30 p.m., Atrium: Author … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books, Fun, Metaphysical, Music, Paranormal, Reincarnation, Science Fiction, Short Story, Space, Spooky, Technology, To Be Human, UFOs, Writing | Tagged Art, Books, Conferences, Conventions, COSine, COSine2024, Fans, Fantasy Cons, Movies, Pikes Peak Makerspace, Tandy Computing, TRS-80 | 4 Comments

I’m Surprisingly Okay

Posted on January 18, 2024 by fpdorchak

I couldn’t leave my last post as it was. After having had the insulting, exhausted, mixed feelings of being ignored by New York City Publishing, I came back the next day, well, rather exited! Thank you to all who left … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books, Short Story, To Be Human, Writing | Tagged Coping, Moving On, Optimism, Optimist, rebirth | 4 Comments

Calling it “Quits”

Posted on January 15, 2024 by fpdorchak

Even though I’ve been fighting with this decision the past two years, my agent made the decision easier for me today: she had to drop my manuscript (ms) with her. She’s sent it to all of the legit houses, even … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Short Story, To Be Human, Writing | Tagged Door Number Three, Failure, Moving On, Publishing, Quitting, Regrouping, The Next Door, Writing | 13 Comments

COSine 2024

Posted on January 11, 2024 by fpdorchak

Next weekend (Jan 19 – 21, 2024) I am attending COSine 2024 in Colorado Springs. My panel schedule is as follows: Sat 9 a.m., Main Events: Give Yourself Permission to Suck Sat 2 p.m., Lobby Nook: Encouraging Advice for Artists … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Book Covers, Books, Fantasy, Fun, Leisure, Metaphysical, Music, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Short Story, Space, Spooky, Technology, To Be Human, UFOs, Writing | Tagged Anthologies, Cons, Conventions, COS, COSine, Fans, Independant Publishing, self publishing, Short Stories, sine, Writers | 3 Comments

MileHiCon55 – After-Action Report

Posted on November 22, 2023 by fpdorchak

Apologies for being late in getting this here, but I had several huge projects I had to first complete. That said… My schedule last month consisted of: Tuckerizations (moderated) Successful Indie Publishing (moderated) The Reading Game (moderated) Mass Autographing Tuckerizations … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Metaphysical, Paranormal, Reincarnation, Science Fiction, Short Story, Space, Spooky, Technology, To Be Human, UFOs, Writing | Tagged Books, Ed Bryant, ERO, Fantasy, Fun, Fun Ribbons, Horror, MHC54, MileHiCon, paranormal, Science Fiction, Short story, Space, Spooky, Technology, UFOs, weird, Writing and tagged Conventions | 2 Comments

Attending MileHiCon55 2023

Posted on October 25, 2023 by fpdorchak

This weekend I’m attending the 2023 MileHiCon in Denver, Colorado. Here is my schedule: Fri 5p, Conifer 2: Tuckerizations. I’m moderating this panel. Fri 6p, Evergreen B: Successful Indie Publishing. I’m moderating this panel. Sat 2p, Evergreen C/D: The Reading … Continue reading →

Posted in Art, Books, Fantasy, Fun, Leisure, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Short Story, Space, Spooky, To Be Human, UFOs, Writing | Tagged Books, Ed Bryant, Fantasy, Fun, Fun Ribbons, Horror, MHC54, MileHiCon, paranormal, Science Fiction, Short story, Space, Spooky, Technology, UFOs, weird, Writing and tagged Conventions | 1 Comment

Good Stories…REALLY Good Stories…

Posted on June 26, 2023 by fpdorchak

Remember this: Good stories never give up their endings without a fight. F. P. Dorchak

Posted in Books, Metaphysical, Short Story, Writing | Tagged Books, Quotes, Short Stories, Writing | 3 Comments

COSine 2023 After-Action Report

Posted on January 27, 2023 by fpdorchak

I’d attended COSine 2023 last weekend. I’d been on the following panels: Saturday 2 p.m., event room: Cripple Creek: Short Stories / Anthologies. Saturday 4 p.m., event room: Front Range: A-Z of Self-Publishing. Sunday 10 a.m., event room: Main Events: … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Fantasy, Metaphysical, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Short Story, Space, Technology, To Be Human, Writing | Tagged Anthologies, Conferences, Connie Willis, Conventions, Indie Publishing, Liquid-Nitrogen Ice Cream, self publishing, Short Stories, Titan, Titanic, Writing | 3 Comments

COSine 2023

Posted on January 18, 2023 by fpdorchak

This weekend I am attending COSine 2023 in Colorado Springs. My panel schedule is as follows: Saturday 2 p.m., event room: Cripple Creek: Short Stories / Anthologies. Saturday 4 p.m., event room: Front Range: A-Z of Self-Publishing. Sunday 10 a.m., … Continue reading →

Posted in Fantasy, Metaphysical, Paranormal, Science Fiction, Short Story, Space, Spooky, Technology, To Be Human, UFOs, Writing | Tagged Anthologies, Cons, Conventions, COSine, Fans, Independant Publishing, self publishing, Short Stories, Titanic, Writers | 6 Comments

MileHiCon54 – A Look Back

Posted on October 28, 2022 by fpdorchak

I attended my second Con of the year last weekend, MileHiCon54. The first one I attended was COSine 2022. The Con had changed hotels to the Denver Tech Center’s Marriott. It was a pretty nice hotel, but my room had … Continue reading →