September 28, 2025

Rejections, Renewal, and a Better Headspace

Hello friends,

It’s been a full month since my last newsletter—longer than I planned. I appreciate your understanding as I work to get back on schedule.

Here’s what’s been happening:

• Submissions & Rejections: Twelve poems sent out, seven rejections back. I am confident that once I get my work in front of the right editor at the right time, they will see their worth.
• New Collection Drafted: The manuscript is complete, though the perfect title still eludes me.
  Nothing quite fits the mood yet, but I’ll know it when I find it.
• Headspace: Mentally, I’ve been in a steadier place lately. I wake with less dread, but more peace.
  Writing from peace is different, slower, more deliberate, but I am committed to sharing the good times too, not just the dark ones

• Other Projects:

  • Planning the 25th-anniversary edition of Broken Images
  • Editing and formatting the new, untitled collection
  • Paused the speculative short-story collection. I may return to it in a few months.

Thank you for reading.

Until next time,
-Donnie

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