Archive for ‘Submissions’

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May23

First Sale!

by admin on May 23rd, 2011 at 5:47 pm
Posted In: Blog, Books, Submissions, Writing

I meant to post this last Thursday, but these days my status at any given moment is either busy, exhausted, or asleep. Spring has come and gone, and the hot temperatures it left in its wake leave me sluggish and introspective. A week ago I received the contract for my first sale of a short […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May17

Deadline Trains

by admin on May 17th, 2009 at 2:56 am
Posted In: Blog, Submissions

Deadlines feel something like trains to me. There is the bullet train deadlines, the ones you don’t know about until they’re on you, and the far scarier freight train deadlines, where you can feel it coming long before it reachs. You can hear them coming, but then the ground shakes and the noise gets louder […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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May18

The First

by admin on May 18th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Posted In: Blog, Submissions, Writing

I got my first rejection Saturday. It was for my short story for the Sword and Sorceress Anthology. I got a short, but nicely worded form response that can be summed up as ‘not for us, try elsewhere’. Perhaps all my research and reading has paid off as I was underwhelmed by my causal acceptance. […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…

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