Day: August 22, 2007

Prisoner of War Re-Released

In my depression over Dark Wisdom’s rejection of Prisoner of war, it took me a while to look into where else it might go. Fortunately, the only other market that rejected it so far was Agog! Ripping Reads (in favor of Queen of diamonds, which also got rejected, this time for length). Which means there’s […]

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Big No-Nos

In a discussion on the private forum of my online writers group Codex, a thread grew that discussed all the things a writer should not do in his fiction. The thread was fed mainly by editors venting their frustrations about all the ways in which hopeful would-be writers contaminate the slush pile with bad writing. […]

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