submission

It’s Nothing Personal

Prisoner of war is rackin’ em up! Its seventh rejection came from Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show (fondly known as IGMS), and it wasn’t even a personal rejection. But who knows, maybe it was destined for GUD all that time. I sure hope it was, for that is where it is now. I thought […]

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Bean Pod

Just last night, editor Steve Eley over at EscapePod informed me that he would be delighted to buy Beans and marbles for podcast publication. That’s the second story that will soon be available for your iPod! Besides the obvious thrill of receiving an acceptance letter, it also gave me a moment of bemused contemplation at […]

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I Want To Ride My Bicycle

My wife and I made a 600-kilometer circuit of the central Netherlands by bicycle a few weeks back; during that wonderful trip, I’ve learned that riding a bicycle is one of the best ways to see a country up close.* The Dutch countryside, I’ve discovered, is so pretty it looks like a foreign country. Of […]

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Beaten Into Submission

One of the countless upsides of having been through the wonderful second Villa Diodati Writer’s Workshop is another bout of writing motivation. So this morning I submitted: What happened while Don was watching the game, recently rejected by The Town Drunk, to Baen’s Universe, where fellow workshopper Nancy Fulda will have a chance to R-and-R […]

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Positive Feedback

A while back, I mentioned that Leading Edge Magazine wanted to put Diamond Sharks through what they call a ‘developmental editing process’. As editor Audrey Gonzales explained in her email, this meant their DE department would provide me with a list of editorial suggestions for the story, and encourage me to submit a rewrite based […]

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Old News

Somehow, I completely forgot to report on the latest from submissionland: Though I thought I’d wait for the Codex Halloween Contest result before sending out Toby’s trophies, I suddenly realized there was no reason to. It should be at Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine by now. I’m not entirely sure if it’s their cup of tea […]

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Keeping On Top Of Things

lj-mood: doggedly determined To balance out the two rejections I received today, I’ve submitted not two but three stories tonight. <Working title>, the Halloween story with the secret title*, is at my online writer’s group Codex, waiting to be judged by a jury of my peers. The good part is: for the Codex Halloween contest […]

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Hold It Right There!

Wow. That was fast! My painful efforts to cut What happened while Don was watching the game down to half its word count payed off. It took Andromeda Spaceways just a little over two weeks to produce a hold request, which means the new, lean version of the story breezed through the different reading rounds […]

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A Lesson In Mass Murder

Twice as far with half the word count. What happened while Don was watching the game (affectionately known as Whwdwwtg) made it through the initial round of reading at Andromeda Spaceways and is now being considered by editors for inclusion in the magazine. Killing my darlings may have been painful, but apparently it did help […]

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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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