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And They’re Off!

Because The Town Drunk is closed for submission until September 4th, ‘What happened while Don was watching the game’ is on its way to Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.  

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Another One Over The Edge

Excellent! The Leading Edge accepts up to three multiple submissions (submissions by the same author), so while they already have ‘Diamond sharks’, I’ve now sent them ‘Queen of diamonds’ as well.  

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If At First…

The reading break at Andromeda Spaceways is over! (Okay, it has been for a week, but I just realized it today.) ‘Oenocide’ is with them again, minus the offending recipe and the two final paragraphs, which I still think are hilarious, but the editor/first reader wanted out. Ouch! (But at least it took the word […]

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For Want Of A Better Word, Let’s Call It Progress

After a record-breaking 146 days, Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show‘s first reader has passed ‘Queen of Diamonds’ on to the editor. His reading of the story and decision to buy or reject will take only 30-45 more days, their email promises. Which means that there’s a real chance they’ll keep their rejection (or, Editor […]

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Me Silly Sod!

How embarassing! Due to a editing error on my part, Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine has rejected ‘Oenocide’. The editing error (consisting of a failure to edit at all) resulted from ‘Oenocide’ originally being targeted for Gastronomicon II. For GII, each story would have appeared alongside a recipe. Hence, for GII, having a recipe as the […]

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Prisoner of War Released

While response time to actual manuscript submissions is similar in duration to the gestation of elephants, it seems that response time to queries is like the lifetime of the mayfly. An associate editor at Dark Wisdom wrote: Sounds interesting, please feel free to send it along and thanks for asking. So of course, the first […]

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More Submissive Behavior

Yesterday, I re-read ‘Prisoner of war’, the story I wrote for Cat Sparks‘ Agog! Ripping Reads anthology, and discovered to my delight that it’s actually a hell of a lot better than I thought when I finished it. (My girlfriend, though admittedly not the harshest of critiquers, is even asking for a novelization.) So today […]

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Murder Your Darlings

Thank God there’s a precedent for this, be it a twenty year old precedent. In 1986, at age sixteen, in the middle of the night, I wrote a creepy science fiction story entitled ‘Illusion’ (this was so long ago I wrote it in longhand and typed it out the next day on an old-fashioned IBM). […]

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Submissive Behavior

With ‘Diamond Sharks’ on its slow way across the globe to Gordon Van Gelder’s desk, there are now an unprecedented total of three stories in various stages of submission around the world: ‘Queen of Diamonds’ has been lurking at the Intergalactic Medicine Show (Orson Scott Card’s online mag) for almost four months now; almost time […]

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There’s No Excuse For Bad Wine

Though I never even reported on Stuart’s response to my September query, I’ve now finished the story in question, titled it ‘Oenocide’ and submitted it to Stuart’s ‘Gastronomicon II‘ speculative fiction cookbook, a collection of real recipes accompanied by science fiction and fantasy stories. And although I had a whopping two months to write a […]

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