So I’ve mentioned a couple of acceptances I’ve had this week, and the ones I have pending. Now, to put that into context a little bit, since May 1st, also I have submitted 15 stories that were rejected, and withdrawn 1 (Because it was accepted by Clean Sheets.)
So, since May 1st that is
39 submissions,
21 of [...] Read more »

Scribe and Quill accepted my story The Truth About Priscilla, which was originally published in a print magazine called Short Stuff for Grownups several years ago. Woot!
Right now I have 21 submissions out. Interesting statistics:
2 are at 100 days
2 are at 84 days
4 are at 82 days
1 is at 17 days (There were a lot [...] Read more »

It has been an insane few months. I attended my grad school residency, which went very well, and am currently working on my second packet. (Going half time is the best decision I could have made, more on that later.)
In July I attended a writers and agents conference, and pitched my novel Moving on Nightfall [...] Read more »

So of the stories I have out, three are running a long time, not a big deal.
But of the five I sent out in the last few weeks I have received two rejections already, from Not One of Us, and Vestal Review. One is for a long poem I am having a lot of trouble [...] Read more »

Part three of three.
Part One
Part Two
Ok, so we’ve covered what a copyright is, and what it means to sell rights to publish a work. Now we’ll talk about bad ways to loose your first rights.
One bad way we’ve covered is to post your work online for free without having a clear plan on how [...] Read more »

Part two of three.
Part One.
Yesterday I talked about what a copyright is, how to obtain one, and what it means. Today I am going to talk about this concept of selling rights of publication for your work. When you submit a piece of writing to a market, you are offering them chance – or the [...] Read more »

(Part one of three)
Many beginning writers worry about whether they need to copyright their works for a variety of reasons. They worry that someone could plagiarize and claim ownership over their work, that editors or agents might steal their writing or their ideas, or that at some point they might need to prove that a [...] Read more »

(and, I am anal ), I got an email saying the myspace blog of the Terrible Beauty, Frightful Symmetry anthology had updated.
“Sincerest apologies for the delays…I returned on February 3rd and came down with a truly nasty case of bronchitis the next day and have been hors de combat ever since. This past Sunday [...] Read more »

So I took a peek at their site just to see if anything new had been posted as last I read, they were going to respond the week after the 4th of Feb, and found this.
“Because of the DELUGE
of stories we recieved (approx. 480 for the 2 anthos.) some of you may not be [...] Read more »

I received an interesting article, Get Real: Online vs. Print Publishing, via one of my online writing groups, which asked writers which medium they preferred to submit their writing to, online or print. It is an interesting article with some extremely varied responses. This is an ongoing debate, and I think most writers I know, [...] Read more »

Just received the email (4am in the morning no less!) from Tattoo Highway.
congratulations! “liturgy of the abandoned” has tied for 2nd place in our “picture worth 500 words” contest.

Sweet! I’ll post when I know for sure the publication date.
And I get paid! Read more »

I have had a submission out to the “Slow Magazine” (not the real name obviously!) for quite a while – since February of 2007 as a matter of fact. This particular piece is a long poem, which they specifically state they like in their guidelines. Because I am anal (and my handwriting sucks!) I had [...] Read more »

So, one of the markets that I am waiting to hear back from is Dark Hart Press. I submitted a piece for their anthology Terrible Beauty, Fearful Symmetry back in November, and they had over 300 responses. The information link, once the submissions were closed the end of Dec., was set up to lead to [...] Read more »

I was perusing the guidelines for Strange Horizons,an online speculative fiction magazine, and found they have two great lists of plot lines they see too often. As they say:
This is not a canonical list of bad stories or story cliches. This is a list of types of stories that we at SH have seen [...] Read more »

What do you mean postally isn’t a real word? Oh, ok. Well, on the serious side, as more and more publications establish an online presence, and more and more accept electronic submissions, this method of submitting had become less of a novelty and more of a norm. Glimmer Train prefers electronic submissions, and The Kenyon [...] Read more »