In my year-end review I mentioned a piece that I marked on Duotrope as an “assumed rejection.” Being the person I am, I don’t like loose ends, such as stories I don’t hear back on. Before this group I am about to talk about, I had only two long-time stories, and they were LONG – [...] Read more »

Before I go into my year-end statistics overview, a happy announcement. I had two stories go live last month,
“Tumbleweeds and Highways” was published in Clean Sheets.
“Web of Death” was published in MicroHorror.
I also finished the month on 100 Words which you can read at Val Gryphin’s December Batch.
Go check them out and if you have [...] Read more »

The Houston Literary Review has accepted my long poem, Eulogy for Life.
And in that time period between this and my last acceptance I have also received 1o rejections.
And I have 8 stories out to 15 markets.
AND! NaNoWriMo starts in about 48 hours! I’ll be blogging my progress heh heh heh. I am invoking the Zokutou [...] Read more »

So I spent yesterday smoothing out the site. The text should now be consistent overall, I changed the way the links highlight on mouse over, all my contact information is now in one spot – and look over there
<————– there is a page with links to my publishing credits I’m anal about going [...] 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 »

Or, in non-ten-year-old-speak, Duotrope has gotten a nice facelift. Their icons have gotten larger and clearer, and the colors of the genre icons are much clearer, making it much easier to tell which genre a market is looking for. (Before the colors of the genres could get confusing.) The payscale and length of works accepted [...] 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 »

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 »

One of the stories I submitted last year went to an online magazine, and let me tell you that was an up and down ride.
The first email I got was this:
We’re delighted to let you know that your story, “Short Story,” has just been accepted for its second step in our selection process. Each of [...] Read more »

Years ago when I started trying to write seriously I purchased a subscription to Writer’s Digest, and I kept it going for a few years. The more I wrote however, the less help I found the magazine as a whole. Part of the reason was that I found they often ran articles that were variations [...] 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 »