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- Tue Sep 04, 2012 10:04 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
Congrats, Martin, and thanks, everyone!
- Tue Sep 04, 2012 12:28 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
Well, I know I've been a little scarce, y'all (I'm going to plead "grad school"), but I just had to drop by and brag. I've got a 6,000-word story in the current issue of Emerald Sky magazine (one of the TM Magazine imprints). And if you're reading this and it's still September 2012, it's a...
- Thu Mar 01, 2012 6:09 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340079
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
gower21 wrote:What I did with my nervous energy (and I have a lot with the workshop coming up and now knowing results are coming out). I sent off all my stories that were laying around to new markets. YEAH! Do I get a cookie?
If you e-subbed, I'm willing to bet you got a cookie for each site you visited...
- Sun Feb 26, 2012 8:05 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
WriteToLive wrote:Well, it's been 168 times around, but I finally hit the mark.
I've sold my first story!
Congratulations! It's a great feeling!
- Tue Feb 21, 2012 1:52 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: The Hunger Games Series Paperback/Publishers Are Lame
- Replies: 13
- Views: 7866
Re: The Hunger Games Series Paperback/Publishers Are Lame
You know, your local library may be able to help you out.
- Mon Feb 20, 2012 10:00 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Brad's in Analog AGAIN...
- Replies: 160
- Views: 84162
Re: Brad's in Analog AGAIN...
Congratulations, Brad!
- Fri Feb 17, 2012 3:57 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: Battle of the Books
- Replies: 17
- Views: 7332
Re: Battle of the Books
At least you lost to the best.
- Thu Feb 16, 2012 7:47 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Kary James wrote:IF - THEN - ELSE
Ahh, so that's who the Lords of Cobol are! I thought it was gonna be Zeus, Athena and their ilk.
Yes, but it turned out after years of worship that the Lords of COBOL did not actually exist...

- Wed Feb 15, 2012 3:55 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Martin L. Shoemaker wrote:Welcome aboard, Isto! But I take exception to one thing: there are no former computer programmers. Once you're one of us, you're marked for life...
I know a couple of old COBOL guys who will be happy to hear that...
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:47 pm
- Forum: Art & Illustration
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 17
- Views: 13297
Re: Success!
Congrats again, Marina!
- Wed Feb 15, 2012 12:46 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Welcome, Isto, and good luck!
- Mon Feb 13, 2012 7:58 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Welcome, Beez, and good luck!
And, my unsolicited advice: Finish! Good, bad, or ugly, get it finished.
And, my unsolicited advice: Finish! Good, bad, or ugly, get it finished.
- Sun Feb 12, 2012 7:45 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Welcome, Stephanie!
- Fri Feb 10, 2012 12:33 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Fiona wrote:Hi ya'll! It's me, Fiona! I'm a Q3 2011 illustrator winner who just decided to join the board. I look forward to chatting with you all!
Welcome, Fiona, and congratulations!
- Thu Feb 09, 2012 8:01 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Welcome, Riley Hatchett! Glad to have you join us!
And it sounds to me like you've set excellent goals. Good luck!
And it sounds to me like you've set excellent goals. Good luck!
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 2:53 pm
- Forum: Story Critique Exchange
- Topic: First Four-Fifty Critique Exchanges
- Replies: 250
- Views: 122483
Re: First Four-Fifty Critique Exchanges
Dustin Adams wrote:A two legged elephant doesn't limp. It drags.
Depends on which legs it's missing. I can also imagine an alternating hop-hop movement...
- Sat Jan 28, 2012 10:15 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Welcome, Roger! Good luck with the contest and with your self-publishing endeavors!
- Fri Jan 27, 2012 8:26 am
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
izanobu wrote:And since I've gotten to use my Irish in real life situations, I maintain it was worth learning.
I didn't realize you're one of the people I have to worry might pronounce my name correctly!

- Thu Jan 26, 2012 7:23 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
Delli wrote:Wahoo, sold another story to DSF. This is the second of mine that DSF have picked up and my third saleThe first one they bought a few months ago was flash fiction and this one is almost 4000 words. So, I am pretty stoked with that!
YEEHA! Congratulations!
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
- Replies: 3074
- Views: 731960
Re: NEW USERS! INTRODUCE YOURSELVES!
Welcome, @gethinmorgan!
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:42 am
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: "Beautiful" Prose
- Replies: 74
- Views: 51109
Re: "Beautiful" Prose
Oh, and I should add this: It's very true that there's no real separation between the story and how it's told. If you gave the exact same characters and the exact same plot to two different writers, you'd end up with two different stories, because each writer would write it very differently. But tha...
- Wed Jan 25, 2012 9:08 am
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: "Beautiful" Prose
- Replies: 74
- Views: 51109
Re: "Beautiful" Prose
Lev Grossman's prose always impresses me. His stories leave me wanting. The Magicians is better written than The Magician King , though the latter is less likely to cure insomnia. I was particularly impressed this past year with a debut novel by Genevieve Valentine called Mechanique , though it's qu...
- Fri Jan 20, 2012 11:33 am
- Forum: Art & Illustration
- Topic: Cover Workshop
- Replies: 437
- Views: 174260
Re: Cover Workshop
Version 2 is overall better graphic design, but, again, shrink that down to Amazon thumbnail size, and your font is going to be completely illegible. The fact that the artwork also has legible text in it in fonts that will survive the reduction better is only going to exacerbate that.
- Thu Jan 19, 2012 12:12 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1340079
Re: Q1 Volume 29
FWIW, I got this today: This is a note to let you know that your Illustration has indeed been entered in the 1st quarter of the 2012 Illustrators of the Future contest. Yes, we start a bit early around here, only because way back in 1984 when this contest started the very first quarter was in Octobe...
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:14 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Tout your Kindle and E-Publishing!
- Replies: 601
- Views: 308207
Re: Tout your Kindle and E-Publishing!
So many great new e-books, so little time!
Congratulations, everyone!
Congratulations, everyone!
- Wed Jan 18, 2012 9:12 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
Congrats, Patty!
And I'm eagerly awaiting my first Lois Tilton evisceration, so you can color me jealous. :)
And I'm eagerly awaiting my first Lois Tilton evisceration, so you can color me jealous. :)
- Tue Jan 17, 2012 10:07 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
Strycher wrote:Uhhhh. Sure, I'm up for joining an evil legion. Link?
http://www.sfwa.org/
Once you've got a signed contract, you're eligible for Associate membership, and then forum access will be included with your new member information.
- Tue Jan 17, 2012 9:04 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4296
- Views: 1190113
Re: Success!
Congrats, Strycher!
Does this mean we'll be seeing you over on the SFWA website's forum now, too? We're secretly planning an Associate-member takeover and need all the help we can get. Don't tell anyone, and especially don't post about it to any public forums....
Does this mean we'll be seeing you over on the SFWA website's forum now, too? We're secretly planning an Associate-member takeover and need all the help we can get. Don't tell anyone, and especially don't post about it to any public forums....
- Mon Jan 16, 2012 10:15 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Tout your Kindle and E-Publishing!
- Replies: 601
- Views: 308207
Re: Tout your Kindle and E-Publishing!
soulmirror wrote:I myself am quite worried that Amazon may not accurately count my millionth sale ... so if you guys can just help out and run it up to a million, that'd be, y'know, helpful!
No prob!
Uh, can you spot me $999,999?

- Mon Jan 16, 2012 6:22 pm
- Forum: Interviews: Entrants, Judges, Past Winners
- Topic: Connie Willis
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6926
Re: Connie Willis
Amen, Brad!