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By the way, y'all, I know this has been said before, but it bears repeating: Your honorable mentions and semi-finalists are GOOD stories. I've sold stories that were straight-up rejects here. Several people I know have sold HMs and SFs to big-three magazines, unchanged. Give yours a quick looksee to...

It's interesting that you were told it's a disqualification. I'm aware of two withdrawals. If there's also a DQ, then there might be a third slot opening up.

Congratulations, and good luck!

Congrats, Martin, and thanks, everyone!

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...

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...

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!

You know, your local library may be able to help you out.

Congratulations, Brad!

At least you lost to the best.

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...

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...

Congrats again, Marina!

Welcome, Isto, and good luck!

Welcome, Beez, and good luck!

And, my unsolicited advice: Finish! Good, bad, or ugly, get it finished.

Welcome, Stephanie!

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!

Welcome, Riley Hatchett! Glad to have you join us!

And it sounds to me like you've set excellent goals. Good luck!

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...

Welcome, Roger! Good luck with the contest and with your self-publishing endeavors!

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!

Delli wrote:Wahoo, sold another story to DSF. This is the second of mine that DSF have picked up and my third sale The 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!

Welcome, @gethinmorgan!

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...

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...

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.

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...

So many great new e-books, so little time!

Congratulations, everyone!

Congrats, Patty!

And I'm eagerly awaiting my first Lois Tilton evisceration, so you can color me jealous. :)

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.

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....