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And the word is - nope. I did not win but I am not depressed. Coming this far on a story I fully would not expect to strike's Dave's fancy is a good feeling all on its own. Commiserations. I feel like we're all fairly poor judges of "what strikes Dave's fancy"; things we send with high ho...

And the word is - nope.
I did not win but I am not depressed. Coming this far on a story I fully would not expect to strike's Dave's fancy is a good feeling all on its own.

Thank you everyone. Honestly I had very nearly forgotten about the entry but it goes to show you can not predict the editor. Submit - that's your job. accept or reject is their's do not do it for them. How true. And congratulations on making Finalist, Bob! Here's to your making the top three! The w...

Thank you everyone. Honestly I had very nearly forgotten about the entry but it goes to show you can not predict the editor.
Submit - that's your job.
accept or reject is their's do not do it for them.

so Q2 vol 34 I posted that Dave had returned me to the dog house.
Last week I found out that this year, this Q2, I am a finalist.
It doesn't seem real.

Dave has returned me to the doghouse

R

amyhg wrote:

Dustin Adams wrote:Amy(?)
Here's a handy link for some non-winning finalist stories.
viewtopic.php?f=16&t=2081

Thanks, Dustin. Awesome resource.
Amy

Amy,
there's a lot to learn here and the population of this forum is the best I've found on the internet.

any market recommendations for a christian themed vampire story?
I really have no clue where to send this HM....

wotf058 Almost had a heart attack when I heard Joni's voice! WOW! Congrats! Isn't it thrilling to hear her voice on the other end of the line? So happy for you! Old timers here know my story of Joni calling me for an HM. I suspect she grabbed the wrong number and didn't mean to call me and simply m...

HM Congratulations to everyone above. To be honest I knew this one had a problem but until today I didn't know what to do about it. Strange how it seems so easy when it's too late! By the way, newer members might want to calculate their WotF batting average. It's simply every entry = at bat and eve...

Jeremyteg wrote:wotf058

Almost had a heart attack when I heard Joni's voice!

Congrats!

I must admit that I thought a heavily Christian themed vvampire story stood no chance and an HM is quite a surprise.

Honorable Mention
He didn't entirely hate it.

greenroom wrote:From today's conference call, Dave finished his second pass today, and will be starting his third (and, I think ,though am not sure, final) pass which, it sounded like, he is hoping to get through by Monday or Tuesday.

I refuse to allow my hopes to rise.

The best thing in the world for the waiting is work. My agent advised me that my next novel submission had a few too many typos. (Yeah I really suck at proofing.) So I am having my computer read it out aloud, the entire 80600 words. That should keep me out of trouble while Dave decides which catego...

The best thing in the world for the waiting is work. My agent advised me that my next novel submission had a few too many typos. (Yeah I really suck at proofing.) So I am having my computer read it out aloud, the entire 80600 words. That should keep me out of trouble while Dave decides which categor...

From a slusher: you can only ever hurt your chances with a cover letter. I scan the cover letter for two pieces of info (relevant to PodCastle): word count and reprint/original. Some markets only take originals so you don't need to mention the latter; other markets also accept multiple genres, so m...

Randy Hulshizer wrote:

disgruntledpeony wrote:It's also possible that the duplicate got rejected because it was a duplicate. Who knows?

Yeah, that was essentially what Joni suggested, although it did seem strange that I got the R first...

Well, I am sticking to the interpretation that helps my fragile ego.
LOL

greenroom wrote:As of today, Dave's still working on judging Q1, and has a hundred or so stories yet to read through that he's hoping to get through in the next week or so.

ahh I may not have survived a first pass after all.
Nope, my pass is destine to be
Dyatlov Pass.

I actually used contests and joni. She responded to both messages and then informed me that she strongly prefers we correspond using one or the other as both go to her. Another lesson learned. Yeah, I sent my sub to both emails one quarter, and my story somehow got entered twice. I got an early R a...

We have cleared all mooring and cast off all lines. The last of the buoys are behind us and swells are lifting the bow.
Engage the twitch drive and proceed to flak speed.

My command will dive to crush depth and await the dark.

preston wrote:I'm in! Couldn't quite finish the story I wanted to enter, but that means I'll have plenty of time to polish it for next quarter. That is, if I need to.

Welcome to the party, Pal!

Well, today March 28th I am, once again, in.
Story submitted, email from Joni rcv'd.
There is no separating a fool from his folly.

Unless the story I sent to Flametree comes back in time, I may have a hard time making it in this quarter. I'd been procrastinating on editing, and then yesterday I ended up making a trip to the emergency room because of pain in my stomach and back (among other things). Long story short, I'm alrigh...

The award ceremony is April 2nd. I'm guessing we won't hear much more back until after then. As of yesterday, Dave's still in the middle of his 2nd pass, and expects it to be another week or two until he completes that. So unless there's a second round of rejections yet to go out from the first pas...

You know I really and truly have gotten to the 'I just don't twitch' stage,
It may be indicative of an attitude problem.

Dustin Adams wrote:Right. The Grinder.
Need to update my sub.


Just keep writing.
Just keep submitting.

That's all we can do. And learn patience - which for me is as challenging as spelling.

Ok here is who I have left. Even smaller list now. wotf018 DECEMBER 1ST pdblake DECEMBER 16TH reigheena DECEMBER 22ND disgruntledpeony DECEMBER 26TH Athena DECEMBER 29TH Ember DECEMBER 30TH bobsandiego Tamlyn Ishmael Rebecca Birch Thanks for the list. Personally I refuse to let my hopes rise. My st...

Sorry I haven't been active here. I have been terribly busy. I wrote a novel that sank at the beta reading. (MY first attempt at a YA and well first attempt I have good ideas about how to fix it but it requires a ground up re-write.) I'm outlining a novel and the outline has reached 45 pages and is...

Sorry I haven't been active here. I have been terribly busy. I wrote a novel that sank at the beta reading. (MY first attempt at a YA and well first attempt I have good ideas about how to fix it but it requires a ground up re-write.) I'm outlining a novel and the outline has reached 45 pages and is ...