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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

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...

It's been a long time since I posted to this thread, but I feel that I must. Editor's telling me that he enjoyed my story, it held his attention right up to the end, and he goes on to say that it was his favorite for the week. He doesn't buy it, though. (sigh) Give me form acceptances, any time. Th...

I second that answer. At most acknowledge that you got the message and then move on.

(I too originally hailed from the South and the urge to be overly polite still runs strong.)

rant about the industry: man o man I am learning patience. I had hoped - naively it turns out - that representation would make things much quicker. Nope. MY novel sits at a publisher and in the time while I have waited for an answer from the editor I have written an entire new novel. to quoteThe Pri...

Sold two stories, but only one published during 2015, the other is coming out 2016
The Story Is a Lie -SciPhi Journal #6 July 2015

I'm very pleased to report a ninth acceptance for the calendar year, eleventh overall. My 2700 short story Time's Winged Chariot has been accepted for Third Flatiron Publishing's Spring 2016 anthology, It's Come to Our Attention . This is my first piece of alternative history to be accepted. wotf00...

I've run gamed since 1979.
it's a blast.
my current player don;t know I plan on shutting down my current campaign and that the adventure's end is the big finale.

Honorable Mention

There have been some great suggestions here. Lots of great craft and story, and character how to's, but let me step to a different kind of writing book. Building Great Sentences by Brooks Landon. I got this as the audio lecture series but there is also a book version. Iy greatly changed how I approa...

Argh! Why can I write a 7,000 word story that I'm in love with, but can't come up with two or three words for a title that I don't despise? Someone should start a service where you can send them a story, and they'll come up with an awesome title for it. I would be their best customer. My wall is bl...

I've been head down in my novel -- almost done 71,000 words out of an estimated 80,000.
But to all the great success stories here:
Hurray!

I bang my head on the wall for character names and titles. Something it knocks loose something decent but most I just blunder through. My HM was titled Hanuessen' Hex 'cause I was hoping 'hex' would carry Dave enough since there wasn't any spec-fic explicit in the first several pages. For submission...

Rebecca Birch wrote:My fantasy short story Beneath the Raven's Wing is live at Fantasy Scroll Magazine today. It received an HM from WotF once upon a time.

Today I enjoyed receipt of the Flame Tree anthology Chilling Ghost Short Stories. I have never before held a hardback containing my work. I feel like a proper author. They arranged the stories by author alphabetically. There are classic authors as well as modern. I'm between Nikolai Gogol and Washi...

Has anyone gotten a rejection from Fantastic Stories of the Imagination? I ask because, I got a form rejection, but I'm not sure if it's the higher tier rejection. They're not listed in rejection wiki, so I am unsure. "Thank you for sharing your story with us at Fantastic Stories of the Imagin...

Oh brothers and sister you must deny the Dark lord, the Lord of Lies, that fallen angel.
He whispers in you ear but they are lies meant to deceive you.
Reject the dark arts.
reject the rejecotmancy

Truly, the waiting is the hardest part.

never posted here ...

Dustin Adams wrote:Bestseller list: mind

As for me, I've got a surreal, Heroes sorta take on literature that's up today at Every Day Fiction

I was hoping for a release on the 24th when the new season starts. Alas, I'm two days early.

Congrats

izanobu wrote:I hit the USA Today bestseller list just about two weeks ago. That was kind of awesome :)

Rebecca Birch wrote:

Strycher wrote:The mechanical voice really makes those nitpicky typos stand out.

It really does. And makes invented names very . . . interesting.

Not just invented names. If you use non-western European names it can be very amusing.

Ishmael wrote:I just received another acceptance from Sci Phi Journal.

Of course Jason hasn't got round to publishing the first one yet.

I am becoming blasé.

Congrats.
I have a story waiting there

off topic - not that THIS thread has a topic: As some of you know I signed with the Virginia Kidd agency in June. So while Will shops my novel around looking for a suck---editor in love with it, I started a new one. I asked him if I should write the next book in the series or something else and he t...

] I seem to be having a bunch of characters named after me. I'm a dying spaceship in one of Martin's stories. You are the main character in mine... I'm sorry for all the mental anguish I've put you through, but you'll be happy to know that you and Kary get together and start a family. Bob is a weal...