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- Wed Jan 11, 2017 3:07 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Forum Members' Published Stories of 2016
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14288
Re: Forum Members' Published Stories of 2016
Thanks, Dustin. My trajectory seems to follow the feast or famine model. When something hits it's worth the wait, though.
- Mon Jan 09, 2017 7:15 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Forum Members' Published Stories of 2016
- Replies: 18
- Views: 14288
Re: Forum Members' Published Stories of 2016
I only had one, but it feels like more all by itself.
"Mom in the Moon" -- Analog October 2016

"Mom in the Moon" -- Analog October 2016
- Sun Oct 23, 2016 11:37 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Big congrats to all walking around with the dreamy-success-grin, since I last looked in here. Love seeing so much happy news going on!
- Wed Sep 07, 2016 9:18 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Congrats to so many on all the wonderful news. Sorry for yet another blanket congrats, though it's impressive that there's so much awesome here that I perpetually fall behind. You guys continue to inspire me. 

- Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:07 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Submit, submit, submit
- Replies: 24
- Views: 7338
Re: Submit, submit, submit
50 at once? I think my head just exploded a little! That's awesome. I think 18 is my all time high.
- Wed Jun 15, 2016 5:02 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Congrats all around, guys. Lots of exciting news here, since I got sick and fell off the map for a while.
- Thu Jun 09, 2016 7:56 pm
- Forum: The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items
- Topic: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
- Replies: 5013
- Views: 1307510
Re: Jibber Jabber - Q1 - 29
Thanks for sharing your story with us. The only thing it changes is that you've upped both your admiration and cool factors. 

- Wed Apr 27, 2016 7:35 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: AE Micro 7
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10104
Re: AE Micro 7
Congrats, Emily! Flash is hard. Micro is harder.
- Tue Apr 26, 2016 3:08 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Congrats, Ishmael. No hesitating needed and no butting in possible. This thread is just what it says. A place to share and discuss OUR successes. Every success is as important as the one that came before and the one that came after, regardless of where it landed. We're all in this climb together, an...
- Tue Apr 26, 2016 1:19 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Wow! Thanks guys. We need a blushing smiley.
And, George, that would be extremely awesome. Trying really hard not to count any chickens before they've even been published. Not very successfully. Playing what if is awfully fun.
And, George, that would be extremely awesome. Trying really hard not to count any chickens before they've even been published. Not very successfully. Playing what if is awfully fun.
- Mon Apr 25, 2016 11:19 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Thanks, Preston. Those two smilies are pretty much what the inside of my brain looks like.
- Mon Apr 25, 2016 7:36 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
I'm beyond happy to announce that I've sold my story "Mom in the Moon" to Analog! It's been the genre market I've most hoped to sell to, for a long time. Dreams, fueled by preternatural tenacity in my case, really do come true.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 11:35 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: 2016 Campbell Award
- Replies: 41
- Views: 11408
Re: 2016 Campbell Award
Condolences, Ishmael. My time for the Campbell Awards potential is long past. If I'm remembering correctly, Strange New Worlds didn't make much of a blip on that particular radar. Great attitude about reviews. They can be...interesting. My most memorable not in a good way to date was a reader's opin...
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 11:11 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: AE Micro 7
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10104
Re: AE Micro 7
The wait is getting long enough that I'm reduced to just imagining some happy campers sitting on good news, waiting for the announcement.
- Sat Apr 23, 2016 11:04 pm
- Forum: Writing: Craft, Talent, Technique
- Topic: Five Minute Rant
- Replies: 1179
- Views: 318627
Re: Five Minute Rant
I'm not sure this will help, but I don't think it could hurt either. I've found a few things that can really tie me up in knots, as a writer. One is over thinking. Take it from the queen of over thinking that it can be like spinning your mental wheels, and just dig you in deeper. Another is trying t...
- Wed Mar 30, 2016 7:16 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Unidentified Funny Objects 5
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6288
Re: Unidentified Funny Objects 5
I've been wracking my brain for funny so I could give this a shot. Not a thing occurs. I just cannot write humor on demand. It comes organically as I write "regular" fiction quite a bit, but if I try to force it all I get is a blank mind and a blanker page. 

- Sun Mar 20, 2016 6:49 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
So much cool stuff happening here while my back was turned. Congrats all around. And, Matt, be sure to put the Zeppelin warfare on YouTube!
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 12:12 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: AE Micro 7
- Replies: 37
- Views: 10104
Re: AE Micro 7
I'm in. First time I've tried micro. I was wary of how tight it would have to be, but it was actually fun. All those tweets paying off....
- Mon Feb 29, 2016 11:53 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Almost Success - The "Mixed Feelings" Thread
- Replies: 836
- Views: 297431
Re: Almost Success - The "Mixed Feelings" Thread
Thanks to Matt, for very good advice some time ago. I was trying to figure out how to approach a top editor who suddenly went informal in a personal, then back to formal next time. I followed Matt's suggestion to stick with informal on my end, assuming it was a matter of expediency on their part on ...
- Sun Jan 10, 2016 1:39 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Almost Success - The "Mixed Feelings" Thread
- Replies: 836
- Views: 297431
Re: Almost Success - The "Mixed Feelings" Thread
Thanks guys. Alice, I must be some kind of fluke or throwback or something. I've actually found myself in varying levels of personal correspondence with a number of levels of editors at top magazines of different genres. Not to the level of Tiptree's friendships, though. Sometimes ongoing, sometimes...
- Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:18 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Almost Success - The "Mixed Feelings" Thread
- Replies: 836
- Views: 297431
Re: Almost Success - The "Mixed Feelings" Thread
This seems to fit somewhere between the Mixed Feelings and Five Minute Rant threads, so I'm putting it here as closest. I get personal rejections that seem very encouraging to the point of almosts, then they go back to barely personal (brief reason why) next time. I recently had a very nice personal...
- Wed Sep 09, 2015 9:46 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Rebuffed by Hollywood
- Replies: 2
- Views: 1673
Re: Rebuffed by Hollywood
I hear you. I've been entering well regarded screenwriting competitions with feature length scripts for quite some time, originally because it's supposed to be a rare way in and over time also because it's fun (and addictive!). I started racking up Finalists, Semis, QFs, top percentages...and then a...
- Fri Aug 28, 2015 7:05 pm
- Forum: Writing: Craft, Talent, Technique
- Topic: Five Minute Rant
- Replies: 1179
- Views: 318627
Re: Five Minute Rant
My sigh of a rant was actually about their new (to me, anyway) novella program that considers novellas and even up to the short end of novel length at about 40k. If you have stuff that long, it seems worth an attempt when they open submission windows for unagented authors. Tor.com's short fiction do...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 9:07 am
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: Science Fiction and Fantasy on TV.
- Replies: 179
- Views: 98167
Re: Science Fiction and Fantasy on TV.
A couple of series I've really been enjoying are Falling Skies and Extant. Both from Spielberg, they play out like serialized movies, with very high quality...everything. The cast, acting, storylines, and FX in particular keep me riveted almost constantly, which is not easy in our current world of T...
- Thu Aug 13, 2015 8:54 am
- Forum: Writing: Craft, Talent, Technique
- Topic: Five Minute Rant
- Replies: 1179
- Views: 318627
Re: Five Minute Rant
I simply cannot train myself to succeed in the fine art of not hoping. My submission to the Tor.com Novella Program kept substantially outstaying the estimated response time they kept changing. Telling myself not to hope, I hoped anyway. Form rejection today. Sigh. (technically, a sigh is not much o...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:41 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: Short story collections
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18400
Re: Short story collections
Oh, yeah. I like Asimov's Robots too. Heinlein's stuff, as well. I've always enjoyed the older stories that instill such a sense of awe and wonder, and make me think sort of quietly. I think I tend to write more old school style, though of course with modern scientific ideas. Which may account for a...
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:34 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: Success!
- Replies: 4285
- Views: 1156375
Re: Success!
Congrats everyone! I'm having such internet trouble that I'm not online as much as I want currently. I'm trying to fit a lot in at the moment, hoping my data won't be decimated when I'm finished.
Good to see so much good stuff going on when I zip on and off occasionally.
Good to see so much good stuff going on when I zip on and off occasionally.
- Sat Jul 18, 2015 7:27 pm
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: David Gerrold, Norman Spinrad, and Star Trek
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1512
Re: David Gerrold, Norman Spinrad, and Star Trek
Oh, that is just heartbreaking. Horrible setbacks happen to a lot of people, but sometimes it seems some individuals get more than their fair share.
- Sat Jul 11, 2015 7:45 pm
- Forum: Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Topic: Short story collections
- Replies: 26
- Views: 18400
Re: Short story collections
I've always loved the short story form. When they're done perfectly for my taste, they can be like a novel encapsulated. Early on I read collections I don't actually remember...not the editors, authors, or even story titles...except for two stories. They were in different collections, and unfortunat...
- Thu Jul 02, 2015 7:14 am
- Forum: Publishing: The Business Of
- Topic: 2015 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
- Replies: 13
- Views: 5801
Re: 2015 Baen Fantasy Adventure Award
I don't know the answer, though I sure wish I did. I practically wore a hole through Google the past few days. wotf007 Especially yesterday. Not that I expect to be on the list (I've found that expecting is almost as dangerous as assuming). I would like that particular suspense event to be over, tho...