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Some great news...


An acceptance to Abyss & Apex and Galaxy's Edge in one week!!!

Submitted December 31st.

Congrats to everyone!

And my Nature Futures story came out today!!

Breathe the Last Bits of Air

Hey, this is my first year with anything published, so I get to post something! wotf049 Original Short Stories of 2016 (Emily McCosh) AFTER THE GIANT'S WAR in New Realm Magazine OUR PLACE AMON THE STARS in AE Micro 7 (the site is down, but you can read the story here ) BETWEEN FIRST DAWN AND LAST DU...

disgruntledpeony wrote:wotf029

Ahhh, yes

amoskalik wrote:I just sold a story to The Society of Misfit Stories.

Congrats!!

Thank you guys!!

Well, it appears I'm in good company then!!

Um...

Dear Emily,
Thank you for submitting your story Breathe the last bits of air to Futures. I am pleased to say that I enjoyed it very much and would like to accept it for publication.

Okay, I've been telling myself that I shouldn't complain too much about this because I've waited longer for a reply before, but it is driving me NUTS! I have had my SHM story at Asimov's for 115 days now, and not a peep! Not even a change on the submission portal! Their guidelines says they mostly r...

Okay, can someone point me in the direction of theis twitter conversation. I was looking for it the other day, but couldn't find it...

This cannot go in any other thread... So I searched the name of my DSF story "These are the Rules of Being a Hero" and found that someone decided to narrate the story and put it up on YouTube. It is gorgeous. This guy has an amazing voice. Seriously, it's only a few minutes long. Listen......

Submimtted September 29th...

Waiting...

Rejection. October 26th.

Ha, thanks Dustin, I didn't even know it was coming out today!!

My story is out at DSF!!!



http://dailysciencefiction.com/science- ... ing-a-hero

Well I just got a poem accepted today from Ember after a 418 day wait!

I decided it was time to go back to the drawing board. The writing that made up my story turned out to be almost a mess. So I redid the opening. Started the story later and it's more condensed. Or so I hope. The next section may stay pretty much the same. I won't say what it involves since I may se...

Ok, I took a big leap last week. After my Novelette exhausted all markets I could find for it, and noticing that Novelettes are sold by themselves as eBooks, I went ahead and self-published it. It has grown about 3000 words since it's earlier incarnation and grown a subtitle, as I've decided I'll d...

For all you SF nerds like me out there, I thought you'd like to see this. I'll be submitting sometime in the next few months. I'll have to write a new story, but I love this kind of stuff! Humans Wanted: A SF Anthology Word limit: 3000-6000 words. Pay rate: $250/story Genre: Science Fiction only (no...

"A Sound Like Glass Raindrops" is out at Unsung Stories!!!

Thank you all so much!!!

wotf054 This morning I had a story called "A Sound Like Glass Raindrops" accepted to Unsung Stories!! This is the 9th place I sent it out to, and was starting to believe no one would want it, but there it is, the acceptance letter! It's coming out this Friday...I'll give you guys the link ...

Congrats to Ishmael and everyone else. You guys are awesome!

Rebecca Birch wrote:Highest payers are Tor.com (though I think they're now closed to unsolicited work), and the bug magazines (Cricket, Cicada, etc.) 25-cents/word at these markets. It's nuts. (In a good way.)

Oooooh, yeah, the bugs, I forgot about those!

One more thing to add. Always become familiar with the stories of a particular magazine before you submit! A great story will be perfect for some and unusable for others. For instance, Clarkesworld. I don't think they'd take any of the stories that have won WotF, because Clarkesworld has a very part...

There's Clarkesworld (personally, one of my largest goals), Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Fantastic stories of the Imagination, AE, Nature: Futures (for flash), Daily Science Fiction (for flash), Flash Fiction Online , the Gothic Fantasy anthologies, Shimmer, and others I can't think of at the moment. Th...

Dust Bunnies of Doom. Oh, yes, yes, yes! We should make that a challenge! wotf022 You're on. By next Sunday, July 17? Or maybe we should wait to set the deadline until after some of the others learn if it. wotf002 Hold that thought, and check "The Contest - Quarterly Topics, and Other Items&qu...

LaurieG wrote:

Tamlyn wrote:Dust Bunnies of Doom.

This one is priceless. We should each write a flash with this title!

Oh, yes, yes, yes! We should make that a challenge!

Thanks everyone! I'm still waiting on my contributor's copy, quite impatiently I might add...

When I first started writing I would agonize over titles. I couldn't think up decent ones to save my life. I'd slap a generic one-word at the top of the manuscript and be done with it. But since I started writing seriously (er, obsessively?), titles come more and more easily. I actually enjoy coming...

Hi guys, I'd like to report that the first story I ever sold is finally in print! Here come the dancing bananas... wotf026 wotf049 wotf026 wotf049 It's in the second volume of a two part anthology series from Guardbridge Books. Volume I is called Around the World and Volume II is called Beyond the E...