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I'm in for q2, vol36.

Who's up for a first-450 exchange for Q2? Send me a PM if interested.

Welcome, new folks!

Congrats to everyone who placed!

I finally heard back from Joni, and I'm officially out.

My Q4 story is nowhere near started yet, but I'll be happy to exchange 450 critiques with anyone this quarter. So PM/email me if you have one ready, and I will send mine as soon as I have something written!

RaeSnow - I'm in the same boat (emailed entry, no results yet), so I'm relieved to know I'm not the only one who hasn't heard back at this point. My guess is that Joni hasn't had time to relay results to all of us who submitted via email, so I'm planning to wait a bit longer before I query. I assume...

I signed the contract and the editor said it was safe to share, so here we go: Mad Scientist Journal put out a call for classified ads and are planning to publish my submission in March 2018. It's a 180ish word fictional classified ad, so I'm not sure if that falls into flash or an even smaller cat...

I'm in! June 30th.

I subbed via email to Joni. March 31st.

First draft finished. Could use a first-450 exchange if there are any takers.

And hello again, everyone. It's been a while.

Anyone interested in a first-450 exchange this weekend (Mar. 11-12)? If you send me something by 11:59pm PST Friday, I'll have your feedback done by 11:59pm PST Sunday.

Congrats, Dustin! I liked it. =)

Hi orbivillein, I agree with you on the importance of marketing and the benefit to having work available for free online. I'm curious what you think of a writer self-publishing a work after terminating the grant of non-exclusive electronic rights for the work. The way I see it, the writer then has t...

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

That's a major kind of awesome! Congrats!

I could use another first 450 exchange. PM me if interested! Thanks!

I agree with your sound advice. And I wasn't intending to rule out the top tier magazines. =) Tor.com pays well enough that it's probably worth giving up a lifetime of reprints. Assuming the reprint rate is 1 cent/word, I'd have to reprint a story 19 times after an initial pub with BCS to match the ...

Thanks, Stewart! Good to know that BCS is amenable to a 180-day limit. Reprints are exactly the reason I asked about the clause. I've been fascinated with the idea of them ever since I heard of Mike Resnick's "No Heavy Lifting Sales," so I'm trying to keep an eye out for magazines that won...

Hi all, On Sept 1st, the SFWA released a new model magazine contract (https://www.sfwa.org/2015/09/sfwa-releases-a-new-model-magazine-contract/), and I've been trying to wrap my mind around the rights they advocate for short story authors. There's a clause in the contract on the limitation on nonexc...

Hi Strycher,

I won't be doing the Story in a Day challenge, but I should be done with my Q4 first draft next week and would love to do a critique exchange.

Galen - I've sent you an email!

I just looked at my calendar and realized we'll be midway through Q4 next weekend. Anyone up for a round of first-450 critique exchanges the weekend of Aug 15th-16th? Edit Just to clarify what I'd meant by "the weekend": Send me your first 450 by 11:59pm PST Friday, and I'll have your feed...

. Anyone willing to review a prelim 450 (460 actually) for my possible Q1? Am of course happy to exchange, even a non-wotf if that's all you have available. Or a flash/complete. I'll look at it, Dustin, without the exchange. You've got my email. I don't have anything of my own ready at the moment. ...

Dustin Adams wrote:Ellie,

Would adore meeting you in person.

New goal: win contest the same year as Dustin to meet him in person.

Hi all, I'm a relatively new writer, and writing a story to enter this contest has been a goal of mine since I heard about it last year. So I'm doing a personal victory dance right now because I just submitted my first entry! wotf049 I'm truly amazed with the friendliness and supportiveness I've see...

I could do with an emergency crit as well. I sent you an email!

Dustin Adams wrote:From what I understand, the message sits in your outbox until the person you sent it to reads it.
I don't believe that's a glitch.

Thanks for the clarification!

I'm seeing similar PHP Notice messages to what Dustin posted. They show up in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox. I'm able to write PMs, but they sit in the outbox for a long while without getting sent. One of my PMs has been stuck in the outbox for the past 17 hours. wotf005 Edit: Some of the PMs got sent...