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We are fiction writers, and spec fic at that. You can be anything you want. I think having a difficult name is an excellent reason to change it. If people can't remember or pronounce your name, how will they tell their friends to buy your books one day? Choose wisely. It will be your brand, and as ...

Cover Reveal for Wildeside Press' Crime Travel anthology which includes my story "The Case of the Missing Physicist."

http://bolobooks.com/2019/09/cover-reveal-crime-travel/

Henckel wrote:I've always been curious about Dave's semi-finalist crits.... what they look like and such. Are they in-line comments? Summary notes? A combo of both? How in-depth are they?

Mine was just two comments: one about my protagonist's motivation and one about the ending.

The first response for this Q has been logged on TGDB. A 51-day wait, answered on August 17th. It begins. I think someone is probably just confused. I woke up this morning and saw an email in my inbox the subject line "Congrats - Your story received Honorable Mention 2nd Quarter" I though...

I ran into trouble with the story I was planning on submitting for Q4. Couldn't get the middle to work. So I set it aside, came up with a new idea, wrote that story instead, and let my WG have a whack at it. Now I'm incorporating some of their feedback and polishing it up.

HM for me.

Is this how the results progress? 1. Joni phones the finalists. Finalists are requested not to disclose their status, so they go semi-silent in the forum. 2. Email notifications of Rs, HMs, and SHMs (If people start reporting receiving these and you didn't get a call from Joni, you know you aren't a...

I submitted for the 3rd Quarter.

Submitted on June 9th.

Congratulations, Ishmael!

storysinger wrote:

MiloMinderbinder wrote:1500 words in for Q4.

Congrats on subbing but IMHO you shouldn't post your word count.

That's how many words I've gotten so far for Q4, not how long my Q3 story is.

But I appreciate the advice.

OK, I submitted for Q3. I'm going hiking in the Sierra Nevadas next week, and figure there's no way I could finish a different entry by June 30th

1500 words in for Q4.

What are people's opinion of the use of a dateline to start a story? Johnson City Wyoming Territory 1884 Do you think that's lazy? Or is it a legitimate way of setting the scene? We're trying so hard to start the story with some action, getting the reader to care about the MC, create some stakes, et...

My story The Bicycle Thief won the Short Mystery Fiction Society's Derringer Award for Best Flash Story!

https://shortmystery.blogspot.com/2019/ ... unced.html

HM here.

HM

I submitted for Q2

I'm in with my second of the 4 in 36. Got 1000 words so far for my Q3 submission.

I'm in.

This is my most polarizing story ever. Folks in my WG either hated it so much they had to force themselves to finish or laughed so hard they cried.

I made my first pro sale! Woman's World, A US tabloid that can be found in the racks at the checkout lines of better supermarkets, will publish my mini-mystery "The Hockey Card Heist" in their March 14th issue. I also sold a time travel story to Wildside Press' upcoming Crime Travel anthol...

It ended up being two months and three days.

How long after you were notified that you were a SF did you receive Dave's critique?

Did it come by email or by postal mail with your certificate?

BEHOLD! Moon's SUPER SECRET #12: MAGIC UP FRONT! Okay, the correct way to say that would be: Speculative element obvious in the first two pages. BORING. But MAGIC UP FRONT sounds so much cooler! Can I get a ruling on my story for Q1? The title includes the speculative element, but it doesn't appear...

Entered December 19th

I'm in.

I'm in for the full challenge.

I just submitted for Q1.
My Q2 entry is ready for my WG to dissect in January.
The plot for Q3 is slowly forming in my head.

KristyEmber wrote:Just got my results - semi finalist. I know intellectually it is a great result, but I’m still really disappointed. I was beginning to think I might actually be a finalist.

I felt the same way. I received my semi-finalist email last night.

Subbed July 27
SF Nov 18

KristyEmber wrote:I’m still waiting ... are many other people still in the same boat?

Still waiting here.

Hi my name is James and I live in suburban Philadelphia.

I have some token and semi-pro sales. For WOTF, I have two rejections and one HM. Still waiting to hear from this last submission.