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DaneCurley good luck. My own story which had been held for consideration by Diabolical Plots unfortunately just got a rejection. "Loved the imagery and concept here!" was the comment. I'm not as sad as I thought I would be - it was such a roller coaster watching the progress (you can see t...

Sure if you're still willing. Do you have one to swap?

Way to go Peony. Good luck - hope that hold turns to a sale.

Well that sounds good to me. Hope the edits go very well and there is an acceptance headed your way! It sounds win-win to me since you can always take the novel track you were considering before if you need to :)

My opinion, for all its vast worth, is that all of those fairy tale and mythology retellings belong under the fantasy umbrella (although probably within a more specific sub-genre that I don't have a good name for).

There's definitely a range here. My current running average for responses reports itself as 88 days, but that's based on my submission date versus response date, so needs tinkering. (Also, I only have six data-points so far, so this is all a bit limited.) Adjusting to look at the quarter cut-off da...

So start holding my breath at the end of September? I'm sure I can make it until the end of October if I need to :)

Oh yes I know it is very early for me to be thinking much about it. But like the scene from the Simpsons "it can flash fry a buffalo in 45 seconds"..."but I want it now" --- I am being a little Homer-ish right now LOL. I think in part because the story I submitted is one of my fa...

wotf060 Is it way too early for this? Because I missed out on entering Q2 my entry for Q3 went in right at the beginning of the window so it feels like it has been forever. It is why I am holding off on submitting for Q4 even though my story is ready to go. I'm working on a couple other stories so m...

Oh also a good rule of thumb for contests is that unless you know it really well avoid contests that require you to pay an entry fee. Money should flow toward the author not away. I have only paid entry fees on two. One was at a conference I attended and it was 15 dollars (all the entry fees went to...

Hello! My name is James Crowder and I live in Los Angeles. I am 35 and have been working in Film and Television most of my life. I have worked mainly in production as a PA, 1st AD, Script Supervisor, Producer and Production Coordinator. I am planning on starting my own production company so I can w...

WriterGirl that is great. I wouldn't be getting any sleep either if that was me :)

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Excuse me while I go jump up and down and squee

Well done. I hope you enjoy your jumping and your squees!

Congrats to all those SHMs and HMs and well done to the Rs too since it means you are writing and submitting. You all make me jealous I didn't have anything in for Q2 so I could be getting a response now - whatever type of response it would be!

That sounds great. I hope your novelization goes well (I have a longish short story that I have similar plans for so hopefully you'll post something about your progress to inspire me to get to work on mine :) )

disgruntledpeony That is a LOT of feedback. Sounds like a mixed blessing in this case given the submission history. But good feedback can always help the next story (at least that is what I hope for when I get it). Will you try sending it out to some of the lower paying markets? Or hold onto it for ...

I still believe notices won't happen until the end of the month at the soonest. Cookie, having had enough of the cowboys' merriment, dumped his bucket over the camp fire. Steam, and wet hot ash, splattered those unfortunate enough to be sitting opposite. With a harrumph, Cookie hobbled back to his ...

I can watch with casual disinterestedness (the Jane Austen usage of disinterested) because I have no skin in the game for Q2. I sure wish I'd submitted something so I could be waiting with baited breath like everyone else :)

Thinking about sitting and holding my breath. I have a story being held for consideration with an SFWA eligible market. Got one rejection from them and one hold. Eeek eeek eeeek. Exciting and lots of the mixed feelings. Hoping it will be selected, desperately trying to keep my feet realistically pla...

I had assumed that it got an honorable mention in the contest previously???? I think that would give me a lot of hope if HMs in the contest stood at least a chance of getting to second round with a big deal like Clarkesworld it'd change my whole outlook on how to proceed with HMs ;)

Second round at Clarkesworld sounds pretty fantastic to me. I'm planning to try it out with my Q4 (unless of course it ends up being a winner :) )

Congratulations. And I love that title Lavender Footsteps.

I don't think forgiveness is low hanging fruit. I think someone actually able to forgive for something like that has all kinds of depth to it. But I went to a conference where one of the sessions was on forgiveness and our society's tendency to put it up on a pedestal as the be all and end all enlig...

Welcome Ekpeki. At some point I'm sure you will be slushing away something of mine (those publications are on my list to submit to :) )

Best of luck with your WoTF entry and congrats on the sale!

Nice idea, but most publications consider posting to a public forum actual publication. As such, you could not offer first rights--they were used up. Additionally, you might wish to send some of those stories in to WotF. Again, if you've displayed them publicly, it would bring into question how bli...

Hi, I'm Carolyn Ivy Stein and I live in Memphis, TN. I write science fiction, fantasy, historical fiction, and mystery. I also write game supplements. I submitted to the previous two quarters and have made it my goal to submit something every quarter. I'm also working on a challenge this year of wr...

In other news... Do you have any Reccomendations. I'm looking for publisher for my novelette. It got HM last year in Q3. It's 15600 words. Sci Fi. It's an unorthodox love story set in amidst a futuristic jailbreak. An has a unique mind bender of an ending. Complex and poetic. I'm not fussed about b...

I'll have my Q3 ready to submit tomorrow. nothing left but three and a half months of anxiety and twitching waiting for results. I've got a super great idea for Q4, but have found a rare motivation for a novel that's been on hold for almost a year. I'm pounding out almost 2k words a day. And I'm sc...

Thanks :)

I have two stories ready to go. Might give each of them a quick once over before I decide which one to submit. I know some folks advise waiting until later to submit to give more time to work on it - but I am going to turn my attention to either editing one of my novels or writing a new one so there...