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Yay, Emily! Yay, Rebecca!



(And belated thanks for everybody's kind words! )

Rebecca Birch wrote:I'm trying to remember, do they usually do a press release with all the finalists or just the one with winners, finalists, semis, and assorted HMs? I'm super-curious to know who the other four finalists are.

I think it's usually just the one.

I have two stories out this month (with a foreign-language reprint on the way on the 15th, supposedly). Story one is original: " Just Another Night at the Abandoned Draft Bar and Grill ." You can read this story in Galaxy's Edge, where it shares a table of contents with George RR Martin ( ...

God help us all, Stewart & I have written another Baker & Dovey tale for this. In a week. 5k words. This one has rat-people and a dog-kingdom and snakes all fighting underground. It is, if anything, even sillier. Fingers crossed for you both! Your finger-crossing must have cancelled out our...

While I don't want to draw unwanted attention, I would point out that it shouldn't be too surprising if you haven't heard of most of the Campbell nominees this year. For, uh, reasons. (Happy to explain this in a PM if anyone's confused. Please don't say why in this public thread if you know.) Alyssa...

Bit late, but awesome! Nice work, Emily.

If you all still haven't heard by Monday morning, I'll ask him on Monday evening if I get a chance.

Cursive is an instrument of the devil. I stopped using it the instant they stopped making me pretend to care about it in school.

george nik. wrote:

s_c_baker wrote:Huzzah! to Jon, Matt, and George!

Hey... You're almost half the Beatles.

Btw, Stewart, you're currently at 2999. Any plans for the Big 3?

Uhhh. Apparently not.

If I'd noticed I might have saved it.

Huzzah! to Jon, Matt, and George!

Hey... You're almost half the Beatles.

morshana wrote:Awesome! Less* than 400 to go.

Tina? Where are youuuu?

*fewer



And oooh, first post on lucky page #159.

Hmm, you guys got first cut emails? No R here yet but no email either. I was an HM last round and never got an email until the HM was given. Hmm. Same thing here...hmm... They seem to be somewhat arbitrary. I'm fairly sure people in previous quarters have had the same problem. They also sometimes e...

You can try Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. (I sold them a rejected AE Micro story.)

Or:

Grievous Angel (up to 700 words)

200cc ("roughly 200 words")

storysinger wrote:A most famous predictor of events that happened after his death. Unless he's still living,

I hear he and Elvis are sharing a condo in Palm Beach.

Woohoo! Go Emily!

Huzzah, Matt!

Huzzah, Dr Bob!

And Huzzah, Preston if I didn't say that already!

Big round of huzzahs all around!

There are children in kindergarten who were not alive when this thread was created. Now you say that... neither of my two boys were, and one of them starts school in six months wotf015 wotf019 Both my kids were a live. BARELY. The youngest (now aged 4 and a half) would have been 2 weeks old at the ...

I'm in!

My 'elements' story also didn't win, but was eventually purchased by Fantastic Stories of the Imagination.

Huzzzaaaah!

Awesome work, Emily! And two stories in one day, George? You're making the rest of us look bad, here.

ETA: And huzzah to Preston as well! Too many stories being published--I can't keep track.

Just a heads-up: someone I know is putting together an anthology after all. I'll post a link when it's open to submissions, but if you want to figure out which pieces to include, each Campbell-eligible writer can submit up to three stories, with a total wordcount of 20,000 words or fewer, and you wi...

Huzzah and huzzah again!

I've sold a story to Defying Doomsday, the anthology of "apocalypse-survival fiction with a focus on disabled characters." It's being issued by Twelfth Planet Press in Australia and its a pro-paying market and my longest sale yet--at 4200 words. It's even coming out in hardback. (Drool) Y...

Hey, this is a great idea! I was never on the ball like this when I was eligible. Writertopia maintains a list of currently eligible authors: http://www.writertopia.com/awards/campbell If you're eligible and not on the list, I recommend e-mailing them and getting added to it! And gosh, that's a lot ...

I will add that album title to my stock of knowledge about Chumbawumba. Which so far contained only my knowledge that the song "Tubthumping" is a thing that exists.

Here's more fodder for Matt's imposter syndrome to struggle against: a story we co-wrote has just been accepted for Alliteration Ink's "No Shit" anthology!

It's a very ridiculous fantasy parody, too.

a) I AM JW. (Fixed that... thanks!)

b) As you can see, it's very productive. At reminding me how easily bored I am...

Whatever you do, don't read the Wikipedia article, which is so pro-Puppy it hurts.

Hi all, I am bored. And, in an effort to avoid writing my work-in-progress, I am willing to critique up to 3000 words of your work-in-progress! (Or a completed story, if you'd rather.) This is a limited offer because even if I am bored and procrastinating I still--alas--have a life and a job, so I a...

Seems like you answered it pretty well to me.

I tend to, but I think the advice is generally not to, unless you have a specific question or they ask you to answer something.

If you do, keep it short. "Got it. Thanks! "