Success!

[E.CaimanSands]

Thanks so much, guys! This has been a very encouraging experience...I've gotten two e-mails and one blog comment from total strangers telling me how much they liked the story, plus some wonderful comments on the FB page. Wow...maybe I'm OK at this writing thing after all. Huh.

I was a wreck before my story came out at DSF. It's such an odd feeling to have writing go public. Frightening, and yet incredibly wonderful to connect with the world at large.

I've got something coming up at Strange Horizons next month. I've got pterodactyls in my stomach at this point.

Yeah, grats, that's a top market.

[Kary English]

Congrats to everyone! May I soon follow in your illustrious footsteps.

[Grayson Morris]

Not to be anal, but for posterity's sake...the way you quoted me and JLM, Kyle, it looks as though *I* said I had something coming up at SH soon, which is not the case. (Alas!) That would be the lucky (and clearly talented) JLM.

[klaatu]

Thanks so much, guys! This has been a very encouraging experience...I've gotten two e-mails and one blog comment from total strangers telling me how much they liked the story, plus some wonderful comments on the FB page. Wow...maybe I'm OK at this writing thing after all. Huh.

I was a wreck before my story came out at DSF. It's such an odd feeling to have writing go public. Frightening, and yet incredibly wonderful to connect with the world at large.

I've got something coming up at Strange Horizons next month. I've got pterodactyls in my stomach at this point.

Congrats to you both....


Steve

[kyle]

Not to be anal, but for posterity's sake...the way you quoted me and JLM, Kyle, it looks as though *I* said I had something coming up at SH soon, which is not the case. (Alas!) That would be the lucky (and clearly talented) JLM.

Have I mentioned that I hate nesting quotes?

I fixed it in mine, but, of course, I'm powerless to fix it where others quoted my bad quoting...

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

I just had a minor success -- minor, but pleasing nonetheless. A reader (not even a critique reader or First Reader, an actual paying customer) just chewed me out for killing off a character. I figure that means I did something right.

[morshana]

I just had a minor success -- minor, but pleasing nonetheless. A reader (not even a critique reader or First Reader, an actual paying customer) just chewed me out for killing off a character. I figure that means I did something right.

Congrats! =)

[Kary English]

I just had a minor success -- minor, but pleasing nonetheless. A reader (not even a critique reader or First Reader, an actual paying customer) just chewed me out for killing off a character. I figure that means I did something right.

Congrats! I love those.

Mine didn't come from a paying customer, but one of my alpha readers wrote me back that if I hurt the cat in one of my stories, she was flying up here and beating me silly. So yeah, feels good, doesn't it?

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

I just had a minor success -- minor, but pleasing nonetheless. A reader (not even a critique reader or First Reader, an actual paying customer) just chewed me out for killing off a character. I figure that means I did something right.

Congrats! I love those.

Mine didn't come from a paying customer, but one of my alpha readers wrote me back that if I hurt the cat in one of my stories, she was flying up here and beating me silly. So yeah, feels good, doesn't it?

Yep! Barry B. Longyear (one of my two writing inspirations, the other being Jack McDevitt) told of the time his wife Roberta walked into his room, hit him over the head, said "That's for killing Jeriba Shigan," and stormed back out. He knew he'd won then.

[vanaaron]

My story "The Truth About Mother" is finally available in the Arcane anthology, edited by Nathan Shumate. This is a horror/hardboiled mystery/political satire piece, which is not exactly a big sub-genre right now, but thankfully Nathan Shumate has weird tastes. This is my fifth story published this year, all sparked by that call from Joni last fall. Arcane has a lot of up-and-coming authors -- I'm especially excited to appear with Gemma Files, who I think is an outstanding writer -- and a striking cover:

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

This is a horror/hardboiled mystery/political satire piece, which is not exactly a big sub-genre right now, but thankfully Nathan Shumate has weird tastes.

That's the beauty of the exploding market in indy and ebooks: unusual stories can get a chance now.

I'll look for it. Thanks!

[Jennifer Hicks]

Awesome, Aaron. Congrats!

[Dustin Adams]

Damnit Jennifer... I saw your name and clicked on this thread so fast...

[Jennifer Hicks]

Damnit Jennifer... I saw your name and clicked on this thread so fast...

Thanks, Dustin, but alas no. Five submissions out and no responses yet. If I manage an SFWA-qualifying sale, you'll be one of the first to know.

[madison]

Congratulations, Aaron! I'll look for it. Is it an online zine?

[kyle]

Congrats!

[vanaaron]

Thanks, All!

Madison, it's not on-line. It's an anthology available in trade paperback and Kindle editions.

[madison]

Annie, just left you seven dragons. (They look like rockets to me, why do they call them dragons?) LOVED The List.

edit: Ah. Just looked at them (the 'rocket' dragons) on the computer rather than my iPhone. Makes more sense now.

[Alex Kane]

Yeah, I really dug Annie's "The List." Very original little piece.

A Clarion story, I'm guessing?

[gower21]

Just read it too. Gave it all the rocket dragons I could. Very original and I liked the rice counting (learn something new every day).

[izanobu]

Thanks, guys. It was sort of a Clarion story. I wrote it while there but never turned it in (it was too short, in my mind). Kij Johnson challenged us at lunch one day to write a story that was non-traditional story structure. I laughed at her, because I'm pretty much tradition's b*tch when it comes to structure. But I tried it anyway, because hey, why not. I sent it to Daily SF figuring that would satisfy papa Heinlein and then when it came back I could shelve it as too short and wonky for anywhere else.

Instead, they bought it. Oh well. Now it has a home on the net.

[Delli]

Cool story izanobu!

Well done. And interesting background to it too! "Instead, they bought it."

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Thanks, guys. It was sort of a Clarion story. I wrote it while there but never turned it in (it was too short, in my mind). Kij Johnson challenged us at lunch one day to write a story that was non-traditional story structure. I laughed at her, because I'm pretty much tradition's b*tch when it comes to structure. But I tried it anyway, because hey, why not. I sent it to Daily SF figuring that would satisfy papa Heinlein and then when it came back I could shelve it as too short and wonky for anywhere else.

Instead, they bought it. Oh well. Now it has a home on the net.

I'm trying to figure a way to say this without sounding insensitive, but I can't. So apologies in advance.

So you pro'ed out... with a story in a style you never write... and a story you never expected to write... and a story you never expected to sell...

If I wrote that string of events up in a story, no editor would buy it. Too implausible.

[izanobu]

Haha, Martin! (Technically, I pro'd out with a different story sale, but this one was published first, so it put the nail in my WotF coffin).

Seriously though... think if I had brought that story to a crit group or tried to tell someone what it was about. "It's, uh, a list. A to-do list. And at the end, vampire stuff. Really it is a joke in to-do list form, with a punchline that depends on knowing Chinese vampire mythology."

Would you really have expected it to sell, either? Didn't think so

[klaatu]

I think I forgot to mention another sale...

http://fablecroft.com.au/books/apocalyp ... f-contents

This anthology is with a publisher I've been targeting for the past year. An anthology called Epilogue (working title was Anthology Hope), I'm thrilled to be included.

Yay.

Steve

[MJNL]

Awesome, congrats, Steve!

And Annie--I think I missed the congrats there, though I did read the story.

[Martin L. Shoemaker]

Congratulations, Steve! Will there be a Kindle version soon?

[izanobu]

My Daily SF story "Lists" is now up on their website: http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/ ... llet/lists

[klaatu]

Thanks for the congrats.

I don't know what's happening with e-books for "Epilogue", but I presume it will happen since her last two anthos are. This antho isn't due for release til June.

Of course the ebook of "Anywhere But Earth" is available from smashwords, while the kindle version is available from Amazon..... (shameless self promotion...)

I will, of course, keep all informed....

Steve

[kyle]

Congrats, klaatu!

And, Annie, I should've congratulated you when it arrived in my inbox. I'd've never thought a story so dependent on a Chinese cultural reference would've sold, so I plan to use you as a shining example of why you shouldn't self-reject for years to come!