Nick_T wrote:Preston,
That’s great to hear. If you’re going to be a cautionary story, this is the way you want it to turn out (i.e. not the one where Nick T insults all of speculative fiction royalty at the LA workshop).
Nick
Hehe. Did you?
Nick_T wrote:Preston,
That’s great to hear. If you’re going to be a cautionary story, this is the way you want it to turn out (i.e. not the one where Nick T insults all of speculative fiction royalty at the LA workshop).
Nick
preston wrote:Thanks guys! Yeah, I feel like I have a secret identity that even I didn't know about! All is good, though. Heck, my story inspired Brad Torgerson! That's kind of nifty. And I tell you, Dean Wesley Smith seemed more than a little surprised to hear from me. But he did remember me. Now, let's see if Mr. Stanley Schmidt remembers my name, right? This is so much fun!![]()
Preston Dennett
(HM x 2)
Nick_T wrote:Preston,
That’s great to hear. If you’re going to be a cautionary story, this is the way you want it to turn out (i.e. not the one where Nick T insults all of speculative fiction royalty at the LA workshop).
Nick
katsincommand wrote:If you're passing on first, I'll take it. Hee.
Going to be interesting how DWS retells the tale now...
LDWriter2 wrote:Who's on First???
Strycher wrote:LDWriter2 wrote:Who's on First???
Naturally.
dantzel wrote:I feel like I was witnessed a piece of history here.![]()
Thanks for identifying yourself, Preston. And way to go for being awesome enough to get noticed in the first place, then pick back up and get back in the game!
Brad R. Torgersen wrote:Seriously, Preston, you have no idea how quasi-legendary TOPANGA CANYON has become, thanks to Kris and Dean and some of the other editors from back in the day. Topanga Canyon is like Gordon Lightfoot's balladeering of the sinking of the Edmund Fitzgerald. A tragic story, and an inspiring story, to motivate and regale; about that mystery writer from a place with a unique name. The career that could have been...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9A4HRzHz5Y
(to the tune of "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald")
Topanga Canyon they say never did see the day,
When his manuscripts routinely saw printing.
He was close doncha know,
But it's a hard row to hoe,
And one day his stories stopped comin'!
Topanga it's said could have made a lot of bread,
If his stories he'd just kept a-sendin'.
All the editors talked,
Of the new talent that walked,
From that place in So-Californee!
He was gone without trace, that fresh new face,
A writer's career seemed abandoned.
Kris and Dean told the tale,
Did repeat and regale,
To those of us come for learnin'!
Keep your shoulder to the wheel, never make the Devil's deal,
Yah can't be an author through wishin'.
Topanga, we were told,
Was that example so cold,
Of a talent lost through attrition!
But nobody guessed he'd come back to the test,
The man whose name'd become legend.
Topanga Canyon lives on,
And for him a new dawn,
And now we know his name's Preston!
The lesson seems clear, never fret never fear,
It's never too late to keep dreamin'.
Of tall stories well told,
and great songs o' so bold,
For a true writer it's always tomorrow!
Rebecca Birch wrote:Strycher wrote:LDWriter2 wrote:Who's on First???
Naturally.
I love you people.
WriteToLive wrote:
Evil Mike: Wait, what's thw guy's name on first base?
No, What's on second.
Evil Mike: I don't care who's on second.
Who's on first.
Evil Mike: I don't know
Both: Third base.
LDWriter2 wrote:WriteToLive wrote:
Evil Mike: Wait, what's thw guy's name on first base?
No, What's on second.
Evil Mike: I don't care who's on second.
Who's on first.
Evil Mike: I don't know
Both: Third base.
Maybe I should change my name to What. I'll take a second place.
Who has been taken it looks like.
Strycher wrote:LDWriter2 wrote:WriteToLive wrote:
Evil Mike: Wait, what's thw guy's name on first base?
No, What's on second.
Evil Mike: I don't care who's on second.
Who's on first.
Evil Mike: I don't know
Both: Third base.
Maybe I should change my name to What. I'll take a second place.
Ha!Who has been taken it looks like.
Who has taken it?
sardonsmagic wrote:60 days, queried.
Response was form?? letter stating my work was still in consideration, to please wait ... that they were making changing in the organization -- which I knew.
180 days total later ... form rejection of 3 poems and one short story. Gotta admit, I thought after they'd held my work for so long, I'd get a personal letter on at least one of them. I think the form response after waiting half a year was more disappointing than the rejection itself! Ah, well ... still trekkin' ... still learning ... on to the next!
geoedwar wrote:In any case, I read Trevor Quachri's "On the shoulder of Giants," in which he says that he plans on reading every submitted story himself as Stan Schmidt did. On days I don't work I generally read 2-4 short stories (lately... getting my mind in shape for writing short fiction). I'd estimate he probably gets about 12 submissions a day. That's rough to keep up with. It looks like he's at least 156 days out (according to submission grinder stats). That's a daunting task.
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