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Re: Success!

Postby morshana » Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:23 am

Congratulations, Nick!
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Re: Success!

Postby Ishmael » Mon Jul 11, 2016 7:05 am

Great news, Nick!

Did you get the Aliterate top 3% held email? I've heard nothing since I got that several days ago.
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Re: Success!

Postby Nick_T » Mon Jul 11, 2016 4:24 pm

Did you get the Aliterate top 3% held email? I've heard nothing since I got that several days ago.


Hi Ishmael,

Yes I did. The gap between receiving that email and acceptance was around 6 days. Days to sale was around 105 (or something like that). Having said that, I don't know if the numbers necessarily mean anything. I don't know if the editors read things in a different order and there is also the fact that they are buying out two editions at once.
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Re: Success!

Postby LaurieG » Mon Jul 11, 2016 5:52 pm

Congrats, Nick!
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Re: Success!

Postby MattDovey » Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:42 am

Congratufabulations to Jeremy (and yay for art! Art for stories is the best surprise), George AGAIN (killin' it, man), Preston (still not sold my HMs, so top stuff), Ishmael again (all those subs starting to work for you), Emily on becoming a PROPER REAL PUBLISHED AUTHOR, and Nick (picking up some momentum again!)

As for me... well, best wait till contract's signed, I suppose ;)
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Re: Success!

Postby amoskalik » Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:29 am

Congrats everyone. If I tried to list you all I'd miss someone.
I've hit quite a dry spell myself, but I have been getting a lot of later round looks, so I suppose that's something. Keep writing, keep submitting wotf009
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Re: Success!

Postby J'nae Rae » Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:32 am

Congratulations to all. wotf010
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Re: Success!

Postby rharp » Tue Jul 12, 2016 5:44 pm

Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008
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Re: Success!

Postby Jason Parker » Tue Jul 12, 2016 6:00 pm

rharp wrote:Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008


Awesome! Must be a great story if Mike Redneck likes it! He killed it with his story in WOTF V30.
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Re: Success!

Postby preston » Tue Jul 12, 2016 7:57 pm

rharp wrote:Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008


Yeah! wotf010
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Re: Success!

Postby storysinger » Tue Jul 12, 2016 10:55 pm

Awesome news Rachelle. wotf010
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Re: Success!

Postby MattDovey » Wed Jul 13, 2016 12:24 am

rharp wrote:Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008


Oh, that's awesome news! You must be over the moon! Congratulations wotf007
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Re: Success!

Postby amoskalik » Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:39 am

rharp wrote:Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008


Awesome!
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Re: Success!

Postby morshana » Wed Jul 13, 2016 5:59 am

rharp wrote:Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008


Congratulations!!
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Re: Success!

Postby rharp » Wed Jul 13, 2016 6:16 am

Thanks everybody! I'm still up in the clouds, lol. Being a part of the forum has been such a great encouragement to keep submitting and writing. You guys are the best! wotf001
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Re: Success!

Postby Ishmael » Wed Jul 13, 2016 8:22 am

And congratulations from me Rachelle. That's a big step up! wotf010
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Re: Success!

Postby LaurieG » Wed Jul 13, 2016 4:50 pm

rharp wrote:Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! wotf008



Woo hoo!!!
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Re: Success!

Postby rharp » Thu Jul 14, 2016 5:02 pm

Thanks, Ishmael and LaurieG! wotf008
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Re: Success!

Postby Nick_T » Thu Jul 14, 2016 8:00 pm

Congratulations Rachelle, that's a great sale. Mike's got a good eye.
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Re: Success!

Postby george nik. » Fri Jul 15, 2016 4:22 pm

Congrats, Rachelle and Nick!!!

Thanks, Nick, Matt and singer!
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Thanks, klevang! Actually some are old and some are new, but more of them are accepted nowadays than they used to. Also, don't imagine that all of my stories are now accepted, that's still in the realm of dreams for me. It's just that my accepted/submitted ratio has risen from about 2% in past years to around 6% right now, Not something to shout about, but it's still three times higher than before. wotf011
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Re: Success!

Postby Ishmael » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:55 am

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I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.

The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.
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Re: Success!

Postby Jason Parker » Sat Jul 16, 2016 10:55 am

Ishmael wrote:Image

I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.

The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.


Woohoo!
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Re: Success!

Postby J'nae Rae » Sat Jul 16, 2016 11:20 am

Ishmael wrote:Image

I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.

The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.


Woo Hoo! I hadn't realized that was yours when I did the read on it. :-) I gave it yea vote when doing the first readings. wotf024
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Re: Success!

Postby emilymccosh » Sat Jul 16, 2016 11:33 am

Congrats to Ishmael and everyone else. You guys are awesome! wotf010 wotf010 wotf010
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Re: Success!

Postby storysinger » Sat Jul 16, 2016 11:56 am

That was an awesome story Philip. Love that ending. wotf010
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Re: Success!

Postby amoskalik » Sat Jul 16, 2016 1:26 pm

Ishmael wrote:Image

I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.

The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.


I loved how the main character, in the end, never actually did anything. Kind of like tying a slip knot and then pulling the string tight.
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Re: Success!

Postby george nik. » Sat Jul 16, 2016 2:18 pm

Congrats, Philip!
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Postby rharp » Sat Jul 16, 2016 3:36 pm

Congrats, Phillip! I'll check it out. wotf008

And thanks Nick and George for the congrats!
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Re: Success!

Postby morshana » Sat Jul 16, 2016 6:37 pm

Congratulations, Philip!
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Re: Success!

Postby Ishmael » Sun Jul 17, 2016 2:26 am

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This is my month for failing to notice I've been published. My story The Trial of Monsieur Lazare is now free on line in AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review.

If anybody spots that I've been unwittingly published anywhere else, please let me know!

I suspect I've simply become more than usually disorganised while away in Bordeaux. wotf002
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