Success!

[J'nae Rae]

Congrats Phillip!!!!

[emilymccosh]

Well I just got a poem accepted today from Ember after a 418 day wait!

[Rebecca Birch]

Congratulations, Philip and Emily and Thomas and George and Martin, and anyone else I may have missed in here!

[amoskalik]

I just received my print copy of Mad Scientist Journal, Fall 2016. I'm the first story.
There is something about having a physical representation of your writing that satisfies on a deep level.

[Rebecca Birch]

I just received my print copy of Mad Scientist Journal, Fall 2016. I'm the first story.
There is something about having a physical representation of your writing that satisfies on a deep level.

Awesome!

[Jason Parker]

I just received my print copy of Mad Scientist Journal, Fall 2016. I'm the first story.
There is something about having a physical representation of your writing that satisfies on a deep level.

Rock on!

[LaurieG]

Congrats, Emily!
Aaron, how do I get a copy of Mad Scientist Journal?

[amoskalik]

Congrats, Emily!
Aaron, how do I get a copy of Mad Scientist Journal?

Oops, sorry. Unfortunately it is not a free online zine. You can buy it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Scientist-Jo ... st+Journal

[Rebecca Birch]

New flash story out today in T. Gene Davis's Speculative Blog.

I'm super-fond of this story, and thrilled it found a good home.

The Wren and the Clockwork Man

[storysinger]

That's a good story Rebecca. Congrats.

[hlf]

Congrats, Rebecca! ... and Aaron!...and Emily!

[Ishmael]

Another lovely story that I recall having critted, Rebecca. I really love it, though I still don't understand why you call the artificial man clockwork!

[Rebecca Birch]

Another lovely story that I recall having critted, Rebecca. I really love it, though I still don't understand why you call the artificial man clockwork!

Thanks, Storysinger, HLF, and Ishmael!

You did indeed, crit this one, Ishmael. I thought about the "clockwork" thing hard, and decided to keep it for the entirely not-great reason that it just plain sounds cool. Maybe the steam powers gears in there somewhere?

[Jason Parker]

Woo hoo!

[amoskalik]

Very nice story Rebecca. Congrats!

[george nik.]

Congrats, Emily! (and I really admire your patience - 418 days! I first saw it in the Grinder and was overawed.

Congrats, Rebecca! (and thanks for your earlier post!) I haven't gotten around to reading this one yet, but all your stories I've read are great, so I guess this one must be too

Print copies are nice, Aaron! I wasn't aware of MSJ selling print copies, I will check out if the volume I was in is available too. I've only got a print copy of my story in Bards & Sages Quarterly and I'm waiting for Galaxy's Edge, but I'd like to have another one! Well, I've got a couple of bookshelves filled with my stories in Greek editions, but I don't count those any longer

[george nik.]

And I have news of my own as well.

Achievement unlocked: after several attempts I finally managed to have a story accepted by Grievous Angel.
Bonus: it was the first of my micro-stories (100 words) to sell.
Extra bonus: this ended a dreary dry spell of over two months interspersed with a lot of excruciatingly frustrating personal rejections. Finally!

[Jason Parker]

And I have news of my own as well.

Achievement unlocked: after several attempts I finally managed to have a story accepted by Grievous Angel.
Bonus: it was the first of my micro-stories (100 words) to sell.
Extra bonus: this ended a dreary dry spell of over two months interspersed with a lot of excruciatingly frustrating personal rejections. Finally!

Woo hoo!

[preston]

Nice! So much success. Talk about inspiration!
Congrats, Philip. I liked your story. It was fairy, fairy good!
Congrats, Ember. 418 days! That's a loooong time! So glad there was light at the end of the tunnel.
Way to go, Aaron. First on the TOC! Pretty cool.
Congrats, Rebecca. Your stories are always so beautiful.
Congrats, George. A pro-level sale is always nice.
And who else...Thomas? Proed out! Wow! That's amazing! Congrats.
Whew! You guys! My fingers! Jeez!
Next...?

[LaurieG]

And I have news of my own as well.

Achievement unlocked: after several attempts I finally managed to have a story accepted by Grievous Angel.
Bonus: it was the first of my micro-stories (100 words) to sell.
Extra bonus: this ended a dreary dry spell of over two months interspersed with a lot of excruciatingly frustrating personal rejections. Finally!

Yay, George!

[amoskalik]

And I have news of my own as well.

Achievement unlocked: after several attempts I finally managed to have a story accepted by Grievous Angel.
Bonus: it was the first of my micro-stories (100 words) to sell.
Extra bonus: this ended a dreary dry spell of over two months interspersed with a lot of excruciatingly frustrating personal rejections. Finally!

Congrats! I've tried to unlock Grievous Angel a couple of times without success. It is fun to sell a micro-story and ending a dry spell is always welcome although two months hardly qualifies in my mind.

[Ishmael]

Cheers George. Grievous Angel is a tough nut to crack!

[Dustin Adams]

And there's Emily's DSF story in my inbox this morning!
Writing things are happening. :)

[emilymccosh]

Ha, thanks Dustin, I didn't even know it was coming out today!!

My story is out at DSF!!!



http://dailysciencefiction.com/science- ... ing-a-hero

[amoskalik]

Loved the story, Emily. They should've saved it for Father's Day.

[Jason Parker]

Congrats, Emily! You're on a roll.

[george nik.]

Congrats, Emily! I read it first thing in the morning, it was really good!

Thanks, Jason, Preston, Laurie, Aaron and Philip! I started writing micro-stories for SpeckLit, but I had no luck there (Aaron has cracked that one, if I remember correctly). Anyway, SpeckLit is no more, so I had to find new markets for these stories, and Grievous Angel is great. This story was my only one that made it to FSI's second round, by the way, so it has to be good.

Meanwhile, most of the rejections I'm getting these days are almost raving. They keep telling me how great my stories are, and how sorry the editors are that they have to reject them, and how lucky will be the markets that accept them... Oh well, I'd rather they just bought the damn things

[amoskalik]

Congrats, Emily!
Aaron, how do I get a copy of Mad Scientist Journal?

Oops, sorry. Unfortunately it is not a free online zine. You can buy it here:
https://www.amazon.com/Mad-Scientist-Jo ... st+Journal

My story is now free online:
http://madscientistjournal.org/2016/09/final-thoughts/

[Ishmael]

My story 'A Braw Song For Burns Night' is in the latest edition of Recompose mag, #2 entitled (I've no idea why) 'Ritualistic Pompadour'. Unfortunately for all my legions of admirers my story isn't in the free section.

[amoskalik]

Congrats!