My first published short story!

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saiko_neko

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Actually, first published anything! :)

Anyway, my short story called Labirint (Labyrinth) is published in a new magazine called Microtopia. It's a local magazine from a city near me, but I'm still so excited! The only thing that's bothering me is their proofreading. They didn't separate two paragraphs (every second paragraph was talking about the past), so in those parts is a bit confusing and she changed one sentence. Not much, but enough that she changed the meaning and it makes no sense. She probably didn't read the story careful enough. Please tell me these things happen to you too? But I'm happy anyway! They made an amazing job, especially with the design of the magazine.

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Congratulations! The aesthetic is lovely. :) Yes, I've had a publisher futz some of my prose, but hey, what can you do? Keep writing and submitting, that's what. Here's to many more!:Trophy:
 

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Congratulations! Wishing you many more! But the first publication is especially exciting!
 

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Awesome! Sorry about the sentence change and paragraphs not being seperated, but congrats on the nice design. :)
 

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Congratulations!

Let them know (politely) and they'll possibly mention it as errata in the next issue and/or fix it on the website if they're digital as well.
 

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Thank you all, you are very kind!
I did let them know and they have apologized. But they said that I should point out next time that these certain things are important. But when I have sent them the Word document, I separated paragraphs, plus every second paragraph had a different writing. So I thought that was clear enough :/ But next time I will try to be even more specific I guess. I'm grateful to them anyway. :)
 

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Congratulations! It looks great! I'm sorry about the editor mishap but I'm still really happy for you. Published! Woot!
 
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