publishing credits

I'm not so shy - here are most of mine:





Lee Ann Sontheimer Murphy,


Voices II, upcoming November 2009, anthology Ozark Writers League


Short Story Library, Night Falls on Everyone, January 2009


Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume IV, November 2008


“Where The Heart Is”, Country Woman, August-September 2008

“The Home Place”, Voices, Vol. 1, An Anthology of Short Stories, High Hill Press, April 2008

“Red Roses”, Stories That Lift, April 2008,
http://www.storiesthatlift.com/STL-stories/red-roses.htm


“That Piece of My Heart”, Stories That Lift, March 2008
http://www.storiesthatlift.com/STL-stories/that-piece-of-my-heart.htm


“The Confederate”, The Dead Mule, March 10, 2008
http://www.deadmule.com/fiction/2008/03/lee-ann-sontheimer-murphy-the-confederate/

“Grandfather’s Smoke”, Everyday Fiction, February 8, 2008
http://www.everydayfiction.com/grandfathers-smoke-by-lee-ann-sontheimer-murphy/


“Witches’ Sixpence”, available on Anthology Builder, February 2008
http://www.anthologybuilder.com/viewstory.php?story_id=555


“At Night All Cats Are Gray”, The Evergreen Review #115 ( 2008)
http://www.evergreenreview.com/at_night_all_cats/at_night_1.html


“Ghosts”, Echoes of the Ozarks II (OWL anthology), November 2007
AWOC.COM (November 4, 2007)ISBN:13: 978-0937660379


“This Rugged Road”, October 2007 issue of The Chick Lit Review, nominated for Million Writers Award 2008
http://chicklitreview.org/sepoct2007leeannsmurphy.aspx


“Mirror, Mirror”, Coyote Wild, Autumn 2007, nominated for Million Writers Award, 2008
http://coyotewildmag.com/autumn2007/mirror_murphy.html


“The High Price of Protection Money”, Fabulous Fables of the Mongollon Rim,2005
Regional publication with limited press run

“Sacrament”, Foliate Oak, November 2006, nominated for Storysouth’s Million Writers Award 2007
http://www.foliateoak.uamont.edu/ar.../prose/sacrament-by-lee-ann-sontheimer-murphy


“Once”, Firefox News, September 2006, nominated for Storysouth’s Million Writers Award, 2007
http://firefox.org/news/authors/7/Lee-Ann-Sontheimer-Murphy


“Home Is Where the Heart Is”, Sweet Gum Journal, Fall 2006
http://www.sweetgumpress.com/sontheimer.html


“Aimee’s First Mask”, Halloween Masks, Volume 1,
http://www.halloween-mask.com/AimeesFirstMask.htm


“Shame the Devil”, Mosaic Minds, 2006 Turning Points issue. Story nominated for “Best of the ‘Net” and Storysouth’s Million Writers 2007.
http://www.mosaicminds.net/prose_turningpoints_shame


“Thanksgiving Tree Rats”, Reader’s Nook and Writer’s Corner, 2005
No longer archived on site

“Freedom’s Just Another Word”, Underground Window, Vol. 3, Issue 12
(publication now defunct)

“Asleep In the Arms of Jesus Under That Pagan Christmas Tree”, Underground Window, Vol. 2, Issue 8
Publication now defunct

“Sister Carleen Swanson’s Revelation”, Dragonfire, Issue 12, December 2005, Nominated in 2006 for Storysouth’s Million Writers Award
Dragonfire ceased publication

“The Yoke of Obedience”, Foliate Oak, Volume III, Issue II, December 2004
No longer archived online

“Hoo Doo”, Poor Mojo’s Almanac, #243
http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Fiction+243


“Texas Street Bridge”, The Dead Mule, 2005
http://www.deadmule.com/content/word.of.mule.php?content_id=928


“Witches’ Sixpence”, Scrivener’s Pen, Volume 4, Issue 3, awarded Scrivener’s Pen Award for best fiction in 2004; author interview appeared in Volume 5, Issue 3
Publication now defunct

I'm not particularly shy, but I've been writing under pseudonyms for several years now, and I'd rather not have these known. Under my own name, I've been published in such magazines as Ellery Queen, Sports Afield, Cricket, InSights, Muzzle Blasts, Far West, yadda, yadda, yadda.

The most important thing I've learned in acheiving success with publishers? 1. Read the magazine you want to sell to. Read many issues of the magazine. 2. Give the editor something he isn't getting from anyone else. 3. Follow Heinlein's Rules of Writing to the letter. 4. If you can write humor, you can sell just about anywhere.

The link in my signature has most of my already-published short stories. I've had 28 acceptances in all, though some were for different genres.

Most important thing I've learned...hmm...Have a long list of markets ready so you can keep sending the piece out as soon as it gets rejected. While you shouldn't send a piece that doesn't fit in a market (duh), you might be surprised what fits in a particular market...I've sometimes sent a piece out thinking "stupid, it's not their type, they'll reject it immediatly" only to have it accepted.

For magazines, I've been published in Membra Disjecta, Niteblade, The Gothic Revue (now defunct) and a few others.

On a whim, I decided to try selling my stories to ebook publishers for anthologies & stand-alone publications, and I'm finding I like the wait times and such a little better. Then again, I kind of like being non-conventional.

You can find a list of sold short stories on my website, if you're curious.
The link is in my signature below.

Robert E. Keller said:

You can find a list of sold short stories on my website, if you're curious.
The link is in my signature below.

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Ditto that for me...

I think my favorite sales were two. The first one was to Algis Budrys' tomorrowsf, back when he was putting out his own SF mag*. I figured the guy who recognized Stephen King's genius and bought his first story no doubt recognized mine, too, and that I should likewise enjoy a long and prosperous career. Something seems to have gone amiss with the prosperous part.

Another favorite was a reprint sale to a horror podcast. See, 99-percent of the time I make a sale and never, ever hear from the story again. That is, I never know if anyone other than the editor who bought the thing has read it. The podcast, though, tracked downloads, and those numbers indicated piles and piles of interest (in fact, had this thing been a novel, it would have sold out a typical first print run). Then there were the forums in which folks who heard the thing made comments about it. The vast majority of them were positive, even enthusiastic. I guess my reaction was a like a deaf actor working alone onstage finally able to hear some applause for his efforts. And I suspect that I enjoyed this one, too, because the few professional reviews I've read of some of my other work seemed more positive than not, but that little bit of not always bothered me, as if I was stuck on an edge of “almost there,” but not quite progressing. Maybe I have, since then, progressed. Who knows.

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* NOTE: tomorrowsf is no longer in business, a fate that has befallen many markets in which my work has appeared, including, alas, Talebones.

Just The Oddville press for me. I've also written articles for The Xtreme section in a rather big newspaper, but fiction titillates my soul more than non-fiction does.

Yup, mine are in my signature line, too. Proudest, I'd have to say was that Chiron Review took a story that a lot of folks rejected.

I've just been published in a fairly new anthology booklet called "Babel's Gate" with the story "Wonderfully Private", which is so transparently adolescent that you could smell it from a mile away . The story, that is. This is my first publishing credit...well, that I can remember anyway.

Here's a link: http://www.lulu.com/content/paperback-book/babels-gate---issue-2/8011439