Braggage

The TOC has been announced today, so I can talk about my sale now... FISH will be publishing "Life at the Lake's Shore" in their anthology!

Congrats also to Polenth, Megan and Suzanne who I'm sharing the TOC with - hope I didn't miss any AW'ers, but if in case did here's the complete list:

http://daganbooks.com/2011/10/01/official-table-of-contents-for-fish/

There are also some heavy hitters such as Ken Liu and Cat Rambo in there. Very exciting.

I wasn't going to do braggage as such, as it's not a W1/S1 story. But yay for acceptances! Looks like AW is well represented.

Yay! for Fish people

Congrats to everyone who made it into the Fish anthology!!

Congrats to all the Fish people. Can't wait for this one; there are some fantastic writers in that anthology.

I think I'd mentioned this before (and I don't think any of y'all are in the appropriate area to attend this event) but here is the "official" press release on the Fall Film Showcase that includes an excerpt from my script, Thingbreaker.

Unfortunately, I'm not in that part of the country either, but I figured I should promote it just the same.

Aggy, who studied filmmaking (not Creative Writing)

Polenth said:

I wasn't going to do braggage as such, as it's not a W1/S1 story. But yay for acceptances! Looks like AW is well represented.

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Polenth, we are happy to cheer for a good story sale whether its a W1S1 piece or not

Mine was, I wrote it for the antho specifically, so I'm double glad they took it

Congrats to everyone in the Fish antho! Very, very cool to see so many of us all together like that

And congrats, Aggy! Thingbreaker is an awfully intriguing title.

Aggy B. said:

I think I'd mentioned this before (and I don't think any of y'all are in the appropriate area to attend this event) but here is the "official" press release on the Fall Film Showcase that includes an excerpt from my script, Thingbreaker.

Unfortunately, I'm not in that part of the country either, but I figured I should promote it just the same.

Aggy, who studied filmmaking (not Creative Writing)

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That's so cool!

Congrats, Fish peeps!

alexshvartsman said:

Polenth, we are happy to cheer for a good story sale whether its a W1S1 piece or not

Mine was, I wrote it for the antho specifically, so I'm double glad they took it

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In my case, it was a story I wrote and had extreme trouble placing, as it didn't fit the market very well (and I'm prone to understatement). Then I read the Dagan submissions call and it sounded perfect for it. So I am yayful!

I don't know if everyone saw, but they mentioned on Twitter they'll also be doing anthologies for owls (air), horses (fire) and oxen (earth) in the coming years, as a sort of set. I like the idea of writing an ox story, just because it's an animal I've never written about. Plenty of ponder time for those.

BIG congrats to all the fish people!

In somewhat-related news, my Write1Sub1 Week#35 story "A Creature Stirring" is in the current issue of 10Flash Quarterly, right under Cat Rambo in the lineup. =]

You can read it here, if you're so inclined.

Congrats, Milo!

Polenth: Yeah those anthos sound intriguing. I have no good ideas for any of those themes at the moment, but it's something to keep in the back of our minds. Plenty of time to think about it, as they haven't opened subs for them yet (and probably won't this year).

I have more braggage btw... Just heard back from White Cat Magazine and they bought "Time Away" for their Fall issue, which they also immediately posted up on the web. You can read the story here:

http://www.whitecatpublications.com/?page_id=991

"Time Away" isn't a W1S1 story. In fact its a 2nd or 3rd story I ever wrote and it's been rejected A LOT. A dozen times, easy. I sent it off to White Cat because it was a fairly new market and I wasn't sure what they'd want, plus I really wasn't ready to give up on this story as I kind of like it myself... And they took it, at 5c/word, too.

I think that's a perfect proof that one must follow Heinlein's rules and keep submitting their story everywhere until it finally sells.

Alex, I saw that this morning! Congrats!

No word back on my White Cat sub yet, so I guess we'll see...

AnnieColleen said:

No word back on my White Cat sub yet, so I guess we'll see...

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Same here. : /

And I'm starting to wonder if they even send out rejections, because there are no R's reported on duotropes, which I find odd.

Congrats everyone! Especially the fishies.

I'm a W1S1 lurker, to my shame...but you have inspired me to keep at it every day, and it finally paid off. White Cat just accepted my short, House of Eternity...my first professional story accepted. Thank you, even though you didn't know you were inspiring me. I feel 'real' now.

Here it is, if you'd like to read it. http://www.whitecatpublications.com/?page_id=973

(if you are keeping track of dates to figure out their time lag since duotrope has nada, I sent this off July 23)

Editor at White Cat mentioned that they are still in the process of accepting more stories for the Fall issue, and for anyone who submitted not to assume they've been rejected yet, so hang in there and good luck everyone!

MeretSeger congratulations on your first pro pay sale! I look forward to reading your story next week, when I'm back home and my Internet access isnt limited to a few minutes at a time

Wow, I've missed so much great news. Congrats, everyone! Can't wait to get to read all your great pieces tomorrow and in the future.

Congrats you guys!!

Hey, did anyone get an acceptance or rejection for the AW SF/F/H anthology? I wonder if they already went out and mine didn't arrive...?

They're still going through the round two stories, I believe. Still waiting on whether I got in.

Thanks, Nathaniel! Waiting as well, then.