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February, 2002
Beth Bernobich sold short story "Voices from a Distant Star" to anthology Beyond the Last Star.
Terry Bramlett sold short story "The Smell of Dangerous Jasmine" to anthology Why I Hate Aliens, "Trophy Wife" to Speculon, and reprint rights to short story "The Gods in Search of Home" to Shadowkeep.
Tobias S. Buckell sold short stories "In The Heart of Kalikuata" to anthology Men Writing SF As Women, "A Green Thumb" to Analog, and saw "Trinkets" in The Book of All Flesh Anthology.
Jack Caynon sold short story "Chaos Spawn" to Legends Magazine.
Dayle A. Dermatis won first prize in Raven Electrick's Space Flash Contest with short story "Return."
Jim C. Hines sold short story "144th Contact" to anthology Why I Hate Aliens.
Charles Coleman Finlay sold novelet, "We Come Not to Praise Washington" to F&SF;.
Eugie Foster saw short story "The Adventures of Manny the Mailmobile" in Cicada.
Terri Hamilton sold short story "Enemy Healer" to WizKids Games for the Mage Knight Collector's Guide, read short story "Gentleman Jim Finds the Answers to All His Questions Under a Bridge" for Vacancy, and saw "Limits" in Eggplant Literary Productions' Literary Newsletter.
Jim C. Hines saw short story "Inspecting the Workers" in The Book of All Flesh Anthology.
M. Hogarth sold short story "Useless Tears" to Leading Edge.
Ahmed A. Khan saw short story "Deathwish" in Anotherealm.
Sean Klein sold short story "Harry Houdini and the Sutro Kidnapping" to Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine.
Mary Soon Lee sold science fiction collection "Ebb Tide and Other Tales" to Dark Regions Press, sold short story "New World" to Interzone, and saw short stories "The Strangers" in Future Orbits, and "Crew-Dog" in Spectrum SF #7.
David D. Levine sold short stories "Written on the Wind" to anthology Beyond the Last Star and "The Tale of the Golden Eagle" to F&SF;, and saw short story "Nucleon" in Interzone.
Paul E. Martens saw short stories "One Memory" in Deep Outside and "Doors" in Palace of Reason.
Lee Martindale sold short story "Queen's Bard" to Kinships Magazine and saw her story "Scarborough Fairy," also in Kinships.
Paul Melko saw short story "The Burning Man" in the February 2002 Realms of Fantasy, except for the last three words.
Antonia Mitchell sold reprint rights to poem "Summertime" to anthology The Best of Dreams of Decadence, to be published by ROC.
Devon Monk saw "Sugar n'Spice" (sequel to "Nursery Crimes") in Talebones.
Vera Nazarian saw a rave review by Charles de Lint of her debut fantasy novel Dreams of the Compass Rose in the February 2002 issue of F&SF;.
Richard Parks sold short story "The End of the Dance, The Beginning" to Beyond The Last Star, and saw "Kallisti" in Realms of Fantasy and "Keeping Lalande Station" in Future Orbits.
Brian Plante sold short stories "Wolf's Cure" to Future Orbits and "It's Only Human" to Analog, and saw short story "Magic 101" in Realms of Fantasy.
Ken Rand sold short story "Tail by the Tiger, Bull by the Horn" to Oceans of the Mind, reprint rights to short story "Good Dog," French language rights for short story "The Clockwork Sheriff" to Nestiveqnen Editions anthology Science & Sortileges, interview collection Voice of Wonder—20 Interviews in Fantaasy & Science Fiction to Wildside Press, and saw "La Grande Faucheuse debarque" in Faeries Toutes les Fantasy, novel The Eternity Stone from The Fiction Works, and short story "Refuge" in French language anthology Lilith et ses Soeurs.
Andrew Rey won one of the twelve prizes for his short story "Who Lived in a Shoe" in the Phobos Short Story Contest.
Mark Rudolph saw short story "Light and Other Harsh Elements" in January 2002 issue of Vestal Review.
John Savage's mundane identity will be presenting a Continuing Legal Education program on copyright and the internet to the Indiana Bar Association ... and intends to use all speculative-fiction-based examples.
Christina Sng sold poems "Newborn" to Yellow Bat Review, "Adrift" and "The Fruit of Loathing" to Aoife's Kiss, "On a Quiet Night at the Cemetery" to Space & Time, "Time Travel" and "Space Leviathans" to Hadrosaur Tales, and saw "On the Sands of Venus" in The Journal and "The Flood," "The Marvel of Flight," and "The Search" in Wicked Hollow.
Amy Sterling Casil sold five stories to Fictionwise for their e-book program. Nebula finalist "To Kiss the Star" will be offered as part of their free e-books that have qualified for the Preliminary Nebula Awards ballot. Amy also signed a contract for a sequel to 1632, provisionally entitled 1634: The Galileo Affair co-writing with Eric Flint, for delivery in 2004.
Christopher Stires saw his short story "Last Night" in Whispers from the Shattered Forum and short story "Bagman" in Hardboiled.
Elaine Togneri sold short story "Dream Vacation" to Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine. She also sold short story "Guardian Angel" to the Mystery Writers of America Anthology Blood on Their Hands, edited by Lawrence Block.
Greg van Eekhout sold short story "Will You Be an Astronaut?" to F&SF;.
James Van Pelt sold short story "The Sound of One Foot Dancing" to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, "Floaters" to Absolute Magnitude, "Far From the Emerald Isle" to Analog, and "Its Hour Come Round" to Talebones. James also saw short stories "The Invisible Empire" in The Children Of Cthulhu and "Deathlehem" in Chirascuro.
Dean Wells sold short story "On Wings of Soot and Loneliness" to ShadowKeep.
Ken Wharton saw short story "Flight Correction" in Analog and novel Divine Intervention on the final ballot for the Phillip K. Dick Award.
Leslie What sold short story "Finger Talk" to MOTA 2002 and novelette "Thanksgiving" to SciFi.Com.
Lori Ann White sold "Flights of Angels" to Neverworlds, her review of Ken Wharton's novel Divine Intervention in Strange Horizons, and short story "Etta Mae's Little Theory" in Jintsu E-texts.
Connie Wilkins sold short story reprints "To Remember You By" to Penthouse, "Climbing the Wall" to Cleansheets, and saw "Etched in the Flesh" in Best Lesbian Erotica 2002 and "Riding the Rails" in Best Women's Erotica 2002.
Frank Wu has received a commission to do all the interior artwork for the summer 2002 issue of Fantastic Stories.
December, 2001
Beth Bernobich saw short stories "Madeleine" in Clean Sheets and "Chameleon" in Strange Horizons. Her short story "Medusa at Morning" was chosen for the first Best of Strange Horizons hardcover anthology, to be published by Wildside Press.
Terry Bramlett sold short story "Taff Ra Finds an Egg" to Gateway SF Magazine, and saw "Winter's End" in 1000 Delights.
Jack Caynon saw short story "Cave Witch" in 1000 Delights.
Linda Dunn saw short story "Christmas at Ground Zero" in Analog.
William R. Eakin sold short story "Grandmother Mist" to Ellen Datlow at SCI FICTION (scifi.com).
Greg van Eekhout sold "Wolves Till the World Goes Down" to audiobook reprint anthology Best Fantasy of the Year: 2001.
Charles Coleman Finlay sold novella "A Democracy of Trolls" to F&SF;.
Linda J. Dunn saw her short story "Christmas at Ground Zero" in the December issue of Analog.
Frank Fradella took Second Prize in the Inscriptions "Monster Mash" contest.
Tim Jones saw poem "Dante and Isaac Asimov" in Speculon.
M. Hogarth saw short story "Money for Sorrow, Made Joy" in Strange Horizons.
Rebecca Inch-Partridge saw short story "Hell of a Night" in Hadrosaur Tales.
Ahmed A. Khan sold short story "Thus Spake Bleerbo" to Planet Relish, and saw short stories "Veils" in Love Words, "The Presonic Man" in Antipodean SF, and "Mirror Mirror" in Gateway SF.
Geoffrey A. Landis has an audio interview with him and Howard Hendrix on http://www.hour25online.com, and says Booklist and Publisher's weekly both gave great reviews to his new collection, Impact Parameter.
Mary Soon Lee sold short story "The Strangers" to Future Orbits, poem "If They Come" to Fantastic Stories, and saw "Clever People" in Bones of the World, "Crew-Dog" in Spectrum SF #7, and short story collection "Winter Shadows and Other Tales" published by Dark Regions Press.
David D. Levine's short story "Nucleon" won the 2001 James White Award, and will be published in the December 2001 issue of Interzone.
Joe Mahoney sold short story "Of Platypuses and Things" in Planet Relish.
Paul E. Martens saw short story, "That Damned Old Man" in the premiere issue of Future Orbits.
Willie Meikle sold Berserker! to Barclay Books.
Paul Melko saw short story "The Burning Man" in Realms of Fantasy, except for the last three words.
Antonia Mitchel saw poem "Dreaming of Lions" in the 2001 World Fantasy Convention CD-ROM.
Mary Anne Mohanraj sold short story "Wild Roses" to Ripe Fruit.
Nora M. Mulligan saw short story "Grandma's Ghost" in the Writer's Hood and novel The Visitors' Gifts published by Lighthouse Editions.
Vera Nazarian saw short story "Swans" in On Spec.
Richard Parks sold short story "Kallisti" to Realms of Fantasy and "Keeping Lalande Station" to Future Orbits.
Brian Plante saw short story "The Dove Cage" in Bones Of The World.
Ken Rand just sold French language rights to "The Grim Reaper Drops By" to Faeries. (English version of the story is archived at Gothic.net.) He also sold two short stories to On Spec.
Benjamin Rosenbaum sold short story "Droplet" to F&SF;, saw short-shorts "Bellur" and "Ponge" at Strange Horizons, and had poem "A Gardener Betrayed By Roses" chosen for the first Best of Strange Horizons anthology.
Mark Rudolph saw short story reprint "The Least She Could Do" in Electric Wine.
Christina Sng sold short story "Communion" to Blood Samples, poems "Margritte of Merlot" to Fables, "Allegra" to Nemeton II, "In the Wake of War" to The Book of Hope, "The Final Stand" to The World Healing Book, "After the War" to The Pedestal Magazine, "The Marvel of Flight" to Wicked Hollow, and "The Guardian" to Mooreeffoc. She also saw poems "Dawn of the Shapeshifters" in Mooreeffoc, "Postwar" in The Pedestal Magazine, "Confession" and "Moonstone" in Black Petals, "Frozen," "In the Belly of the Beast," "Hide and Seek," and "Endgame" in The Whirligig, "Troll Poll" in The Wandering Troll, and "Cocoon" and "In a Dark Corner" in The Edge: Tales of Suspense.
Eric Snyder II saw short story "A Mind of Her Own" in Speculon.
Christopher Stires sold short story "Costa de Malo Muerte" to Darkness Rising and saw "Human Resources" reprinted in Electric Wine.
James Van Pelt sold short stories "The Last of the O-Forms" to Asimov's and "The Wreath" to Stillwaters Journal. He also saw novelette "Perceptual Set" in Analog, and short stories "The Safety of the Herd" in Asimov's, "Working Pushout" in The Third Alternative, "The Invisible Empire" in Children of Cthulhu, "Father's Dragon" in On Spec, and "The Yard God" in Talebones.
Ken Wharton saw novel Divine Intervention from Ace Books.
Leslie What sold an article on witing for anhologies to The Writer and short stories "I Remember Marta" to Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet and "That Jellyfish Man Keeps A-Rollin" to The Third Alternative.
Connie Wilkins sold short story "Seafood Cocktail" to Wet: More Aqua Erotica, "Etched in the Flesh" to Best Lesbian Erotica 2002, and saw short story "A Wilder Spirit" in Electric Wine and "Riding the Rails" in Best Women's Erotica 2002. Short story "One-Eyed Jack" was chosen for the first Best of Strange Horizons anthology.
Frank Wu says his illustration of an astronaut removing his faceplate to kiss a (possibly imaginary) spacebabe will be in Talebones #23.
October, 2001
S. N. Arly saw the micro story "The Beach" on Fearsmag.com.
Mike C. Baker saw his poem "Blurs: 9/11/2001" in PaganMuse.com for the WTC Memorial Issue.
Ken Basarke saw "Know Him by The Face He Wears," in Dragons, Knights and Angels. He also sold "To Be or Not To Be" to Planet Relish.
Beth Bernobich sold short story "Chameleon" to Strange Horizons. She also saw short story "TimeTunnel" in Clean Sheets, short story "Bahn" in the Mammoth Book of Best New Erotica, and short story "Medusa at Morning" in Strange Horizons.
Terry Bramlett saw short story "Waiting at the End of the World" at EOTU Ezine.
Mary Catelli saw "The Law, In Its Majestic Equality...." in Absolute Magnitude #17.
Dayle A. Dermatis sold short story "Seeds of Hope" to Dark Regions.
Charles Coleman Finlay sold novella "The Political Officer" to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction.
ElizaBeth Gilligan sold short story "Iron Joan" to Black Gate Magazine, and two novels to Tor.
Elizabeth Hardage sold poems "Danse Macabre" and "The Hysteresis Effect" to The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, and sold poem "Galatea" to Star*Line.
M. C. A. Hogarth sold short story "Money for Sorrow, Made Joy" to Strange Horizons.
Tim Jones sold short story "When She Came Walking" to Strange Horizons.
Ahmed A. Khan sold short story "Veils" to Love Words and saw short story "Day of Dust" in Anotherealm.
Geoffrey A. Landi saw short story "Shooting the Moon" in Scifi.com.
Mary Soon Lee sold poems "Trees" to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, "To the Whales" to Space & Time, short story "Common Courtesy" to Kinships, and saw short story "Luna Classifieds" in Spectrum SF #6
Michele Letica saw short story "Hello and Goodbye" in The Writers of the Future, Vol. XVII.
David D. Levine sold short story "Zauberschrift" to anthology Apprentice Fantastic and saw short story "Wind From a Dying Star" in Bones of the World.
Paul E. Martens sold short story "That Damned Old Man" to Future Orbits and saw "Not All the Way to Heaven" in Writer Online.
Antonia Mitchell saw poem "Summertime" in Dreams of Decadence.
Devon Monk sold short stories "Sugar N'Spice" to Talebones, "Leeward to the Sky" to Realms of Fantasy, and saw "Last Tour of Duty" in Realms of Fantasy.
Michael H. Payne sold short story "The Moon Rabbit" to Artemis.
Brian Plante sold short story "Magic 101" to Realms Of Fantasy and saw novelette "The Thrill Of A Lifetime" in Analog.
Ken Rand sold short stories "Gone Fishin'" and "Soul Taster" to On Spec, and saw short story "The Problem With Mermaids" in Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas.
Richard Parks saw short story, "A Respectful Silence," in Realms of Fantasy.
Nancy Proctor saw her short story "The Dragon of Shiner Creek" in Speculon.
Benjamin Rosenbaum sold story collection "Other Cities" to Strange Horizons.
Christina Sng sold poems "Demonic Tryst" and "Box" to Parchment Symbols, "Eaters of the Dead" to Fables, "Troll Poll" to The Wandering Troll, "Petals" to Flesh & Blood, and "The Search" and "The Flood" to Wicked Hollow. She also saw poems "Spread" and "The Path" in Tapestry, and "A Mosquito's Tale" and "Bloom" in Black Petals.
Christopher Stires sold a reprint of his short story, "The Covenant," to Megalon Ficcao Cientifica & Horror (Brazil).
James Van Pelt sold short story, "Deathlehem" to Chiaroscuro and saw short story "The Last Age Should Show Your Heart" in Bones of the World.
Ken Wharton saw short story "Red Queen" in Bones of the World.
Connie Wilkins sold short story "The Wildest Spirit' to Electric Wine, "To Remember You By" to Shameless, and saw short story "One-Eyed Jack" in Strange Horizons.
Alexander Wilson saw story "Detective Comic" in Cyber Age Adventures.
Frank Wu won an ASFA Website Award for his Frank R. Paul tribute site. His artwork will appear on the cover of the novel Hamlet Dreams, and inside Talebones #22 for "The Yard God" by James Van Pelt.
August, 2001:
Forrest Aguirre sold his short story "Lich Boy" to Rogue Worlds and his story "Return From Abaddon" to Flesh & Blood.
Mike C. Baker saw article "Writing the Bones That Walk: Believable Descriptions For Corporeal Undead" in Southern Gothic Magazine.
Ken Basarke sold "The Inheritance" to WriterOnline.
Terry Bramlett sold short story "Waiting at the End of the World" to the SF issue of EOTU, and saw short stories "The Gods in Search of Home" in Glyph, "The Agreement" at Shadowkeep and novel The Elfland Affair at RFI West.
Mark Anthony Brennan saw short story "Shelter from the Storm" in the Spring 2001 issue of On Spec.
Tobias S. Buckell sold short story "Trinkets" to The Book of All Flesh and reprint rights to short story `'Waiting For The Zephyr" to Land/Space.
Mark Budman sold his story "The Land of Dreams, the Garden of Insomnia" to Virginia Quarterly.
Michael A. Burstei saw short story "Spaceships" in the June Analog, novella "Bug Out!" (written with Shane Tourtellotte) in the July/August Analog, and received a fourth Hugo nomination for short story "Kaddish for the Last Survivor."
Mary Catelli sold SF short story "The Witching Hour" to Fantastic.
Chris Clarke saw "Love Lines Circle" in Vestal Review and "The Corruption of Sebastian Menard" at 1000 Delights.
Ron Collins sold "Parchment in Glass" to Analog and "Barnstorming" to The Leading Edge. His story "The Taranth Stone" was also placed on Compuserve's HOMer final ballot for best novelette of 2000.
Casimer DeCusatis saw article "When Light Speed Isn't Enough: Creating Superluminal Supercomputers" in Analog.
Greg van Eekhout saw short story "Wolves Till the World Goes Down" in Starlight 3.
Charles Coleman Finlay saw short story "Footnotes" in Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Eugie Foster sold short story "The Adventures of Manny the Mailmobile" to Cicada: the Literary Magazine for Teenagers and Young Adults.
Annette Gisby's first novel Silent Screams sold to Barclay Books.
Kelly Harmon sold crossword puzzle "Saintly and Profane" and word-search puzzle "Fantastic Menagerie" to Dragons Knights and Angels: The Magazine of Christian Fantasy and Science Fiction.
James A. Hetley sold dark fantasy novel The Summer Country to Ace Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Robert Hole, Jr. has poem "Waiting" among 33 poems being read on CD set The Sounds of Poetry, to be released August 2001.
Barry Hollander sold short story "Appalachian Troll" to Tapestry and saw short story "Just Bones" as the cover story in Issue 3 of Foxfire.
Sandra Hutchinson sold short story "Mothersbane" to Glyph.
Derek James saw short story "A Piece of Bamboo" at Strange Horizons.
Anne Louise Johnson sold short story "Swedish Lutheran Vampires of Brainerd" to Sidecar Preservation Society.
Corey Kellgren sold "Future Considerations" to Nuketown and saw "At What Price" in Futures Magazine.
Ahmed A. Khan sold his story "Deserter" to Gateway SF Magazine and saw "The Atavism Device" in Gateway.
Geoffrey A. Landis won the Locus Award for best first novel, Mars Crossing.
Bruce S. Larson sold short story "Bug Eating Dogs" to Icarus Ascending and "Inherit the Earth" to Talebones, and saw short stories "Freaks" in Vampire Dan's Story Emporium and "Harlots" and "Shapes" in Dark Matter.
Joni Latham's first full length novel, Eyes of the Jackal, is now available from CrossRoadsPub.com.
Mary Soon Lee sold short story "Crew-Dog" to Spectrum SF, and saw short stories "On the Irritating..." in Tales of the Unanticipated #22, "Patterns" in Realms of Fantasy, October 2001, "More Than Magic" in Elysian Fiction #1, and poem "Silicon Bird" in Talebones #21.
David Levine sold a story to Land/Space, got his galleys for The Bones of the World, and won second prize in the second-quarter 2001 Writers of the Future contest.
Paul E. Martens saw his short story "Miles Away" in Deep Outside.
Lee Martindale saw short-story collection The Folly of Assumption: The Collected Fat Fantasies of Lee Martindale from Yard Dog Press.
Antonia Mitchell sold poems "Untitled poem about Clark Ashton Smith" and Dreaming of Lions" to the 2001 World Fantasy Convention CD-ROM Project.
Mary Anne Mohanraj saw poem "Beneath the Lemon Tree" in Speculon.
Devon Monk saw short story, "Stitchery" in Black Gate #2.
Richard Parks sold novelette, "The Great Big Out" to Fantastic, reprint "A Time for Heroes" to Quest-Lover's Treasury of the Fantastic, and saw novelette, "Golden Bell, Seven, and the Marquis of Zeng" in Year's Best Fantasy #1, edited by David G. Hartwell.
Michael H. Payne sold short story "Almost See the Stars" to anthology Fantastic Furry Stories and short story "St. Georgie and the Dragonfly" to comic book anthology New Horizons. He says he drew the pictures on that last one, too.
Brian Plante saw novelette "The Upgrade" in the September issue of Analog.
Megan Powell saw short story "Second Coming" up at SimeCenter's Read a Good Story, Do a Good Deed, and sold short story "The War Reel" to Kinships.
Tim Pratt sold poem "Mask" to Strange Horizons and saw poem "Incident" in the July issue of Asimov's.
Nancy Proctor sold short story "The Dragon of Shiner Creek" to Speculon.
Ken Rand saw short story "Grains of Sand" in Electric Wine.
Jenn Reese sold short story "Curtain Call" to Speculon.
Christina Sng saw poems "Rambling at the End of the World," "Reel", and "Fed to Her" in Southern Gothic #2.
Eric Snyder II sold short story "A Mind of Her Own" to Speculon.
Jennifer St. Clair saw her story, "The Faerie Contest" in Enchanted Realms.
Amy Sterling Casil saw novelette "Heart of Jade" in Black Gate, "To Kiss The Star" on the 2001 Preliminary Nebula Ballot, and "Chromosome Circus" on the CompuServe HOMer ballot for best novelette of 2000.
Christopher Stire saw his short story "Final Soulcatchers" on Elysian Fiction and horror novel The Inheritance from The Fiction Works.
John Trey sold short story "The Master Chefs and the Goatherd" to Jackhammer.
James Van Pelt saw short story "The Infodict" in the August Asimov's.
Jeff Verona saw short story "Under the Bridge" in Black Gate.
Ken Wharton saw novelette "Boltzmann's Ghost" at Jintsu.
Leslie What saw short story "`Goyles in the Hood" in Black Gate, "Storytime" in the Spring 2001 issue of The MacGuffin, and became one of three artists/writers to receive grant funding to teach interviewing and writing skills to 5th grade students. The students will then interview and document the stories of nursing home residents.
Lori Ann White saw short story "Sex With an Alien" in NeverWorlds.
Connie Wilkins sold short story "Mending Mail" to Elysian Fiction and "One-Eyed Jack" to Strange Horizons.
Frank Wu did a nifty cover for the short story collection The Best-Known Man in the World by Daniel Pearlman, published by Aardwolf Press.
June, 2001:
John Aegard saw short story "Feng Burger" in On Spec. Marla Anderson saw short story "Twister Tours" in 1000 Delights.
Mike C. Baker sold article "Writing the Bones that Walk: Believable Descriptions for Corporeal Undead" to Southern Gothic. Ken Basarke sold a poem to Dragons, Knights and Angels, and saw short story "When the Lay of the Lash was a Lie" in Blue Food.
Terry Bramlett saw short story "If Only in Her Mind" in Anotherealm.
Linda J. Dunn sold short story "Christmas At Ground Zero" to Analog, "Driving Blind in God's Own Country" to Neverworlds, and saw "The Leaving Of The Amish" in Gateway and "Wings Of Many Feathers" in Spellbound.
William R. Eakin's collection Redgunk Tales is now available from Invisible Cities Press.
Christopher East sold short story "Skullier than the Average Bod" to Challenging Destiny.
Lazette Gifford sold short story "Lucky" to Ideomancer, where it now appears with "Aftermath" and "A Fate Cast in Stones." She also sold short stories "Weaving the Strands of Love" to Twilight Times, "Intrusion" to Jackhammer, and saw short stories "One Demand Too Many" in Anotherealm and "Epilogue to a Lost Tale" in The Best of Jackhammer.
Terry Hickman sold "Gentleman Jim Finds the Answers to All His Questions Under a Bridge" as an audio reprint to Vacancy for their August 2001 issue.
Robert Hole Jr. became Ornithology/Bird Biology section editor for Suite101.com.
Tim Jones saw collection Extreme Weather Events from HeadworX Publishers.
John Karr sold Dark Resurrection, his horror novel about zombies running a hospital, to Barclay Books.
Ahmed A. Khan sold short story "Busy Line" to The Phone Book, "Mirror Mirror On The Wall" to Gateway SF, and saw short story "The Presonic Man" in Gateway SF.
Mary Soon Lee sold short stories "More Than Magic" to Elysian Fiction, "Luna Classifieds" to Spectrum SF, "Patterns" to Realms of Fantasy, and saw short stories "Assembly Line" in Electric Wine, "The Fall of the Kingdom" in Sword & Sorceress XVIII, and poem "Fall Clearance" in The Magazine of Speculative Poetry.
Lee Martindale saw short story "Doin' The Drive-In", co-authored with Bradley H. Sinor, in Bubbas of the Apocalypse.
Devon Monk sold short story "Last Tour of Duty" to Realms of Fantasy.
Paul Martens saw his short story "Henry Charles" in Speculon.
Lee Martindale sold short story "Scarborough Fairy" to Kinships Magazine.
Martin Owton saw short story "Daughter of the Night" in Dreams and Demons.
Richard Parks sold short story "A Respectful Silence" to Realms of Fantasy and saw "A Place to Begin" in Weird Tales.
Tim Pratt sold short story "The Man Who Loved the Moon" to Kinships and saw his story "Dr. Nefarious and the Lazarus Project" in Speculon.
Nancy Proctor sold short story "Sittin' A Spell At Miz Love's" to Strange Horizons.
Benjamin Rosenbaum saw short story "The Ant King: A California Fairy Tale" in F&SF; and poem "A Gardener Betrayed By Roses" in Strange Horizons.
Douglas Smith won a 2001 Aurora Award for best short form work in French by a Canadian SF&F; author for "La Danse des Esprits," a translation of his story "Spirit Dance." He's also a finalist for the 2001 John W. Campbell Award.
Rosemary Claire Smith sold short story "Birch Glow" to Analog.
Christina Sng saw poem "Confession" in Frisson.
Jennifer St. Clair sold novels Second Coming to FictionWorks and The Tenth Ghost to Bookmice.com
Amy Sterling Casil sold novella "Shakespeare in Hell" to Elysian Fiction and novel Imago to Wildside Press.
Christopher Stires sold short story "Final Soulcatchers" to Elysian Fiction, "Immobile" to Blue Murder, and saw "Telling Chloe" in Virginia Adversaria.
Marcie Tentchoff won the 2001 Aurora Award for Best Short-Form Work in English, for poem "Surrendering the Blade".
Elise Tobler sold short story "Button by Button" to Would That It Were and short story "Peanut Butter Fudge Love" to Peridot Books.
Diane Turnshek sold poem "Alien Pygmalion" to Rough Beasts.
Laura J. Underwood sold her first novel Ard Magister to Yard Dog Press.
James Van Pelt sold short stories "The Yardgod" to Talebones, "The Stars Underfoot" to Realms of Fantasy, and saw "Saturn Ring Blues" in On Spec.
Jeff Verona sold novelette "Family Business" to Neverworlds.
Dean Wells sold short story "In Thy Darkened Image" to Ideomancer and novelette "The J-hawker Imperative" to Demensions.
Leslie What saw her review of two books by Carol Emshwiller online at Strange Horizons, short story "Papermates" in Asimov's, "Those Taunted Lips" in Historical Hauntings, and "The Wereslut of Avenue A" in Bending the Landscape: Horror.
Lori Ann White sold novella "Etta Mae's Little Theory" to Raechel Henderson Moon for Jintsu E-texts.
Connie Wilkins saw short story "Etched in the Flesh" in Zaftig, "Riding the Rails" in Set in Stone, and "Pocket Apollo" in Electric Wine.
Alexander Wilson saw short story "The Tolerant Miss Kent" in Anotherrealm.
Frank Wu has "a whole pile of cool-ass interior illustrations" in Fantastic Stories, plus more in Strange Horizons.
April, 2001:
Daniel Abraham sold short story "A Good Move in Design Space" to The Bones Of The World.
Lee Allred sold short story "Hymnal" to The Bones Of The World.
Marla Anderson saw short story "Heart Trouble" in Electric Wine.
Ken Basarke sold poem "Know Him by the Face He Wears" to Fantasy, Folklore and Fairytales, "When the Lay of the Lash was a Lie" to Blue Food, and saw story "To Be or Not To Be" in the SF Canada website.
Terry Bramlett saw short story "Forgiveness" in the March issue of Muse It Premium Edition.
Philip Brewer sold short story "New Song of Old Earth" to The Bones Of The World.
Michael Scott Bricker sold short story "Love and Glass" to The Bones Of The World.
Marlissa Campbell saw short story, "Germ Theory," in HMS Beagle.
Jim W. Eakin sold short story "The Lack" to Bonetree.
Charles Coleman Finlay sold short short "The Frontier Archipelago" to On Spec, novelet "For Want of a Nail" to Fantasy & Science Fiction, and saw poem "accidental series" in Strange Horizons.
Lazette Gifford saw novel Silky released by Embiid Publications, short story "A Fate Cast in Stones" in Ideomancer, and flash fiction "Aftermath" in Ideomancer.
James A. Hartley saw short story "Responsibility" in Speculon, also sold short story "Ice Cream" to Fearsmag.com and "Guilt-Edge Security" to Jackhammer II.
Terry Hickman saw her short story, "To Have and to Hold," in Kinships and interview with Catherine Asaro in The Market List.
Tim Jones saw poems "The stars, Natasha" and "Revenant" in Dreams and Nightmares.
Susan Kroupa sold short story "The Niman Project" to The Bones Of The World.
Geoffrey Landis and Mary Turzillo saw back-to-back humor pieces "Ways to Tell Your Cat is a Space Alien" and "More Ways to Tell..." in Asimov's.
David Levine sold short story "Wind From a Dying Star" to The Bones Of The World.
Willie Meikle sold novel "Island Life" to Barclay Books.
Paul Martens sold short story "Home" to On Spec.
Lee Martindale saw short story "That Which Feeds The Soul" in the anthology Outside The Box: The Best Short Fiction From Bookface, edited by Lou Anders and published by Wildside Press.
Joe Murphy sold short story "Engines of Similarity" to The Bones Of The World.
Vera Nazarian sold short story "Swans" to On Spec, novel Lords Of Rainbow and short story collection Dreams Of The Compass Rose to Wildside Press, and saw short story "A Thing Of Love" reprinted in the anthology Outside The Box: The Best Short Fiction From Bookface.
Michael Nethercott saw his short story "The Moonshriek Dialogue" in Fantasy & Science Fiction.
Jerry Oltion sold short story "The Seeds of Time" to The Bones Of The World.
Martin Owton saw short story "Out in the Wildlands" in Legend.
Richard Parks saw short story, "The First Law of Power," in Realms of Fantasy.
Brian Plante sold novelette "The Thrill Of A Lifetime" to Analog, short story "The Dove Cage" to The Bones Of The World, and saw short stories "Papa Rat" in Deep Outside and "Lavender's Blues" (with Elisa Romero-McCullough) in Dark Regions.
February, 2001:
Marla Anderson sold short story "Twister Tours" to 1000 Delights.
Terry Bramlett sold short stories "Awakening Species" to Foxfire, "Forgiveness" to Muse It Magazine, and "Taff Ra Finds an Egg" to Martian Wave. Terry also saw short story "Hope's Variable" in Foxfire and novelette "Umando's Revenge" in Nemeton: A Fables Anthology.
Carolyn DeCusatis sold short story "Healing Trust" to Millennium SF&F; and seven science fiction short stories to Other Times, Other Places, The Fiction Work's Bell Ringers Literacy Anthology.
Casimer DeCusatis sold science fact article "When Light Speed Isn't Fast Enough: Enabling Computers of the Future" to Analog.
Bill Eakin sold short stories "Weird, Erotic Dark" to Black October Magazine and "The Foot Path" to Neverworlds.
Christopher East saw short story "Filth" in Talebones #20.
Raymund Eich sold short story "Katalysis' Heart" to Terra Incognita.
Marcy Italiano made her first sales: short stories "Rigged" to 1000 Delights and "Beneath the 3" to Frightwriter.
Steve Hallberg saw short story "Tetley's Time Travel Emporium" in the webzine Planet Relish.
Terry Hickman sold short-short "To Have and to Hold," to Kinships and saw "Hunter's Green" in Spaceways Weekly #177.
Corey Kellgren sold his short story "A Boatside Chat" to Tales of the Unanticipated.
Lee Martindale (with Bradley H. Sinor) sold short story "Doin' The Drive-In" to anthology Bubbas Of The Apocalypse from Yard Dog Press and sold anthology rights for short story "That Which Feeds The Soul" to Outside The Box: The Best Short Fiction From Bookface.Com, edited by Lou Anders.
Paul Melko saw short story "Alien Fantasies" in Terra Incognita #5.
Nora M. Mulligan sold short-short story, "A Winter's Tale" to Strange Horizons.
Richard Parks sold short story "The First Law of Power" to Realms of Fantasy and saw short story "The Trickster's Wife" in the February Realms of Fantasy. Richard's novelette "Golden Bell, Seven, and the Marquis of Zeng" from Black Gate #1 will be reprinted in David Hartwell's Year's Best Fantasy, Vol. 1.
Brian Plante sold novelette "The Upgrade" to Analog and saw short story "Fresh Air" in the February Analog.
Megan Powell sold novel Vocation to Abby the Troll Publications and saw "True Believers" reprinted for The Writers Hood fantasy contest, "The Breakfast Nook" in Whispers from the Shattered Forum, "The Landlord's Black-Eyed Daughter" in The Murder Hole; "Vocation" in Lost Ages Chronicle, "The Perm" and "Snowmelt" in ShadowKeep, and "Cleanup in Aisle 6" in ShadowKeep's Christmas Carnage.
Tim Pratt sold short story "Werewolves and Princesses" to Chiaroscuro, "The Fallen and the Muse of the Street" to Strange Horizons, and "Straight Trade" and "Dr. Nefarious and the Lazarus Project" to Speculon.
Ken Rand sold first novel The Eternity Stone to The Fiction Works and won second place in the SpecFicWorld.com High Fantasy Contest for short story "Sawk." Ken also saw short story "Duty" printed in Fantasque #6, short story "A Tree Grows Up on Mars" on webzine Neverworlds, "Le Probleme avec Les Sirenes" in Faeries, "The Grim Reaper Drops By" in Gothic.net.
T. Rex sold short story "Punkin' Vipers" to Futures Magazine.
Benjamin Rosenbaum sold short story "The Duck" to Writer Online.
Mark Andrew Siegal saw poem "Island of Stability" in e-zine Electric Wine.
Christina Sng saw poems "Ebola Virus" and "Firstborn" in Dreams and Nightmares #58.
Mary Soon Lee sold short story "On the Irritating..." to Tales of the Unanticipated, "Birthdays" to Kinships, and saw short story "PauseTime" in Spectrum SF #4
Amy Sterling Casil's novelette "Chromosome Circus" has qualified for the 2000 Preliminary Nebula Ballot.
Christopher Stires sold his short story "Last Night" to Whispers from the Shattered Forum, and saw short stories "Spun Monkey" in the January e-zine issue of Darkmoon and "Nightbugs" on Redsine.
Elise Tobler sold short story "Flash Point" to Pocket Books' Strange New Worlds IV.
James Van Pelt placed second in The Best of Soft Contest with short story "The Infodict," and then turned around and sold it to Asimov's. James also saw novelette "Night Sweats" in the February Realms of Fantasy and "That He Might Yet Find the Unknown" in Altair Special Edition.
Lori Ann White sold short story "Target Audience" to Asimov's and saw short story "H20" in Spaceways Weekly.
Alexander Wilson sold short story "Detective Comic" to Cyber Age Adventures, saw "Paths to Autonomy" named highest rated story of 2000 in Planet Relish, and released debut CD album "Confounds the Breather."
Leslie What saw feature article "Selling Speculative Fiction" in The Writer's Handbook, 2001 published by Kalmbach Publishing.
Connie Wilkins saw short story "Of Dark and Bright" and "Climbing the Wall" in Best Lesbian Erotica 2001, "Virtual Empathy" in Darkling Plain, and "Feeling Blue" in BoneTree.
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