For the record, I did not suffer a gunshot blast to the head in February 2002. Nor was I turned into a newt, though I like that alternative better. I'm alive and well, although the pirate novel I had planned seems to have capsized after 900 words. Sad. Back to the short stuff for me, at least until November....
In the meanwhile, hopefully I'll continue to have success with my short stories; I've been lucky enough to make a few sales since I began submitting seriously in 1998, namely to Jackhammer, Dragon Soup, Planet Relish, Spellbound, the Eggplant Library, SDO Fantasy, Peridot Books, Leafing Through, Raven Electrick, Byzarium, Farthing, Aoife's Kiss, and the RAGEmachine Books anthology Justice Wears a Dress (in order of first acceptance). My non-paying acceptances have come from the Periodic Table of Haiku, Distant Worlds, Flashshot, and the flash anthology Shadow Box. The Best Weapon, a fantasy chapbook, should be available someday from Scrybe Press.
| Amanda,
The post was updated at the end of August; apparently they're reading subs received in April and May. And I'm a query wimp, too. Aliette, who also has a sub in limbo. |
| Thanks, Sonya! No, I haven't. Back in July there was a post on the SR forums saying the editor was about to get to things submitted in April, and that's the last I've heard.
In that post, though, Angela Challis urged people who've been waiting more than eight weeks for responses to query and said all queries are answered within a week. I haven't tried it yet--I'm a query wimp--but maybe it'd be the best thing. |
| Hi Amanda, Congrats on your sales! I am just dropping a not to see if you have heard anything from shadowed realms on the story you subbed to them back in April? I ask because I sent one in around the same time and have heard nary a word... Thanks!
Sonya |
| Thank you Amanda. It means a lot to me to know that people enjoyed all my crazy schemes. |
| Thank you, Roach!
By the by--I likely should've said this earlier (and in a less random topic), but I've been wanting to thank you for all the time and work you put into ELP. I don't know of any other editors who've created so many different markets I wanted to submit to, and managed to stuff them with lots of good stuff besides. So, thanks. It was appreciated. :) |
| Congratulations Amanda! |
| Thanks, Jay Arr! |
| Conspecugraulations, Amanda!
--Jay Arr |
| I haven't made much use of this topic, and I don't imagine I'm enough of a Name for many people to read it. ;) But I must needs squee. I won Peridot Books' Name In Lights award for the new issue, after having my fifth consecutive story published there. Ty Drago said such wonderful things. I'm touched all to pieces, and proving my dorkdom by doing the Nick Verreos glee dance.
Apparently my story in the January-April issue was well-liked, too, and that just rocks. The only downside is that now I figure the writing gods will send me a hail of rejections in order to keep me from being too pleased with myself. ;) |
| Oh, shoot, I only wish I had a novel sale! (Or had written a novel, for that matter.) Both my recent sales were short stories. But all woohoos are welcome and appreciated regardless. :) |
| Had to run by and offer my "Woohoo!" on your recent short story and novel sales! |
| OOPS. I'll edit that reference to say "an upcoming issue of Farthing. (Can you tell I posted before I had my coffee? Speaking of which, off to get some right now...)
Jackie (PS: And I hope mine will be there, too. Waiting to hear from Wendy, but that may be a while; she has to recover from WorldCon!) |
| Awww! I'm fairly sure I'm blushing! Although I have to admit that I'm not in Farthing's debut issue; my story will be in issue either two or three (I hope yours will too!).
Thanks for the congrats, and the blog mention, and the song-posting, and and and... maybe I should stick to 'many thanks all around' before I use up my 'and' quotient. You're most amazingly kind. |
| Hey, Amanda! First, congrats on the Peridot Books sale! Second, I finally posted your song in my blog! Have a look, see if you like...
Jackie |
| Thank you! Sure, if you like; I'd be flattered. Just do me a favor and fix the two typos? I think my S key was on the fritz or something--'she write' should be 'she writes,' and 'who travel' should be 'who travels.' I've been embarrassed about those since I posted it. |
| Thanks right back at you, Amanda! And coming in late to say that your Spec Writer song is utterly brilliant! May I post it on my blog, with all due credit to you?
Jackie |
| Thanks, Jackie! It's a huge thrill for me on many levels. I suspect I'll be bouncing around in glee about it for awhile. Good luck to you with that rewrite request. :) |
| Congrats on the FARTHING sale, Amanda!
Jackie |
| Awww, thank you both. :) I must confess a love of song parodies; I try to write them now and again as an erratic hobby. It was kind of refreshing to do a filk that wasn't (loosely) based on Pern--it's been awhile! |
| I submit on bended knee to Your Filkness. |
| I am both humbled and highly amused - you have a gift. |
| Did someone say the magic words 'totally silly?'
Speaking thereof, I sheepishly present the following, for which my only excuse is that all that battering over the head recently must have caused me brain damage. Without further ado.... --- THE SPEC WRITER SONG (With all due apologies to Monty Python and their lumberjack.) WRITER: I'm a spec writer, and I'm okay; I write all night and I sleep all day. EDITORS: She's a spec writer, and she's okay; She writes all night and she sleeps all day. WRITER: I check my mail, I write through lunch, I go to the lavatory. I review my rejections, And burn those from MZB. EDITORS: She checks her mail, she write through lunch, She goes to to the lavatory. She reviews her rejections And burns those from MZB. She's a spec writer, and she's okay. She writes all night and she sleeps all day. WRITER: I write of a sweet princess fair Who travel through deep space 'Til she meets up with a werewolf And he bites off her face. EDITORS: She writes of a sweet princess fair Who travels through deep space...? 'Til she meets up with a werewolf And he bites off her face?! She's a spec writer, and she's okay. She writes all night and she sleeps all day. WRITER: I write fanfic about Star Trek! Delicious Spock/Kirk slash! But paying 'zines won't buy it, So they can kiss my--ahem. WRITER AND EDITORS: I (She) write(s) fanfic about Star Trek, Delicious... Spock/Kirk slash?!? WRITER: But paying 'zines won't buy it, So they can kiss my ash! Note: No actual MZB rejection slips were harmed in the making of this filk. |
| We could start "The Lumberjack Song," but I think it would just get totally silly. |
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Getting hit over the head or getting hit over the ego, one of those. (Or maybe both, depending on the rejection slip....) Alas, I have to allow for the possibility that in my case they might be the same thing anyway. ;) |
| We could always try getting hit over the head lessons. Wait a minute. (Thwaps head) We're writers. That is the same thing, isn't it? |
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I wonder why I feel a sudden impulse to sing-song, "I feel happy! I feel happy!" and then get conked upside the head with a shovel? |
| "She's gettin' better." |
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Have I! Well, damn. I do wish people would see fit to tell me these things. ;) |