Feeding data into the targeting computer
What I do with this Duotrope thing now depends entirely on my goals. Since it compiles statistics for both acceptance rates and response times, it would be relatively simple for me to blast my stories out to some on-line lit mags with a quick turnaround and near-non-existent standards, and thus bolster my publishing resume. More [...]
I have joined a cult
You know you have dizzyingly given yourself over to something or someone when you want to talk about it or them for an unusual portion of your time. And I am turning utterly into a lit. mag groupie. I don’t know if this is just a particularly-giddy phase of a brief fling – but considering [...]
Campaign ’11
I have begun my new round of lit magazine submissions. My initial goal was to select 30 targets, and I ended up with 27, which feels fine. Eight submissions are done, but this is going to take a couple of evenings to finish. Four stories to spread amongst those 27, so each will get six [...]
Good for business
I’m starting to map out the next submission blitz in the lit. mag. world. It’s been about six months since my last one, and I’m going to have a stronger set of material this time around. I’ve done productive edits on Bubbles, How to Be Depressed in the Sunshine, and The Frog Boogie and I’m [...]
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The newest issue of the literary quarterly Blood Lotus has just been published, and includes my short story The Culling of the Beige. Peep the issue here, which also includes poems, and pretty pictures of food.
Monday just got drastically better
Good News, Everyone! [/Farnsworth] I just learned that the on-line lit quarterly Blood Lotus will be publishing a short story of mine in their next issue. I’ll be sure to share more details as the publication date approaches. The readers of my personal blog know a little more context, but suffice it to say it [...]
This is how we do it
Got a rejection today from MAYDAY Magazine – I sent them How to Be Depressed in the Sunshine and they said it was a “really well written piece with flashes of brilliance” but that it “didn’t quite cohere enough as a story.” That was the thesis, but they actually went beyond and provided a little [...]
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The newest issue of the quarterly anthology Paradigm has just been published, and it includes my short story Tourist Trap. I’m feeling a lot of pride about this – it’s my first submission of prose fiction anywhere outside of my friends-only blog, and my only past experience with lit mags was the awful poem I [...]
Junction Point
Hoo Boy. I know that one of the reasons I am on this writing path is that, at certain moments in my development, people offered to take a gamble on my potential – and even if I wasn’t sure I could live up to it, I said yes and threw myself at the challenge. I [...]