I grew up reading novels as my primary source of fiction. This influenced my perception of what a story was, and guided my steps as I developed my identity as a writer. The vision I beheld of my future career was filled with epic fantasy novels, not anthologies of short stories. How ironic that my [...]
Entries Categorized as 'Market Report'
Very Very Very Short Stories
Filed under Market Report, Trends & Tropes on November 22, 2011
Tagged: Ernest Hemingway, short stories
Relvan Rescued
Filed under Market Report on April 26, 2011
Tagged: Duotrope's Digest, Janner Kohl, Pulp Empire, Relvan's Rescue, Tor.com
Oh, man, I’ve been waiting a long time to use that title. So, let me catch you up on Janner Kohl’s adventures in publishing. The story sat at Tor.com for nearly a year (304 days, according to Duotrope’s Digest’s submission tracker) before I received a rejection at the end of January. At this point, I [...]
Discovering Duotrope’s Digest
Filed under Market Report, Tips & Tools on December 13, 2010
Tagged: Duotrope's Digest, market listings, Ralan.com, Relvan's Rescue, StoryPilot, submission guidelines, submissions, Tor.com
It’s finals week, and I have a couple more papers to turn in before I finish the marathon of academic writing that has been my first term back in school. That’s one down and two to go before I have enough credits for my English Language Arts endorsement and can enroll in the Masters in [...]
Don’t be tossed to and fro by every editor
Filed under Market Report, Tips & Tools on March 15, 2010
Tagged: editors, rejections, Relvan's Rescue, revisions, submissions
I received another personalized rejection from the editor of Beneath Ceaseless Skies for “Relvan’s Rescue” (return time: ~5 weeks). That’s 3-in-a-row, if you’re keeping count, though, from what I hear on the Internets, Andrew makes an effort to give feedback on submissions. It’s encouraging–on one hand–not to be receiving form rejections. On the other hand, [...]
Too much talking makes Relvan a hard sell
Filed under Market Report on February 1, 2010
Tagged: Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Heroic Fantasy Quarterly, Relvan's Rescue, submissions
I heard back from the editors at Heroic Fantasy Quarterly over the weekend. Return time was ~2 months. They felt the beginning was “too talky” for their tastes. That’s the second comment about the start of the story, so I took a hard look and did end up cutting a couple lines of dialogue that [...]
