Reasons For Moving

Acceptance, rejection and an article

2008-05-16T14:49:50Z

Congratulations, your story ["Nine"] was indeed one of the most interesting and dark we have read in a long while. It makes one ponder on current issues as well as classic mystery stories. Please allow us to give you second place and our congrat...

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Update on queries & subs (oh my)

2008-05-15T16:11:04Z

Thought it was time for an update on queries. Dream Agent #2 passed. Oh well. I have to stop calling people "Dream Agents." I did some more research last night and found another agency that feels like a perfect fit. I made a list of "try" agents, ...

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Poetic

2008-05-10T20:03:04Z

There's a knitting magazine I like that has a blog (updated daily, usually with a pattern or tip). Last month they had a contest: use their magnetic poetry kit to create a poem. Second place was a subscription to the magazine, which I aimed for. I...

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New contest open at TC

2008-05-02T04:23:41Z

A Midsummer Tale is a creative non-fiction contest. We are looking for non-fiction stories told using fiction techniques. This means characters, dialogue, and some semblance of a plot are musts. Please, no essays or articles. Details, including...

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Coming together

2008-04-28T16:38:18Z

Literary fiction gets kinky "For a first novel, what do you have other than the cover? No one has heard of me," [Melanie Abrams] said two days later over coffee at a shop near her childhood home in Woodland Hills. Eight months pregnant, Abrams wo...

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Update on querying

2008-04-20T03:25:10Z

Remember Dream Agent? Dream Agent fell off the face of the earth. To be truthful, it wasn't so much Dream Agent and Dream Agency but for clarity here, that's the term I used. So since my second follow-up e-mail went unanswered, I decided I had no...

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Literary

2008-04-15T15:55:51Z

However, Simmons says that great writing, on its own, isn't a selling point for publishers. "You can sell a good story, but you can't sell great writing," he says. "It's the kiss of death to put the label 'literary' on something." Source As the ...

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Devouring not included

2008-04-13T21:51:45Z

I'm working on this story for the Apex anthology and I'll need to out my monster: he's a variation on chiang-shih, which is a Chinese vampire. So Mari e-mails today & says: I need everyone to turn in a plot synopsis by September 15th. This is ju...

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2008-04-07T00:12:56Z

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Horror has a name

2008-04-06T03:15:55Z

I finished the first draft of a story for the Apex anthology Mari invited me to write for. I grabbed a copy of the latest Apex from my local B&N and haven't read it yet. I need to know if I'm going to have to shoehorn some SF into this story. I th...

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