Tag: Aeryn Rudel
Query Quest: What Are My Chances?
I’ve been using a marvelous database called QueryTracker (highly, highly recommended) to find agents and keep track of my queries. In addition to these vital services, the site provides TONS of data on each agent, and you know me, I fucking love me some… Continue Reading “Query Quest: What Are My Chances?”
Query Quest: Rejection #2
Recently, I received another rejection from an agent I’ve queried with my novel SECOND DAWN. It’s the second since I started this process earlier in the month. Now, if this was a rejection for a short story, it wouldn’t be post-worthy, but since I’m… Continue Reading “Query Quest: Rejection #2”
Path to Publication: Hell to Pay – Installment Plans Available!
Time for another installment of Paths to Publication, wherein I recount a story’s arduous submission journey, complete with all the gory details and eventual publication triumph. This time, the story is “Hell to Pay – Installment Plans Available!”, which was recently published by Tales to… Continue Reading “Path to Publication: Hell to Pay – Installment Plans Available!”
Yes! Yes! One Hundred Times Yes!
Yesterday, I celebrated a significant short story milestone. I received my 100th acceptance since I started tracking them through Duotrope. To further celebrate this momentous occasion, I thought I might take a deep dive into the numbers on those one hundred acceptances and see… Continue Reading “Yes! Yes! One Hundred Times Yes!”
Query Quest: A New Rejection Frontier
For the last eight years, I’ve been regaling you (inflicting on you?) tales of rejection woe. Up until now, all of these rejection have had a single source–short story submissions to various genre and literary magazines and anthologies. Friends, that changes today. Not more… Continue Reading “Query Quest: A New Rejection Frontier”
Path To Publication: When Gods Walk
I recently had a story published with Radon Journal called “When Gods Walk”, and I thought it might be interesting to detail this story’s journey toward publication. It’s one of those pieces that’s been all over the place and, I think, it’s submission record illustrates the… Continue Reading “Path To Publication: When Gods Walk”
Tracking the Yes: Submission Records Deep Dive
Recently, as I was looking at submissions at Duotrope, it struck me how some of my submission records for various markets paint an interesting picture of how submissions and publications tend to work. Primarily, these records show how important it is to match up… Continue Reading “Tracking the Yes: Submission Records Deep Dive”
Submission Protocol: Failure to Launch
There are a lot of valid reasons to withdraw a submission, and I’ve covered most of them on this blog. Generally, a submission is withdrawn because the publisher fails to respond in a timely manner or at all or, more commonly, the submission is… Continue Reading “Submission Protocol: Failure to Launch”
One Author, Three Styles
I’ve done a pretty exhaustive series of posts on my writing style and how it developed, but as I was working on a freelance piece recently, it occurred to me that I have three different styles I use on a regular basis. I thought… Continue Reading “One Author, Three Styles”
Hot Topic: Dialogue Tags
In this series of posts, I’m going to cover writing topics that are often hotly debated and tell you where I stand on that particular issue. The goal here is not to try and persuade you that my view is correct, and more to… Continue Reading “Hot Topic: Dialogue Tags”
Effectively Wild – A Baseball Horror Story
Night Walk & Other Dark Paths
Acts of War: Flashpoint
Acts of War: Aftershock
Acts of War: Stormbreak
Aeryn Rudel's Rejectomancy 