Another three weeks of querying gone by, so it’s time for a another response round-up. After a few weeks of crickets, the responses have started coming in more regularly. All rejections, but what are ya gonna do? Anyway, there are a couple of interesting… Continue Reading “Query Response Round-Up: Week of 10/6/23”
It’s been another twenty days or so of sending queries and waiting for responses. Things have slowed down a bit–I’m kinda running out of agents to query–but let’s take a look and see how the last three weeks have panned out. First, here’s my… Continue Reading “Query Response Round-Up: Week of 9/15/23”
Another week in the querying salt mines. Let’s see how I did and what kind of responses I reeled in. My overall query stats as of today. Total Queries: 30 Rejections: 9 Full Requests: 3 CNR: 1 Pending Queries: 17 Pending Requests: 3 I… Continue Reading “Query Response Round-Up: Week of 8/25/23”
I recently started querying literary agents for my novel SECOND DAWN, and I’m going to start posting about that experience. Now, for those of you who have followed my blog for a while, I should make it clear that unlike submitting short stories to… Continue Reading “Query Quest: Agent Query Checklist Part 1”
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!”
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!”
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”
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”