Posted on April 4, 2025 by Aeryn Rudel
To put it bluntly, March was a brutal month, but I did make some positive yardage. All of my trials, tribulations, and so, so many rejections below. 🙂 March 2025 Short Story Stats I sent fourteen submissions last month, which gives me a total… Continue Reading “Submission Statement: March 2025”
Category: Submission StatementTags: Aeryn Rudel, books, fiction, Flash Fiction, Publishing, Rejection Letters, Rejectomancy, short stories, Submissions, Writing, Writing Goals
Posted on March 21, 2025 by Aeryn Rudel
Time for another path to publication, wherein I recount the long and painful journey of a story from creation to that vaunted state of publication. This time, we’ll be looking at “The Downer”, a spec-fic piece that I thought was an absolute slam dunk… Continue Reading “Path to Publication: The Downer”
Category: My WorkTags: Aeryn Rudel, books, fiction, Publishing, Rejection Letters, short stories, Submissions, Writing, writing tips
Posted on March 3, 2025 by Aeryn Rudel
February has come and gone, and it was a pretty solid month for submissions. I’m still on pace to hit all my goals for the year, from the number of submissions sent to the number of new stories written. Let’s dive in and take… Continue Reading “Submission Statement: February 2025”
Category: Submission StatementTags: Aeryn Rudel, books, fiction, Flash Fiction, Publishing, Rejection Letters, Rejectomancy, short stories, Submissions, Writing, Writing Goals
Posted on December 23, 2019 by Aeryn Rudel
This will be the first of three (maybe four) posts that explore my writing over the last twenty years, focusing on how it has changed, and, hopefully, improved. With twenty years of writing under my belt and about fifteen of those years being the… Continue Reading “The Way I Write Part 1: The Early Years”
Category: My WorkTags: Aeryn Rudel, Horror, Rejectomancy, short stories, Submissions, Writing, writing tips
