Tag: Submissions
Three Types of Tough Rejections
If you’ve been submitting short stories for any length of time, then you’ve likely developed a fairly thick skin when it comes to rejections. After you hit triple digits, those form rejections, filled with not for us’s and doesn’t fit our needs’s, kind of… Continue Reading “Three Types of Tough Rejections”
Submission Spotlight: Regional Preferences
Today we’re talking once again about potentially unexpected elements of submission guidelines. As always, you should read the guidelines completely and carefully every time you submit a story. These articles simply highlight the many reasons why. This Submission Spotlight focuses on regional preferences and… Continue Reading “Submission Spotlight: Regional Preferences”
Submission Statement: October 2019
Finally getting one of these out in a timely manner. Here are my submission endeavors (and results) from October. October 2019 Report Card Submissions Sent: 6 Rejections: 8 Acceptances: 1 Publications: 1 I’m still behind on my goal to reach 100 subs for the… Continue Reading “Submission Statement: October 2019”
Submission Spotlight: Reprints
This is the first in a new series of posts that will, highlight or, uh, spotlight parts of submission guidelines that might be unexpected if you’ve just started submitting your work. Even if you’re an old hand at the submission game, these are an… Continue Reading “Submission Spotlight: Reprints”
Acceptomancy?
I assume you’re all quite familiar with the term rejectomancy (or at least how I interpret it). I’ve spent years and a slightly embarrassing number of blog posts talking about what rejections mean, but what about acceptances? What if we turned our overly optimistic,… Continue Reading “Acceptomancy?”
Submission Statement: July-September 2019
Getting caught up on these submission statements. Here’s my submission activity for the last three months. July/August/September 2019 Report Card Submissions Sent: 16 Rejections: 10 Acceptances: 6 Publications: 3 Submission Withdrawal: 0 This averages out to about 5 submissions per month, which is far… Continue Reading “Submission Statement: July-September 2019”
Weeks of Writing: 9/9/19 to 9/22/19
A couple weeks of writing and whatnot to report. Words to Write By One of my favorite authors, Stephen King, recently had a birthday, so today’s quote is one of his. “When you write a book, you spend day after day scanning and identifying… Continue Reading “Weeks of Writing: 9/9/19 to 9/22/19”
Submission Strategy: Ranking Response Times
If you’ve been submitting short fiction for long, you’ve invariably develop strategies for getting your work out there as efficiently as possible. I have a number of strategies, and the one that follows I use for a brand new story I haven’t written for… Continue Reading “Submission Strategy: Ranking Response Times”
Submissions: The Genre Wasteland
I have often lamented the lack of paying horror markets on this blog, and while I certainly wish there were more paying publishers for horror, I’ve still got it pretty good compared to writers in other genres. You see, I’ve recently been dabbling in… Continue Reading “Submissions: The Genre Wasteland”
Weeks of Writing: 8/19/19 to 9/8/18
Way, way behind on these things. Time to catch up. Words to Write By This week’s quote comes from Amy Poehler. “Most authors liken the struggle of writing to something mighty and macho, like wrestling a bear. Writing a book is nothing like that.… Continue Reading “Weeks of Writing: 8/19/19 to 9/8/18”
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 