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Jens Rushing
Stablehand
      
Date Joined Dec 2007
Total Posts : 17
| Posted 4/4/2008 1:29 AM (GMT -4) |   | Conanical.
I.e., pertaining to the Conan Canon. | | Back to Top | | |
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erazmus
Master
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4474
| Posted 4/7/2008 2:44 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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erazmus
Master
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4474
| Posted 4/20/2008 9:51 AM (GMT -4) | | Jans,
Thanks for this information. I got a "were holding your story for further consideration" about two hours after I sent it in.
I was concerned and elated. Elated, because I wasn't rejected, concerned, because I'm paranoid. Were they just holding my first story so they wouldn't have to read any more of mine? They had held my story from last year through the entire reading period as well, and you can see I didn't make the ToC.
I read about your quick turn around rejection, put it in light of my quick turn around hold and decided that Ms. Waters is just damn quick on her turn arounds. This project has her attention, which is not always the case when submssions open for an anthology.
Take heart, and send her something else. And send that one that got rejected somewhere else as well.
And I understand her comments to you as well. She's going to get a lot of good stories, and she knows exactly what she is looking for for this book. Many stories will be rejected because they are not exactly what she wants for this book, despite being excellent stories. There are, after all, many excellent stories and only the one book she is doing.
So buck up man! Send you story off to a more general pro market. I'm sure it will eventually place well.
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm
"An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern" in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:
www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
"Pink Plastic Flamingos" in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/m.html
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Morning Coffee" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/morning-coffee-by-michael-d-turner/
"The Jewel Below" in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com/issues/issue8/vol2-iss8-05.htm
"Happy Landings" in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/happy-landings-by-michael-d-turner/
"Teller of Tales" in Every day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/teller-of-tales-by-michael-d-turner/
Read "Silver Shells" In Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/silver-shells-by-michael-d-turner/ | | Back to Top | | |
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erazmus
Master
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4474
| Posted 4/21/2008 2:06 AM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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tchernabyelo
Acolyte
Date Joined Oct 2006
Total Posts : 409
| Posted 4/21/2008 6:43 AM (GMT -4) | | I got a same-day reject on Sundy, as well, with the same wording as jens and strangebehaviour. I don't know if it's the only form they've got, or whether some people don't write "perfectly good stories"...
I'll be sending something else along pretty soon, and then something else, and then...
Brian Dolton
Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20
"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex #25 "Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs & Starships #2
"What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"What The Heart Bears" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"Above The Clouds" - Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel (forthcoming)
"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force (forthcoming)
"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals Feb-Apr 08
"The Last Arrow Of Liang Xi" - Darwin's Evolutions (forthcoming)
Stories in other settings:
"The Unicorn Hunter" - OG's Speculative Fiction #8
"Call Centre" - Necrotic Tissue #1
"When Winter Came" - ASIM #32
"Cold Fire" - Flashing Swords #9
"St. Saviour And The Devil's Dandy" - Flashing Swords (forthcoming) | | Back to Top | | |
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SilviaMG
Neophyte
Date Joined Feb 2008
Total Posts : 51
| Posted 4/21/2008 3:53 PM (GMT -4) | | | I received a one day: This is a perfectly good story, but it doesn't quite have the feel I want for Sword & Sorceress. Try this on another market. | | Back to Top | | |
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Pam
Cat Wrangler
Date Joined Nov 2004
Total Posts : 118
| Posted 4/21/2008 10:23 PM (GMT -4) | | I subbed on Sat., and on Sun. I received a note that they were holding my story for consideration. (same thing happened last year and then they said no thanks at the end)
Pam
The ultimate tragedy was not to die, but to have had life and let it slip through your hands, day by day, unused, until in the end it was gone, and you had learned nothing, given nothing, left no portion of grace or love in any soul. -- Anne Rice, Tathen, pg 9
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erazmus
Master
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4474
| Posted 4/22/2008 12:36 PM (GMT -4) | | | | |
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tchernabyelo
Acolyte
Date Joined Oct 2006
Total Posts : 409
| Posted 4/24/2008 11:40 AM (GMT -4) | | I think the only way they can keep the turn-round going is to use the brief form. I prefer a bit more feedback, but to be fair, they're turning round in hours where other magazines turn round in months (and remember, too, that they are paying pro rate so they are probably gettin a LOT of subs).
I sent a second one in and haven't heard back yet; not sure if that's a good sign, whether they're slowing down from the volume of subs, or whether they just figure hat they'd rather not be swamped by my pathetic efforts so they don't want to reply too quick in case I send them somethign else (which, obviously, I plan to do...)
Brian Dolton
Land Of Wind And Ghosts stories:
"The Box Of Beautiful Things" - IGMS#3
"The Man Who Was Never Afraid" - Abyss and Apex #20
"At Blue Crane Falls" - Abyss and Apex #25 "Where No Wind Blows" - Staffs & Starships #2
"What The Sea Refuses" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"What The Heart Bears" - Black Gate (forthcoming)
"Above The Clouds" - Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel (forthcoming)
"The Dragon Path" - Fictitious Force (forthcoming)
"Three Out Of Four" - Sorcerous Signals Feb-Apr 08
"The Last Arrow Of Liang Xi" - Darwin's Evolutions (forthcoming)
Stories in other settings:
"The Unicorn Hunter" - OG's Speculative Fiction #8
"Call Centre" - Necrotic Tissue #1
"When Winter Came" - ASIM #32
"Cold Fire" - Flashing Swords #9
"St. Saviour And The Devil's Dandy" - Flashing Swords (forthcoming) | | Back to Top | | |
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Elisabeth Waters
Stablehand
Date Joined Apr 2008
Total Posts : 2
| Posted 4/28/2008 8:11 PM (GMT -4) | | The anthology is Sword and Sorceress, not Sword and the Sorceress.
My first name is spelled Elisabeth, not Elizabeth.
"Rigid about pen names" means that MZB alway said "If it's not good enough to put your real name on it, why do you think it's good enough for me to buy?"
I don't know what table of contents had only two men (unless somebody is talking about S&S 2, which was published in 1985). S&S 22 had 4 male authors out of 16 stories. The reason it doesn't conform to the ratio of male writers in the sword & sorcery genre as a whole is that MZB objected to having women treated as "bad conduct prizes" -- and after two decades of working for her, I picked up a lot of her standards/opinions. God knows I heard them often enough.
I try to respond to submissions within a week at most, and it's usually 2-4 days. If it's been a week and you haven't heard from me, resend the story. I just got a query from someone asking why I hadn't responded to his submission, and the reason was that I hadn't received his submission. | | Back to Top | | |
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MichaelEhart
Sage
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 2314
| Posted 4/28/2008 8:31 PM (GMT -4) | | Thank you, Elisabeth, for the clarification. And welcome to the forums!
Click here to buy my book!
The Servant of the Manthycore from DEP
Illustrated by Rachel Marks, with an introduction by Michael Moorcock
Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, April 9
"Night of Shadows, Night of Knives" Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press, Spring 2008
"To Destroy All Flesh" Return of the Sword, Flashing Swords Press, Spring 2008
"Only His Name" Every Day Fiction, March 30
"An Exorcism Straight, Hold the Elvis" They Are Not What They Seem, Janrae Frank, ed., TBA
"The First Trial of Jermaish the King" Flashing Swords #10, May 2008
Still in print!
"The Stars by Law Forbidden" Unparalleled Journeys II, Journey Books, 2007
"Six Zombies Doing That Mick Jagger Strut" Damned in Dixie, Tenoka Press, 2007
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