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  		   Posted 2/19/2007 1:17 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
We're going to take a stab at tracking submissions online, mostly to let everyone know what's what with the table of contents. On a weekly basis until the collection is filled, I will be posting what was received and whether it is accepted, rejected or pending a decision. The manuscript will be listed with an anagram of the title, followed by the author's initials and a judgement.
 
Such as..."Frank the Sorcerer's Giant, Brass Bird" by John Q. Writer would have a listing of something like:
 
FtSGBB - JQW, rejected (honestly, how could I accept a title like that? :-) )
 
I will also list word counts of accepted stories, with a running tally each week.
 
Thanks for subbing!


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  		   Posted 2/19/2007 1:52 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Wow.  That's it.  I'm writing a story titled "Frank the Sorcerer's Giant, Brass Bird" and it will be so smashingly wonderful that you'll have no CHOICE but to accept it. devil

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  		   Posted 2/19/2007 1:54 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
This is a great idea though. I have a wonderful idea for this antho, but I won't be able to get to it until after April, so this will give me an indication as to whether I have a shot or not.

Is it going to be posted here or on your website?

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  		   Posted 2/19/2007 11:49 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Both. And the race is already on - officially received the first manuscript and will be reading it as soon as coffee kicks in.


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  		   Posted 2/19/2007 2:56 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I sent my first story in. Doubt it will be accepted but hey gotta give it a shot! :P

And anyway, hopefully he can give me some tips if it is rejected on what kind of things I can do to help myself in the future.

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  		   Posted 2/23/2007 2:23 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Question: Will we authors get news of the rejection/acceptance via e-mail or do we need to monitor this forum?
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  		   Posted 2/23/2007 3:31 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
You will receive Acceptance/Rejections through email. This is just a way to have a look at the overall way the antho is shaping up, and for writers to know that their story is under consideration.
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  		   Posted 2/23/2007 3:46 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks! I'll wait with my fingers and toes crossed (no, I don't care how hard that makes it to walk and type)!

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  		   Posted 2/26/2007 12:43 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Drumroll please...

Magic & Mechanica has its first acceptance. Lawrence Barker's "Yellow River Swallows Assault Gu Shan Mountain" focuses on a small group of Chinese warriors repelling mechanized Aztec invaders with swords and sorcery. I immediately enjoyed it, shelved it for a week over one small issue that needed consideration, then accepted it after a second reading. Congratulations, Lawrence.

Two other manuscripts did not make the cut, however.
A:AbSD-CH
ADK-BaCM-CB

Two other manuscripts are awaiting reading.

Thank you to all submitters, and keep 'em coming.

Current Table of Contents: 1 story, 2300 total words


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  		   Posted 2/28/2007 3:29 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.

Damn! Clock's already ticking! Looks like I'll have to sqeeze time for a novella and a short story in between all my other current projects. God bless ADD!!! smilewinkgrin

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  		   Posted 3/5/2007 12:46 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
A hard week. Only three submissions, and none of them turned into acceptances.

D-JP
SR-JS
6-6-6R-AJ

What made this a hard week was rejecting a piece I liked. Both Bill and I liked it and discussed what we saw as the story's faults all week. It boiled down to whether we could transform the story into something more acceptable to us without removing the elements that made us love the piece in the first place. We figured we couldn't, which is a crying same.

Again, thank you to all submitters, and keep 'em coming.

Current Table of Contents: 1 story, 2300 total words


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  		   Posted 3/5/2007 1:25 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
If only editing was as easy as saying yes to good stories and no to bad ones.
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  		   Posted 3/13/2007 1:46 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The sub-tracker-thingy is kind of cool. will there be one for the "Black Dragon, White Dragon" antho as well?

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  		   Posted 3/21/2007 12:30 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Briefly, you've probably by now seen the update thread for "Black Dragon, White Dragon," so that question should be answered.

Forum members have also seen that Chris Cevasco's piece, "Gambit" has been accepted for the ToC. As I said in his acceptance letter: what are the odds that the day I post a message about dragon-riding sorcerers battling an army of mechanized warriors, we receive a submission about dragon-riding sorcerers battling an army of mechanized warriors? While I'm sure it's more than three to one, Chris wrote an excellent tale that I am thrilled to share with everyone.

Bill and I are recommending a rewrite to another author whose story we greatly enjoy. I anticipate an acceptance as long as the suggested changes are ammendable to the author.

Which means: potential Table of Contents stands at 3 stories, 15,000 words


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  		   Posted 3/24/2007 12:54 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
That requested rewrite has come through, and we are pleased to announce "Mondo Baroque" by Nigel Long joins the table of contents. We need to trim it down from its current 7,900 word length, and we figure 1,000 words or so will wind up on the virtual editing room floor. This Victorian-era piece centers on a rogue who wanders into sorcery and undead monsters. A thoroughly entertaining voice. Mr. Long writes articles under a pseudonym of Kek-W.

Also going into the table of contents (though we are still going back and forth on minor rewrites) is Christopher Heath's "Azieran: The Savior in a Flask." A rollicking good tale about a black-hearted pirate who stumbles upon a submarine vehicle of extraordinary abilities. Really, how many times are you going to see a story with the word "bathysphere" in it? Outstanding tale, as if we expected anything less from Chris.

Current Table of Contents: 4 stories, 18,000 words.

We're not going to list rejected stories by title any more. The original concept was so there would be a backup system for checking acceptances/rejections. All authors seem to be getting the notices just fine, which pretty much means we can save ourselves the trouble of extra work.


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  		   Posted 3/24/2007 4:14 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Sounds like this anthology is shaping up to be a fantastic collection.

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  		   Posted 3/29/2007 10:50 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Steve, the sub-tracker thingy isn't just cool, it is now officially a necessity. Chris Heath didn't get my email accepting his story, and he only found out about it here. Curse you, Internet gnomes, for eating my messages!


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  		   Posted 3/29/2007 11:46 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah, those gnomes can be a real pain. I've got a really weird story about gnomes that I'm in the middle of reworking, and they cause all kinds of problems -- not the least of which is making me worry about what goes on in my head; I don't think I'd have ever expected to come up with anything so messed up. freaked

(Too bad it's a modern setting...it'd actually fit under the machines and magic theme, at least broadly...still trying to think of another story for this thing).

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  		   Posted 3/29/2007 5:51 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yeah, I checked through my deleted files (in case I was the accidental culprit), the acceptance wasn't there, and then I checked through all the penis-related emails and how I can be a hero in bed (I were firefighting gear when I sleep, just in case), and it wasn't there either...

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"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: The Conquerors" in Chimaera Serials
"Azieran: Pawn of the Serpentine Witch" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media
"Azieran: Sentinel of an Ageless Reign" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media
"Azieran: The Lakeshorn Mirrors" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media 
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
"Azieran: Wyrd Sins" in Rogue Worlds
"The Coruscate King" in Freehold: Betrayal - Ghourlesh Book I
 
 
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  		   Posted 3/30/2007 1:13 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Don't sweat it, Chris. We all have our size issues. :-)

Seriously, though, I sent you a message from my personal email account. Still have it in the Sent file. Damn gnomes.

On the rewrite front, we've got some notes out to an author about his story. I liked it on the first reading and had a suggested change. Bill liked it too and had an even bigger idea for the piece. We've sent notes to the author and should hear back in about a week. Something deep down tells me this is another acceptance.

Now is probably as good a time as any to talk about my own contribution to the anthology. Back when this was a Pitch-Black project, I submitted a rock'em sock'em piece to Bill. He sent me a nice note following the tragic folding of PB letting me know he would have accepted the story had the project continued. On a lark, I wrote another, totally different piece, simply because of the inspirational nature of the antho concept. I showed it to Bill a few weeks back and he felt it was a stronger story than the other one. "You should think about putting it in M&M," he said. So I will, but not without saying something else.

Bill wanted to submit a story for the anthology, and, of course, I'm all for it. The last thing we both want is for this project to be merely a showcase for our own work. I don't feel that is what I'm doing by having one of my stories between the pages, and I don't feel it would be odd if Bill had one, too. In the long run, we'd ideally be shopping these stories elsewhere and getting paid for them instead of printing them for free. But if they're good fits for the anthology, I want them in there.

That said, "Air Superiority" by Yours Truly has a humorous tone, the complete opposite of the first piece I showed Bill. The protagonist is an engineer who has designed a dirigible that needs a sorcerer's animation castings to help propel it. They go to attack a rival kingdom and encounter a squadron of flying sorcerers. I swear it's funnier than it sounds. And at 3,500 words or so, it's not exactly taking up a lot of space.

Current Table of Contents: 5 stories, 22,000 words
(suspected Table of Contents: 6 stories, 27,000 words)


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Rob: I don't think it would be a sin if you and Bill each have a story in the antho. Heck, you can justify it on business grounds -- you get to offer two more stories to your customers, without having to pay the authors upfront for those stories. And you two ought to be able to edit one another and push each other to do your best.

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Yeah, you guys have had enough experience in the publishing industry and are good enough writers that you don't have to worry about the "vanity" publishing angle. Just add them in. We'll be looking forward to reading the tales.

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"Azieran: The Travelers Four" in Black Dragon, White Dragon by Ricasso Press
"Azieran: The Breaking of Hell's Bones" in Black Sails by 1018 Press
"Azieran: Distilling the Essence" in Sails and Sorcery by Fantasist Enterprises
"Azieran: The Conquerors" in Chimaera Serials
"Azieran: Pawn of the Serpentine Witch" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media
"Azieran: Sentinel of an Ageless Reign" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media
"Azieran: The Lakeshorn Mirrors" in Chronicles of Fantasy by ComStar Media 
"Azieran: Crestfallen in Mal'kyrrik" serialized novella in Forgotten Worlds 
"Azieran: Wyrd Sins" in Rogue Worlds
 
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I have to admit, I'm innately suspicious of any publication where the editors have contributed a story... that said, I'm familiar with Rob's work so I wouldn't look askance on it being in there. For readers that aren't familiar with the name though......

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Then I look forward to readers familiarizing themselves with my work. ;-)
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Shoot, no offense Bill, I just haven't run across your stories yet. I did a search on your name at Tangent Online a while back--that's how I've found stories by a bunch of authors here--but you never showed. What name do you publish under? I already checked W. D. Ward.

I have to admit, usually I try to read the stories written by the editors of the markets I submit to. No better way to get an indication of their tastes...  Kind of goes one better than just researching their name.

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