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Karen A. Romanko
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  		   Posted 3/26/2007 7:32 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Rob,

Did you receive my submission? Haven't received your answer. (I even checked my spam folder.) Let me know. Usually I don't have e-mail problems, but we can always try a different address, since this is twice now we've had problems.

Thanks.

Karen

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  		   Posted 3/27/2007 12:44 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yes, Karen, received your submission. For some reason it was flagged as junk email along with two other submissions. Hopefully I've fixed that problem, and if not, I now know to frequent my "junk" mailbox.


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von Darkmoor
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  		   Posted 3/28/2007 10:21 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Rob - Since you've been accumulating so many good submissions, will your submission period still remain the same or is there the chance you'll call it early?

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  		   Posted 3/28/2007 2:03 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
The reading period will end when I have accepted a word count toal of about 75,000. I put an August end date expecting to have a full table of contents before then. I would recommend getting submissions to me sooner rather than later.


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  		   Posted 3/29/2007 6:09 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
If I could actually come up with a decent idea for a dragon story, believe me, I would submit it ASAP.

But as yet, beyond what you've seen, and a similar story that is unlikely to reappear from Hub for a good long while... nada. Zip. Rien. Sifr.

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  		   Posted 3/29/2007 9:31 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Added Marty O'Hale's "Herbert and the Wyrm." This shorter piece was introduced in the cover letter as a "light-hearted fantasy," which immediately got me to thinking if I needed another humor piece. I don't really, and it would have to knock my socks off. Marty's piece isn't in the humor category, I feel, and if it is light-hearted, I would hate to read his darker work by candlelight in a thunderstorm.

Herbert is a modern-day mechanic, a simple man, taken to fight a world-consuming wyrm in the only way he knows how. Herbert's elegantly rustic voice is what first attracted me to this piece - something of a standard plot - but it is so well done I knew it was a perfect fit.

Current Table of Contents: 11 stories, 40,000 words


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  		   Posted 4/2/2007 2:06 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
I have recommended rewrites to several submitters and accepted a few of them. All of the suggestions have been relatively minor, with the exception of one, to a piece titled "Lesson Learned" by Tom Williams. His ideas and writing style blew me away with a story about a scholar convincing his boss of a new breed of dragon while his boss played political games. But it wasn't coming completely together for me, and I sent Tom a laundry list of concerns. He sent me another draft with some of my ideas included, some additions of his own creation, and several hundred extra words that brought everything into a rounded whole that greatly adds to the anthology. For those of you who read his piece at Dragons, Knights and Angels titled "The Teeth of the Matter," you already know Tom can write, and not just dragon stories. I would have enjoyed having that piece in the collection and am delighted he created something exciting and new.

Current Table of Contents: 12 stories, 44,000 words.


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Rob Santa
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  		   Posted 4/2/2007 4:48 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Preparing for the deluge...

Being a member of Critters online critiquing group, I sent the moderator, Andrew Burt, an open call for submissions to fellow critters. I'm sure many of them already have seen the announcement at Duotrope, Ralan's or some other site, yet the possibility of opening the doors to several hundred submitters is giving me pause. Beginning Wednesday, response times may take longer than they have (beyond the 2 day average I've got going on right now :-) ).


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  		   Posted 4/2/2007 5:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Oh. I should hurry with the second dragon story I may be able to polish up for you. ;-)

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  		   Posted 4/4/2007 5:40 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
One month down in the reading period with three more to go (should it last that long). Received the 200th submission today.

Some more observances...

Busiest Day (tie): March 21 and March 23, with 15 submissions
Slowest Day: April 1st, with 1 submission. I wonder if everyone was afraid I'd think they were joking. :-)
Additional submissions with the title "Here Be Dragons" or variations thereof: 3
Most frequent place from which to receive submissions: Ohio (I swear it seems like half of them come from here)
Strangest Streak: 3 stories in a row that mention Adolf Hitler
Most Common Theme: bargaining with the dragon
Number of stories that mention both a black and a white dragon: 4
Number of stories that do not mention a dragon at all: 2 (curious)
Number of science fiction-themed stories: 3
Number of horror-themed stories: 1
Smallest dragon to date: butterfly-sized (seen it twice)
Largest dragon to date: 3-mile wingspan (not a typo)

By the numbers:

Stories accepted in the first 100 submissions: 8
Stories accepted in the second 100 submissions: 4


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Lindsey Duncan
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  		   Posted 4/4/2007 6:59 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Sorry! Sorry! ;-) <---- Ohioan
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Hey Rob,

I figured I'd ask first before I send it, but interested in checking out an 18,000 word action-packed tale involving a pair of siblings struggling to survive in a warlike culture that worships a dragon-like serpent-god and its emperor-son?


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  		   Posted 4/4/2007 10:17 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Absolutely. What's not to like about it? :-)


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Scott M. Sandridge
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  		   Posted 4/4/2007 10:28 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Awesome! Just got to go through it, put some finishing touches to it, and I'll have it to you by the weekend!

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The only way it might be better is if it was based in Ohio, which, by all evidence -- and the better parts of a half-century of occupation -- is the land of high fantasy.

(Where do you think the "hi" in "Round on both ends and hi in the middle" comes from?

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Hey, Rob: Can you break down the acceptances by point of origin? I know the antho will have at least two stories that hail from the glorious Buckeye State ...

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Okay, since you brought it up...

We've got two stories from authors living in Ohio, two more from authors in Indiana, one from Georgia (I'm not sure if this counts as far as demographics are concerned as I actively solicited a story from Eugie Foster), and one more from California, Florida, Tennessee, Washingdon DC, Michigan, New York state, and the UK.


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  		   Posted 4/6/2007 8:21 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Rob,

I wonder if my story is the shortest. I think it's different from the others--and the title doesn't have dragon in it; but it sounds like you've got a nice selection. I look forward to reading this anthology even if my story doesn't make the cut.

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Btw, I do have another story with a dragon in it, but it's a surprise so I can't mention the title. (It's in another anthology...)

Hi, Karen!

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Peter Friend, of New Zealand (for those of you still tracking demographics) submitted "Western Front, 1914" about a British military squad assigned the task of pursuing dragon lore. With the lead character a young lady and not a battle-hardened Marine, this is not the action-packed romper stomper you think it is. Instead, it's a clever piece of modern fantasy. It's also terribly short: 1,600 well-chosen words.

Current Table of Contents: 13 stories, 45,000 words.

And so you don't have to go back and see what's what, here's the whole ToC right now (in oprder of acceptance):

"Li T'ien and the Dragon Nian" by Eugie Foster - 1,800 words
"Hardcastle's Dragon" by Martin Owton - 1,600 words
"Azieran: The Travelers Four" by Christopher Heath - 2,700 words
"A Pet of Her Own" by M. L. Burch - 7,000 words
"I Dreamed of Griffons in Flight" by Jeff Crook - 2,500 words
"The Bala Worm" by James S. Dorr - 7,000 words
"Otrossius and the Drake Who Bothered No One" by Steve Goble - 5,600 words
"Let Me Explain" by Gerald Costlow - 1,000 words
"Dragon's Hide" by Armand Rosamilia - 3,600 words
"An Ordinary Dragon" by Jennifer Schwabach - 4,000 words
"Herbert and the Wyrm" by Marty O'Hale - 2,400 words
"Lesson Learned" by Tom Williams - 3,700 words
"Western Front, 1914" by Peter Friend - 1,600 words


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Hi Rob,
Since I heard some emails were bouncing, I wanted to check that my story, "Dreams of Child" was received. I subbed it on Saturday. Thanks, Chris
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Bad typing, sorry. The story's name is "Dreams of a Child." Off to get my glasses. Chris
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  		   Posted 4/9/2007 3:19 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Thanks for checking, Chris. Seems it's not just receiving emails that are going astray; it's the ones I send also. Sorry, "Dreams of a Child" was not accepted for the anthology, but please feel free to send more of your work.


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Odd, I did not even get a reply back on the story, Dreams of a Child, but only notice here since I asked?
Thanks, Chris
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Hi, I'm new here and still thinking about what to submit. (I guess I'd better hurry.) I do have a question. One of my dragon stories deals with Sherlock Holmes and Watson. Do I have to worry about copyright infringement or are these characters public domain by now? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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