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Bruce Durham
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  		   Posted 1/5/2008 1:02 AM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It's time to show Flashing Swords some love.

Go to the Preditors & Editors Poll and vote for your favourite Fiction Magazine/E-Zine, your favourite Magazine/e-zine Editor and perhaps your favourite SF&F Short Story. Check out the other categories while you're at it. And maybe next year we'll find a listing for a certain anthology. :-)

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How's this for weird ... I have a couple of stories listed in the P&E poll, one in horror short stories and one in "other" short stories, but nothing in fantasy -- which is the stuff I usually publish the most and get the most email/feedback/appreciation for, etc.

It's a funny world.

Bruce: Going for a repeat?

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Swashbuckler said...
How's this for weird ... I have a couple of stories listed in the P&E poll, one in horror short stories and one in "other" short stories, but nothing in fantasy


Not anymore. Take another look.

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Thanks, Nik!

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Bruce Durham
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Swashbuckler said...
How's this for weird ... I have a couple of stories listed in the P&E poll, one in horror short stories and one in "other" short stories, but nothing in fantasy -- which is the stuff I usually publish the most and get the most email/feedback/appreciation for, etc.

It's a funny world.

Bruce: Going for a repeat?

A threepeat would be nice, but I only had a few stories appear last year, and nothing on line, that I can remember. Good luck with your nominations.

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Bruce Durham said...
Swashbuckler said...
How's this for weird ... I have a couple of stories listed in the P&E poll, one in horror short stories and one in "other" short stories, but nothing in fantasy -- which is the stuff I usually publish the most and get the most email/feedback/appreciation for, etc.

It's a funny world.

Bruce: Going for a repeat?

A threepeat would be nice, but I only had a few stories appear last year, and nothing on line, that I can remember. Good luck with your nominations.


Looks like you're stacking up the publications for '08, though!

Nicholas Ian Hawkins

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  		   Posted 1/5/2008 3:18 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Michael Ehart's Stand, Stand story from the November issue is nominated as is his book.
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crystalwizard said...
Michael Ehar's Stand, Stand story from the November issue is nominated as is his book.

Mike Turner's story The Jewel Below is nominated too.

Nik, 2008 is definitely looking busier than last year.

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Well, then, Durham, get on it! Shame on you making the rest of us hang around with droopy faces waiting for the next story from you!

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  		   Posted 1/5/2008 5:15 PM (GMT -4)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
My face always looks like this.

Looks like I have a reason to vote in this poll now. By the way, do we ever get to vote for our favorite preditor?

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MichaelEhart said...
Well, then, Durham, get on it! Shame on you making the rest of us hang around with droopy faces waiting for the next story from you!


You'll get his next story in about 4 weeks :) it's the featured story for issue #9
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Um...I have what'll probably be a really dumb question:  What IS the Preditors and Editors poll, and why is it important?

I see the word "poll" and all sorts of negative, cynical ideas spring to mind.  It's not JUST a popularity contest, is it? 

Don't worry, I still voted for FS.  Twice.  What kind of self-proclaimed token fan would I be if I didn't?

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Answer to the question:

Go visit the links provided above, look around the site, and you'll see what the poll is.

Predators and Editors is a very important site, one which you should visit when deciding to submit stuff to someone you don't know. It will keep you from getting scammed.

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Dungeoneer said...


Don't worry, I still voted for FS. Twice. What kind of self-proclaimed token fan would I be if I didn't?


you can't stuff the ballot box like that, Tim. That'll get your votes all tossed out. Plus, I really don't appreciate it when someone decides to be dishonest in my behalf.
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Oh calm down.  It wasn't like that.  I wasn't paying attention and clicked the same link twice and voted and then was like, "wait a minute, wasn't that the same page?"  Sure enough, it was.  I'm sure they'll weed out the duplicates. 

Back to my first post:  I didn't realize P&E was more than just a poll.  That's cool.  I still don't see why the poll is important.  That's what the thread was about, and what I was asking about.

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Dungeoneer said...


Don't worry, I still voted for FS. Twice. What kind of self-proclaimed token fan would I be if I didn't?


you can't stuff the ballot box like that, Tim. That'll get your votes all tossed out. Plus, I really don't appreciate it when someone decides to be dishonest in my behalf.
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Dungeoneer said...
I didn't realize P&E was more than just a poll. That's cool. I still don't see why the poll is important. That's what the thread was about, and what I was asking about.


A newbie's take on it: It's a Readers' Choice Poll for small press publications. So, yes, it is a popularity contest in a sense. But the votes are primarily cast by those who read small press material, not those who only consume what the big publishing companies put on the shelves. So, naturally, the group casting the votes has better-than-average taste and judgment of quality.=) This makes it better than a mere popularity contest, and thus, important.

But that's just a newbie's take. Some of the veterans in here will probably explain it better.

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There is nothing unimportant about a popularity contest!
Few enough people read short fiction of any kind, heck read fiction of any kind. P&E gets a good chunk of them to come out and let us know who's done good!
Mike

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"Dutchman Rescue"in Continuum SF #6
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"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
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
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uh, wow, I've never been nominated before. Jewel Below? wow.
Mike

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"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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"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
"Stains" in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
"Slushpiles" in Between the Kisses
www.samsdotpublishing.com/betweenkisses/TurnerSlushPileS.htm

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:) You did good, Mike.

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Yeah, Mike. I thought that "The Jewel Below," probably more than any other tale I've read this year, could be inserted into a 1930s issue of Weird Tales and no one would know the difference. Good stuff.

Nicholas Ian Hawkins

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Congrats to all and my sincere (surprised) thanks to whomever was kind enough to toss my name onto the poetry nominations for "The Work of Finite Destiny"

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