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Red Viper
Acolyte
      
Date Joined Mar 2005
Total Posts : 439
| Posted 7/18/2005 9:55 AM (GMT -5) |   | Hey! Flashing Swords just accepted another story from me. That makes two sales this week!
Elsewhere on here I compared selling a story to "Amazing Journeys Magazine" to winning a stage of the Tour de France. Well look out, gang, I'm wearing the yellow jersey!
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Rob Santa
Sage
Date Joined Apr 2004
Total Posts : 1455
| Posted 7/18/2005 10:00 AM (GMT -5) | | Way to go, Steve! I have two rejections to show for my week. If I wasn't the big winner on Poker Night I'd have nothing to celebrate at all.
Rob
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PaulMc
Adept
Date Joined May 2005
Total Posts : 992
| Posted 7/18/2005 10:01 AM (GMT -5) | | quote:
Originally posted by Red Viper
Hey! Flashing Swords just accepted another story from me. That makes two sales this week!
Wow! You're smoking!
Congratulations.
-- Paul McNamee
http://writer.paulmcnamee.net
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erazmus
Master
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 4539
| Posted 7/18/2005 10:20 AM (GMT -5) | | Jeeze Steve, how much stuff do you have out there anyways?
Mike
Michael D. Turner
"Psyched Up" in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
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Red Viper
Acolyte
Date Joined Mar 2005
Total Posts : 439
| Posted 7/18/2005 1:55 PM (GMT -5) | | Raz: I have stories in slush at Black Gate, Realms of Fantasy and one anthology I still have hopes for. I have a story slated for submission for another antho that begins reading in October; I have one I hope to be able to submit to Lords of Swords II (should an invite happily come my way); and I have several that I'd shoot off to Flashing Swords right this instant if I weren't worried about ticking off my favorite editor by filling his email box. And I spent most of the afternoon plotting out what I think is a pretty good entry for Pitch-Black's "Icons" contest, if I can bring it in under the word limit. I've got a novel in slush, too.
I've got a pretty good backlog of short sword-and-sorcery, because I kept writing it whether there were markets for it or not. And I'm constantly working on new stuff, especially now that there ARE markets for it.
We keep talking over at Flashing Swords about bringing sword-and-sorcery back, but I really think we've already made a tremendous beginning. I'm able now to sell stories I couldn't sell five years ago. I'm able now to read new sword-and-sorcery I couldn't find five years ago. And I'm learning now that other people like this stuff as much as I do and want to see it, and write it, as well.
Honestly, I know the gears are turning slowly ... but trust me, the gears are turning. It's going to be a great ride, I think, if we keep at it.
Sword together!
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SC Bryce
Aspiring Hammock Tester
Date Joined Jan 2005
Total Posts : 1106
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Christopher Heath
Neophyte
Date Joined Dec 2004
Total Posts : 95
| Posted 7/20/2005 5:40 AM (GMT -5) | | Congrats Steve! Can't wait to read some of your work.
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scubadoc51
Bear
Date Joined May 2005
Total Posts : 57
| Posted 7/20/2005 8:14 PM (GMT -5) | | Outstanding!
Tim
Tim Fisher
scubadoc51.com
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shapeshiftertao
Stablehand
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 5
| Posted 7/21/2005 1:36 PM (GMT -5) | | | Do you think the Harry Potter books are boosting the fantasy market? Personally, I think that any blockbuster book, even one like the Da Vinci Code, boosts the whole publishing industry, regardless of genre. If people buy a book and love it, they're gonna keep buying more books. | | Back to Top | | |
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Red Viper
Acolyte
Date Joined Mar 2005
Total Posts : 439
| Posted 7/21/2005 2:15 PM (GMT -5) | | Thanks, all.
Shapeshifter: I do think Harry is giving fantasy a boost, perhaps. I have a niece who loves the Potter books, and Lemony Snicket and other stuff of that ilk. But she's growing up a bit, too, and reading Lord of the Rings, Le Guin, etc. Surely other kids are growing up and looking for other stuff of at least a somewhat similar nature.
I think the interest in fantasy is high, thanks to Harry and to Peter Jackson's movie, the Narnia films coming out, etc. I think the critical thing to do -- if we can -- is to boost an interest in READING. I know lots of people who loved the LOTR movies, love the hack and slash games, etc. But if you suggest they READ Tolkien or Robert E. Howard, all you get is blank stares.
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shapeshiftertao
Stablehand
Date Joined Jul 2005
Total Posts : 5
| Posted 7/21/2005 2:42 PM (GMT -5) | | | I keep hearing about how nobody reads books anymore and how the publishing industry is collapsing. I think blockbuster books like the DVC and Harry Potter belies that. | | Back to Top | | |
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Red Viper
Acolyte
Date Joined Mar 2005
Total Posts : 439
| Posted 7/21/2005 6:50 PM (GMT -5) | | Hmmmm ... yes and no. Those books definitely generate a lot of publicity and people read them, but I don't know that enough of those people go on to read other things to stop the overall downword spiral in the numbers of people who read regularly. I think the reading habit is being lost.
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