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| Posted By : John M. Whalen - 3/19/2008 6:04 PM | | Happy to report that Spacewesterns.com has just accepted "The Hard Deal" for one of their July issues. This is my second story for them. I've written some far out stuff but this one can only be described this way: It's a space western psycho drama with flashbacks and giant flying insects. What more could you want?
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| Posted By : RHFay - 3/19/2008 6:15 PM | Sounds nifty. Congrats!
"I'm going to do what the warriors of old did. I'm going to recite poetry!"
Richard H. Fay - Azure Lion Productions
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| Posted By : John M. Whalen - 3/20/2008 9:27 AM | | Thanks a lot. I'm anxious to see what kind of illustration they come up with for this one. |
| Posted By : John M. Whalen - 3/20/2008 10:19 AM | | Response time is very good-- maybe 4 to six weeks. Feedback is excellent. The editor Nathan Lilly is exceptionally helpful, and revisions are handled in a professional manner. My first sub was accepted as written. This one took several rewrites. Nathan won't accept a story until he's satisfied with it, and he had some good suggestions for improving the story. He knows his stuff. |
| Posted By : Jason T - 3/20/2008 12:21 PM | Congratulations, Mr. Whalen.
Jason Thummel
"Mortismagus" in Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press Forthcoming 2008
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| Posted By : nathan - 3/20/2008 12:31 PM | John congrats on this! Nice twisted imagination, btw. Compliments.
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| Posted By : MichaelEhart - 3/20/2008 2:40 PM | Congratulations!
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Read me in 2008!
"Without Napier" Every Day Fiction, TBA
"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're Not What They Seem, Cyberwizard, TBA
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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| Posted By : PaulMc - 3/20/2008 2:48 PM | John M. Whalen said...Happy to report that Spacewesterns.com has just accepted "The Hard Deal" for one of their July issues. This is my second story for them. I've written some far out stuff but this one can only be described this way: It's a space western psycho drama with flashbacks and giant flying insects. What more could you want? VIEW IMAGE VIEW IMAGE VIEW IMAGE
Good work.
Interesting market.
I have a half-finished weird western. Maybe I should dust it off and see if I can make it more scifi than weird...
-- Paul McNamee
My Writings |
| Posted By : Hamstersbane - 3/20/2008 4:12 PM | Congrats!
I've done a couple of weird westerns...one a zombie tale, the other a marital revenge story (that WILL be published one of these days). But no space westerns.
Jeff Parish
Jennings Grove, an online horror serial novel
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| Posted By : Thirdy Lopez - 3/20/2008 5:16 PM | Congratulations! You had me at "giant flying insects." LOL!
Aurelio Rico Lopez III aka "Thirdy" has had fiction featured in COLD FLESH (Hellbound Books), THE BLACKEST DEATH I, II, and III (Black Death Books), SPORTY SPEC: GAMES OF THE FANTASTIC (Raven Electrick Ink), STAR-SPANGLED ZOMBIE (Maniac Press), RAW MEAT (Sideshow Press), SHADOW BOX (Brimstone Press), TRIP THE LIGHT HORRIFIC (RAGE machine Books), DEAD MEN (AND WOMEN) WALKING (Bards and Sages), and THE BOOK OF SHADOWS VOL. I (Brimstone Press). His poems have appeared in Mythic Delirium, Star*Line, Dark Animus, Goblin Fruit, Scifaikuest, Electric Velocipede, Sybil's Garage, The Horror Express, Down In the Cellar, and elsewhere. |
| Posted By : C.L. - 3/20/2008 9:01 PM | Congrats!
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| Posted By : John M. Whalen - 3/20/2008 9:24 PM | | Thanks very much, folks. |
| Posted By : Lyn - 3/20/2008 9:48 PM | Well, John, with you as my inspiration I just sent off a story to Space Westerns. It's actually a collaborative effort with a friend of mine, so our byline is a pseudonym. lol But if it gets accepted, I'll be sure to let you know which story to watch for.  BTW, thanks for the (unwitting) encouragement.
Lyn from Residential Aliens
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| Posted By : John M. Whalen - 3/21/2008 12:16 AM | | Good luck, Lyn. I'm glad to be of service. |
| Posted By : HTKuehl - 3/21/2008 7:44 AM | Congrats!
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Forthcoming:
"Cannibal Club." Pen Pricks, April 2008.
"The Lesson." Midnight Times, April 2008.
"Wayward Magic" and "Tone Deaf." Strange Worlds of Lunacy: The Galaxy's Silliest Anthology, April 2008.
"Full Moon Pulls at Him." Aphelion Webzine, April 2008.
"Allure of the Net." Flashshot, April 4, 2008.
"The Magic Word." Flashshot, April 17, 2008.
"To Have and to Hold." Flashshot, May 10, 2008.
"The Final Goodbye." Ruins Metropolis. Hadley Rille Books, 2008.
"Raising the Dead." Bewildering Stories: Issue 289, 2008. |
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