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Back to Journal  « SF Small Press Arrival Day | 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 47-48 | I Am Such a Mendicant » 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 47-48 December 4, 2007 Submissions 459-462 Sent stories to.... Aeon (my 1st submission there) Fantasy Magazine (2nd) Tin House (7th) Weird Tales (7th) Rejections 321-328 All-Story (Zoetrope) (60 days) Orange County/Durham Emerging Artists Grant (116 days) Paizo (RPG Superstar) Realms of Fantasy (27 days, YFOP from Doug) Strange Horizons (23 days) Sundance Film Festival (127 days) Tin House (48 days) Weird Tales (63 days) Of interest: More than half of the above rejections arrived on the same day. Wheeeee! Lessee... some queries answered (all either "no" or "still pending"), many more queries ignored, and a submission package to Image Comics almost complete... Comments on the Strange Horizons story, first time in a while, and on the story I would have least expected it (of my last five or so subs there). Also comments on the YFOP, and on the Weird Tales rejection The likely reasons my Paizo submission (a Wondrous item using SRD 3.5) failed to make the top 32 (of 850+ submissions) are because either: (a) It was auto-disqualified because the judges viewed it as a Weapon rather than as a Wondrous item, There could be precedent for such items (it was a Wondrous item that looked--but didn't behave--like a Weapon) to be categorized as a Weapon. Or if it dodged that auto-declassifcation-bullet: (b) It was more character-oriented than quest-oriented (most of the winning items are quite good, and most are much more directly helpful in typical adventure scenarios rather than in the less-hack-and-slashy games I liked to play). Should have anticipated that, especially since the move away from that sort of thing in 3rd Edition (which didn't discount the characters-stuff, but definitely de-emphasized it) was a big reason I didn't bother to "upgrade." The other reason was because I was too old to be able to pull all-nighters anymore. But it was fun working on this type of thing again, enough so that I'm putting some of my old RPG stuff (from ye old Long Knights website) back online with the site redesign, and I'm thinking about querying the Kobold Quarterly early next year with something... |
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Alex Wilson writes fiction and comics in Carrboro, NC. His work has appeared/will appear in Asimov's Science Fiction, The Rambler, Weird Tales, The Florida Review, Futurismic, Shimmer, ChiZine, FutureQuake, Pif, and Dragon. Locus Magazine has called him a "promising new writer," and Publishers Weekly also has nice things to say. Alex runs the audiobook project/podcast Telltale Weekly and the writer wiki Guidevines. He publishes the minicomic/zine Inconsequential Art. He is a 2006 Clarion graduate.  
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