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Back to Journal  « "Shooting Dogs for Fun and Profit" free at ChiZine | 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 38-40 | Reason to Keep At It #001 » 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 38-40 October 16, 2007 Submissions 428-439 2000 AD (comic script - my 7th sub there) Adbusters (fiction - 2nd) Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award (fiction - 1st) McSweeney's (fiction - 5th) Murky Depths (comic script and story-poem - 1st and 2nd) Pulp Planet (comic script - 1st) Shimmer (fiction - 4th) Strange Horizons (fiction - 13th) Talebones (poetry - 5th) Tin House (fiction - 6th) Zoetrope (fiction - 2nd) Rejections 305-309 A Public Space (41 days - my 1st rejection there) Asimov's (24 and 18 days - 17th and 18th) Hardboiled Horror (10 days - 1st) Strange Horizons (38 days - 12th Acceptance 69! Wouldn't you like to know? Of Interest: Can't talk about the acceptance yet, but it could be my biggest sale yet. Not saying it is, just saying it could be. The Amazon.com Breakthrough Novel Award/contest has surprisingly few red flags (I say "surprisingly;" it's so sad that I have to say that), so I entered something. They say "no short stories" yet they have no minimum wordcount. My submission is a very short novel in the equally-loosely-defined novella/novelette range. I'll find out in November whether it's disqualified. It was quite impulsive of me, and in the throes of sleep deprivation, I'll plead. I think the cap of 5,000 entrants works entirely in the writer's favor, but the main reason I entered was because I needed to set the piece aside for a few months, let it stew while I work on other things. And if my ChiZine sale taught me anything: better to let it wait in a slushpile than on my hard drive. Recent comments from science fiction editors indicate that my attempts at absurdism (in a few of my favorite submission stories) read like realism. Terrible, tedious realism. "If by Godot I had meant God, I would have said God, and not Godot," quoth the Beckett. I'll work on that, or target only tedious realism markets in the future. |
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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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