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Back to Journal  « A Locus Mention | 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 3 and 4 | Catch Up » 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 3 and 4 January 27, 2007 Subs 343-348: Stories to Asimov's (my 8th story sub, 14th sub including poetry), MF&SF (my 15th), and ChiZine (my third, but my last sub there was well over five years ago). And then there's two New Yorker Cartoon Caption Contest entries and a pitch to take over a comics letter column. Rejections 226-228: My first story to Jim Baen's Universe didn't make it past the first reader. Twenty-one day rejection on a story sent to Strange Horizons. Non-acceptance from Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 10 when they announced both the table of contents and the cancellation of the program after volume ten. Pulled/No Reply 50-51: Fiction/humor sent to Adbusters and The New Yorker. I lost faith in the strength of these pieces in the post-Clarion world anyway. Notes: I tend to be getting notes in my fiction rejections from Strange Horizons, but not for my poetry. And in recent poetry rejections from Asimov's and Lady Churchill's, the editors expressed interest in seeing my stories. The word "Instead" might be implied there. Could it be that I'm one of those poets who has no audience except for himself? Not surprised about the Strange New Worlds non-acceptance. Shortly after sending it, I found a bunch of likes/dislikes on the editor's website (my story violated many), and then more late hints on a SNW-related mailing list. It was certainly a rush job (not my strength), but I'm pleased that I was able to give myself a crash-course in Star Trek in September and find a way to do humor without doing parody (Borg/Trebble slash-fic was soooo tempting). It was a learning project, and I was on the fence about spending the time on it, but I think it was good for me to try. Even if it was accepted I'd still probably refrain from writing any other media-tie ins on-spec unless they do something similar with a tempting Whedon property. Otherwise it's pitches only, primarily in the comics medium. My first fiction to Asimov's since Outgoing. Very happy I was able to shave over two thousand words off a novelette to make it an honest-to-goodness "short story" in the final rewrite. |
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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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