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Back to Journal  « 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 7 and 8 | 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 9-11 | Twain, Sherlock, and Whitman at Telltale » 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 9-11 March 17, 2007 (Oops. Hadn't meant to go three weeks without an update.) Acceptance 66 (after Rewrite Request 3)! "Groundbound," a 5-page comic story, will be illustrated (artist TBD) and published in the British science fiction comics series FutureQuake! The rewrite request arrived in just under three months. I sent the rewrite within two days, and I got the acceptance two days after that. Subs 358-364 Prose stories to Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show (my first), Jim Baen's Universe (my second), and The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (my 16th). Rewrote a comic script for FutureQuake (see above). And it's comics awards season, and I actually have a few pieces that are eligible, so I sent a few things for consideration to the Isotope Awards and the Eisner Awards. No, seriously. I did. Stop laughing. Rejections 247-251 Chizine (36 days), Analog (33 days) Flytrap (4 months), Strange Horizons (40 days), and MF&SF (7 days). Of Interest: My milestone 250th rejection came from Strange Horizons. It was a rather divisive story at Clarion, striking half the readers as hot, half as cold, and very few as lukewarm. WIth the three editors of SH, maybe it could have gone either way. But it came back 2-1 against. I _think_ this was my first time any of the SH editors liked it enough to say so. F&SF rejection was from JJA, damnit. Editor Heather Shaw called my first sub to Flytrap (either issue #5 or #6) a "close call," but no such luck with this second sub (for #7). The pieces were both rather short. But worth noting that this story was plot-heavier and far less stylistically experimental than that first one. I have no expectations about the comics awards. But, with so few publishers reading unsolicited scripts, this is a free way of getting my name and work in front of the judges, including comics people I admire. Still plugging away at new stuff. |
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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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