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 (just the) "Chapel Hill" Entries Acme's Tomato Festival This Weekend in Carrboro July 11, 2008 If you're in the Raleigh-Durham Triangle area this weekend, try to get out to Acme in Carrboro for a dinner. Single best meal I've ever had was back in 2005 when we stumbled upon it by accident. Was away at Clarion in 2006 and learned the dates after the fact last year. Dinner for two is in the That's all. Just a heads up. *MORNING AFTER EDIT: I didn't recall correctly (IDRC) or maybe I was thinking of brunch. It's been a while. Dinner for two's more like $40-50 before wine, tip, and/or appetizers. I heartily recommend the fried green tomato napoleon thing and the shrimp pasta. Looking forward to the leftovers today.
 2007 Submission Log: Weeks 33-34 September 2, 2007 Any bets on who'll send me my 300th rejection? Guess correctly in the LJ comments and get a free set of Inconsequential Art #1 & #2, autographed if you want. One guess per person, and up to five people (the first five to guess correctly) can win. Editors currently in charge of these pending rejections are not eligible. Ends one week from today or when I receive the rejection, whichever is later. My outstanding submissions list is the first comment. Cool? Submissions 416-419 The Sun (my 4th) MF&SF (my 20th) Strange Horizons (my 12th) Clarkesworld (my 4th) Rejections 295-299: Glimmer Train (4 months, 3rd rejection) Tin House (96 days, 5th rejection) Realms of Fantasy (4 months, 8th rejection)* Asimov's (24 days, 16th rejection) Analog (37 days, 11th rejection) Of Interest: Very busy August, but also quite productive in writing and other areas. Hopefully that'll bear some fruit soon. Learned recently that The Sun is based in Chapel Hill. I received my first rejection letters from there in my Ashland University mailbox, and now I could probably walk to the office (don't know if proximity helps or hurts me, heh). Obviously that means I haven't sent them anything in at least five years. Time to fix that. *Those submitting to Realms of Fantasy (via slush anyway) would do well to keep an eye on "Slushmaster" Douglas Cohen's blog, especially when he mentions meeting with editor Shawna McCarthy to pick up new slush stories and to pass promising ones along. Doug has reported response times going down since he started there, though with my last two stories the response time has increased immensely--and it's actually a good sign. Here are the timelines of my last two submissions, my only two stories Doug (or any previous slush editor) has passed to Shawna. 09.16.06 - Sent to Realms of Fantasy 10.22.06 - Doug picks up slush pile to read 11.11.06 - Email from Doug; he's passing it to Shawna 01.03.07 - Actual pass to Shawna 02.09.07 - Rejection from Shawna 05.03.07 - Sent to Realms of Fantasy 06.03.07 - Doug picks up slush pile to read 06.17.07 - Email from Doug; he's passing it to Shawna 07.19.07 - Actual Pass to Shawna 08.31.07 - Latest Acquisitions announced; implied rejection The above makes a lot more sense now that I've been reading his blog. And this weekend he posted recent acquisitions among the latest "batch," so even before receiving a formal rejection, I've been able to determine that I'm free to send that story elsewhere. So: not a magic bullet that'll turn a rejection into an acceptance, but a tweak to the submission process which gives my story a few days it didn't have before.
Carrboro Hill Returns as Empty Shell of the Wiki it Once Was June 20, 2007  Carrboro Hill (community wiki for Chapel Hill, Carrboro, etc.) is finally restored, but I'm de-emphasizing it as an active project. Call this moving it from public beta to pseudopublic beta. Or just ignore it.Growth will continue to be slow as Telltale, Guidevines, and my own writing are higher priorities. But I still think it's a good enough idea to let it live and let others use and edit it (or at least copy the data under the CCL and redo it right). And I won't be staying away completely.
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Inconsequential Art at Chapel Hill Comics May 4, 2007  Tomorrow! A limited number of free FCBD edition copies of Inconsequential Art #1 will be available at Chapel Hill Comics in Chapel Hill, NC, as part of Free Comic Book Day. First come, first served.
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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. Blog Archives 2008 - Clever Label TBA 2007 - BadYearNoCookie 2006 - Clarion! 1st Pro Sale! 2005 - Peers and Peerless 2004 - Telltale Launch 2003 - Dog bites, acting out 2002 - In my mind, I'm going... 2001 - Marriage, Macs, 1st Cons 2000 - Setback, Milestones 1999 - Engaged, Graduated 1998 - Creative Independence    Powered by MT 3.35 MySpace Profile Technorati Profile |
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