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 (just the) "North Carolina" Entries 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.
 Umoja at Eno 2007 July 11, 2007  It's the Eno picture tour 2007! Fourth of July was on a hot Wednesday. Jen, Mary, and I headed out to the 28th annual Festival for the Eno in Durham. It was my third time there, Jen's fourth. Not sure about Mary's Eno stats, but she went with Jen last year while I was at Clarion.  This is not a request.  Boo Hanks at Grove Stage. Kickass blues player. 80 years old. The man recorded his first album last year and is currently considering whether he wants to pursue music as a career, after a lifetime of playing for friends and family. God bless him. I hope he does.  The recycle-monsters.  My first deep-fried Twinkie. Been wanting to try one for years. It was okay. Like a warm donut on a stick. The cream turned really watery and gave it a sickening sweetness. Next time I think I'll just go for a warm donut.  Just to show it wasn't all junk food.  The chimney/remains of (IIRC) an old hunting lodge.  The reading of the Declaration of Independence by Durham councilpeoples and organizers.  Giant puppeteers of giant puppets (Paper Hand) lead the parade. Amazing as always. We've seen them a few times over our five years in the NC triangle, but this might be the first time in daylight.  African American Dance Ensemble, who make me seem all cultured because they told the crowd that "umoja" was the Swahili word for "coming together" or "unity."  Baron Von Rumblebuss and Redd Zeppelin on the River Stage. Fun sound, groovy look, and they're local. I'll definitely be keeping my eye out for them.  Jen and Mary. What's a river festival without a river? (Actually I don't think that's the Eno. I think it's a stream that runs into the Eno. But we can pretend.)  Remember: only you can prevent forest fire hydrants.
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.
I'll be a Guest at Trinoc*coN 2007 June 18, 2007 So I'll be a guest at Trinoc*coN in Raleigh, NC, August 3-5. I haven't asked to do any readings (next year, maybe), but I should be on a few panels, maybe even with Literary Guest of Honor George R. R. Martin. Which, yes, would be cool. I emailed them shortly before the 2005 convention in Durham, asked if they needed anyone to fill a panel or two. It was too late in the game, and last year I was out of town for the convention. But just a few days before I was planning to contact them again, they emailed me and asked whether I was still interested. It'll be my first convention experience as a guest.
Alex on Celluloid May 24, 2007 So I'm appearing for the second time on Super 16: the music video of Sonny Byrd's "Jackal Pack." I'm the hatted man with a clipboard in a shot which is repeated at various lengths because the camera liked to eat takes (and director Clare Sackler actually uses that "ruined" footage to a cool effect, too). My first attempt to embed a YouTube video, so if it doesn't work out here or on LJ, here's the direct link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUENt9eCYxM
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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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