Congrats!
huh. Sounds interesting. I love me some WWI biplanes, and some fantasy. A mashup sounds interesting, at least.
Oh, wow! Congratulations. Is that the cover art? I like it. Itās nice to have your name on a spine.
Thanks! Just a promotional postcard. Cover still to come.
Sold a little weird-western flash In a Handful of Dust to a French company, Short Ćdition, who turned it around for publication inside of a week. In addition to posting the story online, they also make the story available in vending machines around the worldā¦
Vending machines? Thatās pretty wild. Congrats.
Thatās quite an opening paragraph!
Soā¦ you go to vending machines to buy short stories? Wouldnāt work in the US.
Gods, I would love to write, I have some great stories in me and some practice. But:
- Iām soooo rusty at writing prose Iām afraid it would be meandering and terrible
- No time, no time, no time
The second is probably the reason for the first. Maybe when I retire. . . Iām so jealous of you guys. Keep at it, let me vicariously get my rejection letters!
And a big congrats to those who got published!
Congrats! Awesome how they distribute.
I just submitted a short short to the Daily Science Fiction; fingers crossed. First submission to anywhere in quite some time, but Iām getting back up on the horse.
Thereās dozens of these machines in the US. I admit Iāve never seen one myself, though.
Good luck with DSF! They have very irregular and unpredictable tastes, but my first āpro-scaleā sale was there, so I like them for that, at least. Thereās about half a dozen other flash-length specialty markets for SF stories that pay pro-scale and maybe another dozen mixed-length magazines at that pay level that also buy some flash.
Thanksā¦ I may ask for names if I strike out there.
Off the top of my head, some you might want to also consider for flash stories are Flash Fiction Online, Nature (the glossy science magazine, a surprisingly easy place to sell to, like 10% acceptances, which is huge for a prestigious magazine), Factor Four, The Arcanist, Fireside, and then all the usual mixed-length SFF magazines. Actually Fireside is mixed-length, but they sometimes have flash-only submission calls. And of course Short Edition, too.
Thanks, thatās all very helpful.
The rejection note arrived by email today, and Iām actually quite pleased because, after many years, I finally got off my ass and submitted something, and that the turnaround was less than a month, as theyād promised on their site.
Onward!
Oh well. But DSFās tastes are notoriously irregular. I think Iām something like 2 for 12 there or so. Just keep trying and eventually something will stick with them. In the meantime, thereās all the other marketsā¦
Indeed, yes, thanks!
Congrats. Are their guidelines correct, having a 8000 character limit for a short? They mean words, right?
edit: iām an idiot - 8000 characters is obvious once I figured in the vending machines. Iām going to have a go.
In an effort to get my ass back to writing fiction, Iāve decide to write a drabble a day for 30 days. My wife gave me a collection of 101 writing prompts, and so Iām selecting one at random. That prompt because the title of the story. Then I sit down and write the drabble, inspired by the title.
Here is my first:
http://michaelbarbatodunn.com/2020/01/20/drabble-1-there-are-so-many-names-for-the-moon/
I may submit them to the site you linked above, so thanks for pointing that out.