Friday, June 1, 2007

May Submissions

At Twilight Tales www.twilighttales.com we do the great Summer Submission Challenge. No prizes, no accolades, just community and encouragement to get people to write. So without further ado, this was my month of May.

SUBMITTED IN MAY: 40 submissions
Spec fiction: 23 submissions
“Serpent’s Mouth” Pagan Fiction Award
“In God’s Image” Cryptopedia
“Timebubbles” Neo-opsis, Withersin
“The Brown Woman” Withersin, Town Drunk
“Fashion Victim” Pedestal
“Changes” IGMS
“Safe Sex” New Genre
“Nick of Time” Weird Tales
“Flight” Clarkesworld
“Cold Bones” Story Station
“Amuse-Bouche” Deathlings
“Lady Lazarus” Interzone
“Visions in Red” Spacesuits & Sixguns, Fantasy Magazine
“Snow White’s Long Day” Cicada
“In the High Tower” On Spec
“Bite Me” Realms of Fantasy
“An Ill Wind” Talebones
“The Boy Who Bled Rubies” F&SF
“Gingerbread People” Heliotrope (FBS)
“Lady of the Bleeding Heart”GUD
Fiction: 9 submissions
“Touch the Magic” Strange Horizons
“No Place to Go” American Short Fiction
“Bird in the Hand” Pulpnet
“Cipher” Atlantic Monthly
“The Diver” Chattahooche Review
“Sackcloth and Ashes” Fog City Review
“Slow Burn” Cincinnati Review
“Elastic” The Sun
“House of Cards” Prairie Fire
Poetry: 8 submissions, 36 poems
“Secrets of Trees”, “Garuda’s Folly”, “Negotiating the Power that Drives Me Round,” “Dark Side,” “A Match for Nostradamus” Strong Verse
“Courtship,” “Whole World,” “What Goldilocks Learned” Going Down Swinging
“Biography,” “Circle,” “In Relation,” “the perfect crime,” “Oh You!” Sub Tropics
“Persephone Dreams,” “Finding Dionysus,” “The Traveler,” “Geomystica,” “Of the Corn” Tin House
“Sweat Lodge,” “Between the Lines,” “Dust,” “Evidence,” “In the Garden” Agni
“Heaven’s Vault,” “Beltane Fires,” “Spinning Wheel,” “Bones of the Earth,” “Spirit Bottle,” Pangaia
“Pilot Flight,” “Illuminating Thoughts,” “Remembrance,” “The First Taste” Dreams & Nightmares
“Sundance,” “Vampire Girlz,” “Shadowrealms,” “Shortsighted,” Mag of Speculative Poetry

ACCEPTED: 2
“The First Taste” Dreams & Nightmares
“Stocking Stuffers” Naughty or Nice antho Cleis Books

REJECTED: 13 submissions, 7 stories, 20 poems
“Gingerbread People” Heliotrope (FBS)
“Alien Invader” Baen SF contest
“Lady of the Bleeding Heart”GUD
“Timebubbles” Neo-opsis
“The Brown Woman” Withersin, Town Drunk (dumb on my part as I forgot they want light and this is darkish)
“Lady Lazarus” Dark Wisdom
“Visions in Red” Spacesuits & Sixguns (6 hours to reject *sob*)
“Trials of Lemons,” “Time,” “Millennim’s Edge,” From the Asylum
“Sweat Lodge,” “Between the Lines,” “Dust,” “Evidence,” “In the Garden” Agni
“Heaven’s Vault,” “Beltane Fires,” “Spinning Wheel,” “Bones of the Earth,” “Spirit Bottle,” Pangaia
“Pilot Flight,” “Illuminating Thoughts,” “Remembrance,” Dreams & Nightmares
“Sundance,” “Vampire Girlz,” “Shadowrealms,” “Shortsighted,” Mag of Speculative Poetry

STORIES STILL OUT(from January on—markets only): 13
Venus Press, Abyss & Apex (poems), Dark Recesses, Aeon, Cleis Books, Chizine, Ruins, Magic & Mechanica, Cthulhu Sex, Splatterpunk Press, Hub, HLQ Spec, Holy Horror

BELIEVED LOST (markets that have not responded to queries and older than 9 months)
Drill Press, S.M.U.T. (I supposedly had stories coming out with these first two),Bloodrose, Like Water Burning, Storie, Andromeda Spaceways (they changed their system around this time), Pine, Arabesque, Adbusters, and all of the European markets including 9, Glasnost, Galaktika Magazine (bouncing), Real’nost’ Fantastiki, Nowa Fantastyka

Rewritten 3 stories, one that hadn’t seen the light of day in ten years. Reading Kushiel’s Chosen, finished Kushiel’s Dart, stuck on Iron Council.