Tag: fantasy

• December 2024 Submissions Recap

  Compared to last month, December 2024 felt like a quiet month for submissions. Looking back, though, that wasn’t quite true. I submitted five stories to publications, including Interzone (6 submissions total), Port Crow Press (1^st submission), The Deadlands (2 submissions total), Spooky Magazine (1^st submission), and Electric Spec (1^st in a long time). Spooky Magazine looks rather spooky, if you ask me. I haven’t submitted to Electric Spec in many years, but my story, “The Family Tree,” was published there way back in 2014, and is still available to read.

  This month, I also received six rejections from publications, including Hexagon SF Magazine (1^st rejection), James Gunn’s Ad Astra (1^st rejection), Interzone (6 total rejections, 1 positive), Bourbon Penn (2 total rejections), The Deadlands (2 total rejections), and Apex Magazine (7 total rejections). I’m very insulted that James Gunn didn’t like my story. Now I won’t check out the new Superman movie.     

  That’s it for December 2024. No big news, but I’m still submitting and receiving rejections, and still writing. We’ll see what’s next in January.

  January 21, 2025

  fantasy, fiction, publishing, rejection, science-fiction, submissions, writing

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