we pause in our endless slog through the Great Overdue for some good news
Thu 2019-08-08 23:58:50 (in context)
- 2,850 words (if poetry, lines) long
So I've spent the last week or so getting even farther behind and am now in the middle of a frenzied new push to Do All The Things Every Day, which is why you're getting a blog post again at last.
I did say I'd let you know when the latest reprinting of my story "First Breath" was out, didn't I? Well, as of... er, about a week ago, actually--sorry?--it's out! The Denver Horror Collective is soon to release their local horror anthology, Terror at 5280', and in celebration of that they're posting some stories to their website ahead of release day. My story is not in the anthology proper, but it's part of the run-up festivities, and you can read it here.
In other very pleasant news, I got an acceptance response to a recent poetry submission. Since nothing's real until contracts are signed, further details will have to wait until probably September. But the acceptance letter was definitely real, for pre-contract values of real.
For those keeping count, we're up to three acceptances in 2019, two of them poetry. The poem that just got accepted, I more or less wrote on the bus from Boulder to Longmont. Clearly I should be writing more poetry.
In case you're interested in how the submit-every-day, get-100-rejections challenge is going, I shall paste in the table with all the 2019 numbers. They are good numbers. I am quite proud of them.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Total for 2019 (so far) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Submissions: | 0 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 23 | 20 | 23 | 8 | 87 |
| Rejections: | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 13 | 19 | 17 | 8 | 61 |
| Acceptances: | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
In other news, revisions continue to be hard, and Friday Fictionettes continue to be way behind schedule. More about that quite possibly tomorrow if I manage to Do All The Things again.