Posts regarding paying markets.
Sold a short story titled “Just Another Night at the Quarterly Meeting of Terrifying Giant Monsters” to Galaxy’s Edge Magazine. This was my first attempt at comedy. Positive feedback from my critique group, The Long Beach Writers Meetup, but the proof is that it sold. I haz a happy. – Brennan Harvey
How cool is this? This is the cover on volume 27 of L. Ron Hubbard presents Writers of the Future book! My bio and then my story, “The Truth, from a Lie of Convenience” starts on page 65 and is the longest in the book at 13,000 words. One of the judges told me that…
Maybe I should believe in clichés, because no news turned out to be fantastic news! Joni Labaqui called me yesterday with news that made be all emotional. I finally won the the Writers and Future Contest. My novelette, “The Truth, From a Lie of Convenience,” won first place for the 1st quarter, 2010. Wow–I’m an award-winning…
I’ve got another publication credit under my belt. Kind of. I’m a member of the Science Fiction Noveliest online critique group. Last year, the group wrote a story in the round and it was picked up by Golden Visions Magazine and published (in print) in their January, 2010 issue. I, as well as everyone else who participated, wrote two…
Another reject for my story In the Service of Others from Destination:Future. However, this time, they said I was in the top 10% of entries! Thanks for sending “In the Service of Others” for Desitination: Future. It is well written, and it made it into the small batch of stories that we selected from (less…
My story, “In the Service of Others” has been held for the final round of consideration for Destination: Future. Decision for those stories will be made after July or August.
Way back in November, 2007, I received a call for submissions from the Gulf Coast Writers Association. They were looking for stories about Mississippi. I didn’t have any, but I remembered a little story I wrote after I read “To Kill a Mockingbird.” It was more of an exorcism to get rid of the southern…
I sent out a revised version of “In the Service of Others” to Tales of the Unanticipated. This one included changes suggested by my SFNovelist.com and Long Beach Writers Meetup groups (see my Links page and my News page if you want more information on these fabulous groups.) I should hear something before March 31,…
Well, my first short story, “In the Service of Others”, has now been rejected by all science fiction professional magazine markets. I am currently tightening it up and changing some of the plot. Then, I will start submitting it to the Semi-Pro markets. I hope one of them will give it a chance. – Brennan…