July 03, 2003
Busy busy girl!
In addition to knocking out almost another 1,000 words on "World" (putting the story over the 4,000 word mark with no real middle even in sight), I also finally got off my ass and resubmitted all four stories listed in the "In Circulation" section. Technically, that hasn't been true for a bit. All four stories came back with rejections while I was in the middle of the crap I went through this spring, and I never had the energy or confidence to resend them back out.
Well, they're back out now. "Girl Behind the Counter", "Eye for an Eye", and, "Computer Dating" all went to Glimmer Train, since they only do submissions a few times a year and they allow you to submit up to three stories at a time. Lazy of me, sure, but hey, I can't find my envelopes (haven't unpacked them yet, apparently) and I'm running out of e-sub markets. ;)
"Midsummer", after a lot of thought (and about four or five rejections elsewhere), went to Strange Horizons. I was kind of reluctant to send that one to them next. Yes, they actually BOUGHT my last submission to them, but my last submission to them was "Rhythm of the Tides", which is also a selkie story. I was kinda hoping to send them something non-selkie-ish before sending them "Midsummer", lest they discover my obsession. But, it's a good market for it, I think, and "Rhythm" went to them over a year ago, so... I went for it.
But, it feels really GOOD to have stories in circulation again!
Posted by Lisa at July 3, 2003 12:30 PM