Great news, Nick!
Did you get the Aliterate top 3% held email? I've heard nothing since I got that several days ago.
1 x SF, 2 x SHM, 11 x HM, WotF batting average .583
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Did you get the Aliterate top 3% held email? I've heard nothing since I got that several days ago.
Hi Ishmael,
Yes I did. The gap between receiving that email and acceptance was around 6 days. Days to sale was around 105 (or something like that). Having said that, I don't know if the numbers necessarily mean anything. I don't know if the editors read things in a different order and there is also the fact that they are buying out two editions at once.
Nick Tchan
2 x HM
1x Finalist
1 x winner Q2 2011
Congrats, Nick!
http://laurie-gail.livejournal.com
2 time Finalist
4 time Semi-Finalist
lots of HM's and Rejects
Congratufabulations to Jeremy (and yay for art! Art for stories is the best surprise), George AGAIN (killin' it, man), Preston (still not sold my HMs, so top stuff), Ishmael again (all those subs starting to work for you), Emily on becoming a PROPER REAL PUBLISHED AUTHOR, and Nick (picking up some momentum again!)
As for me... well, best wait till contract's signed, I suppose 😉
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Congrats everyone. If I tried to list you all I'd miss someone.
I've hit quite a dry spell myself, but I have been getting a lot of later round looks, so I suppose that's something. Keep writing, keep submitting 
Congratulations to all. 
HM Q1 2015, Q3 & Q4 2016.
R Q1 & Q2 2017
The Trade's On, in Issue 8 of Sci Phi Journal, November 2015
Naidin's Song: Blood Bound, published August 2016
Nine-Tenths, on Empyreome (Weekly Flash Fiction,) June 2017
Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!! 
F: Q2 V32
Silver HM: Q3, Q4 V32
HM: Q1, Q2, Q3 V 33
Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!!
Awesome! Must be a great story if Mike Redneck likes it! He killed it with his story in WOTF V30.
Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!!
Yeah!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Awesome news Rachelle.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!!
Oh, that's awesome news! You must be over the moon! Congratulations 
Golden Pen winner v32 (2016)
Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!!
Awesome!
Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!!
Congratulations!!
Jeanette Gonzalez
HM x4, SHM x2, F x1
Thanks everybody! I'm still up in the clouds, lol. Being a part of the forum has been such a great encouragement to keep submitting and writing. You guys are the best! 
F: Q2 V32
Silver HM: Q3, Q4 V32
HM: Q1, Q2, Q3 V 33
And congratulations from me Rachelle. That's a big step up!
1 x SF, 2 x SHM, 11 x HM, WotF batting average .583
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Mike Resnick at Galaxy's Edge accepted my finalist story!! I'm super excited of course. My first pro sale!!
Woo hoo!!!
http://laurie-gail.livejournal.com
2 time Finalist
4 time Semi-Finalist
lots of HM's and Rejects
Thanks, Ishmael and LaurieG!
F: Q2 V32
Silver HM: Q3, Q4 V32
HM: Q1, Q2, Q3 V 33
Congratulations Rachelle, that's a great sale. Mike's got a good eye.
Nick Tchan
2 x HM
1x Finalist
1 x winner Q2 2011
Congrats, Rachelle and Nick!!!
Thanks, Nick, Matt and singer!
Congrats to you too George, you're going gangbusters atm! Did I understand you right that you've been sending of the same stories for a while and just happening to get them all accepted now? Or are these all new stories?
Thanks, klevang! Actually some are old and some are new, but more of them are accepted nowadays than they used to. Also, don't imagine that all of my stories are now accepted, that's still in the realm of dreams for me. It's just that my accepted/submitted ratio has risen from about 2% in past years to around 6% right now, Not something to shout about, but it's still three times higher than before. 
WOTF: 1 SF, 1 SHM, 4 HM
Fiction (EN): 43 stories sold, 29 published
Fiction (GR): c.10 stories published & a children’s novel
I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.
The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.
1 x SF, 2 x SHM, 11 x HM, WotF batting average .583
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I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.
The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.
Woohoo!
I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.
The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.
Woo Hoo! I hadn't realized that was yours when I did the read on it. 
I gave it yea vote when doing the first readings. 
HM Q1 2015, Q3 & Q4 2016.
R Q1 & Q2 2017
The Trade's On, in Issue 8 of Sci Phi Journal, November 2015
Naidin's Song: Blood Bound, published August 2016
Nine-Tenths, on Empyreome (Weekly Flash Fiction,) June 2017
Congrats to Ishmael and everyone else. You guys are awesome!
Contest history: R, R, SHM, R, HM, R, R
1 very hopeful: V34 Q2
"Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations." ~ Ray Bradbury
That was an awesome story Philip. Love that ending.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
I have just got round to noticing that earlier this week Sci Phi Journal published one of the two stories of mine they were holding.
The Ultimate Temporal Paradox is free to read on line.
I loved how the main character, in the end, never actually did anything. Kind of like tying a slip knot and then pulling the string tight.
Congrats, Philip!
WOTF: 1 SF, 1 SHM, 4 HM
Fiction (EN): 43 stories sold, 29 published
Fiction (GR): c.10 stories published & a children’s novel
Congrats, Phillip! I'll check it out.
And thanks Nick and George for the congrats!
F: Q2 V32
Silver HM: Q3, Q4 V32
HM: Q1, Q2, Q3 V 33
Congratulations, Philip!
Jeanette Gonzalez
HM x4, SHM x2, F x1
This is my month for failing to notice I've been published. My story The Trial of Monsieur Lazare is now free on line in AE The Canadian Science Fiction Review.
If anybody spots that I've been unwittingly published anywhere else, please let me know!
I suspect I've simply become more than usually disorganised while away in Bordeaux. 
1 x SF, 2 x SHM, 11 x HM, WotF batting average .583
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Philip--if you have a Google account, go to https://www.google.com/alerts and set up an alert for your byline inside speech marks i.e. "Philip Brian Hall". Then Google will email you when it notices a new page that matches those search terms. Can be useful 
You can also set it up with review at the end, in the happy event someone reviews your story, and with your story titles--although the latter is only useful if your title is sufficiently unique. I had to take "Lady and the Moon" off my alerts because I was getting so many irrelevant results from drawings on Pinterest!
(Oh, and congratulations publication days are the happiest of days!)
Golden Pen winner v32 (2016)
