I hope this gives meaning to your life, the universe and everything!
@DonMarkmaker
🤣Yesss!I hope this gives meaning to your life, the universe and everything!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
OMG, I got another acceptance email today. Sold story #43! I'm on a roll. This one's a little horror story called, Tree! Yay!
Keeping twenty stories in circulation is paying off!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
@preston-e-dennett congrats! Feel free to host a seminar to teach is how we do it too! 😉
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: HM Q2: P Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 52 submitted 3 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
Keeping twenty stories in circulation is paying off!
Great to hear. Yeah I keep more than that out at once! There are diminishing returns, I find, around 60!
@DonMarkmaker
@pdblake Love the cover!
Website: https://www.jeschleicher.com/
Blog: https://www.jeschleicher.com/dopaminesdelight
V40: Q1 3rd Place Winner ("Squiddy")
V39: SHM, HM, HM, HM
V38: HM, SHM, HM, HM
V37: R, R, HM, HM
V36: R
@preston-e-dennett Congrats on another acceptance! Hear! Hear! on never giving up!
Website: https://www.jeschleicher.com/
Blog: https://www.jeschleicher.com/dopaminesdelight
V40: Q1 3rd Place Winner ("Squiddy")
V39: SHM, HM, HM, HM
V38: HM, SHM, HM, HM
V37: R, R, HM, HM
V36: R
@preston-e-dennett Holy freakin’ cow that’s amazing. Congratulations!
V39: - - - HM
V40: SHM, HM, SHM, HM
V41: HM, SHM, SHM, F
V42: DQ, P
Stories published in Triangulation: Hospitium, Neo-opsis Science Fiction Magazine, Flash Fiction Magazine, and others.
https://kzrichards.com
Your tenacity is really paying off Preston. It's really great to see the results of your efforts.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
@preston-e-dennett congrats! I recently sold my ~7th story, not as far along as you but it feels nice to sell something once in a while.
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
Thanks, Guys. This forum has actually been integral to my success. I learned more about writing and the business of writing here than four years in college. (Well, actually 3 and a half, I rushed through it so I could begin my career as a writer! 
)
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
And the cover art now has my name on it. Proofs shouldn't be long, I'm told. Then I will finally be able to link to the real thing.
Picture is on my blog (link in sig) as it's a bit big.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
My Blog
Small Gods and Little Demons - Parsec Issue #10
@preston-e-dennett great news. Keep up the awesome work.
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
2025 V42: RWC, (HM Resubmit), Editing, ?
2024 V41: RWC (HM Resubmit), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: ---HM (R Resubmit)
2020 V37: -R--
Small Gods and Little Demons is now available in Parsec Issue #10.
R:6 RWC:1 HM:9 SHM:3
My Blog
Small Gods and Little Demons - Parsec Issue #10
Small Gods and Little Demons is now available in Parsec Issue #10.
Congrats
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
2025 V42: RWC, (HM Resubmit), Editing, ?
2024 V41: RWC (HM Resubmit), HM, RWC, Finalist (RWC Resubmit)
2023 V40: HM, HM, R, HM
2022 V39: SHM, HM, Semi-finalist, HM (HM Resubmit)
2021 V38: ---HM (R Resubmit)
2020 V37: -R--
@pdblake Woooooooooo awesome! Looks great! 
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
My story, The Apotheosis Algorithm (a SHM), has now been published in Gwyllion Magazine. (It is not free to read, you must buy the magazine). This is my first story that is available in hard copy, which I'm pretty chuffed about. Great feeling to receive it in the post, hopefully the first of many!
3rd Place Vol 41 Q3 ("The Stench of Freedom")
Submission record: R x 2 / HM x 7 / SHM x 2 / W x 1
Stories published in Daily Science Fiction, Every Day Fiction, 365tomorrows, and Gwyllion Magazine.
Find out more on my website (www.joelcscoberg.com) or sign up to my newsletter for updates on my writing journey.
@joel-c-scoberg congrats! There is definitely something special about getting a hard copy of something you wrote 👍
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: HM Q2: P Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 52 submitted 3 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
My short story "The Last Denebolan Marathon" has been published in issue 11 of Eldritch Science. It received an HM in V40 Q2. https://tnfff.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/ES202404.pdf
V38: HM, R, R, HM
V39: RWC, HM, RWC, HM
V40: RWC, HM, SHM, R
V41: R, RWC, R, R
V42: RWC, WIP, WIP
@chwalter Congratulations!! 😃✨
Vol 42: Q1 - R Q2 - P Q3 - I/P
Vol 41: Q1 - HM, Q2 - SHM, Q3 - RWC, Q4 - HM
Vol 40: Q4 - DQ
@patricia-a Thanks!
V38: HM, R, R, HM
V39: RWC, HM, RWC, HM
V40: RWC, HM, SHM, R
V41: R, RWC, R, R
V42: RWC, WIP, WIP
So very excited to announce the release of my first anthology of science fiction short stories! It’s called “Wild Speculation,” and it has ten of my favorite stories that I’ve published, including two award-winning stories (yes, my WOTF 2nd place winner included.) Already got #2 in new releases of sci-fi short stories on Amazon. Wow! Time to do my happy dance! Yay!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
@preston-e-dennett congrats! Like what you have as the cover too 👍 👍
"...your motivations for wanting to write are probably complex. You may have a few great passions, you may want to be rich and famous, and you may need therapy."
- Dave Farland, Million Dollar Outlines
Writers of the Future:
2025 Q1: HM Q2: P Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2024 Q1: F Q2: HM Q3:SHM Q4: SHM
2023 Q1: RWC Q2: SHM Q3: SHM Q4: R
2022 Q4: R
Submissions to other markets:
2025: 52 submitted 3 acceptances
2024: 53 submitted 8 acceptances
2023: 74 submitted 13 acceptances
2022: 22 submitted 1 acceptance
2025 goals: a. New Novel b. New piece submitted/month c. 100 rejections
@gideonpsmith Thank you, Gideon.
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
42 stories published! (and counting!)
I've been (mostly*) on a writing hiatus this year, for personal reasons, but I figured I'd share a publication here in the meantime--subbed in the middle of last year, this one got picked up by Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores. It's a flash story, originally written in 90 minutes, then tinkered with to flesh out around the edges before it got published (with thanks to Fran at CRES, who proposed some really great changes to the draft before it was final--their editorial process is certainly different, but I also found it to be really positive).
Anyway, it's up to read here now--
https://cosmicrootsandeldritchshores.com/fiction-all/fantasy/a-promise-of-salt-and-sky/
I've also sold a previous SHM (the last one I earned under David Farland), which will be coming out in On Spec at some point in the future, though the date of that is currently TBD.
(* mostly, because in the end, you can't just never write, even when you're on hiatus. So I guess I'm just not writing much.)
DQ:0 / R:0 / RWC:1 / HM:15 / SHM:7 / SF:1 / F:1
Published prior WotF entries: PodCastle, HFQ, Abyss & Apex
Pending: Q2.V42
@preston-e-dennett Awesome! Congrats
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
@doctorjest Awesome work! Well done!!!
“Stories are the collective wisdom of everyone who has ever lived. Your job as a storyteller is not simply to entertain. Nor is it to be noticed for the way your turn a phrase. You have a very important job—one of the most important. Your job is to let people know that everyone shares their feelings—and that these feelings bind us. Your job is a healing art, and like all healers, you have a responsibility. Let people know they are not alone. You must make people understand that we are all the same.”
Brian McDonald
2022: Second Place Winner V39 Q1
2021: HM, HM, SHM
2020: R
2019: SHM, R
2018: HM
2017: HM
Check out my fiction and more at spencersekulin.net
final--their editorial process is certainly different, but I also found it to be really positive
That's good to know. Love a good editorial process. Can you say how it differed? Also could you describe what any individual suggested change was intending to accomplish?
@DonMarkmaker
That's a good story Robert. Congratulations on the sale. I enjoyed reading it.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
