My Daily Science Fiction story is up today: http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/parapsychology/stewart-c-baker/little-more-than-shadows
Oh Stewart that was so good! Loved it!!!
Karen
Thanks, Steve and Karen. 
Stewart C Baker - 1st place, Q2 V32
My contest history: Semi-finalist, R, HM, R, R, HM, HM, R, R, R, R, HM, R, R, R, R, Winner
I have a piece of flash fiction out today in Nature: Ice and White Roses
Rebecca Birch
Finalist - 2, SF - 1, SHM - 1, HM - 18, R - 6
Words of Birch
Short Story Collection--Life Out of Harmony and Other Tales of Wonder
I have a piece of flash fiction out today in Nature: Ice and White Roses
Ooh, that was such a poignant piece! You're just racking up those sales. Keep up the excellent wordsmithing.
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
I have a piece of flash fiction out today in Nature: Ice and White Roses
Ooh, that was such a poignant piece! You're just racking up those sales. Keep up the excellent wordsmithing.
Thanks, Preston. I'm glad you liked it!
Rebecca Birch
Finalist - 2, SF - 1, SHM - 1, HM - 18, R - 6
Words of Birch
Short Story Collection--Life Out of Harmony and Other Tales of Wonder
I have a piece of flash fiction out today in Nature: Ice and White Roses
Such a beautiful and moving piece. I loved it!
~You Are Now Entering Stephanie's Vortex~
WOTF: 1x Silver, 4x HM, 13x R
IOTF: 1x Semi, 2x R, 4x Into the Vortex
I have a piece of flash fiction out today in Nature: Ice and White Roses
Such a beautiful and moving piece. I loved it!
Thanks very much, Stephanie!
Rebecca Birch
Finalist - 2, SF - 1, SHM - 1, HM - 18, R - 6
Words of Birch
Short Story Collection--Life Out of Harmony and Other Tales of Wonder
I really enjoyed both of those, congrats Stewart and Rebecca!
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Volume 33: Q2 - R ,Q3 - SHM
The "real" Ember is a good friend and let me borrow her account, she won with "Half Past" in Vol. 31
Grats both of you!
Thomas K Carpenter
SFx2, SHMx1, HMx12 (Pro'd Out - Q4 2016)
EQMM - Feb 2015 /
A very nice story, Rebecca!
WOTF: 1 SF, 1 SHM, 4 HM
Fiction (EN): 43 stories sold, 29 published
Fiction (GR): c.10 stories published & a children’s novel
Way to go, Stewart and Rebecca. 
SF x 1 (Extreeemely happy snappy gator)
HM x 9 (Happy snappy gator)
"Europa Spring" - buy from Amazon
The Happy Snappy Gator Bog! Er, Blog...
I've been sitting on this one for a loooong time now, because I hadn't received/signed the actual contract, but I just sent in the contract for Part One today, so I think it's okay finally put this in a public place. One of my WotF straight rejections will be appearing Cricket magazine. It's going to be serialized into three issues, and the first part will be in the February 2015 issue.
This is a story that I absolutely adore and was depressed when it got a form rejection here at the contest, but this is a good example of stories needing to find the correct market. Cricket is a children's magazine. Writers of the Future is not. This story really wasn't a good fit here. But Cricket? I am so excited!
Rebecca Birch
Finalist - 2, SF - 1, SHM - 1, HM - 18, R - 6
Words of Birch
Short Story Collection--Life Out of Harmony and Other Tales of Wonder
I've been sitting on this one for a loooong time now, because I hadn't received/signed the actual contract, but I just sent in the contract for Part One today, so I think it's okay finally put this in a public place. One of my WotF straight rejections will be appearing Cricket magazine. It's going to be serialized into three issues, and the first part will be in the February 2015 issue.
This is a story that I absolutely adore and was depressed when it got a form rejection here at the contest, but this is a good example of stories needing to find the correct market. Cricket is a children's magazine. Writers of the Future is not. This story really wasn't a good fit here. But Cricket? I am so excited!
YEEEEHAAAAA!!!!! And Cricket is a tough market to crack. They want good stories aimed at kids. A lot of people can do one or the other, but not both.
Congratulations!
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Tools, Not Rules.
Martin L. Shoemaker
3rd Place Q1 V31
"Today I Am Paul", WSFA Small Press Award 2015, Nebula nomination 2015
Today I Am Carey from Baen
The Last Dance (#1 science fiction eBook on Amazon, October 2019) and The Last Campaign from 47North
I've been sitting on this one for a loooong time now, because I hadn't received/signed the actual contract, but I just sent in the contract for Part One today, so I think it's okay finally put this in a public place. One of my WotF straight rejections will be appearing Cricket magazine. It's going to be serialized into three issues, and the first part will be in the February 2015 issue.
This is a story that I absolutely adore and was depressed when it got a form rejection here at the contest, but this is a good example of stories needing to find the correct market. Cricket is a children's magazine. Writers of the Future is not. This story really wasn't a good fit here. But Cricket? I am so excited!
Woot!!!
Thomas K Carpenter
SFx2, SHMx1, HMx12 (Pro'd Out - Q4 2016)
EQMM - Feb 2015 /
I've been sitting on this one for a loooong time now, because I hadn't received/signed the actual contract, but I just sent in the contract for Part One today, so I think it's okay finally put this in a public place. One of my WotF straight rejections will be appearing Cricket magazine. It's going to be serialized into three issues, and the first part will be in the February 2015 issue.
This is a story that I absolutely adore and was depressed when it got a form rejection here at the contest, but this is a good example of stories needing to find the correct market. Cricket is a children's magazine. Writers of the Future is not. This story really wasn't a good fit here. But Cricket? I am so excited!
Congrats.
And so true that you can not decipher quality from an 'r.'
Literary saboteur
Blog: http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/
HM X 5
SF X 3
F X 1
Current Rejection Streak: 0
Grats, Rebecca! That's awesome
Latest story:
http://www.tamlyndreaver.com
I've been sitting on this one for a loooong time now, because I hadn't received/signed the actual contract, but I just sent in the contract for Part One today, so I think it's okay finally put this in a public place. One of my WotF straight rejections will be appearing Cricket magazine. It's going to be serialized into three issues, and the first part will be in the February 2015 issue.
This is a story that I absolutely adore and was depressed when it got a form rejection here at the contest, but this is a good example of stories needing to find the correct market. Cricket is a children's magazine. Writers of the Future is not. This story really wasn't a good fit here. But Cricket? I am so excited!
Wow, from R to Pro. That's awesome. And serialized too. Even more awesome!
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Thanks so much, everybody!
And Martin, you're right about it being difficult to write both a good story and a story directed at children. I honestly didn't even consider that the story was a children's story for a long time. I mean sure, it has child protagonists, but I wasn't thinking about targeting that audience when I wrote it. It was just a story that I loved.
Is it February yet? 
Rebecca Birch
Finalist - 2, SF - 1, SHM - 1, HM - 18, R - 6
Words of Birch
Short Story Collection--Life Out of Harmony and Other Tales of Wonder
Awesome! Congrats, Rebecca!!!
"You must stay drunk on writing so reality cannot destroy you." - Ray Bradbury
"Write until it becomes as natural as breathing. Write until not writing makes you anxious." - Christina Katz
HM x 2
R x 2
Congrats, Rebecca!
WOTF: 1 SF, 1 SHM, 4 HM
Fiction (EN): 43 stories sold, 29 published
Fiction (GR): c.10 stories published & a children’s novel
My Daily Science Fiction story is up today: http://dailysciencefiction.com/fantasy/parapsychology/stewart-c-baker/little-more-than-shadows
Well done Stewart. A powerful tale.
1 x SF, 2 x SHM, 11 x HM, WotF batting average .583
Blog
I have a piece of flash fiction out today in Nature: Ice and White Roses
Not easy to enjoy, when you've been in a similar place, but so easy to empathise. Well done Rebecca. And congratulations on the Cricket success too.
1 x SF, 2 x SHM, 11 x HM, WotF batting average .583
Blog
Huzzah! Congrats, Rebecca, on the Cricket sale. Great market. Such long wait times though...
SF x 1 (Extreeemely happy snappy gator)
HM x 9 (Happy snappy gator)
"Europa Spring" - buy from Amazon
The Happy Snappy Gator Bog! Er, Blog...
Woot, Rebecca, for landing Cricket!
Finalist x 2
HM x 5
Pleased to announce that my dark fantasy Japanese Mythology story, "The Laughing Tree," has been published by Liquid Imagination, with guest editor Shahid Khan. Thanks to Stewart for helping me out with this one.
http://liquidimagination.silverpen.org/article/laughing-tree-preston-dennett/
Preston Dennett
HM x 12
F x 1
Winner, 2nd place, Q1, Volume 35
40 stories published! (and counting!)
Enjoyed reading your story Preston. Congratulations on your success.
Today's science fiction is tomorrow's reality-D.R.Sweeney
HM x5
Published Poetry
2012 Stars in Our Hearts
Silver Ships
Contributor copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine showed up today! I'm such a dork I sat down and read my own story. My story is in the February issue--The Trouble with Virgins.
Thomas K Carpenter
SFx2, SHMx1, HMx12 (Pro'd Out - Q4 2016)
EQMM - Feb 2015 /
Contributor copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine showed up today! I'm such a dork I sat down and read my own story. My story is in the February issue--The Trouble with Virgins.
Ellery Queen? Nice! That's a super sale.
Career: 1x Win -- 2x NW-F -- 2x S-F -- 9x S-HM -- 11x HM -- 7x R
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Contributor copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine showed up today! I'm such a dork I sat down and read my own story. My story is in the February issue--The Trouble with Virgins.
fantastic 
Literary saboteur
Blog: http://www.robertmitchellevans.com/
HM X 5
SF X 3
F X 1
Current Rejection Streak: 0
Contributor copies of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine showed up today! I'm such a dork I sat down and read my own story. My story is in the February issue--The Trouble with Virgins.
Ellery Queen? Nice! That's a super sale.
Thanks!
Yeah, still doesn't feel real. Even after the acceptance, check, various emails, etc. I kept expecting EQMM to say, "Oops, we made a mistake, you don't belong here."
Too late now!
Now, I'm hoping to sell them another story. Sent in a followup story to the one I sold. Figure selling in the same series is easier than a whole new idea.
Thomas K Carpenter
SFx2, SHMx1, HMx12 (Pro'd Out - Q4 2016)
EQMM - Feb 2015 /
