@empressed I hope you get another call!
I was five years between #1 and #2. Then 7 years... If I hadn't won that time I'd have received my fourth call in my tomb.
Career: 1x Win -- 2x NW-F -- 2x S-F -- 9x S-HM -- 11x HM -- 7x R
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If I hadn't won that time I'd have received my fourth call in my tomb.
But at least you'd still have been entering 🤣
"hmm, look, entries from 126 countries and one from beyond the grave..."
"...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:
2026 Q1: TBD Q2: TBD Q3: TBD Q4: TBD
2025 Q1: HM Q2: SHM Q3: HM Q4: P
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: 163 submitted 10 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
Being dead is no excuse. People get published and awarded posthumously all the time!
Check your email, guys. My story got RWC 😅. Which I find kinda baffling as I thought it’s leagues better than my Q3, plus I spent like half a year writing it. But well, I guess it’s time to send it to other markets.
2025: Q3: S-F, Q4: submitted
I thought this story was doomed to RWC, but alas, I was surprised with 
Small steps add up to miles.
5 R, 5 RWC, 8 HM, 1 SHM
"Amore For Life" in After the Gold Rush Third Flatiron Anthology
"Freedom’s Song” in Troubadour and Space Princesses LTUE Anthology
Writers of the Future:
2026 V43: In process of editing draft
2025 V42: RWC, HM (HM Resubmit), HM, SHM
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, -, -
Other Achievements:
2025 SWA: Crime Fiction Contest - 1st Place, The Lighthouse Prompt - 3rd Place
Todd S Jones
"Whether you think you can, or you think you can't--you're right."~ Henry Ford
Pleased with the SHM, especially as I found a wart or two after I sent it in. 
. Good luck to everyone else!
F x1
SHM x5
HM x13
RWC x1
R Dozens
Anyone know if they send the emails in batches? Nothing has come through my inbox yet... 😕
"There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed." ~Hemingway (maybe)
V43 Q1:In Progress Q2: Q3: Q4:
V42 Q1:HM Q2:SHM Q3:RWC Q4:Submitted
V41 Q2:RWC Q4:R
