Rejected:
* "Let Us Pray" rejected from Analog's, um, awhile ago.
* "Spirit Husband" rejected from BCS

Submitted:
* "Let Us Pray" to Clarkesworld
* "The Spirit Husband" to Daily Science Fiction

...and Rejected:
* "Let Us Pray" from Clarkesworld

"The Spirit Husband" to Beneath Ceaseless Skies.

* Submitted "Let Us Pray" to Lightspeed ~11am Sunday.
* "Let Us Pray" rejected from Lightspeed ~4:30pm Monday.

* Submitted "Let Us Pray" to Asimov's today.

Also, in news of the weird, I am listed as a semi-finalist on the WoTF blog. But I'm really a silver honorable mention. I checked. :P ( Read more... )

Hey, look at me and my quarterly blog posting abilities ( Read more... )

"A Sister's Gift" (now called "Imperfect Beauty") received an Honorable Mention in the Writers of the Future content for the "first quarter of this year" (which was actually October-December 2010). Woot! I think the prize is that they print my name in very small print in a long list in the back of the book. Or something ( Read more... )

Submitted novel query to 1 new agent

Followup to 4 novel queries sent last December:

1 requested a partial, and then rejected (but nicely)

2 other agents from last December sent form rejections

1 sent no reply, so I emailed today to inquire about the status of that query (I suspect it went astray).

"Imperfect Beauty" (previously titled "A Sister's Gift") to Beneath Ceaseless Skies. (I wasn't attached to the old title anyhow, and it was far too close to the title my previous BCS publication was given after I sold it.)

Also, "Greater Depths" to Daily Science Fiction.

"Let Us Pray" to Writers of the Future. Whew -- just squeaking in before the deadline.

...yes, I did just notice I haven't blogged in December. I suck. At some magical point in the future when every computerized second isn't devoted to writing for pay, I swear I'll blog something. Reeeallly.

Novel query to 1 agent via email. (I wanted to wait to send the one via email until after the others were in the mail, 'cause I didn't want to get rejected via email before I put the others in the mail. Because that would suck ( Read more... )

Novel query to 3 agents via snail mail.