new fiction: in jurong

[jlundberg]

Yesterday I tweeted that my novelette "In Jurong," had sold to Quarterly Literary Review Singapore. What I didn't mention is how completely surprised I was to sell it to them; it's very obviously a fantasy (whereas QLRS, being a respectable literary review, seems to normally only publish mimetic fiction, although I haven't read every issue, so I

Comments

[jlundberg]

Thanks, Charles!

[selfavowedgeek]

Congratulations on placing "In Jurong."

[jlundberg]

Thanks!

[akashiver]

That's fabulous! I always love it when much-rejected stories find a good home. Now watch this story become the one you're famous for. :P

[jlundberg]

LOL! You know, John Kessel likes to tell the story about how his novella "Another Orphan" had gotten rejected everywhere, and he walked into the offices of F&SF and said that if they didn't publish it, it wouldn't get published at all. They took it and the story won the Nebula the following year.

[earthsea]

Congratulations! That's great news!

[jlundberg]

Thanks, Lisa!