I’ve been getting rejected by Analog Magazine since the early 90s, the days of typewritten manuscripts and rejection slips on letterhead in self-addressed stamped envelopes. This month I finally got an acceptance, for my story Planetfall, a stand-alone chapter from my novel SPACESHIP DAYS. It won’t be out for a few months, but until then …
This was the year that last year’s time in quarantine began to pay off in publications and recognition. There were also rejections–lots of rejections. Ninety-one of them, so far. There are the pieces which were accepted: Grind Them Bones to Dust appeared in Meridian (Issue 45) Blue Clouds appeared in The Daily Drunk Skylark appeared …
RUNNING BEAR What is the future of humanity? Can we survive our current dangerous flirtations with climate change and nuclear war? Do we even deserve to? RUNNING BEAR tells the story of an ambitious project to design a mission capable of transporting a thousand highly-skilled humans to colonize another solar system, carrying along an Archive of …
In 2019, I received 96 rejections from literary magazines. These eight stories were accepted and published: Always Running (Stain’d) Cities of the Future (Suspect Press) Satellite Presence (Retreat West) Running Bear (F(r)iction) Circle of Blazers (Chaleur) Cloudscape (The Ghost Story) Love and Death Under the Rain (Red Rock Review) Little Paw (Infinite Worlds) While I’m proud of all these publications, I’m not really …
A stand-alone excerpt from my novel-in-progress was just published in Infinite Worlds Magazine, and I couldn’t be happier with how great this publication looks. The issue is gorgeous, with slick, full-color, full-page bleed images of work from contemporary sci-fi and fantasy illustrations by an international roster of artists. I’m honored to have my work included. It’s …