Submission History as of January 29, 2010

Story Title -- Submitted To (Response):


Tinni and the Chain -- Absent Willow Review (accepted, appeared January 16, 2010)
Feeding the Grong -- Silver Thought
Robo and the Little Door -- Weird Tales
Leaping -- Intergalactic Medicine Show (rejected) THEN Bewildering Stories
Planet Feast -- Big Pulp (received, not yet accepted or rejected)
Grandfather’s Room -- M-Brane SF (rejected) THEN The Nautilus Engine (accepted, appears February)
Profaning the Leistra -- Anotherealm
Heart Case -- Twisted Tongue
Attached -- Absent Willow Review (rejected) THEN Black Ink Horror (rejected) THEN Dark Fire (received, not yet accepted or rejected)
Panorama of Failure - Realms Magazine
Seeing Through Doors - Absent Willow Review (accepted, appears March 16, 2010)
Stone Breaker -- Intergalactic Medicine Show

"Received, not yet accepted or rejected" means I received an e-mail from the editor acknowledging receipt of the story and promising a response at a later date.

As you can see, sometimes tenacity is the key to publication. For example, I am doggedly determined that someone somewhere will love "Attached" enough to publish it. The editor of Black Ink Horror liked it but didn't think it was right for their magazine. Well, people, that's just not going to stop me. Someone will love the Homunculus eventually.

Writings

I originally created this here blog just as a way to keep track of my writing and to provide some accountability for myself. Sort of a journal to help keep me writing. Lately, however, I have been posting to Zen Gaming IRL instead, for whatever reason. But to keep this blog from being totally dead, here is my current submission history. This represents all the of the stories I have written and submitted since late November of 2009. The only exception is "Tinni and the Chain" which I actually wrote a number of years ago. Also "Feeding the Grong" was partially completed earlier in the year, but I finished it in November.


Story Title -- Submitted To (Response):

Tinni and the Chain -- Absent Willow Review (accepted, appeared January 16, 2010)
Feeding the Grong -- Silver Thought
Robo and the Little Door -- Weird Tales
Leaping -- Bewildering Stories
Planet Feast -- Big Pulp (received, not yet accepted or rejected)
Grandfather’s Room -- The Nautilus Engine (accepted, appears February)
Profaning the Leistra -- Anotherealm
Heart Case -- Twisted Tongue
Attached -- Dark Fire (received, not yet accepted or rejected)
Panorama of Failure - Realms Magazine
Seeing Through Doors - Absent Willow Review

This evening, I began writing yet another story called "Stone Breaker." I have noticed that even though my stories are all fairly unique and different, I keep dealing with the same themes: yearning for freedom, dealing with one's own failures, and resignation. So there you go. I have a message for the nerds of the world, I guess, and that message is, "Be free, understand that you are a failure, and resign yourself to your fate." Hmmm, sounds like a contradiction somewhere up on in there. Oh well.