Fantastic news! I sold not one but two short stories this week!
“L’enfer, c’est la solitude” will appear in Perihelion in March or April. And sometime over the summer (probably in June), “The Curse of the Lifewalker” will appear in Sci Phi Journal.
Two semi-pro sales in one week is pretty fantastic, especially after garnering more than 175 rejections over the past two years. I’ve got a bunch more on submission, including several that I haven’t blogged about. I’m averaging about one short story per month, and new markets are popping up all the time, so I don’t expect this to be the last story sale announcement this year. May it be the first of many!
In other news, LTUE 2016 was fantastic. I’m debating whether to write a full blog post about that, because I didn’t take any pictures or tweet anything pithy about it. Still, I came out with a lot of takeaways, especially in terms of writing. The panels I participated on were a lot of fun too, geeking out about stuff like slower-than-light space travel and post-scarcity leisure societies. And it was also really great to see all of my old writing friends here in Utah.
Now I really want to do one of two things: attend another sci-fi convention, and write and submit more short stories!
Wish there were some of those 2016 LTUE panels on YouTube!! Sounds interesting!!!!! Congrats on the sales as well.