Subby subby!

[marydell]

I subbed "It's Your Funeral" to Clarkesworld. They say they respond within a few days, awesome! So I can keep the rejections coming in at a good clip.

So far, it's been rejected by F&SF, Strange Horizons, and Futurismic. Weird Tales sat on it for a while, then closed their submissions and bounced it unread. 

I also have a rejection from Glimmer Train in the pile, for a different story called Fratricide. I have no idea where to sub that one next, because I know fuckall about lit-fic markets, because I mostly hate lit fic. Except when I write it, don'ch'a know.

More, more! Bring on the rejections!  What I said a while back, about how the awfulness of the adoption process makes story rejections feel okay by comparison?  So far, it is holding true.

Comments

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

For your piece of lit-fic, you could try Zoetrope All-
Story which pays really well ($1200 if it buys) but takes forever to decide (up to 1 year).

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! I think I need to set my sights lower for this one, since it's got some flaws that are apparent to me (of the unfixable kind) and I'm not really a lit-fic writer. That thing where a whole shitload of ordinary stuff like buttoning one's shirt in the morning is described in loving detail and imbued with melancholy and frustration? Is not my thing.

It's not a bad story, it's just more in the mold of the Joycean moment of self-discovery, as experienced by an adolescent.

Oh and it has almost no dialogue, because I wrote it years ago and I suck at dialogue, so I didn't even try in this one.

[gailmom.livejournal.com]

I have to admit something embarrassing here: You title did NOT lead me to think the post was going to about literature....

[marydell.livejournal.com]

That was sorta kinda intentional. I figured some friends might get a chuckle out of it. Besides, I probably will get spanked, right? at least metaphorically. ;)

[cloudscudding.livejournal.com]

I know *exactly* how you feel about lit-fic.