IWW Members' Publishing Successes

They're still doing it! Every week, including this one, there's all kinds of publishing news.

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Barry Basden

Drunk and Lonely Men #10 includes my 55er "What Are You Doing New Year's?" and a fine story by the prolific Wayne Scheer.

DLM is one of my favorite venues because of their quick turnaround, but they are now closed to submissions. Probably trying to cure a depression hangover.


Rebecca Coleman

My novel Desperado City, which will be released in August of this year, was critiqued from the first chapter to the last on Novels-L a couple years back. It's gone through a very significant couple of revisions since then-- one that used the critiques I got, the other with suggestions from my publisher. I have Yahoo'ed DC on this list before, but I want to do so again following my receipt of the final edits from my editor. The only things I was asked to change were in the vein of "T-shirt should begin with a capital T" and the reformatting of my em dashes. The most intensive change I had to make was the name of a Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavor that apparently didn't exist. My editor congratulated me on a job well done and told me she was "enthralled" as she read the story.

So I gotta give the credit where it's due and say thanks, Novels-L'ers, for all your work in turning an ambitious mess into a tight, publishable novel. You who contributed know who you are, and I am thankful to each one of you. I have to give a special nod to Roger Poppen (pre-admin), who hit every chapter and whose contribution can be heavily seen in the "Ben fights with his dad" chapter, where there are about forty fewer F-words than there were originally. Other changes worked into the revision include a positive adult character, more of my wackiest character, and a plot.

Hats off to all of you, and to the administrators who make it possible.


Dawn Goldsmith

It is writing related, but more specifically blog related. For the past two
days the hits on my Subversive Stitcher blog have increased about 2000
percent!


Julie McGuire

My article "Learning by Doing" was published in the current issue of Work magazine, a Richmond-based publication focused on work life in the region. My article featured profiles of three Richmond-area career coaches.

Work magazine is not published online, so I'm unable to share a link.

I did get paid $200 for the article, and have another assignment for their next issue.


Victoria Mixon

This is a sort of a Yahoo. I just started a blog on fiction writing--it's here.

Please visit!


Lesli Richardson (aka Tymber Dalton)

Yahoo, a blog-worthy event!

My paranormal thriller Out of the Darkness is now available for sale from Lyrical Press. I'd started running it through Novels-L when it was accepted by Lyrical. It's in e-book format now, will go to print later this year.

I've also still got two bestsellers on the BookStrand list (writing as Tymber Dalton), and have a 10k short now available with Amira Press (as Lesli Richardson) with another due out this coming Friday. Plus two more books due out next month. Whoo hoo!

Thanks!


Anita Saran

I was googling me -- since I have just become 'expert author' on ezinearticles.com (in an attempt to drive more traffic to my website - and it's working) and guess what I come across? A long long review of my short story "The Enlightened Robot" on Cezanne's Carrot! I am posting here the link to the page where the review of my story begins. I'm flattered that the author, Don Schneider, has spent the longest on my story and even used it in his title. Okay, so he doesn't really seem to understand my "Buddhist" philosophy very well, but he does like the story. He gives it four out of five stars. Not bad. He even links to the story.


Bob Sanchez

Sort of a yahoo, anyhoo--today I finished my edits of Getting Lucky and submitted the novel to iUniverse to go into production. Soon, I hope, they will have my cover ready. I sent them a photograph for the cover and asked them to overlay a four-leafed clover with a bloody
bullet hole on it.

My project has been stalled for months, so my yahoo is that it's finally moving again!


Wayne Scheer

I think I learned the secret for getting published--go away for a long weekend. I just got back home and amidst the 232 emails were the following acceptances.

Fiction at Work accepted my flash "Holding Hands," reviewed in Practice. The title will be changed to "Meat Hooks and Rice Paper." (Hard to believe it's the same story.) It's scheduled for the March Issue. This seems to be a good site for flash writers, although they don't pay.

An old favorite of IWW writers, Long Story Short, will reprint a flash memoir, "The Old Man." It's scheduled for a future issue.

"A Balanced Life" won Honorable Mention, (which is another way of saying no money) in Clarity of Night's Short Fiction Contest. This is an interesting site set up by a photographer/lawyer who puts up one of his photographs and asks for stories inspired by it.

My 55-worder "Talkin' About My Generation" is up at Camroc Press Review. I hope it offers a chuckle and maybe a sigh.

And my flash, "A Suburban Story," written originally as a Practice exercise, is up at Drunk and Lonely Men. I'm in good company with fellow IWWer Barry Basden.

Now for the big bucks--

Every Day Fiction has bought my story "Rude Awakening," inspired by a Practice prompt, for $3. The story will appear in a future issue.

And for the denouement. Whortleberry Press will reprint, "Doing God's Work," critiqued in Fiction, for an anthology of detective/mystery stories. And now, hold on to your mouse, they pay a whopping $10. Their deadline for this anthology is March 15, so there's still time to get rich.

All this brings me $13 closer to my first million as a writer.
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