Fear & Trembling has closed. It's always a little sad when one of the kind people who took on one of my original short stories closes shop.
F&T was the home for my Winged Shepherd of Innocence, a tale with a long story of its own. It began as an entry to PARSEC, it was run through the mill at Authors by Design. It has been picked apart by a number of individuals from The Teacher (Amy) to Pharoah (I seem to attract people with interesting aliases). It gained a rejection from F&T's sister mag, MindFlights - with a suggestion that I remove a couple of swear words and clothe my image of an angel (this is a Christian market, which I didn't know at the time. My market research wasn't all it should have been), and then submit it to F&T.
I think it took me all of ten minutes to make the changes and sub. It took only slightly longer for it to gain an acceptance.
I was over the moon. F&T was my first (and only) Christian sale, my first US sale, and my first horror sale - quite a combination.
So, thank you, F&T, you will always hold a special place on my emotional bookshelf.
Wednesday, June 2, 2010
Market Closure
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It's always sad to say goodbye to markets; more so those to which we have attachments.
ReplyDeleteThat sucks : (
ReplyDeleteBummer...
ReplyDeletehi there,
ReplyDeleteI am sorry for adding this as a comment, but I read the note on your other web page about not using your email account very often so I took your advice and came back to the blog.
I wanted to tell you about a new story telling podcast.
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So I invite you to have a look at www.teller2teller.com and consider contributing and / or share the site with others you know who might be interested. some of your redaers might be interested or have a story to tell.
Let me know what you think
Kindest regards
Marlene
Yes, sad news BT. I remember that story. It was the first of your that I had ever read.
ReplyDeleteI think an old man kicks a small puppy whenever another fiction market closes.
ReplyDeleteThat's a real shame. I hate it when good markets close, and it seems to be happening more and more lately.
ReplyDeleteWhole hearted agreement all round.
ReplyDeleteMarlene - I guess you just let everyone know.
Jamie - That's a shit load of kicked puppies! I hope you're wrong.