I’m delighted to report I picked up another shortlisting
today, my dystopian SF short “The Crime of Memory” cleared first-readers with
the magazine Overcast, and I should
know in a month or so if I have a placement.
I’m closing in on 200 submissions, with 43 stories out at
this time, and am hoping the numbers are statistically on my side – that the
law of averages means at least some of them will find a home. I’m prepared to
me amazed, shall we say?
I’m working on a longer piece right now, one of my Tales of the Middle Stars opus, this one
is an adventure piece on the desert planet Susa, following three
recently-demobilised sergeants from the Colonial Fleet who have taken a
security job with a most unlikely employer… The formula is a western, through
and through, I realised the first day I started, but I managed over 8000 words
that day, the story just wanted to be written, so I went with it. It’ll be
novelette to short-novel range when it’s done, and I just hope there’s a market
out there which can take a lengthy piece when the day comes.
Cheers, Mike Adamson
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