Positive news seems to be turning up more frequently amid
the stock-in-trade mill of rejections which appears to be the norm in this
game. A few days ago I picked up another shortlisting, my story “Legacy” is
being held for final consideration by Spark: A Creative Anthology and I’m
hoping for a decision before the end of the year.
Secondly, I was contacted today by Galaxy Press with the
news I have been awarded an Honourable Mention in the Writers of the FutureContest for the second quarter in succession! This is very welcome news, and
I’ll post the certificate when it arrives. I have high hopes the piece I have
with them for First Quarter 2017 will place!
Lately I’ve been tidying up old submissions, querying outstanding
business as it were. A couple were rejections which got lost in cyberspace, one
is with a magazine which is down due to server hacking a month back, another is
delayed due to the editor being hospitalised with a nasty infection, while
others are simply “in process” and my submission has not yet been considered.
Two more were a resubmission situation as the original submissions could not be
located, while a further submission has been queried but not yet responded to.
This pretty much covers business up to three months or so in the past… The
writer must be his or her own secretary, and every morning seems to be the window
for business before getting down to the creative side. The project is certainly
consuming a lot of time, lately it’s seven days a week.
More news as it happens,
Cheers, Mike Adamson.
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