Mixed News

Had a lot of mixed new this month. Sadly, Ardent Dawn is cancelling their Shadowtouched Anthology as they are permanently closing their 'doors' so to speak. I'm bummed out, since that was a great home for Good Intentions, but the publisher said they didn't want to take away our 'First Publishing Rights', which are valuable, so I can commend that.

Around the same time, I got a rejection from Flash Fiction Online for my unpublished story, giving me personal feedback, saying I made it all the way to the final cut. It was very helpful feedback and I've never gotten a personal response from them, so that was cool, even though it was a rejection! They also said they are looking forward to publishing my reprint. :)

Also got an alert from Cast of Wonders saying my submission with them has made it to the editor too and I am still sitting on Space & Time Magazine's final consideration list. Fingers crossed!

To top it all off, I just got news that Stone Belly made it past finals and is now on the PageTurner Awards Longlist. Short lists are going to be announced in a couple weeks and I am holding my breath. Still in the running for best in genre and only one of ther Sci-Fi made it to the longlist with me. So even if I don't land a mentorship, I could still get something valuable to add to a query letter if I win that subcategory.

Man, I need to write some more shorts, but I've been so caught up with editing the main series and writing more Stone Belly, submissions dwindled. I'm now dedicating my weekend to get more shorts out there and sub to more agents and publishers!