Sale!

[desperance]

Hee. I've just sold my short-short SF story "From Alice to Everywhere, With Love" - which I started, ooh, months ago, and left just short of a finish, and finally finished last week when I was looking for something to do to rescue a bad day.

Quite apart from the general excitement of selling a story (which, yes, even after thirty years and many hundreds of stories sold: still exciting, thanks) and the disproportionate pleasure of an SF sale (because I am still madly unconfident and overconscious of my utter lack of credentials in this market, and any validation warms my cockles), I am particularly thrilled about this, because of the venue.

I'm not the first of my friends, or even the first of my f-list (you guys know who you are) to sell to this particular slot; I ride on giants' shoulders. But, y'know. Nature...

That's Nature! The magazine! The embodiment of serious scientific thought & discovery! And I, me, shall be in it...!

For those who don't know, their Futures section features short SF stories (I just googled, and behold: Cory Doctorow...). I tried them once last year and had a friendly rejection (too Peter F Hamilton, he said); this time, bingo. I am chuffed. And v grateful to m'friend'n'publisher igw, who put me onto this...

Comments

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Mazel tov on the sale!
Nice credit, and good $$$.
:-)

[yendi]

Woohoo!

They just came out with an anthology, too, so there may be future reprint rights off that sale, too.

[alexmc.livejournal.com]

Nice one :-)

[mabfan.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I thought Nature had decided to phase out stories. Apparently I was wrong...

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I have a feeling that they did phase 'em out, and have now phased 'em back in again. Whether that's editorial vagary or pressure from readers or what, I wouldn't know.

[julesjones]

Congratulations!

(I shall now go and seethe with envy quietly in the corner...:-)

[ogre-san.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Nature. Very nice.

[abigailb.livejournal.com]

serious woot!

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

woo-hoo!

[cinderberry.livejournal.com]

Well! Done! You!

[moral-vacuum.livejournal.com]

*Win*

[markdeniz.livejournal.com]

Great stuff and well done!

I have just, in fact, ordered a copy of disLocations after receiving a sub from your editor and one thing leading to another and such...

Looking forward to reading it!

[devonellington.livejournal.com]

Fabulous! I'm thrilled for you!!!!!!

[rysmiel.livejournal.com]

Go you ! [ Henry Gee for Hugo nomination for Best Editor... ]

[desperance.livejournal.com]

I'd vote for that... *g*

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Congrats! It was a great experience for me -- hope it is for you, too.

[cristalia.livejournal.com]

Great sale. :) Congrats!

[suzannemcleod.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Whoo Hoo!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Nice work, Chaz!

[xnamkrad.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Must look for that issue

[fjm.livejournal.com]

Fab!

[pogodragon.livejournal.com]

Excellent news, well done you!

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations!

I arrived here via a comment of yours on another website which caught my attention.

You mentioned to someone that they should book for fantasycon? I was just wondering what this is? If it was in the UK and open to everyone?

I have no experience of writing and am enjoying posting a story in parts on my blog. I have had a good response to the posts and am lost and wondering whether there is anywhere I can meet up with others and hopefully gain some advice and guidance at the same time.

Hope you do not mind my asking this question.

Thanks

Miladysa (http://miladysa.blogspot.com)

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Don't mind a bit, obviously. Half the joy of the internet lies in outreach; LiveJournal particularly is a kind of endless online workshop, with people constantly talking about the process of writing and the practice of being-a-writer.

Fantasycon is indeed in the UK and open to everyone; click here for the website (http://www.fantasycon.org.uk/), which will tell you all about it. If you want to write fantasy or horror particularly, I recommend it highly as a place to meet like minds and professionals. In the bar, largely...

[beckyzoole.livejournal.com]

Ooo, how wonderful! When is it appearing? I'll buy that issue of Nature, and write to the editor telling them I bought it just for Your Story!

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Hee. Thank you! I don't know when it'll be out, but I do hope to have fair warning. In which case, you may depend upon it, the rest of you get fair warning also...