Tuesday 24 May 2011

Submission Frenzy

I set myelf a challenge today, to submit ten stories. I've got plenty hanging about, and there's also reprints to think about.
I rather enjoy subbing, searching duotrope, reading online stories, maybe making a few edits to my stories. After around two hours, I'd managed five. They take longer than you think. 
  1. Where Are We Going speculative themed antholgy closes 31/5
  2. Murky Depths -- dark speculative fiction
  3. Untied Shoelaces of the Mind Anthology -- accepts reprints and multiple subs
  4. 2nd sub to Untied Shoelaces
  5. Space Squid accepts reprints if they're awesome
I'm a bit bored of subbing now. But I'll try and do a few more later. Do you ever set yourself mini-challenges like this?

Here we go, a few more:
  1. Dunsteef Audio Fiction Magazine take reprints
  2. LingerFiction
  3. Cosmass Infinites an audio venue that takes reprints
  4. Spinetinglers -- just one more to go.
  5. Aofie's Kiss
This is doing wonders for my race-score. You know about race-score, right? It's a way of scoring the number of subs you've got out. Here's an article I wrote about it for Flash Fiction Chronicles.

6pm, and I've got my second wind. Ten subs in a day is great, but fifteen would be even funnier. I should be packing, but packing's boring and subbing is fun-- onwards:
  1. The Gloaming
  2. Daily Science Fiction

7 comments:

  1. Wow, that's quite a day! Best of luck with those. May they all be acceptances ...

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  2. I was surprised how long it took, Simon. I always think of subs as taking ten minutes or so.

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  3. Oh, that comment is me (debs), by the way. I can't comment on blogger at the moment, for some reason.

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  4. All great markets. You are the Sub Master!

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  5. Wow! Great subbing!

    Am so stalled on everything this month due to all that went on. Today I am going to sit down and edit some stories and submit

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  6. Debs says:

    I am the Queen of Subs, Milo. But there are others who are more queenly than I.

    Hi Sylvia, glad you're back on track.

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  7. I love the idea of the race. Now that May is over, I think I'll get to work on raising my score.

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