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anthimeria) wrote2010-05-17 11:08 pm
anthimeria) wrote2010-05-17 11:08 pm
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I DID IT!!
I got my very first acceptance letter today!! I don't know what to do with myself.
Well, except send the signed contract back and tell everyone I know that I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!
Deal is this: it's one of my short stories, called "Well Enough," and it's being published in a yearly fantasy anthology called Sword and Sorceress 25.
For those who don't know, Sword and Sorceress was begun by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, of "Mists of Avalon" fame (and many others! MZB was a prolific writer and editor). It started in a time when most females in fantasy writing were cardboard cutouts--you know the type, damsels in distress. Well, Sword and Sorceress is chock full of damsels, and they're probably in distress (or what would we be writing about?), but they're the ones getting themselves out of trouble. The women in this wield swords, magic, and their brains to defeat the bad guy and save the day.
This is even more wonderful for me because Sword and Sorceress is the reason I like short stories at all. I've read novels my whole life, fantasy novels for a good portion of it, but no one in my family reads short stories, and it never occurred to me that they could be collected and read, and frankly, the idea didn't sound appealing. But I come from the "snatch and grab" school of checking out library books (which is, erm, why I always end up with huge fines), and my library had one of the anthologies. I don't think I realized what it was when I checked it out, but by the time I realized that a bunch of writers had written a bunch of stories, I was already hooked--it was a whole book full of the characters I never saw enough of on tv, in movies. A whole book full of kickass women--all of them kickass in different ways. I also loved the little author bios at the beginning of each story, budding writer that I was.
Now I'm going to be in this anthology, and maybe write a bio that some other girl, hungry for awesome women in spec-fic, will read and think, "Hey. If she can do it, so can I!"
That's what I thought. And now I have.
Thanks, MZB.
(Y'all, if I get this excited for my first short story sale, I don't know what I'm gonna do when my first novel gets published.)
(Also, expect to hear me squeaking some more in November, when the book actually comes out!)
Well, except send the signed contract back and tell everyone I know that I'M GOING TO BE A PUBLISHED AUTHOR!
Deal is this: it's one of my short stories, called "Well Enough," and it's being published in a yearly fantasy anthology called Sword and Sorceress 25.
For those who don't know, Sword and Sorceress was begun by the late Marion Zimmer Bradley, of "Mists of Avalon" fame (and many others! MZB was a prolific writer and editor). It started in a time when most females in fantasy writing were cardboard cutouts--you know the type, damsels in distress. Well, Sword and Sorceress is chock full of damsels, and they're probably in distress (or what would we be writing about?), but they're the ones getting themselves out of trouble. The women in this wield swords, magic, and their brains to defeat the bad guy and save the day.
This is even more wonderful for me because Sword and Sorceress is the reason I like short stories at all. I've read novels my whole life, fantasy novels for a good portion of it, but no one in my family reads short stories, and it never occurred to me that they could be collected and read, and frankly, the idea didn't sound appealing. But I come from the "snatch and grab" school of checking out library books (which is, erm, why I always end up with huge fines), and my library had one of the anthologies. I don't think I realized what it was when I checked it out, but by the time I realized that a bunch of writers had written a bunch of stories, I was already hooked--it was a whole book full of the characters I never saw enough of on tv, in movies. A whole book full of kickass women--all of them kickass in different ways. I also loved the little author bios at the beginning of each story, budding writer that I was.
Now I'm going to be in this anthology, and maybe write a bio that some other girl, hungry for awesome women in spec-fic, will read and think, "Hey. If she can do it, so can I!"
That's what I thought. And now I have.
Thanks, MZB.
(Y'all, if I get this excited for my first short story sale, I don't know what I'm gonna do when my first novel gets published.)
(Also, expect to hear me squeaking some more in November, when the book actually comes out!)
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Also, I'm jealous that you get to be in an actual book.
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