Story Accepted

My dark little cyberpunkish story RepFix has been accepted at Electric Spec. About 300 people submitted for about 6 slots so I am very relieved that the story made it all the way. The acceptance letter was very nice.

I have Tyree Campbell to thank, because I read his story in Electric Spec in the last edition and liked it a lot. He wrote a dark cyberpunkish piece about people with medical nanobots in their system, which make it almost impossible to die, even if you want to. I thought, hey, if they liked Tyree’s story they might like mine.

I have a dozen half written stories sitting around and no time to finish them. Maybe now I can force myself to make time.

I report my stats at Duotrope, but they think that I have an "unrealistic overall acceptance/rejection ratio". I can’t help it if I’ve been on a lucky streak lately, selling stories on the first or second time out. I should record the stats on my story Speed Trap, and then they’ll think my stats are more than realistic – downright depressing, in fact.

2 Comments

  1. Anonymous wrote:

    Congratulations on the sale!
    Hope you sell many more!

    Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 12:38 pm | Permalink
  2. Keith wrote:

    Hey!

    Identify yourself!

    Really, it would be nice to know who I can thank for the kind words.

    As far as selling many more – I have to write them first. I love writing stories, but I spend most of my time writing programs. Given my druthers, I druther write code than write fiction, saving the fiction for that occasional idea too good not to write down.

    Thursday, February 5, 2009 at 1:00 pm | Permalink