Lots of writing business lately.

I’ve gotten rejections back for everything I had out there; alas, alas, alack.  The good news is that Fantasy Magazine has made my ‘To-Submit-To’ list– it’s always good to have another market to exploit– because of the quality of their online fiction, and their quick response time.  The most recent reject came back after only a week or so.  From what I’ve read, FM seems to favor poetical (almost surrealist) fantasy.  Give ’em a read.  The stories I’ve taken a look at have been fast-paced, intriguing, and…mmm…flavorful.

I’ve been researching picture book publishers, and have come up with two that seem to take both simultaneous submissions, and direct submissions from the author.  I’ve also researched both publishers for their market taste– favorable.  🙂

I’m planning on sending out A is For Airship, The Good Ship Couch, and Sam Pew and the Blue Hollar-Dew to them shortly, as soon as I can buy some time at home to print these three things out.  Crossing my fingers for luck, wearing my underpants inside out, etc…

I note that I’m getting a lot more rejections these days than acceptances.  While I’m certainly not elated by the trend, neither do I feel hesitant about this whole…author thing.  It’s even possible that I suck, right now, as an author; but I don’t think that matters so much to my career, in the long run; what’s important, in my opinion, is to get back on my two-wheeler and wobble onward.  Elsewhere on the net, I said that the only innate talent a great writer is born with is the talent that makes him love writing more than love doing something else.  You can earn excellence, I think, through work; but LOVING the craft, that just might be a quirk of character that you either have or do not have.

I love writing more than I fear rejection.  I love the idea of being published more than the fear of another ‘alas.’  I think that’s key in continuing to rattle forward in this pusuit.