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dr_phil_physics ([personal profile] dr_phil_physics) wrote2008-06-19 04:50 pm

Another Small Sale

Second Sale of the Month Club

58-day SALE of "Le Grand Bazar" to online fiction site Space Westerns.

Editor Nathan Lilly wrote that it was a "Very very very good story. Consider it accepted..."

My First Story

"Le Grand Bazar" was the first story I sent out into the wild back in June 2002. I wrote it for a space station story contest. Alas, they never got enough entries and so my First Submission anywhere, also became my first No Call in my scoring system.

"Le Grand Bazar" was also the first of my two Clarion application stories. I am very fond of it. At 5200 words, it has never been an easy sell, beginning life as really more of a vignette than a short story. Multiple people told me that "it's beautifully written, but it's not a story." So it's been through a number of revisions, workshopped at WisCon, commented on by my 2004 Clarion instructors, and now the tension has been moved around, so it resembles a real short story now, after eighteen revisions and six years. (grin)

I found out about Space Westerns from a news note on LocusOnline:

Thu 17 Apr 08 —
» SpaceWesterns.com celebrates its first anniversary with fiction by Cory Doctorow and A.R Yngve


Figured that if they'd made it to their first anniversary and reprinted a Cory Doctorow story with a nice intro comment by Cory, that perhaps there'd be people who would read it. And get to read "Le Grand Bazar"... at long last. (second-chance-grin)

Dr. Phil

[identity profile] albogdan.livejournal.com 2008-06-19 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on finding it a home! Keep on selling those stories!

[identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Al! I'm writing them up and sending them out as fast as the markets can take them. (grin) Currently I have a whole dozen stories still out in the wild. (double-entry-grin)

Dr. Phil

[identity profile] mgsmurf.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 01:25 am (UTC)(link)
I liked dealing with Space Western and Nathan. Will certainly be sending more stuff their way when it trickels down.

And congrats on finally finding the story I home.

[identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 02:26 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks! Getting published is more than getting a check. Finding a home for a story is a good thing.

Dr. Phil

Well...

[identity profile] wendyb-09.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
guess congratulations are in order little brother!!

KEEP IT UP!!

Love from the big sister

Re: Well...

[identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 02:28 pm (UTC)(link)
guess a thank you is expected, big sister. (grin)

I'm trying to keep it up. The editors just need to do their part, too.

Dr. Phil

[identity profile] therinth.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 11:48 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats! :D

[identity profile] dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com 2008-06-20 02:29 pm (UTC)(link)
T'anks!

Dr. Phil