Second-Quarter Report

Given that this quarter includes not one, but two ends-of-semester grading periods for Spring and Summer-I Session, I wasn’t expecting to get much done. But the numbers aren’t so bad - pretty much on the same pace as half of 2006, and I’ve been doing a lot of work on stories which will be sent out in the future, so it’s been a good quarter.

Even better, I had not one, but two sales. One was expected, since "Don’t Ask" has been in rewrite for the Blind Eye Books lesbian SF/F/H anthology Tangle. Now it’s finalized with a signed contract and a check. But I was unexpectedly delighted to sell "Machine" to the Australian Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine for their April 2008 issue.

145 submissions (35 "wins" - 96 "rejects" - 6 "No Calls")
48 short stories written, 8 currently in the field
4 published, 3 in print, 1 web, 7 additional stories online

Year          2002  2003  2004  2005  2006  2007(06/30)
Submissions     8*   24    26    26    40    21* (7)
Returns         3    22    26    26    40    20  (8)
-- Wins         0     5    10     7     9     4  (4)
-- Rejects      2    15    15    18    30    16  (4)
-- No Calls     1     2     1     1     1     0  (0)
Number Out      5     7     7     7     7     8  (-1)
  at year's end
New Stories     8     9    11     8     7     5  (1)
New Markets     6     9     8     6     9     4  (0)
E-submissions   2     2     2     6    19    10  (3)
Sales           0     0     0     1     0     2  (2)
Prizes          0     2     2     0     3     0  (0)
-- Honorables   0     1     2     0     1     1  (1)
Paid            0     1     0     1     2     1  (1)
Pending Publ.   0     1     2     2     3     5  (2)
Published       0     0     1     1     2     0  (0)
-- Print        0     0     1     1     1     0  (0)
-- Web          0     0     0     0     1     0  (0)
Other Publ.     0     0     0     0     1     7  (1)
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                               updated 07-01-07

* - Partial year stats for 2002 and 2007.
(1) Wins includes Sales, Prizes, Honorable Mentions,
WOTF Quarter/Semi/Finalists even without publication,
plus Encouraging Letters from Editors which just cannot
be considered the same as a straight rejection.
(2) No Calls include Contests canceled, Publications
gone under, Manuscripts lost by the USPS, and Manuscripts
withdrawn after Way Too Much Time (usually associated
with Publications gone under).
(3) New Stories is only for stories shipped, does not
include all 2004 Clarion workshop stories or chapbook
stories sent to friends and family or Ficlets.
(4) New Markets are those first-time submissions for
Dr. Phil, not necessarily a new market in the industry.
(5) Honorables include Honorable and Laudable Mentions
which do not win a cash prize, but may be eligible for
print or web publication.
(6) Pending includes all currently unpublished stories.
(7) Other Publ. include short stories placed on blog
http://dr-phil-physics.livejournal.com/
"A Rosebourne Christmas" for Christmas 2006,
and 7 very short stories at http://ficlets.com/dr-phil-physics.


BIBLIOGRAPHY of Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon
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1. "The Gravediggers" in CrossTIME Anthology Vol. III. 
Santa Fe NM: CrossTIME, 2004.  pp. 44-63.  (August 2004)
ISBN 1-890109-06-1

2. "The Pulse of the Sea" in Northwest Passages: A Cascadian 
Odyssey / edited by Cris DiMarco, hosted by Cascadian Con.  
Port Orchard WA: Fandom Press, the co-operative division 
of Windstorm Creative, 2005.  pp. 179-194.  (September 2005) 
ISBN 1-59092-185-2

3. "Boxes" in CrossTIME Anthology Vol. V.  
Santa Fe NM: CrossTIME, 2006.  pp. 132-147.  (September 2006)  
ISBN-13 978-1-890109-08-0

4. "Dead Forever" at Ralan’s Web Spectravaganza; 2nd Prize 
2006 Grabber Contest.  Illustration by Teresa Tunaley.  (October 2006)
http://www.spectravaganza.com/2-win-06.html


In no particular order, I've got stories currently out at:

-- Writers of the Future
-- F&SF
-- Analog
-- Asimov's
-- Interzone (U.K.)
-- Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show
-- Strange Horizon
-- ChiZine/Leisure Books 13th Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest

Writers of the Future has been pretty unusual for me. First, I was left waiting to find out what was going on with my Q1 2007 WOTF entry - "The Moons of Mercury" was selected as a Finalist, no prize but it may still be published in the 2008 anthology. WOTF has a blog now, which they are using to get the results out faster than before. And they seem to have renamed the Quarter-Finalists as Honorable Mentions, which I think is probably a good move.

Being busy meant that I didn’t get around to doing many Ficlets this quarter - just one more to a continuing story.

Net result? I’m down one story out from the end of the First Quarter 2007, but still up one story for the year. And I have two new sales!

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