HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Welcome to 2009! A New Year and a new Inkpot! My green fur and grumpy mood has gone. I can safely say I have suffered the last of my grinchitious (although I'm still coughing a bit). The New Year has started on a high point for me with the release of the latest issue of Necrotic Tissue featuring my micro fiction 'The Vilage Shop'. Check it out (it's on page 65). What's even better is that Valinora Troy's story 'Reflections' also appears on the very same page! In case you didn't know, she's my sister, so not only do we appear in the same publication but on the very same page! Well done Valpot. Ok, I think I have used up my quota of exclamation marks for the year. I'll be back later to talk about New Year resolutions and predictions. I hope you are all enjoying the beginning of 2009. Ah, smell that new born air.

Six Sentences

Check out my story 'Love is Blind' published on Six Sentences today.

Enjoy :)

Third Times A Charm

I had to post for a third time today because I have MORE good news.

My story 'Clothes Make the Man' was accepted by 52 Stitches!!! Yay! Yes, Mercedes, we're going to be in an anthology together! *giggles and jumps up and down with excitement*.

The Drabbler #12

Good news everyone! The Drabbler #12, featuring my drabble 'She came from Outer Space' is now available for purchase. Pop over to Sam's Dot Publishing and order your copy NOW!

Look what arrived in the post this morning!

My copy of The Drabbler #12 with my story 'She Came from Outer Space' in it!!!!

Isn't it pretty? My copy and my payment for the story. I think I'll frame it. Look - my story got illustrated! I'm so pleased!! Isn't it a lovely picture? I've blurred out the story because you have to head over to Sam's Dot Publishing and buy your own copy to read it. It is VERY reasonably priced and the other stories are really good as well, so go buy loads of copies - they make excellent Christmas presents! (the website doesn't seem to have put up a link for the Drabbler #12 yet, but once it has I'll link to it here)

Rant

You know what I hate? You know what really gets under my skin? Publications that couldn't be bothered to reply to your submission and let you know you've been rejected. I know they usually give you a date that you should query by, but what is the point in querying when the issue you were submitting for has already been published and your work is not in it? How would you word that email. 'Er, hi, I was just wondering if you rejected me because I didn't see my story in the issue I submitted for?' I don't think so. I would think there was something wrong with my email but I get family emails no problem and the other rejections seem to get through just fine. My acceptance ratio on Duotrope has gone down to 22%. Apparently that is still higher than average for users on the site. My mind boggles at what is average! I hope that for some of the submissions I have labeled as rejected I have been too hasty and one day the acceptance email will arrive in my inbox. It might be the same day that I wake up a size 8 and know how to speak fluent Latin, but hey, anything is possible - right?