My fantasy short story “Gatekeeper, What Toll?” will also be published in the new magazine Cosmic Roots and Elvish Shores<\/em>. I don’t have a publication date yet, so stay tuned. This one is told from the viewpoint of the keeper of an interdimensional portal, who sees a fated conqueror-king pass back and forth through the Gate at key times in his life. It’s a six-volume, two-and-a-half-million-word epic fantasy implied in\u00a0two and a half thousand words.<\/p>\n I’m proud of my achievement in going from no sales to pro sales in approximately two and a half years. I started to get serious about submitting short stories almost exactly two years ago, and these two professional sales (and another seven semipro sales, plus\u00a0an acceptance from a charity anthology) are the fruit of nearly a hundred submissions over that two-year period.<\/p>\n Judging by the contents of the Campbellian Anthology, which contains work by people who have had their first pro sale in the past three years, approximately\u00a0one person a week\u00a0achieves this milestone\u00a0worldwide. This appears to be my week.<\/p>\n I’m continuing to work hard on other stories, and I hope to sell several more to professional publications this year.<\/p>\n Sir Julius Vogel Awards trophy<\/p><\/div>\n Looking back to last year, I published several works which are eligible for the\u00a0Sir Julius Vogel awards<\/a>, New Zealand’s awards for science fiction, fantasy and horror. Finalists are determined by the number<\/i>\u00a0of nominations for each work, and nominations\u00a0have to be received by 28 February this year.<\/p>\n If you’ve read (or listened to) one of my works listed below and think it’s award-worthy, please email your nomination to:\u00a0sjv_awards@sffanz.org.nz<\/a>. Anyone in the world can nominate, but the final vote is by members of the annual NZ science fiction conference.<\/p>\n Note:<\/strong> I originally had links and other information below for both the text and podcast versions of “Something Rich and Strange”. They’re not identical–there are two or three sentences that are different–so to prevent issues I’ve changed it to just the text version, which is (I think) the better one.<\/p>\n Novel:<\/strong> Auckland Allies<\/em><\/p>\n Nomination Details required (you can copy and paste everything except the lines in bold, which are specific to you<\/strong>):<\/p>\n Thanks in advance for any nominations, and I’ll have further updates for you as details come to hand.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I’m very pleased to announce not one, but two short story sales to professional publications. A science fiction story yet to receive its final title (working title: “One-Eyed Man”) will be published in Futuristica Volume 2 in November 2016. I’ve … Continue reading Sir Julius Vogel Eligibility<\/h2>\n
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