Wow, this has been a good sales week for me, and it’s only Wednesday. Everyone must be clearing their backlog.

This morning’s email contains an acceptance from Farstrider magazine for my comedic story “Mail Order Witch”. They’re the twelfth market I’ve submitted that story to (a personal record). I’ve had four form rejections, six personalised rejections, and I think I withdrew it once because the market concerned had stopped responding to communication. 

Now I have the Best Problem: I only have three stories still out on submission, because I keep selling them. 

Time to write some more. 

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Woohoo! Another pro sale.

The new magazine Cosmic Roots and Eldritch Shores has accepted my story “Gatekeeper, What Toll?”

Achievement Unlocked: First professional sale!

I’ve known about this for several months, but had to keep quiet about it while the editors decided which stories would be in which anthology. Now I can announce that my SF story currently titled “One-Eyed Man” will appear in Futuristica Volume 2 in November.

Two and a half years ago, nobody had ever agreed to publish one of my stories. I hadn’t even written more than a couple of stories. A year and a half ago, I made my first semi-professional sale. The rest consisted of basic ability, a little knowledge (increased by study), hard work and persistence.

I knew I could do this. I had got enough rejections of the “Really close, but no” type that I knew it was a matter of when, not if, I could cross that line and make a pro sale. But now it’s actually happened.

And I know I can do it again.