A new SF/F short story market!
Jan. 9th, 2006 05:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shalannaDid y'all know that there's a new online SF/F short fiction magazine launching in June? They've already bought a number of stories for the first two issues (and my friend Barb Jernigan sold them three of her sketches to illustrate the first issue!! Yay!!), and now they've got a sort of online submissions bulletin board for "slush from first-timers." Kind of depressing, and very public (as in you post your entire story for everyone to see--but since I just wanted it to get read and didn't expect anything, I decided to submit a story.) I hadn't heard about it until BarbJ told me she had sold to them, so I whisked over to take a peek at their web-board.
It's Jim Baen's Universe, a web-based magazine.
My submission sits glumly awaiting a read.
I strained my right arm last week "raking" the carpet with one of those rubber-toothed rakes you use to pick up lint and string and hair before you vacuum, so I can't clean house for a couple of days, until it gets better. Excuse #4375!
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"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
"I can either be President of the United States, or I can control Alice {his daughter, the one who wore the Alice blue gown]. I cannot do both."
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
All four quotations from Theodore Roosevelt.
It's Jim Baen's Universe, a web-based magazine.
My submission sits glumly awaiting a read.
I strained my right arm last week "raking" the carpet with one of those rubber-toothed rakes you use to pick up lint and string and hair before you vacuum, so I can't clean house for a couple of days, until it gets better. Excuse #4375!
"It is not the critic who counts, not the one who points out how the strong man stumbled or how the doer of deeds might have done better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred with sweat and dust and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions, and spends himself in a worthy cause; who, if he wins, knows the triumph of high achievement; and who, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory or defeat."
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
"I can either be President of the United States, or I can control Alice {his daughter, the one who wore the Alice blue gown]. I cannot do both."
"Speak softly and carry a big stick."
All four quotations from Theodore Roosevelt.
