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200 Submissions Later
Lessons from the Long Game of Getting Published I’m approaching 200 submissions. It sounds like a lot, but I started in 2010, so that only averages to a little over 13 submissions per year. Note that I am only counting … Continue reading
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The Resignation
Ironsoap.com just published my flash piece titled The resignation. This story originated from a writing challenge a friend and I had. We used a writing prompt generator to come up with the story constraints. You used to be able to … Continue reading
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The stickiness of cotton candy
I landed a piece at Four Star Stories. You can check it out here.
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VALIDATION!
It has happened. Here are excerpts from a recent series of exciting e-mails: 3/29/2014 “I’m writing to let you know that your story has made it past the initial reading by 3 randomly selected associate editors and is being advanced … Continue reading
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