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68-day acceptance from Buzzy Mag for "ReFormed."

Huge thanks to faerydancer who urged me to keep working at increasing the emotional punch of this one through several iterations.

Apparently I'm your acceptance stalker -- first Sorcerous Signals, and now Buzzy Magazine. :) I got an acceptance too, 38 days, for my story 'The Fair Beneath the Ice' -- my first pro sale.

Good luck everyone.

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Apparently I'm your acceptance stalker -- first Sorcerous Signals, and now Buzzy Magazine. :) I got an acceptance too, 38 days, for my story 'The Fair Beneath the Ice' -- my first pro sale.

Good luck everyone.

Ali

First pro sale... I can't wait until I can write those words for myself. A big congratulations!!
 

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No publication news. But I did finish a short story last night. The first one in several months (barring "Damsel" but it was a massive rewrite so I don't count it as a "new" story).

Congrats, Alimay on the first pro sale! That's always exciting. :)

Aggy, readying the editing machete
 

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No publication news. But I did finish a short story last night. The first one in several months (barring "Damsel" but it was a massive rewrite so I don't count it as a "new" story).

Congrats, Alimay on the first pro sale! That's always exciting. :)

Aggy, readying the editing machete

Congrats Aggy! I'm going through a bit of writer's block myself, and I'm almost more jealous of you finishing a story than I am of the recent sales ;).
 

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Apparently I'm your acceptance stalker -- first Sorcerous Signals, and now Buzzy Magazine. :) I got an acceptance too, 38 days, for my story 'The Fair Beneath the Ice' -- my first pro sale.

Good luck everyone.

Ali

Ack, I missed this! Congrats! Wow, two W1S1ers making Buzzy mag sales. Good stuff.
 

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Apparently I'm your acceptance stalker -- first Sorcerous Signals, and now Buzzy Magazine. :) I got an acceptance too, 38 days, for my story 'The Fair Beneath the Ice' -- my first pro sale.

Good luck everyone.

Ali

Fantastic! Congrats on the sale.
 

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So I managed to apply for VP 16 on the last possible minute. All of my better stories were tied up on submission and something finally freed up Thursday, so on Friday the 15th (day of deadline) I scrambled to reformat it, fill out the application, write the cover letter and mail everything out.

This morning I woke up to an acceptance letter, after only 2.5 days!

I'm thrilled to be going and can't wait til October.
 

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So I managed to apply for VP 16 on the last possible minute. All of my better stories were tied up on submission and something finally freed up Thursday, so on Friday the 15th (day of deadline) I scrambled to reformat it, fill out the application, write the cover letter and mail everything out.

This morning I woke up to an acceptance letter, after only 2.5 days!

I'm thrilled to be going and can't wait til October.

Congratulations Alex! I know a couple of people who've gone and have gotten a lot out of it. I haven't seen the instructors for this year, but I'm sure they're fantastic. One person I know met George R R Martin there (I was very envious), another used last year's VP as a stepping stone to go to Clarion this year (in fact, I think today is his first day there). I guess that was a very fortuitous rejection for you!
 

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So I managed to apply for VP 16 on the last possible minute. All of my better stories were tied up on submission and something finally freed up Thursday, so on Friday the 15th (day of deadline) I scrambled to reformat it, fill out the application, write the cover letter and mail everything out.

This morning I woke up to an acceptance letter, after only 2.5 days!

I'm thrilled to be going and can't wait til October.

Congratulations, Alex! I hope you have a fantastic experience at VP!
 

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That's awesome news, Alex. :)

I got a note today that "Overhead" was selected at One Forty Fiction as today's story. (Always funny when the "You've been published" note is also the acceptance note.)

Aggy, still waiting on all the longer stuff
 

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Thanks, everyone!

Suzanne: Are you working as staff this year? Will I get to meet you there?

I'm pretty sure MacAlister is staff, and look forward to meeting her in person, too.

So excited. *Squee*
 

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Suzanne: Are you working as staff this year? Will I get to meet you there?

Unfortunately, no, I stopped being staff after having the twins. Used to do some remote work for them, but they haven't needed me for a few years. It was good while it lasted, though.
 

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Thanks, guys. And congratulations to Alex and Aggy.

Ali
 
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