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The official word is that Sword and Sorceress 22 sold well enough to warrant a #23. (I'm not sure I would have predicted that outcome, given that I have yet to see a copy on a bookstore shelf, but maybe my sales model is hopelessly behind the times.) I'll be giving it a pass this year. I'm still of the same mind regarding my continuing S&S characters: the next part of their story is too long for the S&S market, and there's too much built-up backstory now for them to work as stand-alones. I don't have any other relevant shorts begging to be written at the moment. And the only female-centered fantasy short stories in the filing cabinet that I really want to find a market for some day are from a little experiment I did in writing Medieval Welsh style short romances with lesbian protagonists. ("Medieval Welsh style" both in terms of plot/setting and in writing style.) I'd actually sold the first one to Jinx Beers for Lesbian Short Fiction but the magazine folded before it appeared. Some day I do want to send them out into the world, but I think they're better suited to an audience looking for lesbian fiction who might like the medieval fantasy elements, rather than an audience interested in medieval fantasy elements who might not be too distracted by the lesbian elements. Of course, this is more likely to happen if I get off my butt and start researching potential markets some day.