Lesbian Historic Motif Podcast 2019 Short Fiction Series

[hrj]

 One of the hardest things about launching a project is seeing it fail for lack of interest. This is the last day for submissions to the LHMPodcast 2019 short fiction series and currently I don't have enough submissions to fill all the slots in the series, much less having enough after going through a selection process. If you've been holding on to your story thinking, "Nah, there's no point, she won't be interested," please don't self-reject! At this point, it looks like I may end up cancelling the fiction series due to lack of interest. And not even lack of listener/reader interest, but lack of interest in writing these stories.

Everyone tells me there's a hungry desire for lesbian historical fiction. It's a tough field to find an audience for, but I have the audience all lined up and listening to my podcast. All I need is the fiction to offer them.

I've been trying to perform "public positivity" about this so as not to put people off, but this is it: the last day. So I'm letting the desperation show.

Submission Information here.

Comments

[hrj]

I have enough that I don't feel like I'd have to choose whatever got sent in without being picky. (And I'm confident even before reading them that some will be excellent.) But if I'm going to do it again next year, I need to figure out what I did wrong this year. That is "wrong" within the parameters of my vision, not "wrong" as in "if I'd had entirely different parameters and been doing an entirely different project, more people might have written something."