"Skin and Bones" got accepted!

[hrj]

Subject line pretty much says it all. I got a contract in the e-mail today for my Sword and Sorceress submission. Does that make me a pixel-stained techno-noble?

Comments

[acanthusleaf.livejournal.com]

Marvellous news! Congratulations!

You have certainly attained techno-noble status before now, and this cements it. I should think that the nobles would not find themselves stained by pixels. They can hire someone to Photoshop them out.

[aastg.livejournal.com]

Dopey me - I thought it made you (again) a paid, professional writer.

Cool.

[hrj.livejournal.com]

It was a (hopefully funny) cross-reference to the whole "International Pixel-Stained Techno-Peasant Day" thing. I just found the coincidence amusing.

[lferion]

Yay! Go you!

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

well done!

[mdlbear]

Congrats!

No, you're a technopeasant wretch like the rest of us. The nobles are the ones who dole out the occasional silver piece to the wretches when they get sufficiently pixel-stained.

[madbaker.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[mbumby.livejournal.com]

Excellent. I look forward to reading it.

[callistotoni.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Well done. :-)

[loup_noir]

Congratulations!

[duchessletitia.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations! Is this next year's Christmas present? Mom

[hrj.livejournal.com]

From the publishing schedule they posted, it should be this year's Christmas present.

[wulfsdottir.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[shalmestere.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[anotheranon.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[dame-cordelia.livejournal.com]

I am very pleased to hear the editors had the good sense to accept your work. What's the name of the publication?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

Sword and Sorceress -- it's an anthology series (although with this volume it has changed publishers). So it'll be in the book section of the store. Since the new publisher is a small press, you may need to look in specialty sf bookstores or go through Amazon. I'll post an announcement when it shows up in the stores sometime later this year.

[xrian.livejournal.com]

Well, duh (in a GOOD way, you understand!). You're good. This is a surprise?

But then.... no matter how often the mysterious alchemy of writing occurs -- when words, ideas, symbols, and funny black marks on paper come together and suddenly, it's a story! -- each one is as much a surprise and a miracle as the time before.

Glad the editors recognized that when they saw it!

[mamaalanna.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! Child of the Father got accepted too. I put the contract in the mail this morning.

I have hopes that since Sword and Sorceress is a known series that the bookstores will pick it up.

Did the others in the series ever get to the point of paying royalties?

[hrj.livejournal.com]

In general, S&S has been a nice royalty-generator, both from reprintings and from foreign language sales. (I've gotten royalties for both German and Italian editions that included my stories.) But I don't know how the change in publishers (and thus in distribution dynamics) will affect this. I also don't know how much of a drop-off in sales there has been with the loss of the "personally touched by MZB" factor. It would be interesting to see comparative sales figures for the last volume (21) versus previous ones.