It was bound to happen sooner or later; some editor somewhere, reaching for his tenth cup of coffee in the dead of night spills it all over the towering slush pile of submissions. As he grabs a bunch of paper from the pile to wipe up the mess, his eye is caught by my superlative prose and cheeky wit and bingo!
Luck? Skill? Taking advantage of an overly-tired editor? Who knows. I'm now officially a soon-to-be-published author, typos and all. I've cleared my drawer space for the looming rejection slips to come.
My first professional submission, Terror Train: Masculinity Certain, Gender Unknown, will appear in the upcoming anthology, Butcher Knives and Body Counts: Essays on the Formula, Frights, and Fun of the Slasher Film.
Dark Scribe Press is the publisher. Their Unspeakable Horror: From the Shadows of the Closet anthology of short fiction snagged a 2009 Bram Stoker award. So they seem to know what they're doing.
I just hope they send the check before they come to their senses.
Congrats to a fellow contributor. The first of many such published pieces for you, I'm sure!
Posted by: John W. Morehead | July 04, 2009 at 02:50 PM
That's wonderful news! Good for you. Can't wait to read what you wrote.
Posted by: Pax Romano | July 04, 2009 at 02:59 PM
Thanks! It's a lot of fun when you get that first hurdle jumped.
Posted by: Iloz Zoc | July 04, 2009 at 05:18 PM
That's wonderful news! Congratulations! Here's to more publications in the future.
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Posted by: Ms Harker | July 04, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I'll drink to that!
Posted by: Iloz Zoc | July 05, 2009 at 08:50 AM
Congratulations on your imminent publication! Rock out!
Posted by: Nate Yapp | July 06, 2009 at 05:28 PM