{"id":10039,"date":"2015-10-08T14:24:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:24:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10039"},"modified":"2015-10-08T14:24:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T20:24:17","slug":"to-publish-or-submit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/to-publish-or-submit\/","title":{"rendered":"To publish or submit?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man, I am so sick right now. Caught a stomach flu from my neice,\u00a0and it has been going\u00a0through me like a chainsaw through butter<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In any case, things are going fairly well aside from that.\u00a0Heart of the Nebula<\/a><\/strong> is now up for pre-order through November 21st, so you can expect to hear a lot more about that in the coming weeks.\u00a0Captives in Obscurity (Sons of the Starfarers: Book V)<\/strong> is nearly ready to send off to my test readers, and should be published sometime in January or February. Besides that, I’m working on a couple of other big projects that should\u00a0come out next year.<\/p>\n

Right now, though, I have something of a dilemma. Do you guys remember\u00a0Starship Lachoneus?<\/strong> It’s that completely unmarketable story idea<\/a> I had a while back: the one where Jesus Christ organizes the construction of a generation ship to take humanity to the stars, because after His millenial reign, the Earth will be rendered uninhabitable. Well, I wrote\u00a0the prologue, and it\u00a0actually stands well enough on its own to be a short story. The dilemma is whether I should publish it now, or submit it to a short story market.<\/p>\n

From what I can tell, the market for Mormon sci-fi short fiction is\u00a0somewhere between small to non-existent. Irreantum closed a few years ago, Sunstone is limited to\u00a0an annual contest, and Dialogue only pays in contributor copies. The Mormon Lit Blitz would be awesome, except that the story is more than 2k words long. Another option would be an anthology like Monsters and Mormons<\/a>, but I’m not aware of any\u00a0new ones.<\/p>\n

I could try to submit it to the mainstream sci-fi markets, but I\u00a0don’t think\u00a0it would be a good fit for any of them. It’s written for a Mormon audience, with cultural and religious references that only people familiar with Mormonism would get. That said, the religious elements\u00a0aren’t all that\u00a0different from any other sci-fi world-building element, and the story isn’t overtly preachy or moral, so I suppose you don’t have to be a believing Mormon to enjoy it.<\/p>\n

What do you guys think? Should I submit\u00a0it elsewhere first, or publish it\u00a0myself?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Man, I am so sick right now. Caught a stomach flu from my neice,\u00a0and it has been going\u00a0through me like a chainsaw through butter. In any case, things are going fairly well aside from that.\u00a0Heart of the Nebula is now up for pre-order through November 21st, so you can expect to hear a lot more… Continue reading To publish or submit?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[964,409,460,170,855,972],"tags":[529,199],"class_list":["post-10039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ssf-v","category-gaia-nova","category-hn","category-short-stories","category-ssf","category-starship-lachoneus","tag-indie-publishing","tag-questions","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2BV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10041,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10039\/revisions\/10041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}