{"id":10415,"date":"2016-02-18T11:55:02","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=10415"},"modified":"2016-02-18T11:55:02","modified_gmt":"2016-02-18T18:55:02","slug":"i-sold-two-short-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/i-sold-two-short-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"I sold two short stories!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic news! I sold\u00a0not one but two short stories this week!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perihelionsf.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.perihelionsf.com\/graphs\/logo-jupiter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciphijournal.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sciphijournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/SciPhiNewsletterHeader.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"423\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9126\">&#8220;L&#8217;enfer, c&#8217;est la solitude&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> will appear in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.perihelionsf.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Perihelion<\/a><\/em>\u00a0in March or April. And sometime over the summer (probably in June),\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/?p=9135\">&#8220;The Curse of the Lifewalker&#8221;<\/a><\/strong> will appear\u00a0in\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciphijournal.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sci Phi Journal<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Two semi-pro sales in one week is pretty fantastic, especially after garnering\u00a0more than 175 rejections over the past two years. I&#8217;ve got a bunch more on submission, including several\u00a0that I haven&#8217;t blogged about. I&#8217;m averaging about one short story per month, and new markets are popping up all the time, so\u00a0I don&#8217;t expect this to be the last story sale announcement this year. May it be the first of many!<\/p>\n<p>In other news, LTUE 2016 was fantastic. I&#8217;m debating whether to write a full blog post about that, because I didn&#8217;t take any pictures or tweet anything pithy about it. Still, I came out with a lot of takeaways, especially in terms of writing. The panels I participated on were a lot of fun too, geeking out about stuff like slower-than-light space travel and post-scarcity leisure societies. And it was also really great to see all of my old\u00a0writing friends here in Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Now I really want to do one of two things: attend another sci-fi convention, and write and submit more short stories!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fantastic news! I sold\u00a0not one but two short stories this week! &#8220;L&#8217;enfer, c&#8217;est la solitude&#8221; will appear in\u00a0Perihelion\u00a0in March or April. And sometime over the summer (probably in June),\u00a0&#8220;The Curse of the Lifewalker&#8221; will appear\u00a0in\u00a0Sci Phi Journal. Two semi-pro sales in one week is pretty fantastic, especially after garnering\u00a0more than 175 rejections over the past&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/i-sold-two-short-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I sold two short stories!<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[170,1],"tags":[1037,1039,1038],"class_list":["post-10415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-stories","category-uncategorized","tag-ltue-2016","tag-perihelion-sf","tag-sci-phi-journal","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7iXK-2HZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415","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=10415"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10416,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10415\/revisions\/10416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.onelowerlight.com\/writing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}