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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly Comp – March 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 3 months ago
Catalyst
Despite the haste of his extreme, and unavoidably, late arrival – ‘Sorry, sorry, bastards took my phone so no way to warn. I’ll be fine, just need to wash the blood off … nose, yeah. Not broken. No, it’s fine, Alix paid my cab off at the door. And yeah, the police took witness statements.’ – he’d caught a glimpse of her as he hurri…[Read more]
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RichardB posted an update 5 years, 3 months ago
The other day when I tried to submit a new topic in the forums I got ‘This topic is waiting for moderation.’ Either there’s been a change of policy (though I haven’t seen any notice of that) or it was a software glitch. The fact that, over a week later, the topic still hasn’t appeared, neither have I received any message about it, suggests to me…[Read more]
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Sorry Richard, I meant to pass this on to @athelstone and @jillybean when you mentioned it the other day. I’m pretty sure it’s a glitch, but could the mods elaborate?
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Sorry, Richard, definitely a glitch although I have no idea why. I have no “list” or notification of anything waiting for approval, but as approving is something I can do, I’ve done it. Maybe Jules has some idea.
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Help, @athelstone! I tried to edit it and the bloody thing’s vanished again! Argh!
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Is it still AWOL? I just managed to read it. Fabulous blog by the way.
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Yes, sure enough, it was back to “waiting approval”. Well, I approved it again. And I approve of it.
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Thank you. Twice (or maybe thrice) over, that is.
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I hope this isn’t a sign of things to come. While I was checking your blog’s status, I spotted two other posts for “approval”. One was from @libby and the other from @raine. Libby, apologies. The post has a date indicating that it was created yesterday, but the number suggests it’s much older. It’s your post on bookshops and the impact of covid.…[Read more]
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No problem, @athelstone
I thought at the time that as I’d started a new thread, it was waiting for moderation. Then I sort of forgot about it. It was from last year when book wholesalers were hampered by Lockdown 1 and therefore bookshops couldn’t simply order stock in usual way.
As a postscript, ordering from the existing stock of a small…[Read more]
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Athelstone replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
It is an excellent fox. Foxes are cool.
I think I understand really well why you wouldn’t want a human face on the cover. A huge part of the pleasure of reading a novel, is the way the characters reveal themselves to us as the story progresses. A picture of somebody, fully-formed, denies the reader that pleasure. But you can understand why…[Read more]
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Squidge replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
Stunning, Raine.
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KazG replied to the topic Cover reveal for This Is Our Undoing in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
I gushed all over this on social media and have only just seen it here – so congratulations on a thing of beauty (autocorrect tried to make that a ‘biting of beauty’, and perhaps I should have let it), which is quite perfect. xx
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KazG replied to the topic Short story in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
That’s brilliant, Kate! Well deserved, a wonderful story 😊
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KazG replied to the topic Good news on the lyric writing front in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
Wow, that’s fantastic! Sorry, I’ve just seen this, but congratulations – a fabulous achievement. 😍
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Raine replied to the topic Short story in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
Oh well done @katemachon! It’s a great wee story. 🙂
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Thanks, Raine. Pleased you enjoyed.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
Aaah, that makes sense! Yes, now you mention it I think I recall more attention on that aspect. I think it worked. Good on you, lovely to see your writing get more recognition
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Raine replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 3 months ago
@Daedalus, it was mainly making the manifests more fleshed out (so to speak) so they felt more real and the way they worked made more sense. So small tweaks throughout rather than a big edit. And totally justified, I think. I am prone to the vagueness, as you know!!
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Daedalus replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 4 months ago
That’s interesting @raine, the story seemed pretty much exactly as I remembered it so I don’t suppose too much can have changed? Really glad to see my writing friends appearing in my favourite sources
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Raine replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 4 months ago
Thank you @Daedalus. It’s a great mag & the editorial team were fantastic throughout. The acceptance followed on from a revise & resubmit, so it took a while but I’m delighted it’s out.
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Daedalus replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 4 months ago
I treated myself to the podcast this morning. Wonderful story, lovely to hear it being read. SH is a fantastic home for it, one of my very favourite mags
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Raine replied to the topic Cloudie short story challenge publication in the forum Podium 5 years, 4 months ago
Just in case you fancied a look – this went online today both text and podcast versions! Here at http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/bathymetry
🥳🥳🥳
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Brilliant, Raine. I remember this from the last challenge. Congratulations.
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Congratulations Raine! I remember your excellent story. Well done 🙂
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Athelstone posted an update 5 years, 4 months ago
Things that go Bump: with just over one week remaining, only half the votes are in.
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I have just story-binged. It was marvellous. Now I need to recover, and think, and might just (against all my expectations) vote in time…
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John S Alty replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Well done, Janette!
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Seagreen replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Well done,J!
And well done to you too, Ath for setting the comp ☺️ -
Squidge replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Well done Janette!
@Athelstone – yup. Rocky Horror Show at The Grand Theatre, Wolverhampton whilst at uni. And then at The Haymarket Theatre, Leicester, when we were in a minority dressed up, and me and Mr Squidge got into the local paper cos the reporter wanted to know what made people dress up that way to watch a show. (We were dressed as…[Read more]
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Rocky Horror’s a hoot, isn’t it? Might have to go again.
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Sandra replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
Yay indeed – well done Janette! And well done for choosing from such a disparate selection, Athers.
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Athelstone replied to the topic Monthly comp – February 2021 in the forum Monthly Competition 5 years, 4 months ago
4 fab entries.
Sandra: a mind tortured by contemplation of an almost-certain affair and a child on the way that may not be his own. But which betrayal warrants the biggest shiver? What a deliciously twisted tale.
Seagreen: what an terrible tale – but writing as sharp as February frost. It isn’t the weather that makes the reader shiver, but an…[Read more]
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Thank you, Ath, for the prompt, and for the nice comments. I’ll go and put my thinking cap on now.
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