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I just got an email from Anotherealm.com. They want to buy my goat story!
OK, folks. This is my first sell. Help me out here. It's only $10 with First Worldwide Electronic rights, but for a first-timer, I'll take it. Should I?
Any horror stories you've heard about Anotherealm? Any other advice you can give? Geez! I thought I'd done my homework. I thought I was ready for this. But here we are, at the wire, and I've completely lost my head, my doubts are hurtling at me from the farthest reaches of the universe.
Boy, if someone is paying ten bucks a goat story, I can make it rich. I knew growing up on a farm was good for something!
Seriously, though, congratulations! Somehow that doesn't seem emphatic enough. Oh well, I'll leave it to the creative folk to be emphatic. As far as it goes, I don't know much of anything about anotherrealm. But it sounds like you're about to join the ranks of the published. Don't forget about us poor ordinary people. And once again, congratulations! I doubt they could have picked a nicer writer.
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Awesome, Dakota!! This is your tale from the Billy Goats Gruff rewrite, I take it? They are not only really neat and fun exercises, these rewrites, but they're already paying off!
Thanks, Dakota, for being "in charge" of the monthly rewrite challenges! I hope you'll be continuing them for a long time to come. *g*
There's not a question in my mind about whether you should take it. I haven't heard anything bad about Anotherealm, in fact, I have a story with them right now. (One that's been the round at *all* the pro markets but I still think it's good so I'm not giving up.) And it's more than the $10 that's important. It's your name in print at a paying market that you can put on your credits to the next market you send a story out to. Just read the contract carefully to make sure they don't want your first born child and go for it!
I hope you sent this to a pro market or two first, but if you didn't, I'd still take this sale and run. The truth is, it's a buyers market for short stories. Whiel you should always start from the top and work your way down (and I would suggest doing that in future if you didn't now), you tend to have to sell to the bottom and work your way up.
I know I haven't participated in your rewrite challenges, but it's mostly been a time thing. I'm probably going to try to come up with a Christmas story next month and I think it's really neat that you've started it and even better that you've found some success by doing it. Let us know when to go look for your story.
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I just realized I have been remiss in giving my heartfelt gratitude to all my friends at Hatrack. First for the idea of the Rewrite Challenge, secondly for going over my story with a fine-toothed comb until it was ready for this glad, glad day.
Grazi! Danke! Gracias! (Thanks in some other language)! (And another)!
And my deepest, humblest gratitude to God for bestowing upon me this most wondrous gift.
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I bet you're pumped.
