Edit: I meant to mention that Fantasy Magazine and Grantville Gazette are also new pro markets
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Posted by Bent Tree (Member # 7777) on :
Cool, I knew they were shooting for it. Glad to hear they made it. Congrats Guys.
Posted by steffenwolf (Member # 8250) on :
Good deal! I'd been planning to submit to them some time soon, so that's even better.
Posted by aspirit (Member # 7974) on :
Yay! Good news!
Posted by steffenwolf (Member # 8250) on :
Nice to get another fantasy market up there. Most of my stuff tends to be contemporary fantasy, so most of my stuff doesn't fit the guidelines of Analog and other SF-only mags.
Posted by BoredCrow (Member # 5675) on :
I'm pretty excited about this and all our team has accomplished over the past year and two months.
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Posted by steffenwolf (Member # 8250) on :
BoredCrow, are you a staff member of FFO? I didn't realize that.
Posted by oliverhouse (Member # 3432) on :
Thanks for the link, WouldBe. And thanks to all the folks who are on the Flash Fiction Online staff, too, which includes Hatrackers WouldBe, KayTi, DJVDakota (one of two slush team leaders), InarticulateBabbler (artist-in-residence), BoredCrow, and DebHoag.
As you can see, the place is dominated by Hatrackers. In fact, it's safe to say that without Hatrack the 'zine would never have gotten started: I was inspired by a conversation here, I ran the idea up the flagpole here, and I was instantly swamped with volunteers from here. It also wouldn't be close to the caliber that it is: The discussion, discretion, variety of tastes, and range of opinion has made an incalculable difference to the way our stories are selected and published, and things like the blog would still be waiting for me to have something worth saying. Finally, it wouldn't have lasted this long, because I don't think I would have been able to keep up.
Not to mention that the whole team is a pleasure to work with. Like, seriously, I mean, not in the polite I-gotta-say-this-because-they're-the-team way, but really a pleasure. /schmaltz
So, to those Hatrackers (including KDW, by the way) who offered encouragement, submitted stories, read our stories, or linked to us, thank you very much; to the FFO staff, thank you even more. Flash Fiction Online is a small affair in the publishing world, but I can't tell you how gratifying it is to see it get this far.
Thanks, Jake Freivald Editor aka Oliver House
Posted by InarticulateBabbler (Member # 4849) on :
Hey, you forgot mfreivald. He is still a Hatrack member...even if he hasn't been about in a while.
But seriously, it's been a pleasure to be a part of FFO.
And it is a great team--but I think it's a bit easier to have a great team when we respect each other (if not always agree).
At least there hasn't been a conga-line...yet.
Posted by snapper (Member # 7299) on :
quote:And thanks to all the folks who are on the Flash Fiction Online staff, too, which includes Hatrackers WouldBe, KayTi, DJVDakota (one of two slush team leaders), InarticulateBabbler (artist-in-residence), BoredCrow, and DebHoag.
And thanks for the list of hatrackers to butter up to, Jake. Of course, as good as they are they pale in comparison to the great Oliverhouse, whose wisdom we don't get to experience enough.
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Posted by oliverhouse (Member # 3432) on :
LOL... Unfortunately, we read submissions anonymously, so as friends we'll help you cry in your beer after a rejection or celebrate loudly when you sell to us, but as my old Marine friend used to say, "You'd be better off chapping your lips on someone else's butt..."
Posted by MartinV (Member # 5512) on :
Quick question: SFWA is an American Sci Fi company. Does that mean only Americans can join? Because if I wait for something similar to happen in my country, I'll be old and gray by then.
Maybe I should open a fresh thread for this question...
Posted by MrsBrown (Member # 5195) on :
Excellent--grats!!
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
SFWA is open to anyone who publishes science fiction and/or fantasy professionally in the US (and Canada, I think--there certainly are lots of Canadian members). There are several members who live overseas.
