Through Blood and Iron - Subs and Q&A

[Rob Santa]

'Oh, and btw, my story opens in the middle of an action scene.'

...drool...

Oops, too obvious?


Rob Santa
Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
and CEO ofRicasso Press

[Tin_Man]

Ya, but it works !



"Dinner at Faneuil Hall" June 2007 Writer's Post Journal</o>
"Making Sand Castles" Oct 2007 Six Sentences website </o>
"Unmoving" Issue #8 December 2007 Twisted Tongue Magazine </o>
"Intertwining Tales" in the July2008 issue of GrimGraffiti </o>
"Experimental English" in Demondminds Halloween 2008 issue
"Darl'n" in 6S vol. 2 Anthology 2009
"Claims" on Absent Willow Review e-zine July 2009
Fourth Coming:
"The Infamous Clayton Manor" Shroud Magazine #7 2009
"Claims" in Absent Willow Review anthology, Best of 2009due Oct 2009
Book review of "Conversations with the Devil" in Night to Dawn due Oct 2009

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[Shrews]

Rob, sent you a story. Hope ya like it.

Aside from the violence, there is a message in there, too.

Steven

For all the works of cultured man
Must fare and fade and fall.
I am the Dark Barbarian
That towers over all.
-Robert E. Howard

[AJCooper]

Sent a S&S Flash to you. What are your response times looking like?

Click here for my bibliography.

Website (I love feedback!): www.andrewjcooper.wordpress.com

[Rob Santa]

Response times are poor. Check that...response times are not what they were for Black Dragon, White Dragon in that I'm not turning manuscripts around in a day or two. I'm getting reading time in fits and starts, usually monster chunks that come once a week (or less). So I'm tackling the subs at extremes: none for a week then twenty or thirty in a day. I've responded to a few hundred (best guess) with perhaps another 150 in the pile.

I'm getting there. And fear not when I close the door on submissions. I will post that I have read all manuscripts and let writers whose subs disappeared into the great internet ether resubmit.


Rob Santa
Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
and CEO ofRicasso Press

[Hamstersbane]

I'm getting used to the pins and needles.

Jeff Parish
Jennings Grove, an online horror serial novel
http://jenningsgrove.gravesidetales.com

[erazmus]

Rob,

I sent you a story. Inspired by your title and these messages here. Not quite a flash story, but of usable length, in case you don't want it and I have to pawn it off on some other suc . . .er, try another market. Hope everything is running smoothly.

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[jordy_3491]

Hey, sent in a submission a little while ago and was unsure if I would recieve a a response saying that my email submission was recieved or not. Also had a couple quick questions via email.

[Rob Santa]

Then I shall go look up your message and reply post-haste.


Rob Santa
Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
and CEO ofRicasso Press

[von Darkmoor]

guess I should inquire then, if you received a submission from me a week or so back...

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Jason M. Waltz
Publisher, Rogue Blades Entertainment (RBE)

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Books Published:
Return of the Sword
Rage of the Behemoth

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[Lyn]

Yikes... 6 more days and I haven't finished my story!

Lyn from ResAliens Zine, Blog, & Reviews
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[erazmus]

Rob,
I sent another story, in case you don't care for the first. recently became available (read: got rejected elsewhere) but is more suitable for your project. Hopefully you will have lots of terrific stories by now.
Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[jsrchrt]

Hi Rob,

All these queries about submissions have got me wondering myself. You were good enough to give me a quick no on my first submission, and I submitted a second Japanese fantasy several weeks ago. Was it received? Thanks.

Jim Stratton

Current publications;

"The Heretic? in Tower of Light Online Magazine, Winter 2009 Issue.
?Living With Miracles? in Big Pulp Online Magazine, December, 2008.
"The Dragon's Food" in Mystic Signals magazine, Issue #1, January, 2009.
"Land of the Rising Sun", in the March, 2009 Issue of Drops of Crimson
"Ethics of Blood Madness", in Tower of Light Online Magazine Summer 2009 Issue.
"Virtual Deceit", in Big Pulp Magazine September, 2009.
"In The Slammer" in Nthzine #2 (www.nthzine.com) in September, 2009.
?Your Duty To Your Lord? in Morrigan Books' anthology "Dead Souls",September, 2009.


Forthcoming publications:
?One Life, One Arrow? in Fantasist Enterprise's ?Paper Blossoms, Sharpened Steel? due out in late 2010.
"God Empress of the Sea" in the upcoming Pirates &amp; Magic anthology to be published by Dragon Moon Press in April, 2010

[Hearthweru]

. . . adds to the chorus of did you get mine? Mine being: Reynoldson/Hound Against the Hawks and Wolves.

http://newadventuresinfantasyfiction.blogspot.com/
Cap'n Jethro
http://flashingswords.sfreader.com/i...008/jethro.asp

[jason]

Granted it's only5 reports, but with that data Duotrope lists the average response time at 48 days with the minimum being 37...so I expect it might be awhile before we hear anything.


Jason Thummel

</o>

"Runner of the Hidden Ways" in Rage of the Behemoth, Rogue Blades Entertainment,June 2009.</o>

"Mortismagus" in Magic and Mechanica, Ricasso Press,Jan 2009. AVAILABLE NOW! So go buy it!
"A Gift of Bones" The Lorelei Signal (online)/ Mystic Signals (print magazine)Jan. 2009
"A Stand in the Eye of the Needle" Flashing Swords, Issue 10, May 2008</o>
"The Importance of Portents" The Town Drunk,March 2008
?The Gunnerman? Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, forthcoming
"The Duelist" Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">forthcoming [/I]</o>
"The Gift of the Unspoken God," in The Infinity Swords, Carnivah House, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">forthcoming [/I]</o>
"The Homecoming of Brother Antonitus" Flashing Swords,TBA
"Thorvold's Tale" TBA, Morrigan Books, <I style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">forthcomingTBA[/I]

[Pagadan]

Speaking of response times--and Rob's always been real good--I heard back from an editor after a year's wait and at least two queries--and you can bet that I kept an eye on his zine on Ralan's website. Anyway, I did a rewrite, which he requested, and now I'm waiting to hear back on that...

Joy V. Smith

Blog: Joy's Galaxy

Books:

Building a Cool House for Hot Times without Scorching the Pocketbook
Why Won't Anyone Play with Me? (chldren's picture book)
Sugar Time (audiobook--SF/time travel)
Aliens, Animals, and Adventure (story collection from Anthology Builder)

Artwork by Andrea Gradidge (Xena on a bad hair day)

[Rob Santa]

Allow me a blanket response that cuts short my work with regards to the above-mentioned didja-get-mines...

I am almost, nearly, 100% questionably certain I have received submissions from you several who asked. I recall seeing your names as I skimmed through the Inbox. Responses were very good for this antho, with a few hundred more subs to look at. I have a couple more acceptances which I have not posted here but will shortly. Word count for acceptances is about 1/3 of the book so far.

Now, if you have queried about me receiving your story and by some happenstance I don't have it, I will certainly let you resubmit after the deadline. This, by the way, is not an invitation to everyone who hasn't queried to throw me one. Ye gods! Have mercy on an old man!

I am absolutely looking forward to the end of the month, if for no other reason than I can stop reading stories that have ABSOLUTELY NO ACTION IN THEM! I feel the guidelines were written as clearly as possible, but I am turning away at least one third of all submissions with a line akin to 'sorry, there's not enough action in this story for an action-oriented collection.' At least when I was reading for Black Dragon, White Dragon I only got about five stories that didn't have dragons in them (and go figure, I bought one). Must have seen fifty stories to date where not so much as a single blow is struck. Sure have seen a lot of threatening to act, though. Sorry folks, not what I'm looking for.

Ok, 'nuff said there.


Rob Santa
Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
and CEO ofRicasso Press

[von Darkmoor]

Thanks for the update Rob. I apologize for querying here on the status of my sub. I did not plan to do so, then fell prey to a panic attack after reading the queries of others. I totally feel your submission reading & responding pain my brother

~~~~~~~~~~
Jason M. Waltz
Publisher, Rogue Blades Entertainment (RBE)

Facebook RBE Group, RBE Page
RBE Twitter

~~~~~~~~~~

Books Published:
Return of the Sword
Rage of the Behemoth

~~~~~~~~~~
Ever waltz with the Devil? Or devil with a Waltz?
von Darkmoor's thoughts

[Hamstersbane]

I've just been waiting patiently for my response...very unusual for me. Of course, the fact that I have no time to bug editors anymore helps.

Jeff Parish
Jennings Grove, an online horror serial novel
http://jenningsgrove.gravesidetales.com

[AJCooper]

Moi aussi, Jeff. I haven't sent any irritating emails, which is highly unusual for me.

Click here for my bibliography.

Website (I love feedback!): www.andrewjcooper.wordpress.com

[jordy_3491]

Sorry bout causing trouble for ya. My email has been known to eat outgoing mail so I just wanted to make sure that my submission had arrived.

[erazmus]

Action? Was this the action anthology?Oh S**T!, I thought it was the neo-gothic angst anthology. That's why there was only the one sword fight and two detailed deaths in the opening scene of my first story, which I did judge might not be fast paced enough.
When you get to the guy with the eye-liner talking about how unconnected his Dad is because he wants the kid to take the trash out once a week--that was for the actual Goth-angst anthology. And if I sent the torrid romance story, well it opens with a lot of action, what with the plantation owner's daughter and all those pirates, but it still might not be what you were looking for. . . .

Mike

Michael D. Turner
'Psyched Up' in _Turn the other Chick_-ed. E. Friesner-Baen books
www.baen.com
'Dutchman Rescue'in Continuum SF #6
www.continuumsciencefiction.com/orders.htm

'An Incident at Black Tongue Tavern' in _Bash Down the Door and Slice Open the Badguy_ from Fantasist Enterprises:

www.fantasistent.com/books/anthologies/BASH.php
'Pink Plastic Flamingos''What Smitty Saw' 'Elvis's Space Alien Lovechild' 'Two Ravens''Rejection' (forthcoming) in Big Pulp
www.bigpulp.com/index.html
'Stains''Two ravens''Job Security' 'Yeti Yet' 'Characters in Flight'(forthcoming)in Tales of the Talisman 3-1 www.zianet.com/hadrosaur/index.html
'Morning Coffee''Happy Landings''Teller of Tales''Silver Shells''I'm tired of Bombs, and my dog is dead' 'One Dark Night'in Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com
'The Jewel Below' 'Mo the Mountain' in Flashing Swords
flashingswords.sfreader.com
Read 'Silver Shells' In The Best of Every Day Fiction
www.everydayfiction.com/features/the-best-of-every-day-fiction-2008/

[AJCooper]

WHAT? THis wasn't a Twilight fan fiction anthology? Sorry for sending my Edward Cullen story, Rob!

Click here for my bibliography.

Website (I love feedback!): www.andrewjcooper.wordpress.com

[Rob Santa]

Mike, you're closer than you think with that. I swear, there's dozens of 'em just like that in my pile of rejections.


Rob Santa
Hopelessly Addicted Writer of Speculative Fiction
and CEO ofRicasso Press

[wicked]

Holy smokes. I just remembered you had expressed interest in a story idea I was mulling over earlier this year in the 'one story, two ideas' thread. It's roughed out, but I kept dodging writing the main battle scene. Eeeek. Guess I know what I will be doing tonight.

You needed some last minute reading, didn't you Mr. Santa? [img]/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif[/img]

Erm . . . are multiple submissions ok? I all ready sent you a story a few weeks ago.


P.S. - Erazmus, I'd be happy to critique that story with the plantation owner's daughter and the pirates for you. [img]/emoticons/rofl.gif[/img]

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