Through Blood and Iron

**erazmus** · October 29, 2009 @ 1:12 PM

Rob,
I knew there would be. There always is. I tend to come up with my best story ideas for anthologies after the submissions are closed, which is why I hate themed anthologies. I am still peddling a couple of Giant Monster Stories I came up with after the original diakaiju anthology closed. I'll probably have lots of great ideas for RBE's latest after its closed. That is just the way it seems to go for me.
T.A.,
I don't actually have a bodice ripper pirates and plantation owner's daughter story on hand. But having joked about it, I'll probably come up with one sometime this year. When I do, I'll let you know.

Mike

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**wicked** · October 29, 2009 @ 4:08 PM

erazmus said...

T.A.,
I don't actually have a bodice ripper pirates and plantation owner's daughter story on hand. But having joked about it, I'll probably come up with one sometime this year. When I do, I'll let you know.

Mike

LOL I'll be waiting for it. [img]/emoticons/smilewinkgrin.gif[/img]

I have the same problem with themed submissions. In fact the story I sent earlier was originally meant for the Demon anthology, but I didn't finish it in time.

Even Mother Nature is against me now. Last night when I sat down to finish the other story the power went out. I'm half way through edits now, but still need to write that battle scene. This really will be a last minute submission.

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**Tin_Man** · October 29, 2009 @ 6:08 PM

I'll just wait quietly for acceptance or reject for 'Skarthonian Consequences'

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**Lyn** · October 29, 2009 @ 10:34 PM

2 days to get it in... by midnight CST or Hawaiin time?

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**erazmus** · October 30, 2009 @ 2:44 AM

GMT! GMT!

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/

**DraperJC** · October 30, 2009 @ 6:22 PM

I also submitted something to this anthology. I'll not ask if it was received but instead hope that this post will register as a place saving mechanism if later we find that the story was lost in the shuffle. Best of luck to all involved!

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**JRuland** · October 30, 2009 @ 6:35 PM

DraperJC said...
I also submitted something to this anthology. I'll not ask if it was received but instead hope that this post will register as a place saving mechanism if later we find that the story was lost in the shuffle. Best of luck to all involved!

ditto

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**Lyn** · October 30, 2009 @ 9:51 PM

tritto...
(Andrew and I co-wrote a piece for you, Rob, and just emailed it tonight.)

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**Tin_Man** · October 31, 2009 @ 8:06 AM

Quatto ... (the good luck to all part)

Lyn said...
tritto...
(Andrew and I co-wrote a piece for you, Rob, and just emailed it tonight.)

"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** · October 31, 2009 @ 5:33 PM

Ususually, I get told I put too much action in a story.

Or, that it's too violent. ???

Was it Dylan that said if ya got alotta blades, ya gotta cut something.

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

**Rob Santa** · November 3, 2009 @ 1:49 PM

Some updates...

As I wade through the slush and find (sigh) roughly two out of three submissions lacking action of any kind, I realize I've had three acceptances that did not get their formal presentation to the public.

'Each Day its Debt' by Tom Williams. 6,800 words.
'The Daughter's Oath' by Brent Knowles. 5,400 words.
'Secrets of the Iron Skull Order' by Bill Ward. 4,000 words.

I promise you'll love all three.

Current table of contents: 8 stories, 46,000+ words. That's about half-way to my goal with maybe 130 submissions left in the stack.

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

**Rob Santa** · November 3, 2009 @ 1:55 PM

And now for some fun news...

I don't know why I was expecting more very short fiction (as in 1,500 words or less), probably because I was inundated with it for Black Dragon, White Dragon and figured writers had drawers full of these stories. There may be a bunch of flash fiction waiting for me in the pile, but even after I specifically called for more I haven't seen it.

So, sharpen your pencils boys and girls! Submissions are still being accepted for stories of 1,500 words or less (and I might stretch that limit by a few hundred words if I had to). I don't see myself getting through the slush for at least two weeks. If you can dash something off or have it handy, feel free to send it my way. And yes I will hunt you down with Kane-like tenacity if you send me a story longer than 2,000 words. This reading period has an arbitrary deadline; send sooner rather than later.

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

**che2000** · November 3, 2009 @ 3:35 PM

Er, if one has already submitted a longer story for consideration, is it still acceptable to submit a short one as well?

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**wicked** · November 3, 2009 @ 3:46 PM

Rob Santa said...
And yes I will hunt you down with Kane-like tenacity if you send me a story longer than 2,000 words.

Hey, that sounds like fun. I've got this 25,000 word novella I've been holding on to . . . [img]/emoticons/devil.gif[/img]

Actually, I may have something for you that is under 2,000.

Idealism- That optimistic stage in life right before reality kicks the crap out of you.

'careful what you wish
you may regret it
careful what you wish
you just might get it'
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Dragon Slayer at Every Day Fiction

**jason** · November 3, 2009 @ 3:48 PM

Mine clocked in at about 1000 words if, you know, you want to skip ahead in the slush to something that you know is short.

Jason Thummel

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"A Gift of Bones" The Lorelei Signal (online)/ Mystic Signals (print magazine)Jan. 2009
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?The Gunnerman? Black Gate: Adventures in Fantasy Literature, forthcoming
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"The Gift of the Unspoken God," in The Infinity Swords, Carnivah House, forthcoming [/I]</o

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"The Homecoming of Brother Antonitus" Flashing Swords,TBA
"Thorvold's Tale" TBA, Morrigan Books, forthcomingTBA[/I]

**jason** · November 3, 2009 @ 3:53 PM

And congratulations to Mr. Williams, Mr. Knowles and Mr. Ward. TB&I already boasts a stellar ToC and I am certainly looking forward to this anthology.

Jason Thummel

</o

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"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, forthcoming [/I]</o

>
"The Gift of the Unspoken God," in The Infinity Swords, Carnivah House, forthcoming [/I]</o

>
"The Homecoming of Brother Antonitus" Flashing Swords,TBA
"Thorvold's Tale" TBA, Morrigan Books, forthcomingTBA[/I]

**wicked** · November 3, 2009 @ 3:55 PM

Rob Santa said...
and find (sigh) roughly two out of three submissions lacking action of any kind,

Do you mean action in the very beginning, or all the way through?

Drat, this could bode poorly for my first story. I'm a woman, I need a little tease first. You can't just throw me into the action cold.

Idealism- That optimistic stage in life right before reality kicks the crap out of you.

'careful what you wish
you may regret it
careful what you wish
you just might get it'
Metallica~King Nothing

Dragon Slayer at Every Day Fiction

**Lyn** · November 3, 2009 @ 4:01 PM

Congrats as well to the three (now eight) toc-ites. Wow! 130 to go, yi yi yi. I think I was the 129th. Best wishes to Rob as well, lol!

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**AJCooper** · November 3, 2009 @ 8:55 PM

Well I sent you a flash around Oct 3 or so, haven't heard back yet. LOL, we'll see. Was I supposed to get a confirmation?

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**David J. West** · November 4, 2009 @ 2:14 AM

I submitted mine on about the 27th so I am wondering if mine is 130 in the pile.

**Rob Santa** · November 5, 2009 @ 10:16 AM

Accepted 'A Hound Against Hawks and Wolves' by Lee Reynoldson. 8,500 words.

Current table of contents: 9 stories, 55,000 words.

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

**Hamstersbane** · November 5, 2009 @ 11:01 AM

Well, good to know things are moving forward. Still trying to wait patiently for my acceptance.

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**Bill Ward** · November 5, 2009 @ 4:42 PM

That's a great title.

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**David J. West** · November 5, 2009 @ 6:46 PM

Congrats Lee

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**Hearthweru** · November 5, 2009 @ 8:02 PM

Cheers, both. Congrats on your acceptance too Bill and good luck to those still waiting.

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