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Submitting to Problematic Markets

Posted on August 21, 2012 by Cat

One of the questions that often comes up in the Writing Fantasy and Science Fiction class is: are there markets that should be eliminated due to factors outside of pay, reply time, exposure, and the other usual suspects?
This is something that probably one needs to think about, and my rule is simply this: would you feel pleased and proud to have your work appear there?
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The Inevitable Award Post

Posted on January 14, 2012 by Cat

I have been noticing a lot of these over the last couple of months, and I was going to skip it, but then I was totting up the publications from last year, and I’m proud of the fact that I … Continue reading →

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A Frame of Mother of Pearl

Posted on February 15, 2011 by Cat

On her twenty-fifth birthday, two days after her true love’s disappearance, Hattie had her scalp tattooed with the twelve celestial houses. They marked off her head in long pie-shaped wedges, Scorpio over her left ear and Taurus over the right. When she stood still, no matter the location, she chose to stand in alignment with the sky, so the spidery black demarcations reflected the patterns of the stars Continue reading →

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