Joan Aiken writing at her very best was a perfect companion. Well travelled, cultured, with a wealth of personal experience, and the ability not just to tell a gripping story, but to draw the reader in to the very process of writing. What she loved was to hold her audience in a […]
Okay so, get this.......
Do you guys remember my short story, The Newcomers? The one I posted here a long time ago?
Well......IT'S GETTING PUBLISHED IN THE JUNE / JULY ISSUE OF NEXGEN PULP MAGAZINE!
OMG OMG OMG OMG
YAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!
I have to say, this particular story holds a special place in my heart. It really does. I wrote it a couple of years ago for a short story contest that was being held by Writers Digest.
It's about a woman who's desperate to get published, who goes to great lengths to "find" a story for a short story writing contest that promises publication of the winning piece. And what she finds is so much more.
Yes folks, it was a moral imperative that I write about that....
The woman in my story won the contest, but needless to say I didn't. But PISHAW to WD!
If I
had won, who knows where it would have led me and to what hell-hole publisher too. I LOVE TRIAD....not that I've said that a few times or anything. And TRIAD is where I belong, so I'm glad I didn't win that contest.
So yeah, the story is getting published.......FINALLY! I was really heartbroken in thinking that this story would never get out. It's something every aspiring writer can really relate to.....well, at least up until the MURDER takes place....LOL
Hopefully not many can relate to that part of it. Unless it ended up like the story does, cuz that would be kinda cool actually...once the anger subsided, that is.....
So there it is, folks. Another dream realized. This is why I'm always telling everyone NEVER GIVE UP. Never let anyone EVER tell you you can't do it. NEVER let anyone tell you YOU ARE NOT good enough! AND NEVER LET ANYONE HOLD YOU DOWN! YOU CAN DO IT! You CAN! But if you don't try, all those ignorant nay-sayers win! And that's a slice of pie I don't ever intend to indulge in. And neither should you:)
It may take some time, but oh, when it happens, it happens BIG!Who knows what may come of it, and you won't until you try:)I really want to thank NexGen Pulp Magazine for this AMAZING opportunity.
HUGS and Happy Writing:)
Cindy
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This is so intriguing! You are so mean to tease us with the wealth of styles, settings, characters, tones and audiences that Joan writes in, about and for. And here am I still hoping to acquire a copy of the out-of-print The Cockatrice Boys!
You also draw attention to Joan’s life as a traveller, Greece here, Spain for the Felix books, Nantucket and Wales for example for Dido stories, all far cries from the common view of her as a quintessentially parochial English writer (albeit one with extraordinary imagination). Desperate now for an authoritative biography…
Thank you so much for your enthusiasm! I never know if I am overdoing it, as obviously I am a committed fan – but as you say, there is such a wealth of material, let alone background, that I am keen to share (and get some feedback about!) so that it is not lost, and I guess this is a good way of dipping a toe in the water…
No, I don’t think you’re overdoing it: there’s more to Joan than just the Wolves Chronicles and it’s important to put it out there.