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Killer Spacesuits & Other Publishing News from 2020

12/30/2020

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It was a good year for getting published. I'm starting to crack some better-known magazine nuts. The best known of them is probably Bards & Sages Quarterly, which published my killer spacesuit micro-story "Fifty Percent of Smartsuits Fit You Perfectly" in their October 2020 issue.

Fairly new, but highly praised Speculative North published my little three-verse lament on light pollution called "Star Trip(tych)" in their second issue, in August. The issue was reviewed in Amazing Stories, by CSFFA hall-of-famer R Graeme Cameron. You can find the review here. He even had a word or two to say about my poem. **blush** I'm glad he got the point of it. 

Hirareth Publishing printed two of my poems, "Age of Oceans" and "
Marital Bliss: Robot Reboot" in the Summer 2020 issue of Illumen magazine; and another poem, "Fairy Wine," a creepy sonnet, in their June 2020 magazine ​The Fifth Di...Their editor, Tyree Campbell, was the first to ever accept one of my poems for print publication back in 2011. 

Lastly, my short 300-word micro-story A Little Sunshine and a Breath of Fresh Air ​was published in Queer Sci-Fi's annual micro fiction contest anthology Innovation in August 2020.

After a few years of fits and starts, mostly fits, I'm starting to get published at a better rate, and getting noticed by more notable magazines and publishers. I hope this is a good sign of things to come in 2021 and beyond. 
And I received an acceptance for this anthology, where 3 of my poems will appear. "Red," "under the robotic umbrella in the rain," and "Musical Thought Drones Are Here to Assassinate You Again Today" will be published in Lyric, ​a poetry anthology by Djinn Press, a Pakistani publisher.

​I've much to be hopeful for in the coming year. 
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