I thought I'd take a shot at that mnemonic competition and I was just curious when I should expect a notice of receipt/ rejection/ hysterically enthusiastic promise to print my submission? Maybe the editors have other things to do than answer this question but somebody who posts here must have submitted to one of these things. Thanks in advance.
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Posted 1 month ago #
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I got an Honorable Mention, and was notified about 2 weeks before the issue was sent out - August 27, for a contest with results in the Oct/Nov issue.
Good luck with the submission :)
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Yeah. Don't hold your breath.
I heard that I had placed a few weeks before WorldCon, but I didn't know what place I got until I finally got my hands on the issue (and three ARCs!).
When I got dishonorable mention in the Wolfe issue, I didn't know until the day it arrived in my mailbox.
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Well that's mildly dissapointing: to hear that they're kind of sketchy about that. (thanks for the well wishes though Standback)
If for some reason they don't get printed though I'll just post them here. (I can do that right? I won't be smited for insolence or something?)Posted 1 month ago # -
I dunno; I prefer knowing that my entry wasn't judged (or at least, the judgment wasn't formally committed) until they actually got all of 'em in. Personally, I thought it was very nicely done.
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"I won't be smited for insolence or something?"
Maybe for grammar. That should be "smitten."
Smite, smote, smitten. Same as write, wrote, written.
Here endeth the lesson.
Posted 1 month ago # -
No acknowledgement is sent for receipt of entries...which might give an entrant an added shock if he is notified he has placed.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Thomas: As for whether you can post them, I _think_ you surrender your ownership to the submissions (I'd have to look at the terms again. I might be thinking of something else), so, if I'm right, there's that to keep you from doing it.
Matt: Excellent point. Also: Hespira was magnificent! (It was one of the three ARCs I got for getting second place in the last F&SF contest)
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aethercowboy:
I'm very glad to hear it, and not for the obvious, self-serving reason. The fact that you got an ARC of Hespira is further evidence that Night Shade is actually about to publish the damn thing, only fourteen months late. Although I still haven't seen sig sheets for the limited editions, and my emails to the principals go unanswered.
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Matt:
I had wondered why Amazon said it was published in 2008, but that it hadn't been published yet. ?:|
But I must know what happens next! When can we expect the next Hapthorn tale!?
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Dear Matt,
Yes, you have a point, and in a soulless grammarian utopia your acuity and pedagogy would be the pinnacle of citizenly behaviour. However, aside from the brute fact that we don't live in such a place, there are some other things that must be considered. To name one of a few: the possibility that my choice of words was not the result of mere thoughtlessness. As you well know, the word "smitten" has more than one meaning. It is my observation that nowadays the most common use of the term is not "to be struck hard" but rather "to be deeply in love". For aesthetic reasons I don't use "smitten" then when I refer to the former. Also, intentionally incorrect grammar is often used to jocular effect (i.e. as in the works of Mark Twain) And then of course there is the fact that I am a poet and thus normal linguistic conventions don't apply to me.
As such, in the future you might not want to waste your indoctrinal efforts on me since A) I subvert authority wherever I please [the corollary of which is that I grammaticalize words in strange and fascinating ways according to whatever whims strike me at the time] and B) because even in the event where all the rules are in opposition to my actions I still manage to come out on top because of my sheer undefeatable capacity for mind bogglingly virtuoso performances.
You may wish to consider the following words of e.e. cummings:
"If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making."
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If this is how you handle criticism, do we really WANT to see your submissions if they don't make it in? Clearly, you already think they're amazing.
Good luck, though.
Also, didn't Twain use incorrect grammar to show the uneducated nature of the speaker? Just asking.
Posted 1 month ago # -
I thought *I* was the resident compulsive hyperbolic around these parts
Thomas, what do you do with a semicolon?
Posted 1 month ago # -
Ooooh! I hate thirteen! How do they keep trapping me on killer 13s?!
Hexo reverso del triskaidekaphobio
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"I won't be smited for insolence or something?" == "mind bogglingly virtuoso performance" + "strange and fascinating"... check!
Posted 1 month ago # -
aether,
Oh, I welcome criticism when I submit something to be criticized and I even accept criticism in other contexts when someone is doing it out of a sincere desire to be helpful. However, I have no tolerance for other people going out of their way to, how shall I put it, "flick dirt in my eye" so that they can give some swaggering display of cleverness at my expense. Giving me a lesson in grammar sandwiched between two snide remarks hardly qualifies as genuine helpfulness now does it?
Also, I use comedic self-deprecation as much as comedic self-aggrandizing so this little rhetorical display of mine is hardly proof of an overpowering ego: I was simply making Mr.Hughes aware of the fact that I am not the idiot he mistook me for in (what I think was) a very gentle way: I could have easily been much more vicious and extensive in my dissection and evisceration of him.
And yes Twain did use the local idiom and poor grammar to do what you suggest but I'm sure if you look through your copy of Huck Finn you will find that he does in fact mine it for its comedic potential.
p.s. thank you again for the well wishes
Brian,
I very rarely use semi-colons. I do still tend to overuse my the regular colons though (hyuk hyuk, dat ders sum self deperakathun! Happy aether?)
and last but not least, Z,
the "virtuoso performance" was obviously my latter statement and not the original post, so... citing the former as not being indicative of my claim fails to achieve its purpose. Nice try though.
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Thomas:
Good luck.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Thomas: ah, but you are mistaken! I am a free-floating positivist, and therefore obviously not subject to the usual rules of logic!
Never mind; just funnin' ya...
Posted 1 month ago # -
*sighs*
And here I was, getting all revved up for a good ol' flame war. But no... people had to suddenly be all nice. Damn it! You're all... all... just a bunch of TEASES! (sobs melodramatically)
God, now I'm just soo depressed.
(suddenly the gloom on Thomas' face dissapears, replaced with a wide grin)
Well, at least the rest of the internet is still filled with jerks! There's always that! Yaaaaay!
p.s. thank you for the generous invocation luck Mr.Hughes.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Thomas-
As for Jerks, I'm totally still here.
Posted 1 month ago # -
Mr. Jackson, I apologize if I have overlooked your jerkishness. In my defense though I have yet to see it manifest itself.
Posted 1 month ago # -
You *suck*!
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