And another has been launched.

[joegoda]

In keeping with my desire to get published, I have sent City of Tears to the Penguin Publishing group... *gulp* These are big guys, but I've read some of their published book before, and they are just as large as TOR books! And they do online submissions, and in fact, TIM, request that submissions be done that way. So, TIM, you might consider sending your Cannibal story to them. The worst that can happen is nothing, the least is a rejection, and the most is you get published, make a million or two from the movie rights and I get to sponge off you for the rest of my life.

Fingers crossed for the Penguin folks!

Comments

[persimmontart.livejournal.com]

best wishes!

You almost have me considering submitting something... even a rejection letter would be exciting, since it just proves I did it.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

I will tell you this: To receive a rejection letter is as great an honor, though a bit less pleasing, as it is to be published. What a rejection letter does is give you the creds to say "I submitted." You can forever say "I'm trying to be published", but what a negative statement that is. Say instead, I submitted. It's one phase, and if you do submit enough, you will become published. I NEVER truly submit expecting to become published. I submit with the idea of getting my story out there into the world.

Remember Yoda. There is no try, there is only do, or not do. Me. I prefer to do. I submit. If I'm published, great! But still, I submit. I do. I do not try. It's an amazing thing to the ego of one's self to know that you submitted because that is something you, and only you, can do. Publishing is someone else's decision.

So, if you want to submit, submit! Become even more immortal than you are!

[journiey.livejournal.com]

And If You're Published? Who Gets To Sponge Off Of You. Who. Gets. To. Sponge. Off. Of. YOU???



LOL

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Honey lamb, I believe I've already laid that out. I'll buy a big house where we all can live!

[journiey.livejournal.com]

And Toto Too? Heeheehee Don't Mind Me, I'm Just Being Silly.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

toto has to live outside, but sure, he can live with us!

[persimmontart.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, when I have something better than the short stories I wrote in high school, I'll send something out. Once, for the Future Problem Solving Program Scenario Writing, I wrote this short story on freedom; it was limited to 15,000 words, so some things were left unexplained.... *sheepish* I got published, if only in the FPSP book for that year; *more sheepish* I won first place international. I don't really like to tell people... and the trophy's in my closet in Atchison. But that was almost ten years ago....

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

It's fairly easy to do, really. I start simply, just one word at a time. I find I'm a bit of a freak though. 2700 words in 2 hours last night. Then again, I've been known to write only about 1000 in a week, depending on how the muse is running.

As for your trophy, darlin, it's something to be proud of. Not necessarily to be bragged about. Big difference. I'd put it on my bookshelf... to remind you that you CAN do it, because you HAVE done it. Hiding your light under a bushel just attacks the things that come to the dark places. Bring it out, if you can get it, polish it up, and be proud of your accomplishments!

[persimmontart.livejournal.com]

I'll think about dusting it off and driving it home with me sometime this weekend. I've got to run to Atchison tomorrow and Friday night for family and car stuff anyway. When I did have it on display in my room, my mom used to joke that it was so large I could use it to catch clothes.

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

That was your mom's way of showing her pride, I would imagine. If she did not feel so, she would have either not have mentioned it, or she would have asked you when you were going to throw it out. As the most I've ever done with my writing was to inflict it on other people, I am proud to know someone in my circle that has actually been recognized for their achievement.

[mstami.livejournal.com]

They are good stories. They'd be crazy not to publish you and give you lots of money for the privilege. Hugs...

[joegoda.livejournal.com]

Awww.. thanks Tami! Missed you at the pub last night. Now, these stories need a lot of work, and there's nothing that says they haven't been done before by better authors. So, hey.. I'll just keep pluggin away till they get published. It's the submitting that matters.