@Hannya_Kay Congrats! You’ve been working so so hard for this!!! Keep going!
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Colton Neves
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Colton Neves
@ColtonTheShaper
🏳️🌈 (he/him) Native Hawaiian shaper of stories, games, and monsters. Rejection Collector. Apex First Reader. Wonderer. Wanderer.
Boston, MA Katılım Nisan 2010
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I have a story in this! The ToC is wild, the stories are incredible. If you want a weird west anthology, that's the one you NEED. Buy a copy, and check out 'Five Lemons in a Net', my story of trauma, soul-eating shadows, and of course, the importance of shopping lists 🔥
Eric Fomley@PrinceGrimdark
Out today! Twenty flash fiction stories of the weird wild west, infusing horror, science fiction, and fantasy. Check it out and snag a copy! amazon.com/dp/B0FSPD4FP4
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For those at World Con in Seattle, come recommend books to other writing community members at the Homeward Books party!
tixtree.com/e/homeward-boo…
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@Hannya_Kay @KaiDelmas Oh heck yea! Congrats! That’s well deserved. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for it.
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Acceptance day and contract signed!
My dark fairy tale retelling has found a cozy home in Shacklebounds Books "Happily Never After" anthology, edited by the legendary @KaiDelmas
I'll make a hell of a racket in here when it's out (the TOC is out of this world, people)
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@mruthrobinson Such a hopeful story!! Was stoked to see your name in my inbox today!! Best of luck with Clarion West!
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New story day! New story day! So excited to have this little tale of community, love, and resistance out in the world.
Small Wonders Magazine@SmallwondersSFF
The Oro-Ti Night Market holds many dangers. It's dangerous to go alone. Take this guide by @mruthrobinson, and with luck and persistence you'll find what you're looking for: smallwondersmag.com/piece/a-runawa…
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@Hannya_Kay You are getting better. Everything you write is a bet on yourself. I hear you!!! I’m right there wishing I could get better too
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Update (slimy, sleepy one). 2 pages written, and gosh what's in my mind? 2 new subs. 1 form R, which is better than silence. I knew this piece was shit (thx to my writers group hinting at that, but it was too late, subbed bc of deadline). I wish I could get better.
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@Hannya_Kay Oh yesss! Congratulations - you’ve really been working hard at it!! So cool to see
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Acceptance day!
Scifi flash going to one of the best podcasts ever 😍
A podcast!!! How cool is that? Party time now 🎉
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Part 2 of my novella is out today
escapepod.org/2025/04/10/esc…
And yes, you can vote for it for the Locus Awards
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@mruthrobinson Oh my oh my!!!! Well earned! What a ride it’ll be
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Some news! Some extremely extremely extremely cool news! I get to spend my summer (virtually) at Clarion West!
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@mruthrobinson It’s working for me. I am in the mood for a queer multiverse tragedy!
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What trying to promote short fiction feels like rn.
M. R. Robinson@mruthrobinson
NEW STORY DAY! ✨ “Lucinda Espinosa’s Twenty-Seventh Death” is the strange queer story of my heart, my ultimate “write what you want to read” story. A multiverse story, sort of. A space western, sort of. But mostly it’s a love story, and I hope you love it too. 🔗 in thread!
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@CoreyFarrenkopf Oh maaaan. Needed to hear this. That second half is rough. Have to tackle my way through the bouncers “this is shit” and “who do you think you are” every time
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The rejections come in, the submission go out…The rejections come in, the submission go out…The rejections come in, the submission go out…The rejections come in, the submission go out…The rejections come in, the submission go out…The rejections come in, the submission go…
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Relistening to Nona the Ninth and damn does Our Lady of the Passion have some excellent dialog. (And Moira Quirk is the kind of narrator that can make me smile on a run even as I’m being blasted by the Northeast cold.)
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Oh hello, Seattle.
Seattle Worldcon 2025@seattle2025
Nominations open soon for the 2025 Hugo Awards! To cast a nominating ballot, you must either be a member of the 2024 Glasgow Worldcon, or purchase a Seattle Worldcon membership by January 31. Don't wait, get your membership today! buff.ly/3DNhcp9
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@CoreyFarrenkopf @jeffreyford8 That story is WILD. The demon in the big toe!! The dinner party exorcism-as-coming-of-age. Have you read Empire of Ice Cream?
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Yesterday I taught a writing class on Fantastical Auto-Fiction, using @jeffreyford8 work as an example (you need to read The Blameless!). The prompt was: write a story where you, yourself, encounter the Weird/fantastic, but the rest is just your actual life. It’s a fun one :)
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@mruthrobinson Most rejected story has found a home??? That is a wonderful statement. Effort. Persistence. Goooooaaaaal
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It's been a little while since I got to do this, so please forgive me for being the worst, but: STORY SALE VAGUE POST!!!!!!! My most-rejected story has found THE ABSOLUTE BEST POSSIBLE HOME AHHHHHGHHGHH—
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Holy moly. My first publication! Surrounded by insane authors in this issue.
My story is for those single moms out there, trying their hardest, and the kids who have to grow up too fast anyway. The single mom who raised me says it’s good and I’ll take that W!!
Apex Magazine@apexmag
Introducing the full Table of Contents for Issue 148! 🧵 (1/2) Short fiction by @lindzmcleod, Wil Magness, @ThaiSibir, and @Monte_Lin Flash Fiction Winners are @ColtonTheShaper and @abigailkemske!
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@LinardosAkis I read your Apex pieces! Fantastic stuff. That is a wild year. Hope 2025 is more of the same (and all the agents!)
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2024 writing report
- 41 stories accepted
- 14 poems accepted
- Published over 30 pieces at Apex (2x), Strange Horizons, Gamut, Heartlines, Flame Tree, Radon, Tales to Terrify, among others
- 174.947 total words written.
I'm exhausted 🛏️
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@Hannya_Kay Rest when you need it. But press on. Finally finished a new story for the first time in like 2 months. My novel has been taking most of it out me. 2 Rs in the past week for me!
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Today was editing a 7k piece. Got it to 6.5k. Tomorrow, I'll go back to it. Markets don't like anything over 6k, and 5k would be better. 3 Rs too. One that could be R&R, I have no idea, never had one of them before.
I'm mentally tired.
I want this year to end.
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@Hannya_Kay I needed that reminder. Joy. JOY. JOOOY (screaming that between my ears right now)
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Finally on holidays!
3h edits this afternoon. All those nasty weak words (well, most of them) off the window 🔥
I'm content.
Find joy in your writing, whatever phase you're in 🤩
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@alanmarktong @AWWLitMag Holy wow. That’s some metal persistence. Yessssss
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Contract signed! My short story “Second Love” will be appearing in the anthology Into the Dark (published by @AWWLitMag) during the second half of 2025. This story went through a total of 56 submissions, including 52 rejections and 3 no-responses, over the course of 2.5 years.
Alan Mark Tong@alanmarktong
Um. Vague acceptance tweet? I guess the first one wasn’t a total fluke.
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