Flash Fiction Sale

[jacey]

I'm not exactly going to retire on the money, you understand, but I just sold a flash fiction to an online paying SF market.

The Oracle is Never Wrong will appear in the April/May 2009 issue of AlienSkin Magazine.

I'm delighted about this because:
a) It's the first flash fiction I've sold
b) I'm useless at marketing stories that I've written on spec and at last I've managed it

Most of the six (much longer) stories I've sold so far have been to order or by invitation to submit to anthologies. I feel I'm a natural novel writer, so I find it difficult to condense an idea down to short story length - let alone flash fiction length - but I obviously did it on this occasion.

This sale has also reminded me that I need to turn around some of the stories still in play and send them out again!

Comments

[footlingagain.livejournal.com]

Hooray! Congratulations!

And good luck with turning round the other stories, too :)

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks
:-)

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Well done!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Thanks. I know it's small fry but actually selling spomething that I've written on spec instead of for a specific market is still quite a novel experience. Of course the proper novel experience eould be... er... novel, too.
:-)

[davegullen.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Congratulations, and get thos stories out there.

[klwilliams.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[vaughan-stanger.livejournal.com]

Nice one! Congratulations

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale!

I must be the opposite to you. I find it difficult to write things to order and the things I've sold were all written on spec. However, doing the fiction writing assignments has shown me that I can actually produce a decent story to fit a certain prompt.

It's nice to realise that we can do more than we thought, isn't it?

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Yes, it's very gratifying.
:-)

[maeve-the-red.livejournal.com]

Nice one!

[hairmonger.livejournal.com]

I said hurrah on rasfc, but I'm back to thank you for making me look at AlienSkin. I'll be going back there before your issue comes out.

Mary Anne in Kentucky

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

Excellent. They are actively searching for flash fiction right now according to their website.