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

[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.
:-)