So I’ve submitted a “Phase II” round of short fiction submissions, sad that at 32 I’m only in Phase II, but what can you do? Nothing that’s what. A few more contests and publications I’m interested in open up for submissions in September and so I’ll be adding a few to the pile, but in the meantime cross your fingers for all my precious little short fiction babies out there in the big bad world…

There are four submissions currently out, two that were submitted in May and two submitted in August. There are another two to four that will go out for submission in September. Eight would be a good ratio – if I can get to eight we’ll be looking good. And then, depending on how long it takes me to finish a decent polish on my novel redraft and how long it takes my excellent readers to read and comment, and how long it takes me to revise (that’s a lot of “how longs”) I hope sometime in early winter to begin seriously re-querying agents for my novel. And so we will then be able to begin the sad and desperate ‘Query Letter Tracking Posts’ again…

Actually, technically I still have one agent that requested a full that never got back to me…maybe I should email them…hmmm…