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Thursday, October 23, 2014

"Wet" sold to Urban Fantasy Magazine

It's a good day to celebrate! Yesterday morning I signed the contract and sold my first short story to a pro-rate magazine. The lovely space is the newly launching Urban Fantasy Magazine, and mine is one of the first stories they've ever bought! It will be available on their site, though the publication date hasn't been determined yet.

"Wet" follows an immortal narrator who's gotten used to being eternal, and meeting a traumatized ghost that's haunting the train station en route to work. I won't spoil where it goes, but it was really fun to write a buddy piece between the deathless and the undead.

I wrote immediately after Viable Paradise 17 - it might have been one year ago today, actually. The workshop gave me so much to think about, and this was my way of working through many of those thoughts.

Now to write something new. Urban Fantasy is still open for submissions, if you'd like to join me!

And now to celebrate by watching scary movies! Feel free to recommend me one, particularly obscure things streaming on Netflix.

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  1. Congratulations!! Hm, obscure horror movies on Netflix. If you're okay with subtitles Witching and Bitching is a weird one, but I enjoyed it. Not scary to me, but interesting. Another weird movie I enjoyed that's pretty obscure, though not actually scary, is Detention. Bizarre. It took me a few days to decide if I liked it. And here's a list of what's supposed to be the top horror on Netflix this month: http://ihorror.com/top-horror-movies-on-netflix/

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    1. Added Kidnapped and Rites of Spring to my queue- thanks! I have watched an embarrassing number of these movies already! And while I don't consider I Saw the Devil as Horror, it is a masterpiece of criminal fiction. Absolutely anyone who can even tolerate dark stories should watch that.

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  2. Congratulations, John! You can say you were one of the first.

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    1. It sure makes me want to see their magazine thrive!

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  3. Congrats John! I'm so happy for you :)

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  4. Congrats, John. It's been a long trek. So happy to see the work pay off. :-)

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