Hello, faithful reader! My short story “The City” is being published in the Autumn 2011 edition of online fiction magazine The Battered Suitcase. You can read it here for free online, or shell out a few dollars to download it to Kindle or iPad or whatever the kids are doing these days, or spend a few dollars more to order a print copy. Naturally this volume contains not just my own tale of amazement and delight, but those of many other writers.
This is the first short story I’ve had published in any kind of official capacity, which is a significant milestone for any writer. Unfortunately it’s also the last issue of the magazine, which can be traced directly back to you for not supporting the independent arts scene in the past. Shame, shame, shame.
I first started writing “The City” when I was living in Seoul, which was more than two years ago. It was accepted for publication in November 2010, which was nearly a year ago. I think I need to either start writing more stories, or ignore simultaneous submission prohibitions.
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October 4, 2011 at 1:46 am
Sunrise089
Congrats!
Do you get any cut of the paid versions of the magazine? I know it’s not the most efficient way of subsidizing your writing, but it’s better than just sending money to a magazine that’s going out of business ;)
October 4, 2011 at 2:27 pm
Mitch
No, it’s not a paying magazine. Some magazines pay up to 5c a word (Clarkesworld is a really excellent online sci-fi one), but are correspondingly more difficult to get into. Simply put, I’m not writing good enough stories yet to get paid for them.
I’m considering putting End Times out as a series of ebooks… once I finish it. So that should be around 2017.
October 6, 2011 at 6:00 pm
Niv
Congrats Mitch! Quite the achievement for the aspiring writer. (Personally, I’m stuck at the “finishing something” part.) Good work!