Updatery

[feuervogel]

I started teaching a German 2 class. The school requires 3 students to start a class. I had 3 students (1 continuing from German 1, two new). This week, the continuing student dropped out. One of the new students is moving to Germany in April. There are not enough students to continue on to German 3. So my 2-hour a week job will go to 0 hours in the beginning of March. *sigh*

Makes me feel less guilty about planning to apply to grad school, though.

I got a nice personal rejection on the castle story, which I revised a bit and planned to send in to F&SF during the guest editor issue, but I finally got my VP application story back from an editor who will remain nameless--after 14 months. So I re-read it, tweaked a couple things, and sent it in.

I am waiting on tenterhooks for a response from an anthology I sent another story to. From talk on Codex, the editors are making their final decisions. I don't want to get my hopes up, because I'm pretty much out of pro markets for this story :/ but the submission call was like they wrote it for my story. So. *barfs nervously*

Planning for Shatterdome Atlanta 2015 continues apace. We have a guest. We're discussing other potential guest ideas. We need folks to buy badges!

Comments

[ranyart]

Aw man, the class situation sounds frustrating! Booo.

[kriski]

i'm sorry your class will be cancelled.

i feel for you on the literary circus. it requires a special kind of guts to keep sending out stuff and getting back rejection letters. if that much. for most of the applications i sent out last year, i didn't get any reaction. but the anthologies came out, so i wasn't in and have returned the poems in question to my "availabe" pool, to send them out again if i find a submissions call that suits them.

good luck for this year's literary circuit circus!

[lisefrac.livejournal.com]

It sounds like CCF is going to be the full-time F&SF editor going forward, too!

[feuervogel]

I'm excited about that! Not least because it means the old stick-in-the-mud who would only accept print submissions (to increase the quality of stories, of course, because only Serious Writers(TM) would go to the bother) isn't in charge anymore and the magazine will join the 21st fucking century in accepting e-subs. Which will go a long way in increasing the submission pool to include non-US-based writers and other people who can't make it to the post office for whatever reason.