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The Quest for World Domination by the Clarion 2004 class continues apace with the latest sale by my good friend Dr. Philip Edward Kaldon to a little rag known as Analog for his story “The Johnson Boys of Ames Iowa” (although the title will be changing). Since a number of us still share our verbatim rejections with each other, I felt that Phil had been oh-so-close with Analog on several occasions. It’s great to see that persistence has paid off with a big sale.
As Phil points out, that means our class has now notched stories to F&SF, Asimov’s, Realms of Fantasy, Strange Horizons, and now Analog in about four years. Add to that sales to Interzone and Black Static/Third Alternative (UK) as well as Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine and Eidolon (Australia) and that means we’re covering most of the English-speaking spec fic world with our short fiction.
And then there’s the small matter of boasting about novels by Rebecca Rowe, Grace Dugan, and a dozen or so by Marjorie Liu. And Nikki Kimberling founded her own small press, Blind Eye Books. All from our humble little class. You can check out our class bibliography here, which isn’t even complete since not everyone reports 100% of their sales to me, and this doesn’t include non-fiction or things we’ve edited.
Pretty good stuff. We’d been told by our instructors that we had a very talented class but talent only takes you so far—you still need to put in the time, send your work to the biggest places out there, and stick with it even when things aren’t going so well. It’s discouraging when you find out how competitive and difficult it is to get anything published, but it makes it oh-so-sweet when you crack one of the big markets. So yay Phil, yay us, and watch out fiction editors—we’re coming for you next.
Current Mood: It’s Almost As If I’ve Accomplished Something | 
Currently Listening To – Beck – “Modern Guilt”
3 Comments
Do you think it’s worth reporting all the little dinky not career-helping sales? I mean then I would have some to report from earlier efforts before I got a clue. But what do you think?
You put in the time, you write it down. Now, if you’re asking about Trent’s Clarion bibliography, I think it says he’s talking about stuff submitted or published after the 2004 Clarion workshop. (grin)
IMHO.
Dr. Phil
As Phil notes, the main point is to show that a group of us who had few or no major publications before entering Clarion have produced quite a lot over the past four years. If you have post-Clarion stuff that you want on there, let me know.
But basically it’s supposed to show that A) Clarion works, and B) we rock!