Many thanks! As noted, there's always an extra-special frisson in placing something with PS.
Mind you, I was saying to Pam last night that there's also a feeling of let-downness here too. I mean, this is a novella, there's not a whole lot of white knuckle action in it, it doesn't fit into genre categories . . . all in all, I was bracing myself to take me a couple of years or more to sell the piece, if ever: could this be the "previously unpublished extra" if ever I persuade a publisher to do another collection of mine? And so on. My adrenalin was building up in preparation for the long haul. So to sell the piece overnight on first attempt -- I e-mailed it just before bedtime and the acceptance was waiting for me when I logged on next morning -- has left me in the position of the dragonslayer whose dragon backed out of the contest.
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Date: 2009-11-07 04:15 pm (UTC)Many thanks! As noted, there's always an extra-special frisson in placing something with PS.
Mind you, I was saying to Pam last night that there's also a feeling of let-downness here too. I mean, this is a novella, there's not a whole lot of white knuckle action in it, it doesn't fit into genre categories . . . all in all, I was bracing myself to take me a couple of years or more to sell the piece, if ever: could this be the "previously unpublished extra" if ever I persuade a publisher to do another collection of mine? And so on. My adrenalin was building up in preparation for the long haul. So to sell the piece overnight on first attempt -- I e-mailed it just before bedtime and the acceptance was waiting for me when I logged on next morning -- has left me in the position of the dragonslayer whose dragon backed out of the contest.