Ding, dong, the story's dead
May. 25th, 2006 12:50 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
swan_tower"The Deaths of Christopher Marlowe"
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Okay, so it ended much more quickly than I expected.
I don't know, at present, whether the story works. All I know is that I've written a story with nary a speculative element in it, and I'm not sure what to do with it. I mean, I can only think of one other time I've done that, and it was on commission for the Microsoft Intern Game. I guess enough writers read this journal now that I can ask: where does one send such things? (Other than Paradox, the obvious one). Are there any other spec-fic markets that are friendly to non-speculative historical fiction? What about non-speculative markets?
I should, by the way, record my gratitude to Peter Farey, for applying Occam's Razor to the Le Doux theory and finding under the surface, not a Marlowe/Shakespeare conspiracy, but Anthony Bacon. For someone who had made a fairly scholarly and thorough argument for Marlowe as Le Doux as Shakespeare, it's impressive to see a follow-up where he sighs and demolishes his own argument to kindling. It saved me from this turning into a Marlovian story, hence the gratitude.
Anyway. It's written, and it can bloody well sit for a while before I deal with it again.
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markets
Date: 2006-05-25 05:00 am (UTC)http://www.duotrope.com/digest/ they have listings for ALL kinds of stories.
Re: markets
Date: 2006-05-25 05:10 am (UTC)Re: markets
Date: 2006-05-25 05:57 am (UTC)Re: markets
Date: 2006-05-25 06:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-05-25 10:32 am (UTC)Only 3 other short stories on my Marlowe list - Connie Willis' was in IASFM (authorship-ish), an AU and Bear's SF "This Tragic Glass", which probably aren't terribly relevant. Plus there's been a poem or two published in more literary magazines.
Depending how straightforward it is, maybe a YA market would have an opening for historical fiction?
Anyway, I don't know much about writer's markets, but when you want a beta, I'm all eyes.
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Date: 2006-11-30 10:51 pm (UTC)More than anything, I'd want fact-checking, to make sure I haven't tossed in any glaring historical errors.
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Date: 2006-11-30 11:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-11-30 11:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2006-12-01 01:57 am (UTC)My mother's coming for a visit this weekend; if you can email it to me before about 2pm EST, I'll try to print it from work before I go, so I can have it along. Otherwise, I may not get to it until she leaves on Wednesday
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Date: 2006-12-01 01:58 am (UTC)lis @ osmond-riba.org