Oh the Little Match Girl picture is lovely, and heartbreaking. The rest of the pictures are scary creepy and sleep with all the lights on…
The Little Match Girl caused me to have near hysterical weeping in kindergarten. My dear teacher, Miss Fisher, had to take me out and get me a drink of water in the hall.
I can still get pretty worked up about it if I think too long.
BHL
This story is stunning. My favourite English teacher described a great short story as one which puts a novel’s worth of back-story, inferences, emotions and meaning into 20 pages or less without seeming either cramped or incoherent.
It’s haunting and scary and fairy-tale like but still very realistically human, if that makes any sense at all.
I am contacting you as a representative of Quail Bell magazine, a new online and print magazine that focuses on fantasy, fairytales, and magical realism. I would like to ask you to submit your work to our launch issue, scheduled for February 14, 2010. You will not receive monetary compensation, but you will have the opportunity to sell any of your books, ‘zines, artwork, or other appropriately themed work in our online store on a commission basis. You will also receive a contributor’s copy of the print magazine if we choose your piece for our bi-monthly issue. Please send your response and an attachment of your work (if applicable) to quailbell@gmail.com. Thank you for your time; I look forward to hearing from you soon.
I’d like to echo that wow and invite you to wow me again.
I’m coediting (with my friend Sarah Avery) the conjoined anthology _Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic_ for Drollerie Press. At present, we need more Magicking in Traffic stories than Trafficking in Magic, but we’re open to both.
I can’t direct you to anything else I’ve edited (this is a first time for me), but you can view my work in the same issue of Cabinet des Fees that published you, and on my Web site, http://davidwriting.com. (if you have an e-book reader and are in a book-buying mood, you may also want to check out my novella and Sarah Avery’s two novellas on the Drollerie Press Web site , and the Little Red Riding Hood anthology _Straying from the Path_, which includes my own take on that story, “Behind the Tower”)
If you have questions, I’m happy to answer them at the e-mail on the call for submissions (not the one on my Web site; those will languish until I find the lost password)
Of course, this request for submissions does not guarantee acceptance, but the fact that I’m contacting you (and being so verbose about it–sorry) does mean you’ve impressed me once, and I’m eager to see if you can do it again.
And, lastly, if you know other writers who are as good as you, please invite them to try too. It’s been my experience that talented writers often know other talented writers.
I’ll look to see what I have that is close to “finished” (ha, as if anything ever is). I’d be very pleased to submit to Quail Bell, and I look forward to the publication!
Oh the Little Match Girl picture is lovely, and heartbreaking. The rest of the pictures are scary creepy and sleep with all the lights on…
The Little Match Girl caused me to have near hysterical weeping in kindergarten. My dear teacher, Miss Fisher, had to take me out and get me a drink of water in the hall.
I can still get pretty worked up about it if I think too long.
This story is stunning. My favourite English teacher described a great short story as one which puts a novel’s worth of back-story, inferences, emotions and meaning into 20 pages or less without seeming either cramped or incoherent.
It’s haunting and scary and fairy-tale like but still very realistically human, if that makes any sense at all.
Or, to put this into one word: Wow.
Oh, wow! Thank you!
Dear Ms. Molhere,
I am contacting you as a representative of Quail Bell magazine, a new online and print magazine that focuses on fantasy, fairytales, and magical realism. I would like to ask you to submit your work to our launch issue, scheduled for February 14, 2010. You will not receive monetary compensation, but you will have the opportunity to sell any of your books, ‘zines, artwork, or other appropriately themed work in our online store on a commission basis. You will also receive a contributor’s copy of the print magazine if we choose your piece for our bi-monthly issue. Please send your response and an attachment of your work (if applicable) to quailbell@gmail.com. Thank you for your time; I look forward to hearing from you soon.
Sincerely,
Michelle Labbé
http://www.quailbellmagazine.com
I’d like to echo that wow and invite you to wow me again.
I’m coediting (with my friend Sarah Avery) the conjoined anthology _Trafficking in Magic/Magicking in Traffic_ for Drollerie Press. At present, we need more Magicking in Traffic stories than Trafficking in Magic, but we’re open to both.
Deadline is Feb. 28th.
Submissions address is magic@drolleriepress.com.
Guidelines (for this and two other Drollerie Press anthologies) are at: http://drolleriepress.com/drollerie/submit/open-anthologies/
An update on what topics we still need and what we’ve seen too much of, in case it helps, can be found here:
http://thunderpigeon.livejournal.com/31344.html
I can’t direct you to anything else I’ve edited (this is a first time for me), but you can view my work in the same issue of Cabinet des Fees that published you, and on my Web site, http://davidwriting.com. (if you have an e-book reader and are in a book-buying mood, you may also want to check out my novella and Sarah Avery’s two novellas on the Drollerie Press Web site , and the Little Red Riding Hood anthology _Straying from the Path_, which includes my own take on that story, “Behind the Tower”)
If you have questions, I’m happy to answer them at the e-mail on the call for submissions (not the one on my Web site; those will languish until I find the lost password)
Of course, this request for submissions does not guarantee acceptance, but the fact that I’m contacting you (and being so verbose about it–sorry) does mean you’ve impressed me once, and I’m eager to see if you can do it again.
And, lastly, if you know other writers who are as good as you, please invite them to try too. It’s been my experience that talented writers often know other talented writers.
Thank you, Michelle!
I’ll look to see what I have that is close to “finished” (ha, as if anything ever is). I’d be very pleased to submit to Quail Bell, and I look forward to the publication!
Virginia
Wow, David, Thank you! Thanks so much for your comments and your invitation.
I have a piece that might work for Magicking in Traffic, and it’s definitely not about cars. I’ll buckle down and try to get it done in time.
Virginia
I look forward to reading it.
David