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Fastest. Sale. Ever.
Aug. 14th, 2009 12:11 amI've sold my post-apocalyptic zombie story "The Holy Spear" to Revenant Magazine, an online zombie mag that's moving to a print version this fall. My story's probably going to be in issue 2 of the new print version, so woo hoo!
I had submitted the story to Apex when they reopened last month since it has some SFish elements on top of the zombie stuff. The submissions editor who replied said they usually don't publish zombie stories, but she thought this was a pretty good one and recommended two other places to try it. I didn't hear back on my query to the first publisher she recommended that I contact (not too surprising since they're not currently open to submissions), so I decided to try her other suggestion of Revenant, which I'm amazed I hadn't encountered before. Sent off the submission, and in an under hour, I had me a sale. Revenant gets some serious props in the speedy response department...which, for a zombie mag, is amusingly ironic given the usual speed at which zombies move.
I had submitted the story to Apex when they reopened last month since it has some SFish elements on top of the zombie stuff. The submissions editor who replied said they usually don't publish zombie stories, but she thought this was a pretty good one and recommended two other places to try it. I didn't hear back on my query to the first publisher she recommended that I contact (not too surprising since they're not currently open to submissions), so I decided to try her other suggestion of Revenant, which I'm amazed I hadn't encountered before. Sent off the submission, and in an under hour, I had me a sale. Revenant gets some serious props in the speedy response department...which, for a zombie mag, is amusingly ironic given the usual speed at which zombies move.
