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sallytuppence

Incoming!

Aug 09, 2006 17:29

There’s all kinds of discussion, some of it heated, some of it really cool, going on over at ccfinlay's house about the Babe Bomb, the plan for women writers to send stories to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction on August 18th.

Discussion is great. Means people are thinking and talking about the magazine, about editorial taste, about gender in ( Read more... )

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sallytuppence August 9 2006, 22:38:35 UTC

I hope I got here first.

I'm definitely in! This story is not freaking done yet, but it's coming along, and it's the first SF story I've ever written, so I'm pretty excited about it. My writing group is getting together on Sunday to crit my story and two other Bomb stories, so I've got to get going!

davidlevine August 9 2006, 22:51:39 UTC

I (a sensitive new age guy) have a story (call it story #1) that's just about ready to go and F&SF is the first market on its list. I'm revising another story right now (story #2), but I could set #2 aside to complete and submit #1 sooner.

I'm wondering whether to try to get #1 into the mail now to beat the Slush Bomb, wait until a few weeks after the Worldcon to let the Slush Bomb traffic clear, or ignore the Slush Bomb, finish #2, and complete and submit #1 when I get around to it.

sallytuppence August 9 2006, 23:43:57 UTC

I think you should submit it on August 18th!

iagor August 9 2006, 23:05:30 UTC

Slush Bomb, woot. Wimmin pwn.

sallytuppence August 9 2006, 23:56:55 UTC

You wrote a story, yay!

Not any story, a looooooooong story.

iagor August 9 2006, 23:57:43 UTC

And it has bad words in it, too. :iz all proud:

barthanderson August 9 2006, 23:18:50 UTC

"Babe Bomb", eh? Is it ok to refer to participants as "Charlie's Angels" yet?

Don't scowl at me. Someone *has* to have made that joke already...

sallytuppence August 9 2006, 23:45:35 UTC

You're the first one there!

(at least, I hadn't heard it before).

cathemery August 10 2006, 00:01:46 UTC

My comment was going to be that a Babe Bomb is what happens when she doesn't make it into Penthouse.

sallytuppence August 10 2006, 00:06:54 UTC

Hahaha. You in? Got a story written and ready to go?

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silk_noir August 9 2006, 23:53:05 UTC

Some of it really cool. Some of it makes me cringe and grind my teeth.

sallytuppence August 9 2006, 23:56:15 UTC

Me, too. But you're in! Go finish those last three paragraphs!!

You can totally break into F&SF, I just know it.