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Aug 26, 2014
Hi All

The great thing about working from home is that there are fewer distractions. The bad thing about working from home is that such distractions as occur tend to be more major. Like today, for example, when a package, sent to me by the lovely people at Hypnos Magazine (Radium Town Press http://radiumtownpress.com/ ), was handed to me by the postie. Because – listen and rejoice for me, o ye fellow authors – not only has Hypnos published one of my shorts, ‘The Inheritance’, in the Spring 2015 issue, they have paid me for it! Not only did they send me a contributor’s copy of their great magazine, but there was a cheque hiding among its pages, like a golden egg in a goose’s nest (or something)! This is the first time I have been paid for a piece of fiction, and it feels really good. I kind of knew the publication was in the pipeline, but didn’t want to believe it until the magazine was clutched in my sweating, trembling palms. And now that it is (I can’t let go of it), I can tell you that it is a nice mag, professionally put together, and that the experience of seeing ‘Marc Joan’ on a physical, printed page reaches parts of this poor writer that online publications cannot reach. Not that there is anything wrong with online publications, and I am grateful for each and every one of them that may be considering one of my submissions (he says hastily), it’s just that a physical item feels somehow different....

Anyway, brag over, just had to share. Happy days!
 
WAAHOOO!

There, that's better. I had hoped the font size went up.

Marc, that's amazing, I can't congratulate you enough. This is the sort of thing we all need to see — we're doing all of this for a reason.

You deserve it. Now I need to find a copy. We don't have to ask you for a read, anymore. We can go out and get it.
 
Wonderful! You know the publishing gates have now opened...oh published one....the Acceptance gods are in your corner...put in a good word for us would ya' :)

Congratulations!
Am doing the propitiatory Acceptance Dance as we speak ... it's not pretty ...
What was the sacrifice, to the Acceptance Gods... I lost my tome...
Ferrets. No. Mongolians. No...
 
I believe it is the goal of every writer to see their work in print, internet be darned. Online publication is still an amazing achievement but I don't think it compares to holding your work in your hands, leafing through the pages, reading your own words, silently screaming "Why did I write that? That sounds terrible!" ;)
In all seriousness, well done Marc, you deserve every bit of good fortune.
 
I believe it is the goal of every writer to see their work in print, internet be darned. Online publication is still an amazing achievement but I don't think it compares to holding your work in your hands, leafing through the pages, reading your own words, silently screaming "Why did I write that? That sounds terrible!" ;)
In all seriousness, well done Marc, you deserve every bit of good fortune.
It's also a good 'last line of defense' for catching typos — having a copy printed and bound.

Presuming you haven't gotten to where Marc is, already.
 
Wait... I thought Hypnos might be a reference to the Lovecraft short story. That's my man, right there! Mr. Weird Fiction Himself! I am so glad we're starting to see a resurgence.
 
Wait... I thought Hypnos might be a reference to the Lovecraft short story. That's my man, right there! Mr. Weird Fiction Himself! I am so glad we're starting to see a resurgence.

Absolutely. The Editor is a big fan of the genre, and has written quite an impassioned defence of it. Hopefully it's coming back, in some small way.
 
Leper bell. I did that. They kept throwing me out of the Ren-Faire tents. Coming at me with sticks...
Hilarious - I can just imagine it. People do complain when they have a bell clanged in their ears, don't they.

BTW, I had to look up Ren-Faire. Wikipedia quotes Neil Steinberg thus: "If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, whitebread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. Here, they let you throw axes. Here are more beer and bosoms than you'll find in all of Disney World." Now to me, that sounds like a cross between Freshers' Week and Hackney on a Saturday night. Can we have them in the UK, please.
 
Hilarious - I can just imagine it. People do complain when they have a bell clanged in their ears, don't they.

BTW, I had to look up Ren-Faire. Wikipedia quotes Neil Steinberg thus: "If theme parks, with their pasteboard main streets, reek of a bland, safe, homogenized, whitebread America, the Renaissance Faire is at the other end of the social spectrum, a whiff of the occult, a flash of danger and a hint of the erotic. Here, they let you throw axes. Here are more beer and bosoms than you'll find in all of Disney World." Now to me, that sounds like a cross between Freshers' Week and Hackney on a Saturday night. Can we have them in the uk please?]

Why good sir, hast ye never heard of Bosworth Battle Re-enactment? A verily good day of entertainment, but alas, visitors are not encouraged to dress the part, lest they be mistaken for the battle ready warriors. There are other such events, type ye upon the google for Sealed Knot re-enactment, I knoweth of Viking re-enactors, as well as the noble folk of Bosworth.
 
I love the U.K. re-enactors, everything they wear has to be authentic to the time period, no wristwatches or trainers. Well, young children are allowed certain luxuries regarding footwear, but I remember attending Bosworth one year where a guy was had traveled miles to participate only to be turned away due to improper footwear. He'd driven in trainers and forgotten his time travelers shoes. Poor fellow.
 
Yep! That's about it. Used to work at the PA Renn Faire. Got lots of great stories of those days! Some of which can't be told in polite company...
Silver Leaf Faire in Galesburg Michigan, myself. I had a different costume for every time I went... monk, lord, knight, leper... You're right, Jennifer, not a scrap of anything modern came in with me (except money, and I'd have paid in ducats if I could). Leper was fun. I did a black monk's robe and riding boots, black leather gauntleted glove for one hand so I could drive and eat, and wrapped my other hand and entire head in medical gauze I'd scrubbed in the dirt, with only a sliver open for one eye. I carried around a gnarled staff with a bell tied to it, and a beggar's bowl around my neck from twine, and limped around the place one-eyed the entire day, cowering and flinching from people shouting "unclean!"

No one accepted me. Not the knights, or the faeries, or the pirate wenches...

You might also check out the Society for Creative Anachronism!
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