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!
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!
