Astounding? Universe? Whoever, I'll take it.

[mrissa]

Baen's new magazine is buying "The Opposite of Pomegranates." Neat! This is a story I wrote for a pair of elisem earrings called, "'Oh, yeah?' said the rock sprite."

Coincidentally, I am wearing those earrings today.

Comments

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Congrats!!!!! *confetti*

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Is it about a planet that achieves a peaceful utopia and throws away all its weapons, only to be immediately besieged by hostile aliens?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No, but thanks for asking!

[nihilistic-kid.livejournal.com]

Hmm, it's not about that, yet it's a Baen market? The Civil War, with aliens? What what, what is it about?

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Excellent. Congratulations!

[dsgood.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Proesegranates?

[merriehaskell.livejournal.com]

Fantastic! Many congrats.

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! I've been curious to see who they were going to fill their first issue with. :)

[matociquala.livejournal.com]

mmm.

pomegranates.

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Woohoo!

[blzblack.livejournal.com]

Wahooie! Congrats!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Well done!

[gwynnega]

Yay! Congrats!

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

Any read on what about the story attracted them? I doubt I'll have any stories in a condition to submit any time soon, but like nihilistic_kid, I'm a bit curious about how closely Flint is sticking to Baen's *ahem* characteristic brand of SF.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I would characterize this as a light, fun fantasy. Don't know if that means they're looking for light, fun fantasies in general or just liked this one, though.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

Brava!

::confetti::

Mmm. Pomegranate.

[buymeaclue.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry. Sob. Opposite of pomegranates.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

But the opposite of pomegranates is still something many people like, not to spoil it too much.

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[stillnotbored.livejournal.com]

Yay! I'm glad you found a good home for it. :)

[dendrophilous.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[ellarien]

Congratulations!

[songwind.livejournal.com]

Great news!

[cadithial.livejournal.com]

Congrats, are you getting featured for the new author spotlight piece in those?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I've sold too many stories to too many pro markets to qualify as a "new author" by their standards. By the official standards of the field, I am not a new author but a professional science fiction author, even though most people actually in the field would still describe me as "new."

Also, I did not submit through their forum but through the slush pile. Most other pro markets consider it publishing to have a story printed somewhere on a website (in my opinion, rightly so), and while I am very glad to be published by this market, I'm not glad enough to throw away any chance of being published anywhere else.

[dd-b.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

I wanted to check what was known about the market you sold to, and I can't find any mention of it on the Baen web site. I guess it has its own site, but there really should be some sort of link! Huh, I found the actual title on boing boing, but no mention of it on Baen's site, and it doesn't seem to have its own yet. Seems a strange oversight; Locus has an article too, so why no news item on the Baen site?

Hope it works out. Eric actually seems mostly sensible. I think he and Jim have a bit of an over-reaction to "new wave" stories; I think the PJF answer is the right one really. But I'm firmly in the "style should serve the story" camp myself, as are all right-thinking people.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

It's brand-new, so it'll probably have some mention when it launches. At least that's my guess.

I like some New Wave stuff, too (here is where I do my Delany dance), but yah, for me style is an aspect of how one is handling a story, not a reason for N thousand words all by itself.

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That's wonderful news. :-)

[astromachy.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[oracne.livejournal.com]

Yay, sale!!!

[desayunoencama.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale!
Yay!
:-)

Yes, yes, good news, good news!

[markiv1111.livejournal.com]

On one hand, of course this is good news! On the other hand, I'm wondering about contact information for the new magazine. I have a novelet that was once called "The Tree of Life is Dying" -- will retitle it "Trees of Life" when I submit it in this decade -- that Stan Schmidt and George Scithers looked at three times apiece, that Eric Vinicoff wanted for his s-f adventure magazine (which never came out), and that Elinor Mavor had wanted for *Amazing Stories,* but was overstocked at the time I submitted it (and by the time the money for her to send me a check had come through, she no longer had the job, but had been replaced) -- I suspect that anything Baen supported would be at least a fair fit. So: Can you enlighten me? (And can I locate the manuscript, 15 years after having stopped sending it around?) Thanks.

Nate B.

Re: Yes, yes, good news, good news!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The link is here (http://baensastoundingstories.com/subguide.html); good luck finding the manuscript!