I submitted a short story to the magazine
Weird Tales this afternoon.
It was my steam punk redo of the tortoise and the hare fable, "Slow and Steady." I tweaked it a bit more too, fixing a few things here and there. I'm glad I did too: for some reason all of the changes my Lovely Assistant made to it were still in red font, even though I was certain I fixed all of that.
Well a quick Apple+A and a trip to the font color palette fixed all of that. But it didn't hurt to give it another read through anyway. This version varies greatly from the one I sent of to Shimmer magazine a few months back--and that's a good thing. I tore out some stuff and reworked others, realizing that some parts just didn't work as well as I'd hoped. I got some positive feedback from the folks at Shimmer, which was helpful.
Cross your fingers kids and maybe I'll get that king's ransom of 3 cents a letter :) Hey, a sale is a sale. I'm in no position to even begin to talk about getting paid. Honestly, just being able to say I had a story published in Weird Tales would be pretty dang rewarding on its own.
I have some ideas for other stories that need to work on, but I'm also revising
The Magic of Eyri too (for the "Special Edition" re-release). And have to get back to work on the second
Eyri book at some point. BUSY. BUSY. BUSY.