So I decided that if I could get a short Scifi story published in my own name then maybe I didn't need to.
The prize for the competition is to have your story published in an anthology in a printed book
So if any of you are interested in the competition, then check it out @ Words Just Words
I woke up this morning and wrote 500 words straight off, so now all I have to do is turn it into 3, 500 short story.
'Child's play to a writer like me,' She said pausing only long enough
to tell all her online friends about the competition she'd found whilesurfing the net.
Happy Writing,
Jarmara
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Change your name? I missed that post. How disturbing, especially if it's true.
Godd Luck Jamara! I too will be entering lots of contests this year for the same reason, must get myname out there. It's odd for me at 52 to be "starting over" in the name recognition game. I was once well known for my work in cancer pain control but now I am just a newbie all over. Very humbling.
I'll be watching for YOUR name!
Best of luck with the story. A good strategy. I think there only needs to be one female sci-fi writer to break the mould - and that could be you!
Yes,it's true, Susan I was at the RNA winter party while I was chatting to a lady editor. She said that women wouldn't read my novel as it's a Scifi novel I would be better off changing my name to a man's name.
Hi Donna You and me both at such a young age, my friend Elizabeth Lord had her first novel published at 60 and is now on 24 at 83 years young, so we have plenty of years left in us.
Thank you, Deborah I hope so it would be lovely to think I could be.
You could change your name to Jay Falcon - or even J Falcon - so you could be either gender. That's what J K Rowling did, isn't it, so she wouldn't put off young boys from reading her books.
Sad, but a fact of life, I guess.
'Twas ever thus. Think Ellis, Acton and Currer Bell, George Elliot etc. You'd be in good company.
PS. Nature magazine runs sci fi shorts every week and I've been surprised how many of those are by women. So it's not actually a closed market.
They're called 'Futures' and they are all hard fiction:
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/arts/futures/index.html
To be fair, Jarmara, you didn't pitch to an agent who handles sci fi, you pitched to an agent who handles romantic fiction. They're completely different and will give different advice.
Thank you for your comment Hari but the lady was an editor. And, there is such a thing as Scifi/romance novel, which mine isn't, but the lady editor didn't think women read scifi novel generally
Point still stands Jarmara. You pitched to a woman who's expertise isn't in the genre you're writing in.
It clear from her comment about women reading sci fi. Anyone who knows anything about the sci fi market knows that there is a big female readership.
Still a man's world! You could always use initials, like J.K. Rowling did. Good luck on your entry. BTW, I finally got your follower button to work. I find that my Follower section doesn't appear half the time!
Hi there Hari, thank you for dropping back.
But I think I should point out that I wasn’t pitching to the lady in question as I was a guest at the RNA winter party as I went with my writing friend, the author Elizabeth Lord. I got in to conversation with the editor when I asked her a question about what’s meant by ‘Mainstream’.
I was told by a agent, who wasn’t at the RNA that my novel wasn’t mainstream enough for her so out of interest I took the opportunity to ask someone at the party, which was the editor.
She asks me to tell her about my novel, and it was then I explain my plot to her that she made her comments.
I’m fully aware where I need to pitch my sort of novel.
Welcome to my blog, Lady Gwen. I afraid that I have been back to your blog and found that I’ve been unable to leave another comment.
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