ohhh congraaats! can't wait to read this ๐
I'm so very excited my story "A Menu of First Favorite Meals" is now live for you to read at @uncannymagazine.bsky.socialwww.uncannymagazine.com/article/a-me...
Monday: Fluffernutter Sandwich You smile and greet me by name when I arrive: โHi, Mira, please come in.โ Itโs the same polite smile you give the doctors. You know who I am, but my identity is just a f...
I knowww, the submission limit and everyone rushing to get their story in early makes me too stressed to do anything but set an alarm and hope for the best haha.
thank youuu! and yeah haha they are pretty singular in requirements and opening time! fingers crossed that waking up at 5am was worth it ๐
nothing quite like waking up briefly at the unholy hour of 5am (I am not a morning person) to submit a short story somewhere because they have a submission cap and I have anxiety. and now, back to sleep to sleep I go ๐ด
It's September's newsletter! A brief tl;dr of Flights of Foundry, The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2024 flailing, and a college update (pro tip: maybe don't take 5 classes at once). Also, this might be the last newsletter via Buttondown! Might switch to Beehiiv ๐
Hello! Welcome to V.M. Ayala's definitely on-time newsletter updatesโhi yes, it Val, it me. It is, in fact, September 30 and not Oct 1 like the last...
*sighs* as much as I do not want to use substack, buttondown is getting buggier and buggier and just ate an entire newsletter draft and won't load, so do y'all have recommendations (that are, again, NOT substack as I would like to avoid them if I can help it)? something ideally with free options!
yes very much same, it's so tricky! especially when you doubt your own gut/intuition sometimes haha ๐
yeah at this point I have several novelettes and novellas going on, which I guess will be totally fiiiine haha... aaa ๐
it's such an interesting thing because sometimes I read short stories where point A leads to point Z and you're just supposed to go on vibes ๐ which is fine! but then sometimes people tell you that your stuff is too confusing and it's so hard to know the balance.