{"id":1393,"date":"2020-01-09T11:16:31","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:16:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1393"},"modified":"2020-01-09T11:16:32","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T16:16:32","slug":"happy-new-year-new-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/09\/happy-new-year-new-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy new year & new fiction!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My second sale of 2019 went live at midnight on January 1st, 2020, with Syntax&Salt’s final issue<\/a>. (A short, sad-but-sweet tale of ghost cats, corporate life, and learning to move on.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This year I’m dialing back on the submission goals to focus on editing and finding my way. 2019 was rough–a lot of work for very little effort–and while I know the adage that “every overnight success is 20 years in the making”, it’s cold comfort sometimes. Five magazines closed while I had submissions there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There’s so much out of my control that it’s overwhelming, sometimes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Quiet Afternoon<\/em> closed with a very respectable 75 submissions. We’re still deciding the acceptances, but we are pleased with the results so far and excited to begin Phase Two of the anthology (copy-editing and design).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I’m currently at 25 queries for Space Crazies, will probably go for a nice round 100, and then stop. I don’t know if I will bother querying Fletcher & Cooper<\/em>. I will edit it and send it off to beta-readers who are excited for it, but beyond that, probably nothing. I don’t know if I have it in me to watch a fifth novel fail. But we’ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Oh yes and I am still on anti-depressants and that reminds me I need to get my dose checked. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As ever, I’ll do what I can. I haven’t given up yet. Even baby steps are forward progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New fiction and a variety of updates to start off 2020!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,179],"tags":[221,71,230,83],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","tag-a-quiet-afternoon","tag-new-fiction","tag-new-year","tag-space-crazies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1395,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions\/1395"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}