Woo-hoo!

By my own (probably skewed) analysis, Critters seem to make sales about ten times as often as non-Critters! Here is some good news that members have reported:

If you have something to report, tell me immediately!

Congratulations to...

• Heidi Elizabeth Smith, who reports "I sold my review of _Thrice Bound_ by Roberta Gellis to Strange Horizons. It is now online, and if anyone cares to read it, I would appreciate it if you left a note on their comments forum. The rest of the site is great, too, and the editors are wonderful people to work with. Thanks for reading!". [Sep 2001]

• Robert A. Sloan, author of Raven Dance, who reports "I entered the 2001 Anvil Press 3 Day Novel Contest". {Over Labor Day Weekend, 2001, while friends attended WorldCon or the Pennsic War, I entered the Anvil Press annual "3 Day Novel Contest." Beginning at midnight Sept. 1 and ending at midnight the end of Sept. 3, I ran a literary marathon... and the principle of Special Olympics where everyone's a winner has a special meaning for that marathon. In those three days I completed "Rites of Chavatekyar" - 37,640 words, 216 manuscript pages, pure high fantasy. Two other writers, Jennifer St. Clair Bush and Jenny Shafer, 'ran' with me on the main discussion board at hollylisle.com - all three of us finished and all three of us kept up a running chapter synopsis and wordcount. With 300 entrants last year, an average length of 100 pages for submissions and a worldwide field, this contest is important. Everyone who finishes wins - and readers can look forward to Rites of Chavateykar next year whether I take the Grand Prize or not. There will be a free to enter 3 Day Novel Contest during 2002 on www.hollylisle.com site warming up for next year's Anvil Press competition. } [Sep 2001]

• Dave Freer, who sold his short story, "A lineman for he Country" to Baen Books. {This novelette will appear in an Anthology edited by Eric Flint, set in the 1632 universe. } [Sep 2001]

• Roxanne Hutton, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Mandy" to Artemis Magazine. {This is my third sale to Artmeis Magazine, which is my second fiction sale (second sale was non-fiction). By the way, Artemis is being published by DNA Publications, which right now has a push on to get more of the magazines into bookstores. So if your favorite bookstore or magazine dealer doesn't carry Artemis, I strongly recommend that you talk to the manager and see if they can't get it in. Not only is it a good market for SF (does not have to be space related), it also carries the latest developments on space exploration and habitation. If you write or intend to write on near-term space SF, it's a must-read. } [Sep 2001]

• Mike Rimar, who has won the 2nd place in the ConVersions XVIII Short Story Contest award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Jacob's Gift". [Sep 2001]

• Sheila Crosby, who sold her short story, "The Battle of the Bulge" to Planet Relish. {This Feghoot should be up in the September/October issue of Planet Relish. Although it wasn't crittered, the lessons I learned here certainly helped. } [Sep 2001]

• Jason Hauser, who sold his short story, "The Necromancer's Hamper" to Twilight Times. [Aug 2001]

• Elizabeth Blue, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Bump in the Night" is now out in the current issue of Down a Dark Hallway. {You can see it at http://darkhall.8k.com/blue.html } [Aug 2001]

• Dave Freer, whose novel, "Rats, Bats and Vats" is now out from Baen Books. {The paperback of 'Rats, Bats & Vats (co-authored with Eric Flint) is out. } [Aug 2001]

• Stenger White, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Turing's Last Laugh" is now out in the current issue of Anotherealm.com. [Aug 2001]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "In THe Blood" to The Lawbreakers Anthology. {This is a new e-antho from ShadowKeep and WhatIf Productions. First time I've ever been invited to submit someting for an antho. http://www.shadowkeepzine.com/lawbreakers/index.html } [Aug 2001]

• David L. felts, who reports ""From the Mouths of Birds" (originally crittered last spring as "In the Belly of a Black Winged Bird) earned an honorable mention in Windling and Datlow's Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. It was the winner of the Chiaroscuro story contest and was originally published in Gothic Net in June 2000. ". [Aug 2001]

• Jennifer Oberlander, whose short story, "Loup Noir" is now out in the current issue of Wandering Troll. [Aug 2001]

• Jeff Cates, who sold his short story, "A Real Charmer" to The Writer's Notebook. { Although I have sold nonfiction and science fiction stories since I've been in Critters, this is my first horror sale. I am grateful to all the Critters and fellow writers out there who helped me to develop the editing skills to make this possible. Thanks to all of you who have helped me on this journey. } [Aug 2001]

• Rob Holden, whose short story, "Baker-1" is now out in the current issue of NeverWorlds. {Two stories out in one week. Now, if I could just figure out how to sell 'em this fast! :-) } [Aug 2001]

• Rob Holden, whose short story, "Jenna's Eyes" is now out in the current issue of Blue Murder . {I'da had it crittered if critters critted crime! Check out the magazine (a really excellent market, by the way -- they buy a lot) at www.bluemurder.com } [Aug 2001]

• Terrie Relf, whose short story, "In Search of Home" is now out in the current issue of Electric Wine's Anthology. {Although the story wasn't crittered, I always like to give credit to this community for supporting me in my writing! This is one of my flash fiction pieces, and it's in the on-line zine as well as their soon-to-be-released anthology. There's so many great writers on this site that I'm totally jazzed to be among them. } [Aug 2001]

• Lisa Batya Feld, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Dangerous Game" to Dreams of Decadence. {I want to thank all the critters, not just for their critiques of this story, but for helping me reach this point by teaching me so much over the past four years. You guys rock. } [Aug 2001]

• Philip B. Young, who reports "Agreed to serialize my jsut completed novel "Halley's Conundrum"". {The nice people at www.fuzzynet.co.uk have just agreed to serialize my recently finished novel "Halley's Conundrum"! This site publishes new work WEEKLY! They are looking for good writers and submissions! } [Aug 2001]

• Anthony J D Burns, who sold his (Critter'd) novel, "Demogorgon Rising" to Mushroom ebooks. {Will be out later this year, all going well. } [Aug 2001]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "The Development" to Anotherealm. {I'd like to thank the critters for their help and advice! } [Aug 2001]

• Jim Hume, who sold his short story, "The Wandering Wife" to Blue Murder Magazine. {I also sold a third story to Blue Murder called "Summer Crazy". My first short story, "The Bad Blonde" is available online in Issue 19, at bluemurder.com. "The Wandering Wife" should appear in the August issue and the third one a few months later. Now, I just need to break into real print! } [Jul 2001]

• Joe Murphy, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, ""Ovipositors of Luv" and "The Lamia's Conceit"" to Strange Horizons and Audio Realms. {My thanks, as usual, to all the Critters who sent forth their critiques to do battle with my ego. I appreciate everyone's feedback on these and all other stories. } [Aug 2001]

• Alissa Grosso, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "A Little Green Man Saves the Day" to Quantum Muse. {It's up now at http://www.quantummuse.com/science_fiction.html. Thanks for all the crits! } [Aug 2001]

• Jason Hauser, whose (Critter'd) short story, "In the Company of Thieves" is now out in the current issue of Pegasusonline.com. [Jul 2001]

• Severna Park, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Cure For Everything" is now out in the current issue of The Year's Best SF, edited by Gardner Dozois. {I want to thank everyone who sent their comments on this story (at least 2 years ago!). Ellen Datlow picked it up first, on SciFi.com, and then Gardner Dozois picked it for his yearly collection. The story is also currently on the preliminary list for the Nebula Award and I couldn't be more thrilled! The 'Best of' anthology just came out in the beginning of July---look for it! } [Jul 2001]

• Christian L. Campbell, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Bees' Knees" to Dark Planet. {Thanks to all the great critters who gave great advice through two rewrites of this story. It should be out in August or September. } [Jul 2001]

• Alissa Grosso, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Stars" to Twilight Times. {Thanks to everyone who helped me with this story. You can check it out at http://www.twilighttimes.com/fiction13.html } [Jul 2001]

• Thomas Claburn, whose (Critter'd) novel, "Reflecting Fires" is now out from Xlibris. {The first few chapters of Reflecting Fires were critiqued by various critters a few years back. The end result is much improved. For further info, please see my Web site: http://www.lot49.com } [Jul 2001]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who reports "Contest deadline approaching!!". {We're still accepting contest entries to the Garden State Horror Writers 9th Annual Fiction contest. Theme: Sympathy for the Devil! First prize is $100. There are other cash prizes as well. Check out my site: http://www.DeadluMojo.com and click on CONTEST for full details. Hurry! The deadline for submissions is 7/31. } [Jul 2001]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, whose short story, "The Fire God" is now out in the current issue of MediaPlus Magazine. {The story can be found at this site: http://www.MediaPlusMagazine.com It's a really great zine, and it's linked to Troma.com! Lots of views. Check it out if you can~~ } [Jul 2001]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, whose short story, "Despair" is now out in the current issue of Horror Author's Network/The Gallows. {Take a look at the story: http://www.horrorauthors.net/gallows/ It's listed under most recent additions. } [Jul 2001]

• Jennifer L. Oberlander, whose short story, "Monsters" is now out in the current issue of Demenzions ezine. [Jul 2001]

• Mary Catelli, who sold her short story, "The Witching Hour" to Fantastic. [Jun 2001]

• Roxanne Hutton, who reports "My speculative science article has been published.". {The Summer 2001 issue of Artemis Magazine is out, including "The Intrasystem Transport Ring: A Thought Experiment". This isn't SF, but as science it's so speculative that it might just as well be fiction. It has implications for future space development, and it also has implications for SETI. } [Jun 2001]

• H. David Blalock, who sold his short story, "Tale of Two Kings" to Gateway SF. {I invite everyone to come to my website at http://thrankeep.com for more information on my and other Midsouth authors' works. } [Jun 2001]

• Gary A. Wilbanks, who sold his short story, "13 Rooms" to Nocturne Horizons. {The story is out in July. Nocturne Horizons is a new E-zine and this is just their second issue, but check it out. It's a fantastic zine. (And I'm not just saying that because I'm in it :) } [Jun 2001]

• Beth Bernobich, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Medusa at Morning" to Strange Horizons. {In the past two months, I also sold two SF/Erotica stories to Clean Sheets e-zine and an article to Speculations. And, I'm pleased to report that my Crittered novella, "Passion Play," gained me a spot in the Viable Paradise Writers Workshop. } [Jun 2001]

• Simon Bewick, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Somewhere Down The River" to Strange Horizons. {Well, opinion was divided when this was crittered about the ending. I had it open, tried to close it, magazine went back to the open, but with a number of changes made to it since the crittered version. Thanks to all for their help. } [Jun 2001]

• Mike Rimar, who reports "My story, "Jacob's Gift", has made it to the final three entries in the Con-version XVIII short story contest!". {My story, "Jacob's Gift", has made it to the final three entries in the Con-Version XVIII short story contest (Apprentice-level). Final judging in late August. Either way it's a minimum 100 bucks (3rd place) and a print in their ConTales booklet. } [Jun 2001]

• James Chancellor, who sold his novel, "The Bastard, an Evil Within" to Publish America. [Jun 2001]

• Linda Wood, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Key To Pain" to Leading Edge. {This is my first sale and I am grateful for Critters for keeping me writing when I wanted to give up. } [Jun 2001]

• Kevin G Maclean, who reports "Piper's Ash included three of my poems in their latest collection". {I hadn't actually intended to try to get them published, but the editor asked, so I just sent her what I had. } [Jun 2001]

• H. David Blalock, who sold his short story, "End Game" to "Even More Monsters from Memphis" anthology. {"Even More Monsters from Memphis" should be appearing late this summer. } [Jun 2001]

• H. David Blalock, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Stolen Thunder" to "Denizens of the Dark" anthology. {"Denizens of the Dark" is a compendium of horror stories still taking submissions. To submit your work, contact Everette Bell via e-mail at Evbell01@aol.com for guidelines. } [Jun 2001]

• Simon Haynes, whose (Critter'd) novel, "Hal Spacejock" is now out from the author. {One of the chapters in my novel was crittered way back in 1997. It was a short story entitled Robots 'r' Us, and the helpful crits kept me motivated for the next 4 years. Just wanted to say thanks to everyone, and especially to Cap'n Critter. Simon Haynes http://www.spacejock.com } [Jun 2001]

• Eugie Foster, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "The Adventures of Manny the Mailmobile" to Cicada. {Thanks to all the folks that crittered "Manny"! Your advice and input made all the difference. WOOHOOO!! My first sale! I'm gonna be published! You could knock me over with a feather right now, could ya tell? } [Jun 2001]

• Carrie Pavlin, who reports "I was made editor-in-chief for Truth Within, a magazine of religious thought!". {It isn't fiction (well, not much - though I do have some fiction on the website www.truthwithin.com ) but it is an opportunity to both do a heavy amount of writing and regularily meet new authors. I am very excited. } [Jun 2001]

• Simon Bewick, who sold his short story, "Late Arrival" to Blue Murder. {A short mystery pastiche. Originally going to be printed by an English magazine that bit the dust, so glad to see it's found a home. My fourth sale in a month, so I guess I should keep going. Thanks to all for their comments on my other stuff. } [Jun 2001]

• Richard Larson, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Travelers" to Glyph: The Journal of Fantasy and Legend. [Jun 2001]

• Laurie Tom, who sold her short story, "Marlene and the Tiger" to Kinships. [May 2001]

• Will Briggs (William Saxton), who sold his short story, "The Glitch" to Gateway S-F. {It's online now, at http://www.gateway-sf-magazine.com/the-glitch.html . } [May 2001]

• Colin Harvey, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Bipartisan" to Aphelion. [May 2001]

• Colin Harvey, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Dreamstalker" is now out in the current issue of Fragmented Infinity. {This is my second story to be accepted, but my first to see print - Thanks to Jude Chao, the editor, for putting it on the web } [May 2001]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her novel, "Time for Alexander" to Jacobyte Books. {This is a time-travel novel about a journalist from the future kidnapped by Alexander the Great. Although it wasn't crittered here, I recieved much help, advice, and encouragement from critters - and I want to say Thank you all! As soon as it's available I will let you know! } [May 2001]

• Leigh Kimmel, who reports "another Salem Press commission". {Salem Press has commissioned me to write a 1,000 word article on the resignation of Spiro T. Agnew for their forthcoming reference book, _Great Events of the Twentieth Century_. } [May 2001]

• Roxanne Hutton, who reports "sold an SF related non fiction piece to Artemis". {I've been playing with the idea of a "space railway". This would be a very large mass-driver, i.e. a linear electric motor long enough to start just sunward of Earth's orbit, go all the way around the sun and back again, forming a giant ring. It's been part of the universe I've been working on that includes the Crittered stories "Mandy", "Virgi", "As Those Who Can See", and "Foil Dive", which Artemis published in the Spring '01 issue. Anyway, I wrote an article about the concept, which is fiction in that no serious engineering studies exist, let alone the thing itself, but non-fiction in the sense that it proposes the idea as one that might work, and might be the way we will go at some time in the future. Artemis has accepted the article for publication. What fun! } [May 2001]

• Scott Couchman, who reports "Birth of my baby!". {Jason Samuel Couchman was born March 31st. Been a little busy with the little guy to read and critique, but should be critting again soon! } [May 2001]

• Lucy Cohen Schmeidler, whose short story, "Sword of Peace" is now out in the current issue of MZB's Sword and Sorceress. {This story marked the first time that I was invited to submit to a closed anthology (on the basis of having had a story in MZB's Fantasy Magazine some years earlier), so I pushed myself to write something appropriate for the market. The actual publication marks my first pro sale, qualifying me for Associate Membership in SFWA. } [May 2001]

• Peter Diplaros, whose short story, "Revelations" is now out in the current issue of Eye For The Future Magazine. [May 2001]

• Michael Hanson, whose novel, "The Heroes' Republic" is now out from Xlibris Corporation. [Apr 2001]

• Ray E. Main, who sold his short story, "Demons are Cantankerous" to XOddity. {While these were written before I joined Critters, I'm looking forward with confidence to my first Crittered publication. This is a great critique site for writers of speculative fiction. Ray } [Apr 2001]

• Robbie Matthews, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Fringe Dwellers" is now out in the current issue of Nor of Human ( http://www2.dynamite.com.au/robbiem/anthology.htm ). {This was the first story I ever had run through Critters. } [Apr 2001]

• Thomas McNamara, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Desert Between the Stars" to Quantum Muse. {Thank you very much to those of you who critiqued my story. This is my first paid publication. It will appear in the May edition. } [Apr 2001]

• E.K. Rivera, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Hero" to PeridotBooks.com. {thanks again to everyone who critter'd this one! } [Apr 2001]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "Marching to Armageddon" to Black October Magazine. [Apr 2001]

• Simon Bewick, who sold his short story, "In the front of a brown cab" to Blue Murder. {It wasn't crittered because it was a mystery story, but pleased to be published in Blue Murder which I only found recently and think is a great magazine. } [Apr 2001]

• Barbara M. Hodges, whose novel, "The Blue Flame" is now out from Hard Shell Word Factory. {My fantasy adventure novel, The Blue Flame, first published in elctronic format by Hard Shell Word Factory, is now available in trade paperback through Hard Shell's web site, as well as special order from your local bookstore. } [Apr 2001]

• Xiang Yuen, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "To Summer" to Jackhammer E-zine. {Thanks, guys... I got so many responses here I figured it might be worthwhile to try somewhere. } [Apr 2001]

• Colin Harvey, who sold his short story, "Obsessional" to Neverworlds. {I wrote the story in 1998, sold it in 1999 to the late "Pulp Eternity", had it returned prior to the magazine folding in 2000. A rejection slip suggesting I workshopped the story actually caused me to join Critters - so there is a connection! } [Apr 2001]

• Rob Holden, who sold his short story, "Baker-1" to NEVERWORLDS. {This would have been crittered, but I actually discovered Critters at the NEVERWORLDS site, right after I submitted the story! Two good things from one submission! :-) } [Apr 2001]

• Laurie Tom, whose short story, "Rat Bait" is now out in the current issue of Foxfire. {This publication is very special to me. Even though "Rat Bait" is not my first published story, it was my first sale. } [Apr 2001]

• Kelley Buzbee, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, ""Lucretia's Nose"" to Writers of the Future #17. {This is NOT my Yahoo, but ex-critter Phillip Lee's who is sitting on an island in the Mediterranean grinning like a fool because he is now a "Writer of the Future" for "Lucretia's Nose." He had reported being a finalist, but didn't make the final cut but that changed last month. I told him I'd pass it on as well as his thanks. } [Apr 2001]

• Robert A. Sloan, who reports "Announcing "Launchpad" Anthology!". {Calling All Critters! Robert A. Sloan, author of Raven Dance will begin reading stories for Launchpad, volume 1. Theme is "Love and Death." Stories should be 10,000 words and under, may be F, SF or H but must in some way deal with both themes in the same story. Preferably original ways or fantastic ways, Love isn't always romantic and can be for a child, a symbiote, a god, parents, self, nestmates... Death may mean death or vampire transformation or revival by cloning with death passage experience or death of mind - be creative! PAYING MARKET: $20 on acceptance. Query robertsloan2@yahoo.com for details of this anthology series. } [Apr 2001]

• Robert A. Sloan, whose novel, "Raven Dance" is now out from iUniverse.com. [Apr 2001]

• Rob Holden, who sold his novel, "The Problem with Harry" to Boson Books. {Is professionally edited, non-vanity, royalty paying e-publishing the wave of the future? :::shrugs::: Ya got me, but Boson is "Highly Recommended" by Preditors and Editors, and I'm too busy dancing on the ceiling to worry much about it anyway right now! :-) } [Apr 2001]

• Ian Campbell, who sold his novel, "The Fifth Cylinder" to Random House. [Apr 2001]

• David Payne, who reports "my honors thesis is finished.". {Well, this may not be something for Critters, but I've been working on the 50-page thesis for the whole year and it has really hindered my ability to critique. Thanks to all you guys who gave me an excuse to both finish it and to take a break from it. } [Apr 2001]

• Mike Rimar, whose (Critter'd) short story, "A Warrior's work" is now out in the current issue of This Way Up (www.wayup.co.uk). [Mar 2001]

• Larry Taylor, who has won the 21st Annual Science Fiction Writers of Earth Short Story Contest for 2000 award for his short story, "Annie". {Ed Bryant was the judge for the competition. The winning story is online at http://home.flash.net/~sfwoe/ Although the story was not Crittered, I'd like to thank the other Critters for giving me the chance to improve my writing skills through this site. Thanks! } [Apr 2001]

• Sean Sands, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Naked Marilyn" is now out in the current issue of Electric Wine. {Thanks again to all the Critters who helped get this one ready! } [Apr 2001]

• Jonathon "Sullydog" Sullivan, who sold his short story, "The Guerdon Earth"" to the sff.net/Darkfire anthology, "Bones of the World". [Mar 2001]

• Samantha Peterson, who sold her novel, "Starfire: Project 5,000" to Century 21 bookstore. {My first novel, "Starfire: Project 5,000" will be listed on Sunday, April 1, 2001 for sale at: http://www.c21bookstore.com/index.html } [Mar 2001]

• Rob Holden, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Tooth (And Nothing But The Tooth)" to Planet Relish. {Thanks, critters. If it weren't for you folks, this one would have been just a pain in the as ... er ... tooth! :-) } [Mar 2001]

• Paul S. Jenkins, who sold his short story, "My Heart Melts For You" to Planet Relish. {Also, my story "Waiting for Your Call" is now online at Digital Catapult -- http://www.digital-catapult.com } [Mar 2001]

• Alissa Grosso, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Lady Innocent, Secrecy, and the Renegade Family Founder" to Writershood.com - Science Fiction. {This story will appear in their April issue. The ezine's web address is http://www.writershood.com/htms/scifi.htm A big thank you goes out to all the critters who helped me with this one! } [Mar 2001]

• Joe Murphy, who sold his short story, "Engines of Similarity" to the Bones of the World Anthology. {Thanks to everyone for continuing to read my stuff. Critters has been a great help. } [Mar 2001]

• LaZealtrice Jackson, who has won the 1st Place in the Houston Writers Conference Manuscript award for her novel, "The Made". [Mar 2001]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "To The Sea, Our Tears Returned" to SFF.net anthology, Bones of the World. {Am I happy? You better beleive it! } [Mar 2001]

• Frank W. Clark, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Preying Game" is now out in the current issue of Nuketown E-mag. {Took a lot of interesting Critter hits on this one, but just goes to show that if you keep trying, you'll get it published! } [Mar 2001]

• Frank W. Clark, who sold his short story, "Not So Fast" to Blue Murder (bluemurder.com). {Obviously not a Crittered story, but the tenacity for rewriting this until it was accepted is a result of Critter support! Thanks everybody! } [Mar 2001]

• Gary Wilbanks, who sold his short story, "Addiction" to ALEMBIC. {March seems to be a pretty good month for me. Although "Addiction" was not crittered, the tips I have picked up from other stories I've put in the queue have certainly helped in making this piece a publishable story. Thanks gang. } [Mar 2001]

• Gary Wilbanks, whose short story, "Deadline" is now out in the current issue of Dark Moon Rising. {This story is the second piece of mine with DMR. A fine e-zine. Check it out at www.darkmoonrising.com } [Mar 2001]

• Wanda Fitzgerald, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Beacon of the Damned" to Dark Moon Rising. {I must be doing something right! This is the third story I've had accepted in the last few weeks. Thanks to everyone who crittered this story. Wanda } [Mar 2001]

• Carol Hightshoe, who reports "My Poem "Imagination" is appearing in the Wondrous Web Worlds Anthology now available from ProMart Writing Lab at http://promartian.com/wondrous.htm". [Mar 2001]

• Carol Hightshoe, who reports "My associate membership in SFWA has been accepted.". [Mar 2001]

• Fred Obermeyer, whose short story, "The Thief Of Memory" is now out in the current issue of Digital Catapult. {Although "Thief of Memory" wasn't crittered, I'd still like to thank everyone for their help on my other stories. Also, you can read the story at http://www.digital-catapult.com/thief_of_memory.html. } [Mar 2001]

• Jim Hume, who sold his short story, "The Bad Blonde" to Blue Murder. {Naturally, this story was not crittered. However, it was written as my first Critter story was being critiqued. It's my first sale of a short story. Previous sales have been poetry. This from a guy who figured on writing only SF&F and historical fiction! } [Mar 2001]

• Gigi Phillips, who reports ""Dealmaker" will be on bookshelves by October, 2001". [Mar 2001]

• H. C. doc Finch, who sold his short story, "Unicoryx" to Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine. {It was the wrong genre to send to Critters, though I considered adding enough science to sneak it in. Crits on others I did submit helped with it's final form though. Thanks. } [Mar 2001]

• John Dixon, who sold his short story, "In a Pale Kimono" to Digital Catapult. {"In a Pale Kimono" won the quarterly contest from Digital Catapult. Though un-crittered, the story did benefit from past critter suggestions. Thanks. } [Mar 2001]

• Rob Holden, who sold his short story, "Jenna's Eyes" to Blue Murder. {This is my second sale in two months to Blue Murder -- which makes them my favorite magazine at the moment!:-)I would have run this through Critters, if critters critted crime. } [Mar 2001]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Mathematics of Magic" to ShadowKeep. {This was for their latest flash fiction contest - always a lot of fun- Thanks to Dave Bowlin and Co over at ShadowKeep. They're running another one right now also. I also found out my story "Contingencies," which appeared on the Fith Di last December, will be coming out in Promarts e-anthology Wonderous Web Worlds Vol I. And Matt Hayes of Spicy Green Iguana mentioned my story "Guynemer" in a review of Indigenous Fiction #7. Yep, I was happy. } [Mar 2001]

• Hans Albanese, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Djin's Head" is now out in the current issue of Alternate Realities Webzine. {This was the first story I submitted to critters for critiques and your responses were very useful in improving my story. Thanks to everyone for your critiques!! } [Mar 2001]

• Fred Obermeyer, whose short story, "Special Delivery" is now out in the current issue of Planet Relish. {If you enjoy stories about killer mailboxes and middle class heroics, then this one should be right up your alley. You can read "Special Delivery" at: http://www.planetrelish.com/issue17/story3.html } [Mar 2001]

• John Dixon, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Atypical Exterminators, Inc." to This Way Up. {Thanks for all the help, fellow critters. } [Mar 2001]

• Lisa Swanstrom, who sold her short story, "The Tale of the Crimson Madder"--formerly entitled "My Pms" to Moxie Magazine. {The magazine should be -fairly- easy to find in print at B&N and Borders Books. It is also on-line at www.moxiemag.com. The editor, Emily Hancock, is friendly and responsive; and the magazine is a cool woman's zine "for the woman who dares" (!). I just got my check yesterday. Yipee! } [Mar 2001]

• Corie Ralston, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Price of an Earth Chit" is now out in the current issue of Electric Wine (electricwine.com). {This story went through Critters several years ago. I had almost given up on it, but decided to send it to just a few more markets-- persistence does pay off! } [Feb 2001]

• Terrie Relf, who sold her short story, "Blue" to The Martian Wave. {I just found out "The Martian Wave" has accepted this short-short for their May issue. Although it wasn't Crittered, I couldn't have done it without all that I've learned from my fellow Critters--and Critter Herder. Thank you! } [Feb 2001]

• Wanda Fitzgerald, who sold her short story, "Stealing Children" to Quantom Muse www.quantummuse.com. {I'm very excited. This makes two stories that will be published in March. Although this story wasn't crittered, I'd like to thank all the critters who have helped me with the stories I have sent to the queue. All of your feedback has had a positive effect on my writing and I am greatful to you all! } [Feb 2001]

• Tom Sweeney, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Oven, Witch, and Wardrobe" to Analog. {This story was crittered under the title, "Out of the Oven, Into the Fire." Thanks to all who helped! } [Feb 2001]

• Wanda Fitzgerald, whose short story, "The Poet's Shack" is now out in the current issue of Aphelion http://www.aphelion-webzine.com. [Feb 2001]

• Joe Murphy, who sold his short story, "Screams of the Gulls" to Legends of the Pendragon. {I now have stories up at Would that it Were and Vestal Review. I've recently received acceptances from Legends of the Pendragon and Strange Horizons, and Nowa Fantastyka. Several of the stories went through Critters, and those that didn't benefitted from the lessons I learned by submitting to Critters. Many thanks to you and all those who found time to critique my stories. thanks again, Joe Murphy } [Feb 2001]

• Marj Watkins, who sold her short story, "Moonlight Knight" to Fantasy, Folklore & Fairytales. [Feb 2001]

• Jay Jennings, who sold his short story, "The Freeing of Luniki-ki" to Fantasy, Folklore & Fairytales Magazine (www.fantasytoday.com). [Feb 2001]

• Nye Marnach, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Losing Face" to Challenging Destiny. [Feb 2001]

• Rob Holden, who sold his short story, "Striptease" to Blue Murder Magazine. {Hey, I would have had it crittered, if critters critterered mysteries! :-) } [Feb 2001]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "Special Delivery" to Planet Relish. {It will be up in March if you would like to read it. Thanks for your time. } [Feb 2001]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Winters Touch" to Maiden, Mother, Crone Anthology. {This is an e-book anthology from Abbey the Troll Press,edited by William Simmons. } [Feb 2001]

• Patti Miller, whose (Critter'd) novel, "The End of the Roman Line " is now out from Patti Miller . {The story of Johannah Donnelly published in newspaper format - sales are going well thanks to the wonderful support of the media. For more information please visit http://www.cyg.net/~miller } [Feb 2001]

• Frank W. Clark, who sold his short story, "Not So Fast" to Blue Murder (bluemurder.com). {A crime noir that started out at 3200 words, and, after three rewrites ended up at 1800 words and accepted for pub's by Blue Murder (bluemurder.com). } [Jan 2001]

• Tina Wagers, who reports "Creation of an e-zine with resources and information for writers.". {Yahoos to announce: Tina Wagers, and Lee Masterson, both Critters members have teamed up to create the e-zine, Fiction Factor. Fiction Factor is an online magazine dedicated to every aspect of the writing craft with how-to articles, author interviews, tips on getting published, book reviews and links to paying markets, agents, publishers and writing organizations. We hope everyone will stop and have a look. www.fictionfactor.bigstep.com Thanks, Tina } [Jan 2001]

• R.L. Bennett, who sold her short story, "The Fey" to David Hartwell's Year's Best Fantasy #1. {The piece originally sold to Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine. The Year's Best collection will be coming out in mass-market paperback in the spring from Harper/Eos. } [Jan 2001]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Now I Lay Me Down" to Alternate Realities. [Jan 2001]

• Barbara Karmazin, who sold her (Critter'd) novel, "Down Came a Blackbird" to Atlantic Bridge epublications. {Down Came a Blackbird is scheduled for release Feb 2001 thru Atlantic Bridge Epublications at http://www.atlanticbridge.net Cait O' Keefe, a human-Sidhe mixed breed, Indio (Edelmiro Jesus Santiago de Arroyo) & Tiny (Tamerlane Jehu Barnett) meet on a space station. They join an expedition to the asteroids and discover evidence of an extraterrestrial origin for Cait's foremothers. Warning; Explicit sex. Barbara Karmazin's website is http://www.geocities.com/barbaraselkie/index.html } [Jan 2001]

• Roxanne Hutton, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Foil Dive" is now out in the current issue of Artemis Magazine. {I was wrong in my previous message: it was Crittered quite awhile ago. I wasn't expecting it until the Winter 2001 issue, so when the I was looking through the new arrival it was quite a jolt. Quite a nice jolt! Illustrated with some cool artword by Brian Schrader. Artemis is now associated with DNA, or single issues can be purchased though href="http://www.LRCPublications.com". } [Jan 2001]

• Elizabeth Kelley Buzbee, whose (Critter'd) novel, "Little Claw of Azuni" is now out from Greatunpublished.com. [Jan 2001]

• David Rountree, who reports "Dark Lord is now available". {My new novel, "Dark Lord", co-written with Diana Sinclair, is now available through Barnes and Noble online bookstore, as well as Borders.com, Amazon should have it soon. It has been submitted for national distribution through Barnes and Noble and we will know in six weeks whether they will pick it up. For a peek at the book or to order it, simply go to http://www.darklordcentral.com } [Jan 2001]

• Scott Beem, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Bonds are for Breaking" is now out in the current issue of Nuketown Webzine. {This story, written over a year-and-a-half ago, finally has a home at http://www.nuketown.com (persistence pays) The editors there do a nice job and have recently raised their compensation for short stories. Check them out. } [Jan 2001]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "A Simple Touch" to Ideomancer. {This story is already up at www.idepmancer.com. Quite a few other Critters there as well. } [Jan 2001]

• Terrie Relf, who sold her short story, ""In Search of Home"" to Electric Wine. [Jan 2001]

• Sherwood Smith, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" to YEAR'S BEST FANTASY 2000, Harper/EOS. {The story appeared in REALMS OF FANTASY last August. } [Jan 2001]

• Frank W. Clark, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Preying Game" to Nuketown. {This is a good example of a story that had fifty-fifty reviews by fellow Critters. As I say in all my critiques: it's not about writing, it's about re-writing. My faith in my story-telling abilities, coupled with an appropriate amount of re-writing, is what helped me get this one published. You can read the rewrite sometime in the coming months at nuketown.com Thanks, Critters! Frank } [Jan 2001]

• Sheila Crosby, who reports "My humorous article "A Better Class of Drunks" has been nominated for "Best Nonfiction of 2000" at preditors and Editors.". {The original article is up again at Kafenio http://www.kafeniocom.com/crosby It is now second out of fifty. } [Jan 2001]

• Jeff Cates, who sold his short story, "A Second Line of Defense" to Colonies. {This is the 4th Tales from the Rook's Branch Tavern story that's been published in the U.K. Even though this particular story wasn't critiqued, I appreciate all the help I've gotten from Critters with the others I've written. } [Jan 2001]

• Marc Brutschy, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Engrams" to Terra Incognita. {This is my first sale, and it's an 11,000 word novelette, so I'm really happy. Thank you, Critters! } [Jan 2001]

• Fred Obermeyer, whose (Critter'd) short story, "How Willard Besserman Stopped the Sanex B Connection and Other Bits" is now out in the current issue of Peridot Books. {This piece was originally titled "Just Something I Cooked Up In Between Writing Projects." I'd like to thank everyone who critiqued this story. I really appreciated the input. And if you'd like, you can read the story at http://www.peridotbooks.com website. } [Jan 2001]

• Jason Schmetzer, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Judge of the Dead" to Speculon. [Dec 2000]

• Tom Sweeney, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Clue" is now out in the current issue of Garden Lane. {This is my second crittered story published, plus one more coming out in an anthology in late 2001, plus Analog and On Spec have asked me to submit rewrites for crittered stories. Critters workshop is THE BEST! } [Dec 2000]

• Ori Harish, who sold his short story, "Modern Art" to Jackhammer. {This is it, I've done it, I have reached Nirvana. OK, maybe not Nirvana but this is my first sale, and although it is only a short-short (800 words) I am very happy about it. I would like to thank this workshop and it's members for showing me how to commit my ideas into writing. } [Dec 2000]

• Stephanie Hunter, who sold her short story, "Position Wanted: God" to Planet Relish. {You can access this great Speculative Fiction humor magazine at www.planetrelish.com. I have to admit I discovered this e-zine through another Yahoo!, and have found these weekly announcements a wonderful market resource. } [Dec 2000]

• Paul Schop, who reports "Scifi.com will be airing my trivia game!". { On Wednesday, December 27, 2000, Scifi.com (The Scifi Channel's official website) will be airing my 'Millennial Mindprobe' game, a salute to '2001: A Space Odyssey' and its sequels, as part of their weekly Mindprobe theme game program. The game airs from 9:00 - 10:00 pm, ET, at www.scifi.com/mindprobe. Please stop by and play, if you have the time. } [Dec 2000]

• Marjorie Watkins, who sold her short story, "The Queens Own Tale" to Fantasy Today. {This is my third sale to www.fantasytoday.com. It's scheduled to appear in the January issue, up Jan. 1, probably in the Mother Goose features.(To see the other two, find "Wakeful Beauty" in May, 2000, Mother Goose features and "The Man in the Shell" in September, 2000 stories.) } [Dec 2000]

• Carol Hightshoe, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Midnight Song" to Denise Little's Creature Fantastic Anthology. [Dec 2000]

• Hank QUense, who reports "sold an article to Writer Online ezine". {The article discusses how to use the daytime soap operas to improve your fiction writing skills. the title is "Free Fiction Workshops" and it's in the current edition of the ezine at www.novalearn.com } [Dec 2000]

• Mike Rimar, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "A Warrior's Work" to This Way Up. {Thanks to everyone for their help. } [Dec 2000]

• Laurie Tom, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Rat Trap" to Foxfire. {This is the sale of my first comissioned piece of work! } [Dec 2000]

• Marie Rengstorff, whose short story, "A Singular Clone" is now out in the current issue of Analog. {Marie Ming is the name I used for publication. } [Dec 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "A Sweet Taste, Lingering On The Tongue" to 1000 Delights. [Dec 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, whose short story, "Dangling Members" is now out in the current issue of Bonetree. {It's an erotic/humor science fiction story, if you're into that kind of thing. You can read it at www.bonetree.com along with all the other fine stories posted there. } [Dec 2000]

• Terrie Relf, who has won the Writers Hood's one of the 10 best Fantasy Stories of 2000 award for her short story, "The Buddha Has No Eyes". {I recently received an e-mail from the fantasy editor, Stephen Davidson, at http://www.thewritershood.com, that my story, "The Buddha Has No Eyes", was chosen as one of the top 10 fantasy stories of 2000. Even though I didn't win first place, I'm still totally stoked. This is a first for me. The piece will be published in their January or February 2001 issue. Another plus, is that he asked to see more of my work! Hooray! } [Dec 2000]

• Jon Persson, who sold his short story, "That First Week" to Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy. {[My first attempt at 'Flash Fiction' (only 67 words!); not crittered, but I 'found' the outlet through seeing the Yahoos for Dave Goss and Laurie Tom. I hope I make five bucks for every 67 words of my novel!] } [Nov 2000]

• Laurie Tom, whose short story, "I am You" is now out in the current issue of Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy. {This is my first publication (though it's my third accepted story--funny how that works). :) It's available at http://www.jopoppub.com so please go and take a look. ^_^ } [Nov 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "The Light of the Lume" to Foxfire. [Nov 2000]

• Sheila Crosby, who sold her short story, "If At First You don't Succeed" to "In a Nutshell" micro anthology. {The story is only 500 words, but there will be some big names in the anthology, including Anne McCaffrey and Brian Hopkins, so I'm delighted. } [Nov 2000]

• Todd Schuett, whose short story, "One Sunday Morning" is now out in the current issue of Wired Art from Wired Hearts. {This is my first short story publication. You can find it at www.wiredhearts.net } [Nov 2000]

• David Rountree, who reports ""Dark Lord" is in the design stage". {"Dark Lord - The first Tome of the Chronicles of Greywolf and the Goddess is in the final layout and design stage. Cover art is being negotiated with the publisher and it should be released in December. Co-written with "The Goddess Diana", Diana Sinclair, this bold new fantasy adventure will be available both online and through local bookstores. Format is soft cover trade (6x9). For more info tour the portal site: http://www.geocities.com/dark_lord_portal/ } [Nov 2000]

• Roxanne Hutton, who sold her short story, "Foil Dive" to Artemis Magazine. {This was heavilly workshopped at Odyssey, which is the only reason I never submitted it to Critters. My first Pro sale. } [Nov 2000]

• William Ledbetter, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "HindSight" to Foxfire. {This is my second story to be published, the first one that was Crittered. After two big rewrites and about 10 rejections on this story, it will finally be published in the April edition of Foxfire magazine. I want to thank all you Critters who gave me your best on HindSight and to encourage you to keep writing and submitting. } [Nov 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "Holding on to the Memories" to Alternate Realities. {I'm not sure if I stated this already, but if I did I'm sorry. It's been a hectic week. } [Nov 2000]

• Lisa Nichols, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "At the Ocean's Edge" to InterText. [Nov 2000]

• Lindsey Phalen, who sold her short story, "Swimming in Reality" to Everyday Jungle. [Nov 2000]

• Judy Dixon, who sold her short story, "Happy Birthday" to Planetrelish. [Nov 2000]

• Laurie Tom, who sold her short story, "I am You" to Millenium Science Fiction & Fantasy. [Nov 2000]

• Jon Persson, who reports "The zillionth publisher I sent the first three (being Crittered) chapters of _*Quest for the Dragonslayer*_ to has actually written back (after three months!) and requested the entire typescript..! It's not anoffer, even, much less an actual sale - but hey! Now I'll have to get the thing finished, so it's a good motivator, right..?! :) ". {No "Yahoos", this week, so I thought I'd share my good news... :) } [Nov 2000]

• Steven W. White, who reports "I sold a non-fiction article to "Mercury."". {It's about public stargazing at Kitt Peak, Arizona, and is the very first time anything of mine will be in print! Check the Nov/Dec issue, or www.aspsky.org. } [Oct 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who has won the Chrildren's Writer Pre-teen Fantasy Contest award for his short story, "To Ride A Wild Nightmare". { } [Oct 2000]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her short story, " My France" to Linneaen Street. {I know it's not sci-fi, but it gave me great pleasure to work with Andrew Wilson at Linneaen Street. I'm pleased with the essay, and I hope you enjoy it too! } [Oct 2000]

• E.K. Rivera, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Hero" to SpaceWays Weekly. {thanks for the crits everybody! esp. those who pointed out that the sun rises in the east ... } [Oct 2000]

• Simon Bewick, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Special Edition(Crittered as Director's Cut)" to Strange Horizons. {Had acceptance of it- hopefully it'll be coming out in the December issue, (this is tempting fate as the last three magazines who have accepted stories of mine have folded before they came to print...). Thanks to all the critters who helped with the original version. } [Oct 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "Dangling Members" to Bonetree. [Oct 2000]

• Joshua Onunaku, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "JOnunaku@yahoo.com" to Yahoo Emails. [Oct 2000]

• Loren MacLeod, who reports "My short story "James" has been recommended for the Bram Stoker award!". {Please go to this page on Twilight Showcase to read it! And perhaps even vote for it, if you are an HWA member! Thank you! } [Oct 2000]

• Ronald Damien Malfi, who sold his novel, "The Space Between" to America House . [Oct 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "The Exile" to Hadrasaur Tales. [Oct 2000]

• Paul Schop, who reports "I sold my third themed SF trivia game to Studios USA". {My third themed trivia game, Mad Scientists MindProbe, will be aired Wednesday, October 11, 2000, from 9 - 10 pm (ET) at Scifi.com. (www.scifi.com/mindprobe) Please come and play, if you can. } [Oct 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Guynemer" to Indigenous Fiction. [Sep 2000]

• David Lowe, who has won the Writers of the Future quarterly first place award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Marketplace of Souls". [Sep 2000]

• Greg van Eekhout, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Wolves Till the World Goes Down"" to Starlight 3. {Thanks for the helpful crits! } [Sep 2000]

• Daniel Goss, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Book of Lesser Warding" to Glyph. [Sep 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Little Helper" to Extremes Anthology: Darkest Africa. {Extremes is a four volume cd-rom anthology of fantasy and terror edited by Brian Hopkins. This is my first ever anotholgy sale, and needless to say, I'm thrilled. } [Sep 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "The Eighth Day" to Colonies. {This is my first sale outside North America, so I'm pretty exited about it. } [Sep 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "I'll Be Waiting Here For You" to Digital Catapult. {Thanks to everybody out there who critiqued my story. I really appreciate it. } [Sep 2000]

• Paul Schop, who reports "I sold my second themed SF trivia game to Studios USA". {My second themed trivia game, 'Incredible Shrinking Mindprobe' will be aired Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2000, from 9 - 10 EDT at www.scifi.com/mindprobe. Please drop in and join the fun, if you can. } [Sep 2000]

• Leigh Kimmel, who reports "a resale". {My short story "The Stirge" has been reprinted by Alexandria Digital Literature and is now available online at http://www.alexlit.com/ . } [Sep 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "The Reality Schism" to Xoddity. [Sep 2000]

• Jeff Cates, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Sojourner" is now out in the current issue of Colonies #3. {This is my 3rd Tales from the Rook's Branch Tavern Story to be published. Much thanks to all the Critters who've taken the time to critique my works. } [Aug 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Downslope" to Boys' Life. [Aug 2000]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her short story, "The Flesh is Willing" to Bloody Muse. {This story first appeared in the UK magazine Nasty Piece of Work, last year. I'm thrilled Bloody Muse has accepted it. I love that magazine and really respect the editor, Weston Ochse. Here's their URL: http://westwood.fortunecity.com/chanel/338/bm/bm.htm Thanks!! } [Aug 2000]

• Carrie S. Masek, who has won the EPPIE award for her novel, "Under a Bear Moon". {Awarded by The Electronically Published Internet Connection (EPIC), a professional organization of authors interested in electronic publishing, this year's EPPIE honors the best fiction and non-fiction published electronically before 1/2000. My book won the category for best young adult novel. I'll be at the World Science Fiction Convention at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Chicago, August 31-September 4, signing books and giving away samplers of science fiction, fantasy and horror ebooks. I'll be carrying my cover model (a soft and cuddly bear). Mention Critters and I'll let you hug him. } [Aug 2000]

• Sean Sands, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Naked Marilyn" to Electric Wine. {Thanks to the critters who gave me the direction I needed to get this one into print! } [Aug 2000]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her short story, ""The Company of Humans"" to 7-Realms Publishing. {They want to release the story in a limited edition chapbook. :)) Not sure when yet. } [Aug 2000]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Sweet Song" to Twilight Showcase. {It will be in the October issue. Their URL: http://home.rica.net/gconn/email.htm Thanks for all the great crits on this one! } [Aug 2000]

• Lisa Nichols, who sold his novel, "Harvest of Thorns" to Dream Pod 9. {It's not precisely a novel, it's more a group of short stories/sourcebook for their RPG Tribe 8. But it is my first sale. :) It's tentatively scheduled for publication in February of 2001. } [Aug 2000]

• Dave Freer, whose novel, "Rats, Bats & Vats" is now out from Baen Books. {I'll be in the US, heading for Chicon when the book actually comes out (29/8/2000), so I'm putting this in early. Is there a critters' gathering at Chicon? } [Aug 2000]

• Sherwood Smith, who reports "Also, my short story "Faith" is being reprinted for the third time, in the Weekly Reader for young teens.". [Aug 2000]

• Raymund Eich, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Nine Views of Transco Tower, by Iak/Sohu" to Terra Incognita. [Aug 2000]

• Marjorie M. Watkins, who sold her short story, "The Man in the Shell" to fantasytoday.com. {"The Man in the Shell" by Marj Watkins will be in the September issue of the e-zine Fantasy Today. And they pay money! } [Aug 2000]

• Valerie Frankel, whose short story, "One Wish" is now out in the current issue of Spellbound Magazine. [Aug 2000]

• Ayse Tuzlak, who sold her short story, "After the Whale" to Delirium Books. {This story will appear in an upcoming anthology entitled "Dark Testament", which is a collection of horror stories with Biblical themes. My first sale! } [Aug 2000]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Elvis Has Left the Bathroom" to Peridot Books. [Aug 2000]

• Laurie Tom, who sold her short story, "Rat Bait" to Foxfire. {This is my first sale! I'm very happy needless to say. :) The editor also wants a sequel story for this piece so it's likely I'll have a second work published in Foxfire as well. } [Aug 2000]

• Dragan Vujic, whose novel, "Only Silver Can Kill A Werewolf" is now out from Universal Publisher. [Aug 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Last Flight" to Foxfire. [Aug 2000]

• Michael Meddor, who has won the a finalist nomination for the World Fantasy Award award for his short story, "The Wizard Retires". {The story appeared in the September 1999 issue of F&SF. I thought it sank without a trace, so I am very surprised by this news. } [Aug 2000]

• Tom Sweeney, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Last Kiss"" to Private Eye Writers of America anthology MYSTERY STREET. [Aug 2000]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "Wishes" to XOddity. [Aug 2000]

• Karlene R. Price, who sold her novel, "The Half Elven Murders" to DenMark Publishing, an e publisher. [Aug 2000]

• Robbie Matthews, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Survival Guide" is now out in the current issue of Goblin Muse. {Goblin Muse is run by another Critter, Carole Nomarhas. It can be found at: http://www.goblinmuse.com } [Aug 2000]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her short story, "Getting Even" to Murderous Intent Mystery Magazine. [Jul 2000]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "Shadow of the Madrians" to EOTU E-zine. {It's now up at http://www.clamcity.com/pg12madrians.html so please take a look. } [Jul 2000]

• Arnie Christianson, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "ex Machina" to Aboriginal. [Jul 2000]

• Bernita Stark, who sold her novel, "Journey Through Darkness" to Waltsan Publishing. {Waltsan publishes CD Books, they're trying to find a new niche with electronic media. I'm one of only two SFF writers that they have contracted and of all 6 of their authors I'm the only one who has NEVER been published before! I even get to fully illustrate the book - HEAVEN. Even though I never ran these stories through Critters, everything I learned here went into them and made them better - so THANKS!!! } [Jul 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Sign Up Today" to XOddity. [Jul 2000]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Under the Bridge" to Black Gate. {Black Gate Magazine is a new print market, paying 6 cents a word and aiming to join the ranks of the Big Four. Submission guidelines will be available at Black Gate Magazine once the site is up. I'll also be reviewing books for them. } [Jul 2000]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his short story, "Astronaut Man" to SpaceWays Weekly. [Jul 2000]

• S.R.Howen, who sold her short story, "Forge of the Night Bird" to Wild Child Magazine at http://www.wildchildpublishing.com. {The story will be divided into three or four sections and the first section should be in the next issue. } [Jul 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Even Unicorns Die Someday" to ShadowKeep. [Jul 2000]

• Mette Ivie Harrison, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Treue" to Maelstrom Speculative Fiction. [Jul 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "To The Power Of Nine" to Spaceways Weekly. [Jul 2000]

• Mark Siegel, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Beernauts" to This Way Up. [Jul 2000]

• Sheila Crosby, who reports "My first non-fiction sale goes up in Jackhammer on the 10th.". {http://www.eggplant-productions.com/jackhammer/ } [Jul 2000]

• Paul Kemp, whose novel, "The Halls of Stormweather" is now out from TSR. {This is book one of TSR's new, Sembia Series (I am one of seven authors on this book). It's very cool. Dark, gritty, mature. If you like fantasy, please consider picking it up. I think you'll enjoy it. Drop me a line if you do and share your thoughts. pskemp01@home.com } [Jul 2000]

• Christi Upson, who reports "I'm getting published!". {Poetry.com has two poems of mine and they will be published in the fall. Originally, "If You Let Him" was to be in *Time after Time* and "My Favorie Breed" was to be in *The Falling Rain*, but the website says both will be in the latter. You can see them at www.poetry.com. Just type in my name and click on the link. I'm entered to win some money with these, so we'll see if I get "paid" or not. } [Jul 2000]

• Kim Fryer, whose short story, "The Price of the Sword" is now out in the current issue of Sword and Sorceress #17. [Jun 2000]

• Jennifer Macaire, whose short story, "Honey on Your Skin" is now out in the current issue of Vestal Review (www.vestalreview.net). [Jun 2000]

• Sherwood Smith, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" is now out in the current issue of Realms of Fantasy. [Jun 2000]

• Shauna Bryce, who sold her short story, "The Gray Mist" to Gauntlet! The Magazine of Heroic Tales. {I also sold "Cloning Jesus" (crittered) to Edward J. McFadden of Pirate Writings Publishing for publication in Fantastic Stories of the Imagination. } [Jun 2000]

• Elise, whose short story, "One of Forty-seven" is now out in the current issue of Pocket Books (Strange New Worlds III). [Jun 2000]

• Sheila Crosby, who sold her short story, "Dream On" to Chat magazine. {This is a microscopic story of just 60 words. On the other hand, Chat is a mainstream magazine with a circulation of over half a million. } [Jun 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "To the Mistress of Craig Dearg" to Dragonlaugh. [Jun 2000]

• Terry Durbin, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Reflections in a Black Mirror" to the anthology, "Tourniquet Heart". {Tourniquet Heart is a UK based anthology scheduled to hit the stands on Valentine's Day 2001. There will be 2 stories in this anthology by Critter members, myself and my friend, the very talented Bill Francis. } [Jun 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "All the World in a Seed" to Digital Catapult. [Jun 2000]

• Sean Sands, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Cut and Paste" to Spaceways Weekly. {This is a particularly wonderful sale for me, not only because it is my first, but because "Cut and Paste" is a joint project that my wife, Kristin Vann, and I worked on. Thanks to all the critters who helped finish this story. } [Jun 2000]

• Lisa Swanstrom, who sold her short story, "The Chariot of Inti" to Digital Catapult. {This is my first e-zine publication. I'm thrilled! } [Jun 2000]

• Scott Beem, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Donor" is now out in the current issue of Alternate Realities Webzine. {Check it out at: http://www.alternaterealitieszine.com/SF.htm The editors were friendly and fun to work with. Thanks to all Critters who contributed. } [Jun 2000]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Creature Instincts" to Black Petals. [Jun 2000]

• Edward F. Stack, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Wizards, Wonder & Worry"" to www.roxybooks.com. {My collection of short speculative fiction, "Wizards, Wonder & Worry" will be released by www.roxybooks.com in July. "Wizards, Wonder & Worry": a collection of short science fiction, fantasy and horror that will make you sigh, smile, shiver & squirm. Many of these stories have been printed before, and many have been crittered. You can win a free copy at Speculative Fiction for the Web, http://members.tripod.com/edward.stack } [Jun 2000]

• David L. Felts, who has won the 6th Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest award for his (Critter'd) short story, "From the Mouths of Birds". {I won first in the 6th Chiaroscuro Short Story Contest: 1. Publication in Gothic.Net (http://gothic.net) at twenty-three (23) cents per word. 2. The Coveted And Frightfully Spectacular Golden Piglet Award.* 3. The choice of a signed limited numbered copy of either COVER by Jack Ketchum, or TALES OF PAIN AND WONDER, the forthcoming short story collection by Caitlin R. Kiernan. (Each a $50 value--generously donated by Barry Hoffman of Gauntlet Press.) The story went through the queue titled "In the Belly of a Black-Winged Bird) } [Jun 2000]

• Curt Wohleber, whose (Critter'd) short story, "100 Candles" was chosen for Hartwell's BEST SF 5 anthology. [Jun 2000]

• Samantha Peterson, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Shooting Stars" is now out in the current issue of The Freelancer. {http://www.freelancer-magazine.com/ } [Jun 2000]

• Leigh Kimmel, whose short story, "The Wishing Box" is now out in the current issue of Lunar Castles. [Jun 2000]

• Severna Park, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "The Cure For Everything" to Ellen Datlow's new online mag for SciFi.com, 'Scifiction'--- http://www.scifi.com/scifiction/. {I got great feedback obviously! Also, a non-crittered story of mine, 'The Golem' is just out in the Datlow-Windling anthology 'Black Heart, Ivory Bones.' I'm really pleased with both these stories, and everyone should check out the fiction on scifi.com. Jeffrey Ford (The Physiognomy) has one up now which is just exceptional. } [May 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, whose short story, "Angels We Have Heard On High" is now out in the current issue of Erewhon. {Erewhon, run by fellow critter Jason Schmetzer, is back after a hiatus, and I have a story appearing in the new issue. } [May 2000]

• Andy Miller, who sold his short story, "A Bit of Flesh Pulled Through" to Skin and Bones. {Skin and Bones also accepted three other stories of mine: "Thames Demonrider," "Shane and Gretchen," and "To the Promised Land." I've also sold another three poems: "Engine of the Impractical," to the Fifth Di... "These Mad Snatches of Raw Silk," to Dreams and Nightmares, "Life and Language" to Promart. Yippie! } [May 2000]

• Jim Reichert, who sold his short story, "Meat Bag" to Dark Matter Chronicles E-zine. {This is my first sale of fiction. } [May 2000]

• Mike Rimar, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Heraldry" to Shallow End of Infinity's Tanglewood E-Anthology. {Thanks to all who helped make this story saleable. (saleable??...well, you know what I mean) } [May 2000]

• David William McKay, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "With Pennies For Her Eyes"" to On Spec Magazine. {My cup runneth over! This makes two sales of crittered stories. I'm almost legal! Thanks to all who offered critiques on my ms. See you in the writing queue in the Fall. } [May 2000]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "The Coin of Heaven's Badger"" to Alternate Realities Webzine. [May 2000]

• Dan Gleeman, who has won the Readers Favorite Story Contest award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Skin Deep". {I won 50 dollars in the Reader's Favorite Story Contest at Anotherealm e-zine for my story, Skin Deep. Who would've thought that this readin' and writin' stuff would ever pay off? } [May 2000]

• Dave Freer, who reports "contracts...". {I've just signed a contract with BAEN books to co-author the first 4 books a new fantasy/alternate history series. I'll be working with Mercedes Lackey and my partner from the previous two books, Eric Flint. We're looking at a baroque grand canvas here... I hope the former victim of so many crits is up to this. BTW my first collaboration with Eric Flint, 'Rats Bats and Vats' has been upgraded to Baen's lead hardcover for September 2000. } [May 2000]

• Barbara Armstrong, who reports "I sold another horror poem!". {This is the second time this month - this was an uncrittered piece, but I just want to thank all critters for the words of advice that have made writing the two poems making them sell, possible! This one was "Till Death Do Us Part" and it'll be on the Demorian Homepages and Clive Barkers upcoming page. } [May 2000]

• Brian Turner, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "At Second Glance" to A Writer's Choice - June Issue. {Andrew; I'm not sure if I qualify to announce all of these, so you make the call. Since I became realatively inactive at Critters I've been involved with a flash fiction list and have had many shorts accepted- as I list below. Only At Second Glance was crittered. The others are in a mixture of genres and I'm not sure if they qualify for mention. Anyway I list the seven stories below. Brian A Writers Choice http://members.spree.com/writer/ December where do we start March People Are Strange A Conversation between Joshua, the Anointed, and Judas, the Assassin From Keroith, on the Occasion of the Miracle of the Feeding of the Multitude. June At Second Glance (crittered) The Apple Tree Cafe Irreal http://home.sprynet.com/~awhit/ His Exegamination of Poelemetics as Addressed to the Audience. Vestal Review http://www.vestalreview.net/ I Was a Soldier } [May 2000]

• Andy Miller, who sold his short story, "To A Living Earth" to Strangewood anthology . {"Idea Log," will be in the June issue of The Fifth Di.. "Is the value of science fiction?" will be in the September issue of Planet Magazine. Yippie! Yippie! Critters means a lot to me! } [May 2000]

• Carole Nomarhas, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "The Child's Tale"" to Bell, Book & Beyond, the HWA Affliates' Anthology. {This went through Critters as 'A Tale Retold' -- many, many thanks to all the critters who helped polish it up. } [May 2000]

• Michael Meddor, whose short story, "Mac" is now out in the current issue of Electric Wine. [May 2000]

• Derek Robinson, who sold his short story, "Driver" to Quantum Muse. {This was my first story, and it makes me cringe! } [May 2000]

• Barbara T. Karmazin, who sold her short story, "Selkie" to Mystic Visions. {Their first issue is free if anyone wants to read it June 1st. Mystic Visions is proud to announce our new webzine called Visions & Voices! Visions & Voices will be published every three months. The premiere issue will be published June 1, 2000. All submissions for this issue must be sent by May 15, 2000, however we will accept submissions for future issues. Check out Visions & Voices at http://www.mysticvisions.com/visions&voices/home.htm. And if you have something that will fit our webzine send it in. Submission guidelines are available on the Visions & Voices web site. } [May 2000]

• Thomas Seay, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Containment Syndrome" to Fantastic. {This story was Critter'd, though I actually sold a version submitted before the critiques were received. Many thanks, just the same! } [Apr 2000]

• Andy Miller, who sold his short story, "Henry Appleton" to The Age of Wonders (SFFnet anthology). {Also: "Moses," a prose poem, is to appear in the May issue of Electric Wine. "Wings," an essay, is to appear in the June issue of Visions and Voices. "Labyrinth of Gold" is a poem to appear in the June issue of Planet Magazine. Yahoo! None of these were crittered, but every one of them has got critter written all over them. Thanks! } [Apr 2000]

• Wendy Ehrl, who reports "I sold my favourite poem!". {This is my first sale! (beyond the newspapers) I'm so excited! I've sold it under my regular name of Barb Armstrong to: Parchment Scrolls and it'll be out in October of this year. It's called "Crimson Sunrise - A Sister's Lament" } [Apr 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Towers of Ice" to ShadowKeep. [Apr 2000]

• Carole Nomarhas, who sold her short story, "Plagiary" to Eternal Twilight. {(While this story was not crittered, a big thank you to the Critters just the same, you're a great bunch) } [Apr 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Inbound" to Electric Wine. {This story was critted last year as Johnny Who, and I want to thank everyone that helped me with it, especially Diana & James over at Electric Wine. What a great pair of editors to work with. } [Apr 2000]

• Derek Robinson, who sold his short story, "Cell-Shift" to Aphelion. [Apr 2000]

• Eric Snyder II, who sold his short story, "Lock-Up" to Jackhammer E-Zine. {My first sale ever! Woo-hoo! } [Apr 2000]

• Eric Snyder II, who sold his short story, "Lock-Up" to Jackhammer E-Zine. {My first sale ever! Woo-hoo! } [Apr 2000]

• Jeff Cates, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Lost Dutchman's Asteroid" to Colonies. {This was another one of my Rook's Branch Tavern stories. Thanks to all of you who took the time to critique this story and any of the others in the series. } [Apr 2000]

• Carrie Masek, whose short story, "The Last Dance" is now out in the current issue of The Breathless Moment, http://www.breathlessmoment.com. {I also have a second story, "The Locket," up on Lovers Knot's new on-line site, http://www.neighborhoodpress.com/Knot/march_00/march_00.htm, and an interview up on EWG Presents, http://www.webpanache.com/ewgpresents/lgood.htm. It's been quite a month! } [Apr 2000]

• Irene Smith, who reports "I became a full-time Microsoft Employee!". {Although this isn't really related to fiction writing, it is related to writing. I am now officially a Programmer/Writer at Microsoft. My job is to document their Active Data Objects (ADO) for programmers. I'm really excited as you can no doubt tell. } [Apr 2000]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, whose short story, "Behind Closed Doors" is now out in the current issue of the horror anthology "Tears on Black Roses". {It's finally out! My first antho. Check it out at this site (ordering info here also, but somehow I think that at $12, I can only expect that close friends will be making an investment... ;-)) http://www.angelfire.com/va/fantasypoe/tears.html } [Apr 2000]

• Carole Nomarhas, who sold her short story, "Sacrifice"" to Rise. {This is a new Australian e-zine paying 2 cents a word US. While this story wasn't crittered, many thanks to the Critters just the same for all their help this past year. } [Apr 2000]

• Valerie Emanuel, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Harvest" to Quantum Muse. [Apr 2000]

• Louis Kinstler, whose short story, "The Student Body" is now out in the current issue of http://www.web-docent.com/braincandy. {This was the first short story I finished and also the first I sent out into the world. } [Apr 2000]

• Frank "Red" Walters Clark, who sold his short story, "The Orange Hills of Eron" to Planet Magazine. {Sorry Critters, this one was not critiqued but still very happy with my first short story getting pub'd in the June 1, 2000 issue! Yahoo!! } [Mar 2000]

• Roxanne Hutton, who reports "My new non-fiction satire web-site is up!". {It's non-fiction, sort of, strange commentary on modern society that only SF/F/H could have inspired. See it at notruth.com (the lies are in there). } [Mar 2000]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her short story, "Memories" to Vestal Review. [Mar 2000]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "The Development" to Anotherealm. {I'd like to thank the critters who helped me polish up this story. I am very grateful.Thank you critters, and thank you A-Burt! } [Mar 2000]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his short story, "Chunk of Change" to SpaceWays Weekly. [Mar 2000]

• David William McKay, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "With a Sudden Shock of Blue"" to Dark Fiction (webzine). {URL for Dark Fiction is : http://www.angelfire.com/zine/liberty. Editor is also a critter BTW. } [Mar 2000]

• Lucy Cohen Schmeidler, who reports "I've been appointed reviews editor for Orb magazine (Australia)". {I am very excited about this position, and I invite any Australian member of Critters who sells a book (or has a story in a recent or forthcoming book) to write me about it directly, as Orb prefers to publicize Australian SF/F. } [Mar 2000]

• Robbie Matthews, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Dragon Omelette" to AustrAlien Absurdities (Anthology). [Mar 2000]

• Valerie Emanuel, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Wicked Night" to The Harrow. {WOW! I'm a real published author! Please remove the story from the queue....and thanks to everybody! } [Mar 2000]

• Shannon Wendt, who sold her short story, "Cupid" to Anotherealm. [Mar 2000]

• Karen Standeford, whose (Critter'd) novel, "Peyote Road" is now out from Crossroads Publishing Company. {Peyote Road may be seen/previewed at the following link: http://www.crossroadspub.com/PeyoteRd.htm } [Mar 2000]

• Nora M. Mulligan, who sold her novel, "Transformations" to Sirius Publications. {The book is now available at http://www.sirius-books.com/horror.html. This is my first published book, and I am extremely excited! } [Mar 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "Memmer" to Alternate Realities. {Although this story wasn't Crittered, I'd like to thank all you guys out there anyway. Your comments on my other stories are helping me to approach my work with a more critical eye. Good luck to all of you. And here's hoping that we all bring more acceptances in the near future. } [Mar 2000]

• Shannon Wendt, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "The Metronome" to Fantasy, Folklore & Fairytales. [Mar 2000]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Uncle Landmere's Sword" to Glyph. [Mar 2000]

• Edward Stack, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Wizards, Wonder & Worry"" to www.roxybooks.com. {My collection of short speculative fiction "Wizards, Wonder & Worry" has been accepted for publication at ww.roxybooks.com, who also published "Ily's Dream", my epic fantasy novel. Parts of "WWW" were crittered, and thanks for all the help. } [Mar 2000]

• Andrew Burt, who sold his (Critter'd) short stories, "Murder at the Front" and "Swirling Dust" to Neverworlds. [Mar 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Joe Manx" to Anthrolations, Vol II. {Many thanks to everyone who critted this story. I couldn't have done it without your help. } [Mar 2000]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "The Stirge" to Alexandria Digital Literature. {Also, Salem Press has commissioned me to do five more articles for Magill's Guide to Military History. There is a general overview article on War in Art, as well as a brief one on the Battle of Beachy Head (1690), and brief bios of Thomas Cochrane, Nagumo Chuichi, and Roland. } [Mar 2000]

• Sheila Crosby, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Zuggyzu and the Humans" is now out in the current issue of Peridot Books. {This story was crittered as "Preconceptions" back in November 1998, and is now up at http://www.peridotbooks.com/Fiction/Zuggyzu/zuggyzu.html } [Mar 2000]

• Joe Murphy, who sold his short story, "A Size Too Far"" to Age of Wonders Sff.net Anthology. {I also sold "Shadows from a Dead Vagina" to Gothic.net and "Gransir's Clockwork Man" to Electric Wine. Critters has been of great assistance in helping me figure out what I'm doing. } [Mar 2000]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his short story, "Field Day" to Neverworlds. [Feb 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Undeniable Truths" to The Orphic Chronicles. [Feb 2000]

• Corie Ralston, who sold her short story, "Ghosts of Bombay" to Dark Planet. [Feb 2000]

• Corie Ralston, who sold her short story, "Piecemeal" to Antipodean SF. [Feb 2000]

• Edward Stack, whose novel, "Ily's Dream" is now out from www.roxybooks.com. {My epic enovel "Ily's Dream" is now available at www.roxybooks.com, or see my site at www.members.tripod.com/edward.stack } [Feb 2000]

• Linda J. Dunn, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Sonata In Weapons" to On Spec. [Feb 2000]

• Irette Patterson, who sold her short story, "How To Get What You Want" to The Breathless Moment. [Feb 2000]

• Kathy Tompkins, whose short story, "Oh, Rats!" is now out in the current issue of Calliope. {Although this is a non-paying market, I thought it was cool to place something in MENSA's writers' division magazine. } [Feb 2000]

• Elizabeth Kelley Buzbee, who reports "my short story "Redneck Granny fights off Aliens with Bug Zapper " will be performed as a monologue at Kingwood College. Not sure if it will be staged in a public venue, but I do think Granny's got a future in the monologue market". [Feb 2000]

• Mark Siegel, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Zombie & Son" to Jackhammer. {"Zombie & Son" was crittered in a much different incarnation. } [Feb 2000]

• Mark Siegel, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Insubstantial" to LC-39. [Feb 2000]

• Sherwood Smith, who reports... Two sales in one day: Crittered story "Mom and Dad at the Home Front" to REALMS OF FANTASY (and thanks again to those who critted it) and my fantasy spoof "Excerpt from the Diary of a Henchminion" (on my Webpage) got cruised by the editor of a French fantasy magazine, FAERIES, and bought. A hundred smackers for 700 words--not too shabby! [Feb 2000]

• William J Francis, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Oh How She Loved Grape Jelly"" to The new Pendragon Press anthology: "Tourniquet Heart". {Thanks to everyone at Critters who helped out with this (crittered under the title "As Long as We Both Shall Live"). The anthology is scheduled for a UK release of Valentines Day, 2001. } [Feb 2000]

• Nye Marnach, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Demon in the Sea" to Challenging Destiny. {I don't remember if this one was crittered of not, actually, but I know Critters helped me keep writing. Thank you, gang. } [Feb 2000]

• Pam Smith, who has won the Writer's Market 24 Hour Story Contest (2nd Place!) award for her short story, "Uncle Buddy". {Pretty cool, huh? It makes a nice present for my birthday Monday. Check it out! } [Feb 2000]

• Arnie Christianson, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Marico" to Electric Wine. [Feb 2000]

• Arnie Christianson, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Sticks and Stones" is now out in the current issue of Neverworlds. {Thanks to all the Critters who gave this story the pounding-into-shape it deserved. And a special thanks to Jonathon Sullivan and Kevin McPherson who decided Sticks was worth some bandwidth. } [Feb 2000]

• Sheila Crosby, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Zuggyzu and the Humans" to Peridot Books. {This story was crittered as "Preconceptions" quite a long time ago. A BIG thankyou to everyone who looked at it then. } [Feb 2000]

• Severna Park, whose (crittered) novel "The Annunciate" made the Lambda Literary Award finalists list. Wow!

• Karen Standeford, who sold her (Critter'd) novel, "Peyote Road" to Crossroads Publishing Company. [Feb 2000]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Grabbers"" to Peridot Books. [Feb 2000]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, whose short story, "Maternal Instinct" is now out in the current issue of the UK magazine Nasty Piece of Work. {Unfortunately, this issue (#14) is to be their last. I'm happy to be a part of the final issue! } [Feb 2000]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, whose short story, "The Awakening" is now out in the current issue of The Edge, Tales of Suspense. {It took forever, but I finally sold them a story. Check out their site: http://www.capecod.net/thievinkitty/page2.html } [Feb 2000]

• Karen Sweeney, who reports "I sold my poem "Star Swallower" to "Dreams and Nightmares"". [Jan 2000]

• Severna Park, who reports "two of my stories are currently on the Nebula Preliminary List!". {One is The Breadfruit Empire, which was Crittered, the other is Harbingers, which I believe was Crittered too, but at that time it was called 'BirthMothers.' } [Jan 2000]

• Pamela A. Smith, whose short story, "Mommy2 Is Sick" is now out in the current issue of Titan Webzine (www.titanzine.com). [Jan 2000]

• Fred Obermeyer, who sold his short story, "The Last Piece" to The Dead Inn. {This is my first sale and I'm so excited about it. "The Last Piece" will appear in volume #1 of the horror hardcover publication *The Dead Inn* this Summer. } [Jan 2000]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "The American Dream" to Infinite Distance. [Jan 2000]

• Sandra Brandenburg, who sold her novel, "SuperGirls: The Co-Ed Murders" to Thornton Publishing. [Jan 2000]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "A Model Marriage" to Nuketown. {A Model Marriage will appear in Nuketown Jan. 24. I want to say thank you to all the critters who were kind enough to critter the tale. } [Jan 2000]

• Randy D. Ashburn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "What God Hath Wrought" to Bell, Book, and Beyond. {This paperback is the Horror Writers Association's new anthology _Bell, Book, an Beyond_, a collection of witch stories! P.D. Cacek is the editor and she actually compared my style to Orson Scott Card and said my story would be "the standard by which all other submissions are measured." } [Jan 2000]

• Laurance Pearsongreer, who sold his (Critter'd) novel, "Necromanteum, (Through The)" to Crossroads (Online) Publications. {I have signed the Contract and am being edited now. This message is meant for all authors who have not gotten many crits on their submissions--I only got Seven crits but they were very enlightening. Good luck to all the authors who got less then rave reviews, too. There is a light at the end of the tunnel. } [Jan 2000]

• Darryl Branning, who reports "Published Article at Jackhammer". {My article, "Science, Magic, and Other-Related-Stuff," should be posted at Jackhammer (http://www.eggplant-productions.com) starting Jan. 17, 2000. } [Jan 2000]

• William Ledbetter, whose short story, "Window Pain" is now out in the current issue of Parchment Symbols. {It is a very short story in a very small magazine, but it is my first and I'm a happy camper. } [Jan 2000]

• Loren MacLeod, who sold her short story, "House of the Third Dimension" to Quantum Muse. [Jan 2000]

• Laurel Amberdine, who reports ""The Trouble with Ink" (poem on writing) is up. Read at http://www.inkspot.com/inkblot/ It's short and (slightly) humorous.". [Jan 2000]

• GaryBlankenship, who reports "I won the ENE Dark Fantasy contest for a set of poems borderline fantasy. ". [Jan 2000]

• Paul S. Jenkins, who reports "My non-fiction article, "Who Reads This Stuff?" is in the Jan 2000 issue (#191) of Scavenger's Newsletter". [Jan 2000]

• Jennifer Macaire, whose short story, "Life on Mars" is now out in the current issue of The Bear Deluxe Magazine (winter 99-2000 issue). {The Bear Deluxe Magazine is a magazine published quarterly by Orlo, a nonprofit organization exploring environmental issues through the creative arts. Their first issue for this new millenium is all about science fiction! } [Jan 2000]

• Judith Rau, who sold her short story, "Die Kunst zu weinen [The Art of Crying]" to Storisende. {The story (in German) is up this month at http://www.storisende.com. Though not crittered this one ows a lot to you. Thanks to everybody. } [Jan 2000]

• Mark Siegel, who sold his short story, "Tin Man" to Jackhammer. {"Tin Man" was the SF winner of Jackhammer's "Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Words Contest" and will be on-line Feb. 7. } [Jan 2000]

• Robbie Matthews, who sold his short story, "The Prophecy" to Jackhammer. [Jan 2000]

• Carol Hightshoe, who reports "I sold my poems, Imagination and The Unicorn Lore, to The Fifth Di . . .". [Jan 2000]

• Gary Blankenship, who reports "I sold a poem, "If I Could" to Electic Wine and it is now in print. ". [Jan 2000]

• Mike Rimar, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Deathwatch" to Jackhammer Magazine. {Thanks to all those who critiqued the story, giving me some good advice. } [Dec 1999]

• Pucy Schmeidler, who sold her short story, "Sword of Peace" to MZB's Sword and Sorceress anthologies. [Dec 1999]

• Carol Ryles, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Upgrading Zinnia" to Phenomena magazine and Jackhammer e-zine. {I sold the uncrittered version to Phenomena magazine and then the crittered version to Jackhammer e-zine. Thanks to all who helped out with their critiques and suggestions. } [Dec 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who reports "Site with a story by me on it named by A&E". {Plots With Guns, an online publication whose most recent issue has my "Stealing Klatzman's Diary" in it, has been named A&E Mysteries.Com's Site of the Week. I'm just thrilled that on-line surfers can start from a site run by A&E and end up at a Web page with one of my stories! } [Dec 1999]

• Iain Darby, whose short story, "The More Things Change" is now out in the current issue of Alternate Realities. {The piece is their science fiction showcase story for the current issue. } [Dec 1999]

• Iain Darby, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Real Thing" to Titanzine. {'The Real Thing' will be in the March-April issue of Titan. The critters read an early draft of this, then called 'Two.' Thanks to everyone who gave me feedback--it obviously helped! } [Dec 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "A Moment On The Lake" is now out in the current issue of DeathGrip. {I finish 1999 with having racked up 22 on-line publications. } [Dec 1999]

• Iain Darby, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Friendly Fire" to Redsine. {Redsine is a new Australian magazine. My story will be in the debut issue in Feb. Thanks to everyone who helped with the piece. } [Dec 1999]

• Callum Dunlop, whose (Critter'd) short story, "GEPI" is now out in the current issue of Noesis. [Dec 1999]

• Paul S. Jenkins, who reports "My magazine reviews are in the current issue (#21) of Zene -- The Definitive Guide to the World's Independent Press.". {Crittering over 100 stories has been excellent practice for writing reviews on assignment. } [Dec 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "A Werewolf Moon in a Once Upon a Time Sky" to The Sidewalk's End . {This will be on-line on January 14.To use pop culture metaphors, this story is a blend of something like Pogo with something like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with an epilog in the "real" world. I'm glad somebody liked it! } [Dec 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose (Critter'd) short story, "His Will Be Done" is now out in the current issue of The Fifth Di . . . . [Dec 1999]

• Carole Nomarhas, who sold her short story, "In the House of Mad Dolls"" to Twilight Showcase. [Dec 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, who sold his short story, "Dead Folk" to an as yet untitled Y. A. horror anthology. {It will be a trade paperback published by Tundra Books and aimed at an older "young adult" audience that has grown beyond R.L. Stine and company. The book includes stories by some MAJOR heavy hitters in horror like Eric von Belkhom, Richard Laymon, Neil Gaiman, and P.D. Cacek. Eventhough it's Y.A., with authors like this it is BOUND to attract attention! } [Dec 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "Our Sins Remembered" is now out in the current issue of Underworld. {In addition, my poem, "The Stranger Answers the Next Question," was published in silentium amoris. I don't know why, but Underworld has labeled "Our Sins Remembered" a "non-fiction article." It's not. Homicidal teenagers don't come back from the dead to cause deadly accidents. Trust me on this one. These are my 18th and 19th on-line publications for 1999. By the way, I apologize for the shockingly few critiques I've done recently. I had arranged my schedule badly, but have now taken steps to change that for the new year. Get ready again for my opinions on your stories, friends! I'm encouraging, but tough. } [Dec 1999]

• Harold Chester, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Losing Time"" to Fantasy, Folklore & Fairytales. {This was one of my first crittered stories, so I'm very happy. } [Dec 1999]

• Loren MacLeod, who sold her short story, "Address Unknown" to The Vampire's Crypt. {I am very surprised that this piece sold, since I recently consigned it to my "morgue" file for dead stories, but it should appear in the Fall 2000 issue of The Vampire's Crypt. } [Dec 1999]

• Sheila Crosby, whose short story, "Oh Baby!" is now out in the current issue of Planet Relish (http://www.planetrelish.com/). [Dec 1999]

• Paul S. Jenkins, whose short story, "The Journey of Jonathan Cave" is now out in the current issue of Alien Q . {My first fiction sale! } [Dec 1999]

• William Brown, who has won the Writers of the Future, 2nd Place award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Home Grown". {Thanks to all you critters, I just made my first sale. After nervously waiting for the postman, they called. I'm not sure what is better: The sale or not having to wait for the postman when the results are announced. Thanks to all of those who critted it under the title 'What the Dryad Saw' } [Dec 1999]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, ""Wings of Freedom"" to Lunar Castle. [Nov 1999]

• Carole Nomarhas, who sold her short story, "Jumping In" to Jackhammer. {It's for the "Are heroes a thing of the past?" issue, May, 2000. This is my first e-zine sale. } [Nov 1999]

• Carole Nomarhas, who sold her short story, "Black Glass" to Winedark Sea. {The story is lined up for Issue 2. } [Nov 1999]

• Michael T. Marsh, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Gift" to SpaceWays Weekly. {(This is a second sale, and although not a lot of money, both sales were of Crittered stories. Thanks to all the critters who've helped.) } [Nov 1999]

• Laura Blackwell, who reports "I recently found out that my urban fantasy story "The City of Wondrous Umbrellas" spent two months on the bestseller list at Alexandria Digital Literature (www.alexlit.com). On that list, it rubbed shoulders with work by Robert Silverberg and Vonda McIntyre--nice company, eh?". [Nov 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "Trajectory" is now out in the current issue of Alchemie. {This is non-supernatural horror. I tried to a flat-out terror/suspense piece growing out of my alarm about American gun insanity. } [Nov 1999]

• M. Frank Darbe, who reports "I am part of a team starting a paying e-zine". {Dark Resonance is a paying, semi-pro e-zine to be published monthly. You can find our prototype site and writer’s guidelines at http://www.darkresonance.com. The editors encourage all critters to submit and will enjoy working with you. M. Frank Darbe Editor Dark Resonance Magazine fdarbe@aol.com info@darkresonance.com http://www.darkresonance.com Nadin Brzezinski Games Editor } [Nov 1999]

• Hank Quense, who sold his short story, "North Pole Enterprises, Inc" to Fantasy, Folklore & Fairytales. {It will be published next month in a Christmas special issue of the ezine } [Nov 1999]

• Dave Freer, who sold his novel, "Legendemain (tentatively)" to BAEN bOOKS. {The book hasn't been crittered because it is sold on proposal. I will be rfdr-ing it. This is a collaboration (my second) with Eric Flint. Our first collaboration Rats Bats and Vats has just been turned in (7 months early) and we don't have a publication date yet. } [Nov 1999]

• Anthony Hernandez, who reports "Received an agent". {I just got an agent to represnt me for my first novel, Moebius - Book One of the Biography of an Earthling Saga. Additionally, a publishing house really likes the book and tells me there is a "better than reasonable" chance (whatever that means) that they will make an offer this coming week! Pieces of this work were criitqued some time ago, and I would like to thank the Critters, since their input helped get me to this point. } [Nov 1999]

• Laurel Amberdine, who reports "I sold a silly poem (writing-related) called "The Trouble with Ink" to the Ink Blotter. I'll let you all know when it's available online. Bet you can't wait, right? ". [Nov 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Strike Of The Hammer" to Spellbound. {This is a new print magazine from Raechal Henderson, of Jackhammer fame, aimed at a nine to fourteen year old age group. I'm glad to see a market like this open up for the next generation of fantasy readers, and I'm really excited to get a story in it. } [Nov 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "The Skin of The Law" is now out in the current issue of ad infinitum, at http://www2.combase.com/~adinfin. {I am certainly grateful for another online acceptance. However, the editors of this e-zine left out the last 14 lines of the story! I have made stories shorter before at the request of editors, and find it odd that this didn't happen this time. (Anyone who wants to know who this story ends, e-mail me.) Oh, after I had sent out this story I wanted to find out more about the world in which the story takes place. So eventually, I started to get around to working on a novel version of this tale, which is what I'm doing now. } [Nov 1999]

• Loren MacLeod, who sold her short story, "The Children of Fortune" to Dark Planet. {This is my first on-line "sale." Dark Planet is at http://www.sfsite.com/darkplanet/, and will post "The Children of Fortune" in January or February of 2000. } [Nov 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "Stealing Klatzman's Diary" to Plots With Gun. {In addition, "By Our Sins Remembered," a horror story, will appear in Underworld's "Christmas Edition." } [Nov 1999]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Bovine" to Peridot Books. [Nov 1999]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her short story, "Spring Practice" to Advocate PK. [Nov 1999]

• Natasha Donnelly, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Modern Miracles" to Jackhammer. {My very first sale! It's for the cyberbiology question in May of 2000. Thanks to all the critters who helped me with it. } [Nov 1999]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her short story, "Sandstorm" to Blue Fiction Magazine (www.bluefiction.com). {Blue Fiction is a new e-zine, www.bluefiction.com. My story will appear in issue #2. I never sold to an online magazine, but I think I'll consider doing more with them. It' different, a closer contact, and I appreciate it. I'm new to the net, and so far it has amazed me. } [Nov 1999]

• Paul S. Jenkins, who sold his short story, "The Journey of Jonathan Cave" to Alien Q. {This is my first fiction sale. Also this week I learned that my magazine reviews will be appearing in Zene -- The Guide to the Independent Press. } [Nov 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "Lock It All Away" is now out in the current issue of The Dream People. {They are calling this a "poem," which is news to me because I wrote it as a story. } [Oct 1999]

• Baryon Tensor Posadas, who sold his short story, "Exit" to Altair Magazine. [Oct 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "A Moment on The Lake" to DeathGrip. {I wrote the first draft of this story a week ago. What I do, and I recommend this, is write a new story every day and when I wrote one that seems promising, polish it and send it off. Never wait for inspiration! } [Oct 1999]

• Callum Dunlop, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "GEPI" to Noesis. {My first sale :-)). Many thanks to everyone who helped turn this into something worth printing. } [Oct 1999]

• Jennifer Macaire, who sold her short story, "Life on Mars" to The Bear Deluxe Magazine Special sci-fi edition. [Oct 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "I THINK THE THREE-HEADED DOG WHO GUARDS THE UNDERWORLD LURKS " to PlanetMag.Com. {The full title of the story is, "I THINK THE THREE-HEADED DOG WHO GUARDS THE UNDERWORLD LURKS IN THE ANDROID SHOP ON THE FIRST FLOOR." } [Oct 1999]

• Carol Ryles, who reports "A story accepted for publication by AntipodeanSF". {I think AntipodeanSF is a fun site, so I'm excited about my story "Boom Baby Boom" due to appear in January 2000: http://purl.nla.gov.au/NET/antisf/ } [Oct 1999]

• Sheila Crosby, who reports "I old my mainstream humourous verse "Dear Children's Editor" to Inkblot.". [Oct 1999]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her short story, "A Trip to the Movies" to Whispers from the Shattered Forum. [Oct 1999]

• Paul Kemp, who sold his short story, "The Visitor"" to Dragonscroll e-zine. [Oct 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "Three Eyes That Never Close" to The Cafe Irreal. [Oct 1999]

• Laurie Tom, who sold her short story, "Other Than In Space Itself" to Dragon Soup. {I submitted this story quite a while ago while DS was still paying, but even though it's not anymore, hey, it's still an acceptance! } [Oct 1999]

• William J Francis (Bill), whose short story, "All I Want for Christmas" is now out in the current issue of Nasty Snips. {Hey fellow critters. Just wanted to encourage all of my brothers / sisters in arms to stop by www.mt-enterprises.co.uk/ns.htm and purchase an advance copy of "Nasty Snips". This new UK anthology is the first by independent publisher MT-Enterprises. The editor has been great to work with and has plans to produce another book DEC 2001 which will again be open to new / semi-pro authors. Anyhow, with so few new venues for horror writers, I hope I can count on all of you to tell MT-Enterprises we appreciate the chance not only to sell our writing but also to read that of our peers! } [Oct 1999]

• Martha Bland, who has won the First Place in "The Fright Stuff" Contest award for her short story, "The Guardian". {The story will be published in the "Reviews and Previews" section of the Midland Reporter-Telegram on October 29. } [Oct 1999]

• Paul Kemp, who sold his novel, "Yet to be titled"" to TSR publishing. {This novel is the sequel to the Forgotten Realms novella that I recently sold to TSR. Both should appear in the stores around July next year (I'll be sure to let my fellow critters know; I'm interested in hearing opinions.) } [Oct 1999]

• Bonnie Mercure, whose short story, "The Interview" is now out in the current issue of Dragonglass . {Check the story out at http://users2.50megs.com/bone/interview.html } [Oct 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, who has won the Writer Digest Genre Short Story 11th place award for his (Critter'd) short story, "A Case of Port". {I'm the only person to place two stories in the top twenty. There were over 13,000 entries. } [Oct 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, who has won the Writer Digest Genre Short Story 7th place award for his (Critter'd) short story, "The Ladies Man". {This story is now out in Night Terrors #8. I'm the only person to place two stories in the top twenty. There were over 13,000 entries. } [Oct 1999]

• Randy Ashburn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Rock in G Minor" to Aboriginal Science Fiction. {This is my second sale to Abo! } [Sep 1999]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her short story, "Maternal Instinct" to Nasty Piece of Work. [Sep 1999]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her short story, "The Awakening" to The Edge, Tales of Suspense. {I've been trying for a long time to get a story accepted here. This is really exciting for me. } [Sep 1999]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, whose short story, "The Flesh is Willing" is now out in the current issue of Nasty Piece of Work. {The Editor at Nasty..., who has just accepted story #3 of mine, says I'm a "Nasty regular". Cute. } [Sep 1999]

• Kathy Tompkins, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Pulling Weeds (was To Serve the People)" is now out in the current issue of Challenging Destiny. {Thanks to everyone who critted the previous version. I know your input helped me sell this piece. } [Sep 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Ladies' Man" is now out in the current issue of Night Terrors #8. [Sep 1999]

• Robbie Matthews, who sold his short story, "Map Magic" to Antipodean SF. {http://purl.nla.gov.au/NET/antisf/ OK, maybe it's not that exciting, but it's the first piece I've submitted anywhere for over a decade. } [Sep 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Feghoot and the Shaggy Dog" to Planet Relish. {Last week I couldn't even spell Feghoot. This week, I wrote one. } [Sep 1999]

• Sheila Crosby, who sold her short story, "Oh Baby!" to Planet Relish http://www.planetrelish.com. [Sep 1999]

• Nye Marnach placed two stories, "Demon in the Sea" and "Clara's Doll" with DIGITAL CATAPULT, a new e-zine found at www.showpage.org/DigitalCatapult/ . They will be featured in the October and November issues, respectively. [Sep 1999]

• William J Francis, who sold his short story, "All I Want for Christmas" to The UK Anthology Nasty Snips. {The book is scheduled for a Halloween release. This is a new anthology and how well it is received by the horror community will determine whether it becomes an annual publication. After its release I will provide the necessary information to order the book over the internet and I hope I can count on fellow critters to encourage publishers to release new horror anthologies like "Nasty Snips"- by purchasing the book of course. Anyone who currently publishes in this market knows that the number of horror anthologies that accept submissions from new or little known authors is at an all time low. Its great to see a new venue for our work! } [Sep 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "His Will Be Done" to The Fifth D . . . . {Nothing personal, gang, but the editor took the pre-Critter'd version of the story. This is one of the stories that got some "What sort of sick, immature son of bitch are you?" type comments. I have lots of different teachers, and one of them is J.G. Ballard. He has written something as elegant as "Message from Mars" and a nasty piece of work called "Why I Want to Fuck Ronald Reagan." Looking at my work, as tender and as sweet "Mrs. Selby Takes a Lover from another Galaxy" is that's how vicious "His Will Be Done" is. I work both sides of the street, folks. If you can't tolerate that, let me know and I'll go play somewhere else. } [Sep 1999]

• Barry Hollander, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Glyph" to The Dragon's Scroll. {Also I have stories out right now at the Orphic Chronicle and at Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy, the former which is a story that went through the "crit" process. } [Sep 1999]

• Nora M. Mulligan, who sold her short story, "Calling the Unicorn" to Dragonlaugh. [Sep 1999]

• Iain Darby, who sold his short story, "Death in Service" to Neverworlds. [Aug 1999]

• Michele Berg, who reports "An article of mine has been accepted...". {An article of mine on greenhouses has been accepted by the magazine "Small Farm Today". A small step, but I'm very excited. Should be out in the next month or so. } [Aug 1999]

• Joe Larson, whose short story, "Velvet Dreams" is now out in the current issue of Writers Hood (online magazine). {This is my first publishing credit! Thanks to critters for confidence -and- the URL to the Writers Hood. } [Aug 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "Followed By The Moon" is now out in the current issue of Shadow Voices. {My 12th acceptance, "Followed By The Moon," can now be viewed at Shadow Voices at http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Styx/1713/vidaweb.htm. 12. Amazing. I guess this is working. In various times in my life, I have wanted to be an actor, a magician and a filmmaker. Writer (and teacher) is the path that has worked out. } [Aug 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who reports "Nothing at all to do with Science Fiction, but I just got appointed Assistant Editor to Devon Life (a local County Magazine in England). I can now call myself a "professional" writer, and the experience gained through critting and being critted by other Critters, I have no doubt, has proved invaluable in boosting my confidence levels to permit me to have accepted the position (which was offered, by the way, not sought) Thanks everyone.". [Aug 1999]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "More Than Kin" to Neverworlds. {This story went through the queue as #1203, and it just sold...so be persistent with your marketing! } [Aug 1999]

• Melvin Frank Darbe, who sold his short story, "Dark Under the Sun" to Anotherealm. [Aug 1999]

• Dave Freer, who sold his novel, "Rats, Bats & Vats (Working Title)" to Baen Books. {I am senior Co-author for this book. My partner is Eric Flint, with 6 books to his credit, and a rising star in the Baen stable. The book was sold on proposal - ie. sight unseen, and must still be written. } [Jul 1999]

• Iain Darby, whose short story, "Teenage Alien" is now out in the current issue of Via Galactica. {It's also up on the net at http://www.sf.hr/via/novibroj/tudjinac.htm though it's in Croation! So cool that somebody went to the trouble to translate it :-)) } [Jul 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Ladies' Man" to Night Terrors. [Jul 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his (critter'd) short story, "at the third stroke it will be ... forever" to temple of luna. {this story took first place in the second temple of luna contest. although the story has been crittered (and all comments gratefully received), the version entered for the contest was the uncrittered version. } [Jul 1999]

• Iain Darby, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Bits and Pieces" to Razorblade Press. {The piece will appear in an anthology of modern Frankenstein tales 'Hideous Progeny' in the Autumn. Thanks to all the critters who helped with it! } [Jul 1999]

• J. A. Whitson, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Woman in Blue Robes" is now out in the current issue of Papyrus. {The magazine's address is http://www.papyrus-fiction.com/ } [Jul 1999]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "The Host of Hell" to Literary: The Magazine of Writing. [Jul 1999]

• Laura Blackwell, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The City of Wondrous Umbrellas" is now out in the current issue of Alexandria Digital Literature (http://www.alexlit.com). {"The City of Wondrous Umbrellas" is the executive editor's Pick of the Week for July 11-17. } [Jul 1999]

• Carol Ryles, who sold her short story, "Seas of Change" to Eidolon: Australian Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy. [Jul 1999]

• Ralan Conley, who has won the 4th Place in Pulp Eternity's 1998 "Best of the Web" award for his (Critter'd) short story, "The Lynching of Jack Cutter". {Critters can read the final version of my story along with 18 other great tales, and vote for their favorites, right now, at http://www.pulpeternity.com -- all voters have a chance to win 98 Bucks & 98 Books, plus other prizes. } [Jul 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "sold five of them " to A.R.T.. {The stories are "Dreams of Purple Eggs and Yellow Eggs," "The House of Crying Leaves," "Science Fiction in a Bottle," "Our Final Chapter," and "Why All The Good Ones Are Taken (Supposedly)." In addition, the editor has asked me to do a new "flash fiction story" for him every month. } [Jul 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Five From Over the Border of Never" to Curiosity's Escape. {The story is at http://escape.angband.org. Anybody curious about how just odd my stories can check should check this one out. } [Jul 1999]

• Thomas Claburn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Watchman of the Sands" to Spaceways Weekly. [Jul 1999]

• Keran Coady, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "A Bone to Pick" to Jackhammer E-zine. [Jun 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Beneath The Rings Of Al'arr" to Jackhammer. {I've been hearing so many good things about editor Racheal Henderson and Jackhammer, that I figured it was time I gave it a try. I'm glad I did. } [Jun 1999]

• Bonnie Mercure, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Longoids Don't Hang Around Old Folks' Homes Too Often (was Choices)" to LC-39. [Jun 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Common Ground" to Anotherealm. [Jun 1999]

• Laura Blackwell, who sold her short story, "The City of Wondrous Umbrellas" to Alexandria Digital Literature. {This reprint will appear online sometime later in the summer. } [Jun 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who reports "I just heard from Author Services Inc. that they want to use an article I wrote about my experiences at the Writers of the Future Contest Workshop both in their quarterly ASI magazine and in their publicity blurbs to promote the contest. No mention has been made of payment, but I'm working on it.". {Author Services Inc is the organisation that looks after the works of the late L. Ron Hubbard and also organises the Writers of the Future Contest which he initiated. } [Jun 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "(see below)" to (see below). {I have four stories on-line now! 1. "Androphobia" appears at Triangle46 (http://freeyellow.com/members6/tri46/index.html). 2. "Mrs. Selby Takes a Lover from Another Galaxy" appears at Planet (www.planetmag.com). 3. "The Suicide of Richard Milhous Nixon" appears in Morella (http:www.morella.freeservers.com/main.htm). 4. "As The Gate Opens" is at Alchemie (http:www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/9295/alchemie.html). } [Jun 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose short story, "Dinner With the Vampire" is now out in the current issue of Alchemie E-Zine. [Jun 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "X-Country" to Boys' Life. [Jun 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his novel, "The Path of the Four" to DreamCatcher Online Books and Publishing. {You will, once I sign the contract and the lady who runs this business gets things set up, be able to order my novel, on a computer disk for somewhere between 6 to 12 bucks. (She has about a dozen titles available: fiction, non-fiction, poems . . . I'm going to be her first SF author!) DreamCatcher is at http://www.cia-g.com~jwaldie. Buy multiple copies! The more money Judy Waldie makes off of me, the more she can pay me! } [Jun 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "The Cell Phone" to The Cafe Irreal. [Jun 1999]

• Kathy Tompkins, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Trading Rocks" is now out in the current issue of SpaceWays Weekly #92. [Jun 1999]

• Paul Kemp, who reports his short story, "If you prick us, do we not bleed..." sold to Dragonscroll e-zine. {This short story was crittered under the title "A dish best not served." Thanks to the critters who offered constructive critiques. I have also signed a contract with TSR to write a novella for an upcoming Forgotten Realms anthology. Outlines and first drafts are completed. It's an exciting time!} [Jun 1999]

• William J Francis, who sold his short story, "Mister Fix It" to ROSEWORT (http://www.geocities.com/Soho/Den/3712). {This story actually is getting critiqued this week but I still retain print and anthology rights and I plan to utilize the comments from my fellow critters to continue to "tweak" the story. So thanks to everyone and I promise your efforts are not in vain!} [Jun 1999]

• Steve Lazarowitz, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Time: An Introduction" is now out in the current issue of 69 Flavors of Paranoia. [Jun 1999]

• Sheila Crosby, who reports "My short story "The Luck of the Dice" (crittered as "Preconceptions") got short listed in a competition. A BIG thankyou to everyone who gave a crit!". [Jun 1999]

• Barry Hollander, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Third Mage on the Right" to Jackhammer. [Jun 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who reports... 1. My collection of Short Stories (one of which was crittered) is now out by Pipers Ash (details at www.supamasu.demon.co.uk). All four quarters' collections will also be published in hardback format in the year 2000. 2. A review of my novel TO HELL WITH THE HARP! by Lisa DuMond is currently on the Web at www.Sfsite.com [May 1999]

• Jim C. Hines, who sold his short story, "The Eyes of Ra" to Pulp Eternity. [May 1999]

• Rochelle Mitchell, who reports " I sold a "Crittered" poem, "Twins No More", to XX Magazine. ". [May 1999]

• Mark Budman, whose short story, "Dream On" is now out in the current issue of Recursive Angel. {It's a paying semi-pro mag. } [May 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, ""To Die on a Cold Blue World"" to XX Magazine. [May 1999]

• Sheila Crosby, who reports "I've sold a comic verse to The Ink Blotter (the Inkspot's humour section)..". [May 1999]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her short story, "The Flesh is Willing" to Nasty Piece of Work. {This is my second acceptance in the print magazine Nasty Piece of Work, which is published in England. My story "Someone's Sister" appeared in the March '99 issue. } [May 1999]

• Suzanne Feldman (AKA Severna Park), who reports... "Although this was never a crittereed story, it is for sure a YAHOO!. My story The Breadfruit Empire went up on Ellen Datlow's Event Horizon webzine yesterday. I sent it to her via e-mail last Tuesday, revised it Wednesday and sold it to her on Thursday. The joys of virtual reality, huh?" So drop by: http://www.eventhorizon.com/sfzine/ [May 1999]

• Edward Stack, who reports "My epublished fantasy novel, "Ily's Dream" made the Electricumbrella's best seller list for April. You can check out the list at www.electricumbrella.com/industry.htm . The book itself is at www.electricumbrella.com/fantasy.htm ". [May 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, whose (Critter'd) short story, "A Predatory Nature" is now out in the current issue of Outside: Speculative & Dark Fiction. {Not only is this a great e-zine, but it's free to read, and (most importantly to us) it pays its writers professional rates for stories! } [May 1999]

• Poul Marushchak, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Son Of The Grave Digger" to Another Realm. [May 1999]

• Poul Marushchak, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Miracle's Repuditation" to Another Realm. [May 1999]

• Irette Patterson, whose short story, "Practice" is now out in the current issue of The Romantic Bower ezine. [May 1999]

• Kimberly Brown, who sold her short story, "Just a Little Catnap"" to Barnes and Noble. {This is for a Barnes and Noble anthology entitled "100 Crafty Little Cat Crimes". The book will be out in the Fall of 2000. } [Apr 1999]

• Barry Hollander, who sold his short story, "We Three" to Millenium Science Fiction & Fantasy. [Apr 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Ships Before Dawn" to SpaceWays Weekly. {This was the first story I sent through Critters, so I just want to say thanks to you all! } [Apr 1999]

• Mark Siegel, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Atlantis, Ohio" to Writers of the Future. [Apr 1999]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "To Play a Magic Harp" to E-scape. [Apr 1999]

• Chris Markwyn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Blood of the Jaguar" to Papyrus. [Apr 1999]

• Scott Beem, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "A Folly of Fate" to Sinister Element, http://norden1.com/~mitch007/sinister/. {The story appeared as "Crux of Fate" on the crit-list. It will be in the May issue. Thanks to everyone who took a look. } [Apr 1999]

• Greg van Eekhout, who reports "The anthology, "Horrors! 365 Scary Stories", in which I had two stories published, has made the final ballot for the 1999 Stoker Award. ". [Apr 1999]

• Tom Sweeney, who will be attending Clarion West this summer. [Apr 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn, who sold his short story, "Passage Through the Storm" to Aboriginal Science Fiction. [Apr 1999]

• Jeff Cates, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Challenger, The Lost Dutchman's Asteroid, and A Second Line of Defense." to Colonies. {I sold three of these Rook's Branch Tavern stories to Colonies. The Lost Dutchman's Asteroid was critiqued by Critters. } [Mar 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "Flash in the Pan" to Pulp Eternity. [Mar 1999]

• Monica J. O'Rourke, who sold her short story, "Common Courtesy" to Gathering Darkness. {You can view the story here: http://www.officextras.com/gdarkness/contents.html } [Mar 1999]

• Randy Ashburn, who has won the Dana Speculative Short Fiction--2nd Place award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Rolling the Stone". [Mar 1999]

• Randy Ashburn, who sold his short story, "A Predatory Nature" to Outside: Speculative and Dark Fiction. {This was my first sale! } [Mar 1999]

• Edward Stack, who sold his novel, "Ily's Dream" to The Electric Umbrella. {I found an on line agent (Thorton Literary Agency) for my Sword and sorcery novel, "Ily's Dream" and they formed an online publisher, The Electric Umbrella. If you want to see how it works you can go to www.electricumbrella.com If you want to see the free preview of chapter 1 of Ily's Dream go to www.electricumbrella.com/fantasy.htm and click where it says "Download Now". You won't be charged anything unless you ask to see the whole book, at which point you will be given payment options, including online credit card access. } [Mar 1999]

• Alex F. Brown, who sold his short story, "Fool's Mate" to Millennium. [Mar 1999]

• Jeff Cates, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Getting a Toehold in the Belt" to Colonies. {Getting a Toehold in the Belt will be coming out in Issue #1 of Colonies this summer. Colonies' Editor John Dunne has expressed an interest in running all six stories in my Tales From the Rook's Branch Tavern as a series in the first six issues of this new magazine. } [Mar 1999]

• Eric Wilson, who reports "one of my stories just appeared in a webzine.". {The url is http://www.fortunecity.com/victorian/hillcrest/376/sciencefiction.htm1 It may not pay anything, but exposure is exposre. } [Mar 1999]

• Lily James, who reports "My crittered short story, "Round" has been nominated for the _Best New American Voices_ anthology, published by Harcourt Brace. It was also runner-up in the Goodnow Award for Short Fiction, sponsored by the Chicago Bar Association. Thanks to everyone for the suggestions.". [Mar 1999]

• Judith Rau, who reports "SWR [a major German radio-station] accepted my play "Von Wuermern und Voegeln" [Of Worms and Birds].". [Mar 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Unfinished Business of Tommy Kent" is now out in the current issue of Alchemie Ezine. [Mar 1999]

• Michael A. Burstein, who sold his (Critter'd) short story "The Ultimate Locked Room Mystery" to Analog (under the title "The Quantum Teleporter"). [Mar 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "Flash in the Pan" to Voyage. {Flash in the Pan is a non-genre, humorous piece. } [Mar 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who reports "I won the quarterly short story collection contest run by English Chap-book pub lishers Pipers Ash. Consequently my story collection called "Kismet" will be published in Chap-book format later this year. One of the stories has been crittered, although it was accepted in uncrittered format - I will probably replace it with the crittered version. If anyone wants details on this contest, Pipers Ash is on the web, although it would be better to send for full details by snail-mail.". [Mar 1999]

• Carol Hightshoe, who reports "Sold my poem "The Legend" to the Premiere issue of Silicon Sorcery Magazine - Oct 99.". [Mar 1999]

• Kathy Tompkins, whose short story, "The Marking" is now out in the current issue of Best of SpaceWays 1998 Anthology. {Anyone running Windows can download the anthology at http://spaceways.mirror.org/antho.html } [Mar 1999]

• "Julianne Mitchell", who has won the Temple of Luna Fiction Contest's First Place award for her short story, "Lupus". {We Critters purt-near swept the contest! Thanks to your notice, Andrew, I discovered the perfect market for "Lupus." Although it's a Ppre-Critter era story that's never gone through the critique process, all the lessons I've learned from Critters helped with the final revision. Thank you, one and all! I don't generally write werewolf fiction, so I used a pen name. I'd prefer to keep my real name off this one even in the Yahoos--it's less confusing that way. } [Mar 1999]

• Peadar O Guilin, who sold his short story, "Bad Choices" to Jackhammer. [Feb 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "Mrs. Selby Takes a Lover from Another Galaxy" to Planet. [Feb 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "'Swifty' Sampson and the Aliens" to Dementia Webzine. [Feb 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "The Loving Son of God" to Antipodean SF. [Feb 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "Multiculturalism" to Antipodean SF. [Feb 1999]

• Kevin James Miller, who sold his short story, "The Circle of Immortality" to Antipodean SF. [Feb 1999]

• Darin Park, who sold his short story, "The Devil, You Say?" to Silicon Sorcery. {Silicon Sorcery is a new small print magazine whose premiere issue will be published October 1999 in which "The Devil, You Say?" will be included. This story, although not crittered, was written with the style and plot design suggested by crits of previous work I had submitted, so I owe all critters a big Thank You for carving a path for me and the help they gave in my personal writing development. In other words, I couldn't have done it without all the helpful suggestions. } [Feb 1999]

• Weston Ochse, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Puddle Jumper" is now out in the current issue of MindMares. [Feb 1999]

• Weston Ochse, who sold her short story, "Summer Planting" to Sinister Element Ezine. [Feb 1999]

• Weston Ochse, who sold her short story, "Killer Party" to Dark Muse Ezine. {I haven't Yahoo'd before but have a few of them to share with everyone. } [Feb 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who reports "I won the quarterly short story collection contest run by English Chap-book pub lishers Pipers Ash. Consequently my story collection called "Kismet" will be published in Chap-book format later this year. One of the stories has been crittered, although it was accepted in uncrittered format - I will probably replace it with the crittered version. If anyone wants details on this contest, Pipers Ash is on the web, although it would be better to send for full details by snail-mail.". [Feb 1999]

• Sheila Crosby, who has won the Temple of Luna contest (minor prize) award for her short story, "Repentance". {It wasn't officially crittered because it's not speculative fiction, but a BIG thankyou to the critters who looked at it unofficially. } [Feb 1999]

• Katherine I. McClure, who has won the Temple of Luna Fiction Contest, 3rd Prize award for heron short story, "The Forgotten Hero". {It's the first time I've gotten money for my writing. I don't feel like a pro yet, but I definitely feel closer. Thanks to all the Critters! } [Feb 1999]

• Joe Sutliff Sanders, who says, "I'm no longer a Critter, but I just got some good news. "Chains of Being," a Crittered story, was one of the two manuscripts I sent off for application to Clarion and Clarion West, and both have now accepted me for this summer! [Feb 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, whose short story, "Memory Box" is now out in the current issue of Dark Planet. [Feb 1999]

• Dave Laderoute, who sold his short story, "Closing the Circle" to Maelstrom Speculative Fiction. [Feb 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "Uh, huh, huh" to Voyage. [Feb 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "At the Third Stroke it will be ... forever" to Voyage. {This is the second time this has happened to me: the day I get a story on the net for crittering, I hear I've already sold it in uncrittered format! } [Feb 1999]

• Tom Hooten, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "When the World Ends, What Next?" to LC-39. [Feb 1999]

• Phoebe-June Rogers, who sold her short story, "Pulmonary Love" to Goddess Of The Bay. [Feb 1999]

• Dave Laderoute, who sold his short story, "The Mind's Eye" to Neverworlds. [Feb 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, whose short story, "Cold Morning Rescue" is now out in the current issue of Boys' Life. [Feb 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "Digger" to Clover Books. {The Clover Group is a publishing company that specialises in anthologies. My story DIGGER is to be published in a forthcoming anthology of horror stories. Payment is likely to be minimal. } [Feb 1999]

• Randy D. Ashburn has won the Science Fiction Writers of Earth, 8th place award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Rolling the Stone". {Randy hopes that with this credit as well as the great advice he got from Critters when this story was critiqued last week, that maybe he can talk someone into buying it! } [Feb 1999]

• Seth Loy, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Alarm Clocks" to Towers. [Feb 1999]

• Mary K. Malloy, writing as Katherine Booth reports "My article, "The Entrancing World of Finches" will be in the Feb 1999 issue of Winged Wisdom at http://www.birdsnways.com/". {This isn't sf/f related, so don't know if I can be posted or not, but thought I'd try. My bird writing seems to do so much better than my sf/f. :) } [Jan 1999]

• Michael T. Marsh, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Times Gone Bye" to SpaceWays Weekly. {This is a first sale for me! Feels like forever, but thanks to all of the Critters for helping me fine tune my writing! I don't think this would have happened without particiapting in this group. } [Jan 1999]

• Paul Urayama, who sold his short story, "Run Free and Sow Your Myopic Oats" to Neverworlds. [Jan 1999]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "Closing Gambit" to Voyage. {Voyage is a new magazine which has just kicked off in the UK. The address is John Dunne, Voyage, Regent Chambers, 40 Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, WV1 1DG. They don't pay a lot as yet but are hoping to increase payments as subscriptions escalate. Not seen a copy yet but the specimen front covers look good. Interesting thing is that the same people are kicking off another magazine soon called "Colonies". This one is a little different in that it is going to be produced as a "Sunday Supplement" type publication with stories, articles and features written from the perspective of a journalist/writer some 300 years in the future when the solar system is no longer a mystery. Details from the same address. The first edition is planned for September. Critters may be interested in these publications if you can see your way to publicising them. } [Jan 1999]

• Karen Traviss, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Orchids" to Neverworlds. [Jan 1999]

• Jonathon (Sullydog) Sullivan reports "Oops. Found out right after I sent that yahoo earlier today that I also sold an article, "Ways of the Reaper" to Speculations. Whoo!". [Jan 1999]

• Jonathon Sullivan reports "also had a scientific paper, "Effects of Insulin on Cerebral Protein Synthesis During Reperfusion" accepted for publication by the Journal of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism. But I'm more excited about selling the story.". [Jan 1999]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Waiting For the Thaw" to Anotherealm. [Jan 1999]

• Beth Bernobich, who sold her short story, "Version 2.0" to Storisende Verlag. [Jan 1999]

• Thomas Claburn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Splendor in the Desert" to Spaceways Weekly. [Jan 1999]

• Carrie Masek, who sold her novel, "Under a Bear Moon" to Hard Shell Word Factory. [Jan 1999]

• Alex F. Brown, who sold his short story, "Mansion deCamp" to Eternity. [Jan 1999]

• Kimberly Brown's short story, "Mr. Fixit" is now out in the current issue of thecase.com Twist section. [Jan 1999]

• Kathy Tompkins, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Pulling Weeds (originally To Serve the People)" to Challenging Destiny. [Jan 1999]

• Karen Traviss, who sold her short story, "The Final Demand of the Sun" to Odyssey. [Dec 1998]

• Dave Laderoute reports "My son, Mark, age 11, won first prize in provincial poetry contest for his poem about Remembrance Day (equivalent to Memorial Day for you folks south of the border). Not only did this net him $125, but now it goes on to a national competition. And he never even got it Critter'd!!". [Dec 1998]

• Dave Laderoute, who sold his short story, "Microangelo" to Carpe Noctem. [Dec 1998]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Dance with the Dust"" to Noesis Science Fiction Magazine. {Although this piece was Crittered, the story had been submitted to the magazine at about the same time it was put through for critiquing. The magazine accepted it in its original format so I never got the opportunity to make any crittered amendments to it. So, thanks to all the critters who liked it as it was, and "yah booh sucks!" to those who didn't - but thanks to all for their very useful comments which will probably form a prequel or a sequel to the story. By the way the magazine likes my stuff and wants to see more. } [Dec 1998]

• Liz Martin's short story, "Inspiration" is now out in the current issue of Antipodean SciFi http://purl.nla.gov.au/NET/antisf/. [Dec 1998]

• Liz Martin, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "If We Shadows Have Offended" to Aphelion Webzine. [Dec 1998]

• Harold Chester, who sold his short story, "Coper" to Neverworlds. {This is my first sale. } [Dec 1998]

• Toby Buckell, who sold his short story, "Experiencing The Now" to Jackhammer. {"Experiencing The Now" was bought for the January 11th issue of Jackhammer. } [Dec 1998]

• David L. Felts reports "Sold my first poem". {I seld my first poem, a horror piece title "Bone Gardner" to a new and as-yet untitled special edition magazine being put out by the same folks who do Goddess of the Bay } [Dec 1998]

• David L. Felts, who sold his short story, "The Rain King" to Neverworlds. [Dec 1998]

• Malcolm Twigg, who sold his short story, "Troubled Waters" to World Wide Writers Spring Anthology 1998. {The British edition of Vol XIII of the Writers of the Future series featuring my story "Altar" will be out in the UK after Christmas } [Dec 1998]

• Justin Stanchfield, who sold his short story, "Recipe For Disaster" to Jack and Jill. {This story has been on the market almost three years. Moral of the story: Never give up! } [Dec 1998]

• Jan Wildt, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Like Riding a Bike" to Maelstrom Speculative Fiction (Jan 1999). {The title of the story may be changed for publication -- don't know yet. } [Dec 1998]

• Ralan Conley's (Critter'd) short story, "The Lynching of Jack Cutter" is now out in the current issue of Dark Annie (http://members.aol.com/darkannie). [Dec 1998]

• Jan Wildt, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "A Son of the Revolution" to the premier issue of New Genre (Jan 1999). [Nov 1998]

• Sheila Crosby's short story, "The Dodo Dragon" is now out in the current issue of Jackhammer http://www.eggplant-productions.com/current/. [Nov 1998]

• Karen Traviss, who sold her short story, "GM with Cecilia" to Odyssey. [Nov 1998]

• Ralan Conley, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Lynching of Jack Cutter" to Dark Annie (webzine). {My website (http://members.xoom.com/RalanConley) won the Preditors & Editors' "Truly Useful Site" Award for October. The Word Museum approached me for an interview which is now up at http://www.wordmuseum.com/ralanconleyinterview.htm Thanks to all the great Critters who gave me a helping hand with this story. } [Nov 1998]

• Joshilyn Jackson's short story, "Little Dead Uglies" is now out in the current issue of TriQuarterly Magazine. {I got paid in actual money as opposed to copies (fresh, new exciting concept to me), and the issue will be available in November. } [Nov 1998]

• Mike Lewis, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Perfect Father" to Dark Raptures Anthology. {and I'm looking for a new title for it as Scott doesn't likethe title - all suggestions gratefully received.... Mike } [Nov 1998]

• Sheila Crosby reports "I sold my poem "Motherlove" to Sapphire magazine.". {This was not crittered because it's mainstream. } [Oct 1998]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Down to a Sunless Sea" to Aboriginal Science Fiction. [Oct 1998]

• Tobias S Buckell, who sold his short story, "Airtown" to The Martian Wave (James Baker ProMart lab ezine). [Oct 1998]

• Marie Wendel, who sold her short story, "Small Nuisances" to Jackhammer E-Zine. [Oct 1998]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "Showing the Flag" to SpaceWays Weekly. [Oct 1998]

• Liz Martin, who sold her short story, "Inspiration" to Antipodean Sci Fi. [Oct 1998]

• Jim Reichert reports "My reviews of the September and November Analogs will be in the Fall Tangents (#22).". [Oct 1998]

• Daniel Arenson, who sold his short story, "A Test of Faith" to Dragon Soup Webzine. [Sep 1998]

• Jeanette Snyder, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Bones of the Sea" to Goddess of the Bay. [Sep 1998]

• Jim Reichert reports "My nonfiction review of 1/98 Analog appears in current issue of Tangent, my review of 6/98 Analog to appear in the first online issue (coming soon).". [Sep 1998]

• Ralan Conley, who sold his short story, "King" to More Monsters from Memphis, anthology. {Although this wasn't Crittered, Dan Salas, a long-time critter and my best Critter-friend, did a quick and great critique on it in the best Critter style. So, my thanks to Dan. } [Sep 1998]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "The Sleeping Admiral" to SpaceWays Weekly. [Sep 1998]

• Douglas MacAskill's short story, "Wrist Takers" is now out in the current issue of www.sfsite.com/darkplanet. [Sep 1998]

• Dave Freer, who sold his novel, "Forlorn Hope (for now!)" to Baen Books. [Aug 1998]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold her short story, "The Slave Boy" to Dragon Soup. [Aug 1998]

• Kimberly Brown, who sold her short story, "A Perfect Mouse" to theCase.com. {I'm not sure when it'll be on line, but I'm excited because it pays REAL MONEY! } [Aug 1998]

• Weston Ochse, who sold his short story, "Window Fan" to Peridot Books. [Aug 1998]

• Jeff Verona, who sold his short story, "Myrmidons" to Neverworld. {Neverworlds is an ezine; the URL is http://www3.ns.sympatico.ca/dechaune/neverworlds/nw.htm } [Aug 1998]

• Kathy Tompkins, who sold her short story, "The Marking" to SpaceWays Weekly. [Aug 1998]

• David L. Felts, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Paper Children" to Flesh and Blood. [Aug 1998]

• David L. Felts, who sold his short story, "The Color of Honor" to Neverworld. [Aug 1998]

• David L. Felts, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Chopper" to Vampire Dan's Story Emporium. [Aug 1998]

• Raechel Henderson, who sold her short story, "Moments of Awareness" to Exodus. {Also, The Orphic Chronicle has accepted "The Blue Jazz Daisy Strikes Again!" which is another crittered Blue Jazz Daisy story. I'm still waiting to hear about the 3rd installment. } [Jul 1998]

• Raechel Henderson, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Forest Healer" to SpaceWays Weekly. [Jul 1998]

• Jan Wildt, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Many Dogs, Barking" to Talebones. {First sale. I believe that critter input is what rendered this story marketable. Sincere thanks! } [Jul 1998]

• Kathy Tompkins, who sold her short story, "Christmas Star" to Country Woman. {I don't know if this counts, since it's not sf/f/h. It's your call. } [Jun 1998]

• Milena Benini Getz, who sold her novel, "Year of the Eclipse" to Bizarre Publishing. {It's a local market, but there had been some talk of making the book available to the US audiences as well... more news when I have them! } [Jun 1998]

• Jenn Coleman-Reese, who sold her short story, "I Dreamed of Sky" to Pulp Eternity, the "I Am Dragon" issue. [Jun 1998]

• Jenn Coleman-Reese, who sold her short story, "Memory and Reason" to the Prom Night anthology. [May 1998]

• Tammy Mackenzie reports "doing a duet for Jackhammer, May18th-24th with outstanding co-author Steve Lazarowitz". [May 1998]

• Hank Quense's (Critter'd) short story, "2,376th Encounter" is now out in the current issue of Promart Publishing. {Story was serialized and published in January and March issues of Promart magazines. The story never would have been sold without the changes suggested by my fellow Critters } [Apr 1998]

• Bob August, who sold his short story, "A Matter of Conscience" to Dark Planet. {Dark Planet address: http://www.sfsite.com/darkplanet/ } [Mar 1998]

• Tammy Mackenzie, who sold her short story, "22-Second God" to Jackhammer E-Zine. {The story is actually in the queue to BE crittered. } [Mar 1998]

• Raymund Eich, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Evidence of Things Seen" to Odyssey. {Never give up--this story sold to the ninth market I tried. } [Mar 1998]

• T. M. Spell reports "Acceptance into the 1998 Clarion East SF&F Writer's Workshop at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan.". {This on top of winning Second Place in L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future Contest for the Fourth Quarter of 1997. The Hubbard winning story was one of the two short stories submitted as part of T. M. Spell's application to Clarion. Spell will also be attending a week-long Writer's of the Future workshop in Los Angeles, California in late 1998, taught by Dave Wolverton and other professional writers. } [Mar 1998]

• Mike Lewis sold his short story, "Jack and Marilyn" to Jackhammer (Conspiracy Theory Issue). {This is the first story I finished, which means I have now sold the first two stories I wrote.... :-) } [Mar 1998]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, who reports that he's sold "Aftermath" to Spaceways Weekly, "Blood of the Windigo" to The Rage Machine, and Shiver Magazine wants him to continue the story he wrote for their 4th issue (which ended on a cliffhanger). [3/98]

• Fraser Ronald, who reports "A Little Splice of Life" has been published in the journal "Taegu's Culture". [2/98]

• John Aegard, who reports he's been offered early acceptance to this year's Odyssey workshop, with Harlan Ellison. "Midnight at El Greco's House of Kabob" was the story that got him in, and he thanks all those critters who helped with that one. [2/98]

• Andrew Burt, who sold a Crittered story (The Watering Hole) to Spaceways Weekly. [2/98]

• Patti Miller, who reports she got her local newspaper to do a story on her and novel. Remember, folks, self-promotion is sometimes the only way to market your work! [2/98]

• Milena Benini Getz, for a sale to Eternity Online. [1/98]

• Jerry Bryson, for a sale to Altair. [1/98]

• Mike Lewis, for a sale to "Another 100 NZ Short Short Stories" anthology to be published in May. [1/98]

• and Margaret Fisk (a.k.a. pen-name of Margaret McGaffey), for a sale to Curriculum Vitae. [1/98]

• Judy Tucker, who sold "Crown of Leaves" to Jackhammer. [1/98]

• Corey Kellgren, for sales to Eternity Magazine and the Crittered "Obedience" to Millennium. [1/98]

• Michael Burstein, for placing on the preliminary Nebula ballot! [1/98]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, who sold his "Suicide is Painless" to Eternity magazine. [1/98]

• Claudia Bergstrom, who won one of the daily "you be the author" contests going on at USA Today's website (they do a new one every month). [1/98]

• Andrew Burt, who sold the Critter'd "The Last Flight of the Sarah Mae" to Millennium magazine. [1/98]

• Kimberly Brown, who has a story among the finalists in a competition at http://members.aol.com/ladyendles/Contest.html (Critters are encouraged to visit the page and vote for _whatever_ story you think is best). [1/98]

• Suzanne Feldman (AKA Severna Park), whose next book is coming out in February as part of the new Eos imprint from Avon, and who'll be on a "Getting and Staying Published Panel" at the *on-line* SF convention this Saturday (the 10th) at http://www.avonbooks.com/Eos/conv/page1.html. [1/98]

• Jeff Verona, for selling a nonfiction piece, titled "By Write of Arms" to Speculations. [12/97]

• Sherwood Smith, for selling her Crittered short story "And Now Abideth These Three..." to Realms of Fantasy, for publication in spring. [12/97]

• Andrew Burt, who sold reprint rights on "True Colors", the first crittered story ever, to Jackhammer. [12/97]

• Dave Felts, for a sale to Troll. [12/97]

• Irette Patterson, who placed her very first story with Planet Magazine for the March issue. [12/97]

• Raechel Henderson, who has a story, "Redneck Fairy Tales", up now on Outland E-zine, and another story, "Forest Songs", coming out in the January issue of Exodus E-zine (and who asks folks to drop by Jackhammer E-zine, which she edits, at "http://www.inforel.com/~roach/jackhammer/"; submissions welcome). [12/97]

• Carol Tompkins, whose critter'd story, "Something Precious", is now out on the bookshelves in Sword & Sorceress 15. [12/97]

• Robert Brand, who reports that he sold his story "Coming Home" to Altair (the pre-crittered version, but the editor is looking at the crittered version). [12/97]

• Milena Benini Getz, who is editing a new 'zine in Croatia, "Net Pens", and has accepted Andrew Burt's story, "A Sailor on the Sea of Humanity" (his second reprint, yeah!). [12/97]

• Tom Hooten who sold his Critter'ed story "The Word" to Millennium. [12/97]

• Bill Francis, who sold "In the Bag" to Dr. Casey's Tales of the Internet. [11/97]

• Leigh Kimmel, who reports that Pulp Eternity is buying her short story "Kamikaze". [11/97]

• Paul Urayama, who says Analog bought his critter'd "Living in a Stranger". [11/97]

• Michael A Burstein, who sold two stories to ANALOG, "In Space, No One Can Hear" and "Absent Friends."[11/97]

• Dan Salas, who made his first fiction sale: Millennium SF&F Magazine bought the crittered version of "Midnight Call." [10/97]

• Jon Hansen, who sold his uncrittered story "Hindsight" to Millennium; [10/97]

• Kate Spofford, whose poetry will be published in SpineChillers magazine in October, and who'll also have a short story called "Sibling Rivalry" in Dread: Tales of the Grotesque and Uncanny. [10/97]

• Andrew Burt, whose Crittered "Babushka For Sale" convinced the Northern Colorado Writers Workshop that he was worthy of membership. The best known members of the NCWW are Connie Willis, Ed Bryant, Wil McCarthy, and John Stith, plus a dozenish other neopros or hopefuls. [10/97]

• Mia Molvray, who's sold various pieces to Analog and has an article in the next SFWA Bulletin about how to create believable aliens from a biologist's perspective[10/97]

• Dave Felts, whose Writers of the Future story is now out in volume XIII[9/97]

• Jonathan Fesmire, whose "Chasing Down Charlie" is in the upcoming issue of Through Darkling Glass[9/97]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, who sold "Pleasure and Pain" to Shiver Magazine[9/97]

• Lucy Schmeidler, who's taken on the slush pile for Space & Time magazine[9/97]

• Beth Bernobich, who sold her crittered "Forever" to Year 2000[9/97]

• Raechel Henderson, whose "Daphne" was accepted at 69 Flavors of Paranoia[9/97]

• Michael Burstein, who won the Campbell award for best new SF writer at Worldcon (given out with the Hugos)[9/97]

• Yoon Ha Lee, who sold "The Hundredth Question" to the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction[8/97]

• Lee Fellows, whose crittered novel "Damocles" sold to Baen books[8/97]

• Leigh Kimmel, whose crittered "Ice Storm" was a finalist for Worldcon's short story contest, and who placed "She's Leaving Home" with Musing Magazine[8/97]

• Bob Riel, who placed "Cosmic Scratch" in the premier issue of a new Australian SF magazine called _Timeshift_, "Misfortunes" to _Under Magellanic Clouds_, and "'Bye, Robot" to _Mythologue_[8/97]

• Carol Tompkins, whose crittered "To Swim with Sharks" sold to Millennium SF and Fantasy magazine[7/97]

• Suzanne Feldman [AKA Severna Park], for selling the critter'd "Birthmothers" to Algis Budrys at TomorrowSF[7/97]

• Cameron Rodgers, whose book THE VAMPIRES, was published by a teen-horror imprint called After Dark with Melbourne-based publishers Lothian Books[6/97]

• Jon Hansen, for a sale to Sci-Fi Webzine[6/97]

• Carol Tompkins and Frank Kowalkowski, for selling "Dragon's Peace" to Bardic Runes[6/97]

• Bill Bussone, whose 'Ode to a Spam' got an honarable mention and therefore a printing in the 1997 Julia A. Moore Poetry Contest (Moore is widely considered to be the worst poet in american history, and the contest is based on who can write the worst poem. The winner was 'The Composting of Sam Magee')[6/97]

• Tiffany James, who sold "Song of the Merman" to Sci-Fi WEBzine for their June 97 issue

• Tiffany James, who'se "The Circle of Seven: Ring of Two", a fantasy by Chris Thean Bossert and T. J. James, Chapters 1 and 2, has been published in the Romantic Bower of EWG Presents E-zine; and also for a nonfiction article in The Boundless Realm Speculative Fiction Department of the same zine, "Staring Into the Eyes of the Monster"[6/97]

• Leigh Kimmel, who sold "Martha in the Thick of It" to Blackhole Magazine for the fall issue, "The Exile Star" to Literary: the Magazine of Writing for their September issue, and reports that "Sulishros and Kojadi" will be reprinted by Dark Planet Webzine[6/97]

• Carol Tompkins, who sold the crittered version of "Something Precious" to Sword & Sorceress 15[6/97]

• Bob Riel, who's been accepted into SFWA as an associate member, has accepted a position as assistant editor for Lexicon, and has been appointed Down Under Rep for the 17th Annual Science Fiction Writers of Earth SF/F Short Story Competition[5/97]

• Jonathan Fesmire, whose story "The Will to Heal" is coming out in the June issue of Cosmic Visions and who has stories accepted at Shadow Sword, Through Darkling Glass, and Dazzler's Digital Domicile[5/97]

• Raechel Henderson, who sold "The Swordswoman at Play" to The Darker Woods[5/97]

• Suzanne Feldman [AKA Severna Park], for selling the critter'd "The Golem" to Ellen Datlow's 'Snow White, Blood Red' anthology[5/97]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for selling the critter'd "Wild at Heart" to Millennium[5/97]

• Suzanne Feldman, whose first novel, "Speaking Dreams" has just been released by AvoNova (under her pen name, Severna Park; she also reports the cover says "Nominated for the Lambda Literary Award")[5/97]

• Adam La Rusic, who sold his very first story, an uncritter'd short-short called "Big Leaf Pile" to Shiver[5/97]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for selling the critter'd "Larry's Teeth" to Lords of Darkness Magazine[5/97]

• Tom Sweeney, who sold "Evolution" to Pirate Writings (the pre-crittered version)[5/97]

• Dave Felts, who sold "The Color of Honor" to Fortress[5/97]

• Dave Felts, who sold "The Rainking" to Millenium; it will run in June and will be in the hardcopy June 97 as well[4/97]

• Leigh Kimmel, who placed a short story, "The Moon-Bard," with Blackhole Magazine[4/97]

• Dan Thompson, who sold "In the Balance of Trade" to Plot magazine[4/97]

• Bob Riel, for selling "Playing by the Rules" to Keen SF and for taking 2nd place (a $100 prize) in the 16th Annual SF/F Writers of Earth short story contest[4/97]

• Tom Winstead, for selling "Research" to Aberrations[4/97]

• Andrew Burt, whose story "Healthy Habits" is in this month's issue of Keen SF[3/97]

• Tom Adams, whose book "Children of the Storm" is due out this Summer[3/97]

• Matt DiPalma, for selling a YA horror short to an as yet untitled anthology and a non-fiction article on the 1632 Battle of Luetzen to Military History Magazine[3/97]

• Rochelle Mitchell, whose story, "Professor Toddson" was just published in 69 Flavor of Paranoia[3/97]

• Patti Miller, for an opinion column in the London Free Press[3/97]

• Leigh Kimmel, for a sale to Millennium for "Black Homecoming" (to run during June) and two sales to Literary: The Magazine of Writing, "Cracking up" (to run April '97) and "The Metamachines" (June '97)[3/97]

• Carol Tompkins, for a sale to Keen Science Fiction[3/97]

• Sherwood Smith, for her young adult fantasy, Wren's War, for being named an Anne Spencer Lindbergh Honor Book for 1996[2/97]

• William Asplund and Sherwood Smith, for making the 1996 Tangent Recommended Reading List, AKA the Sturgeon Award nomination ballot[2/97]

• Bob Riel, for winning second place in the 1996 Science Fiction Writers of Earth contest[2/97]

• Jonathan Fesmire, for acceptance into the HWA[2/97]

• Charlotte Babb, whose story, "FGM, Inc." appears in this month's Lost Worlds[1/97]

• Sherwood Smith, for selling a story ("Mastery") to Tekno Books, for the anthology WIZARD FANTASTIC, to come out later this year[1/97]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a sale to Shivers[1/97]

• Mike Coombes, for selling a story to AtmoSFeer[1/97]

• Carol Tompkins, for selling the Critter'd revision of "The Gerwog" to Show and Tell[1/97]

• Andrew Burt, for a third sale to Keen Science Fiction[1/97]

• Bob Riel, for a sale of the Critter'd "Playing God" to Aboriginal, a non-crittered story to Futurist, and a revision request from Tomorrow on the Critter'd "Focused".[1/97]

• Michael A. Burstein, whose novelette, "Broken Symmetry," is out in the Feb 97 Analog (lead story in the issue, plus his name on the cover and a biolog)[1/97]

• Mary Cavanaugh, for placing sixth in the U.V.M. writing contest[12/96]

• Lucy Schmeidler, for two non-fiction sales appearing in The Leading Edge[12/96]

• Chris Reynaga, for being invited to have a story included in the American River Literary Review[12/96]

• Dave Laderoute, for making a sale to Parsec[12/96]

• Kim Jollow, for making a sale to Speculations[12/96]

• Carol Tompkins, for making a sale to Stygian Vortex Publications' Shadow Sword magazine[12/96]

• Laura Blackwell, for making a sale to Strange Wonderland[11/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making a sale to Mind's Eye[11/96]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a sale to Deadtime Tales[11/96]

• Tom Winstead, for making several sales to Tales from the Fringe[10/96]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a fourth sale to Millennium[10/96]

• Sherwood Smith, for making a sale to Realms of Fantasy[10/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making a sale to Pirate Writings[10/96]

• Linda Chapman, for winning second place for her play in the Community Theatre Association of Michigan's annual play contest.[10/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making a third sale (of the Critter'd "Delta Pi") to Millennium (will run starting 9-Nov) and a second sale to Keen Science Fiction[10/96]

• Dave Felts, for making a sale to Millennium (will run starting 26-Oct)[9/96]

• Eric Wilson, for placing 'Net Demon' (a Critter'd story) in CAPS #10[9/96]

• Lucy Schmeidler, for her sale to Terra Incognita (that has finally come out with issue #1, containing her piece)[9/96]

• Kurt Roth, for making his first pro sale, to Valkyrie[9/96]

• Michael Burstein, for winning third place in the Hugo vote (almost second, and pretty close behind first!)[9/96]

• Michael Burstein, for making a sale to Analog[8/96]

• Carol Tompkins, for making a sale to Show and Tell[8/96]

• Matt DiPalma, for making a sale to Keen Science Fiction[8/96]

• Carol Tompkins, for making a sale of a Critter'd story (Eyes of Crystal Blue) to Millennium[7/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making a sale to Plot[7/96]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a third sale to Millennium[7/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making a second sale to Millennium[7/96]

• Laura Blackwell, for making a sale

• Tom Winstead, for making a sale to Tales from the Fringe[6/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making a sale to Keen Science Fiction[6/96]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a sale to Dream Forge[6/96]

• Dan Thompson, for making a sale to Keen Science Fiction[5/96]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a second sale to Millennium[5/96]

• Laura Blackwell, for making a sale to Quintessence Press presents: Strange Fiction! [5/96]

• Tom Winstead, for making a sale to the Silver Web [5/96]

• Dietmar Trommeshauser, for making a sale to Millennium[5/96]

• Andrew Burt, for making sales to Phase Transitions, Dream Forge, and Millennium[5/96]

• Hank LeFevre, for making a sale to Phase Transitions

• Dave Felts, for taking 3rd place in the Writers of the Future contest, on "Troder," a story we saw in Critters [4/96]

• Kurt Roth, for admission to Clarion [4/96]

• An Anonymous Critter, who didn't want his name used, for admission to both Clarions (but who, sadly, had to turn them down because of family matters) [4/96]