My unscientific estimate is that members of Critters are around 10X more likely to make sales than non-critters (but cause and effect? who knows?. Regardless, this page is to celebrate our successes!

Critter Robert Qualkinbush has analyzed the reports below and created a summary page of how many sales Critters have had. Fascinating, and astounding! Good going to you all.

If you have something to report, tell me immediately!

Congratulations to...

Dwayne Minton, who sold his short story, "Two Drawers Down from the Butcher Block" to Postcards from.... {This is my first professional rate sale! } [May 2008]

David Neuburger, who sold his short story, "Good Intentions" to Golden Visions Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy . {Thanks to everyone for your thoughtful comments on the works I have submitted. While I didn't critter this story, the help I've received on the others has been truly helpful and appreciated :-) } [May 2008]

Hank Quense, who reports "Absolute Write will re-publish my article Story Construction. It was originally published in Writers Journal". [May 2008]

Dorine Ratulangie, whose poem, "they sing" is now out in the current issue of Illumen. [May 2008]

Kevin Anderson, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Blood, Gridlock and PEZ" is now out in the current issue of The Written Word #10. [May 2008]

Kevin Anderson, who sold his short story, "Framing and Mounting Faries" to On The Brighter Side. [May 2008]

Alastair Mayer, who has won the Honorable Mention, Writers of the Future award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Into the Fire". [May 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, whose short story, "Angelic" is now out in the current issue of Yellow Mama. {A friend had challenged me to write a horror story with a bit of an erotic flair in one hour. Yellow Mama liked it enough to print it. The web site is blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id131.html. Thanks, Critters! } [May 2008]

J. R. Tomlin, whose short story, "Assassin's Mark" is now out in the current issue of Sorcerous Signals. {Also received Honorable Mention in the WotF for a crittered story "uncertain Harvest." } [May 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, whose short story, "Angelic" is now out in the current issue of Yellow Mama. {A friend had challenged me to write a horror story with a bit of an erotic flair in one hour. Yellow Mama liked it enough to print it. The web site is blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id131.html. Thanks, Critters! } [May 2008]

Michael A. Heald, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Coca Leaf and Hydrocarbons" to Mindflights. {Thank you to the Critters who gave help with this story. Providing a critique for a 13,000-word story is time consuming. Thank you. } [May 2008]

Amy Treadwell, who sold her short story, "Nine is Her Number" to the Triangulation Anthology. [May 2008]

Jo Thomas, who sold her short story, "The Big, Bad Wolf" to Drollerie Press (Little Red Riding Hood Anthology). [Apr 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, whose short story, "Angelic" is now out in the current issue of Yellow Mama. {A friend had challenged me to write a horror story with a bit of an erotic flair in one hour. Yellow Mama liked it enough to print it. The web site is blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id131.html. Thanks, Critters! } [Apr 2008]

Cheryl McCreary, whose short story, "Rumbling On" is now out in the current issue of Fictitious Force #5. [Apr 2008]

Carl Frederick, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Lifespeed" to Analog. {Thanks again Critters for helping me polish this story. } [Apr 2008]

Shawn Turner, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Dead Air" to Golden Visions Magazine. {This story will appear in the July 2008 print edition. Thanks so much to all those Critters who took the time to critique this story. } [Apr 2008]

Chuck Rothman, who sold his short story, "Regular Guy"" to On the Brighter Side. {I actually wrote and sold this story about 15 years ago to an anthology. Bad news: the anthology fell through. Good news: I goI got to keep my payment and the rights were returned. Now I'm getting a second sale from it. Patience is often rewarded in this business. } [Apr 2008]

Michael Anthony, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "New Ezekiel" to Necrology Magazine. [Apr 2008]

Tabatha Schroeder, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Surrender Hope" to Golden Visions Magazine. {The story will be in their online edition in July. Thank you so much to everyone who critiqued this piece and all my other stories. } [Apr 2008]

Richard S Levine, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Above the Mississippi" to Goden Visions Magazine. {This story will appear in the July 2008 issue of Golden Visions Magazine. } [Apr 2008]

James R. Kristofic, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Shooting Way" to Necrotic Tissue magazine. [Apr 2008]

Bill Siderski, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Grownup Food" to Golden Visions Magazine. {I'm pleased that my story is included in their Reader's Choice contest. If you haven't already, head on over to goldenvisionsmagazine.biz/April08flashes, or go to the main page and use the 'Five Stories' tab. Then vote for your favorite! } [Apr 2008]

R. Scott McCoy, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Good Dog" to Shroud Publishing's Abomination Anthology. [Apr 2008]

Michael Anthony, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Twilight on Phobos" to Afterburn SF. [Apr 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, whose short story, "Angelic" is now out in the current issue of Yellow Mama. {A friend had challenged me to write a horror story with a bit of an erotic flair in one hour. Yellow Mama liked it enough to print it. The web site is blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmama/id131.html. Thanks, Critters! } [Apr 2008]

Rick Farnsworth, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "BEKs" to Shroud's Abominations Anthology. [Apr 2008]

Hazel Ong, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Roses" is now out in the current issue of Sybil's Garage. {This was crittered as "Red Rose". Thanks to all the people who critted it. If it hadn't been for your encouragement, I'd never have dared to send out the story time and time again! Persistance does pay! } [Apr 2008]

[Apr 2008]

Christopher Kastensmidt, who sold his short story, "Lobo´s Tale" to CatsCurious Press. {My story was the one selected for the latest CatsCurious project (www.catscuriouspress.com/guidelines.aspx) and I´ll be sharing a cover with Jim C. Hines! This is my first pro-rate sale. Thanks again to all the Critters who´ve helped me these last few years! } [Apr 2008]

Carl Frederick, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Food for Thought" to Baen's Universe. {Yet again, thank you Critters for the help. } [Apr 2008]

Joseph Swope, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Puppet's Soul" to Spinetingler Magazine. [Apr 2008]

Marguerite Croft, who reports "I was accepted to Clarion West.". {Thanks to everyone who has critted stories for me over the years; you've all helped me become a better writer. } [Apr 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, whose short story, "Vultures" is now out in the current issue of AlienSkin. {It's a flash piece ... now I have to work on selling them a longer story. } [Apr 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, whose short story, "Troubles" is now out in the current issue of Necrotic Tissue. {I'd heartily recommend checking out Necrotic Tissue's second issue. It's a very high-quality e-zine, and it's free. It's over at NecroticTissue.com } [Apr 2008]

Guy Anthony De Marco, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "See below for the titles" to Help Anthology. {Actually, the Help Anthology accepted three of my stories -- "The Prize", which is coming up for crittering, "Streetwalker", a Crittered story published by Serpentarius, and "Dead Meat", my goofy Zombie Cow story. All proceeds go towards helping Preditors & Editors with their legal costs in the Publish America lawsuit. } [Apr 2008]

Hank Quense, who sold his short story, "Fast Living" to Flash FIction Online. [Mar 2008]

JA Howe, who sold her short story, "Flame in the Night Regions" to Drollerie Press. [Mar 2008]

Richard K. Lyon, who sold his short story, "Resignation Letter" to Midnight Horror. {I've gotten a lot of help from Critters on many stories and I dothank all of you. } [Mar 2008]

John W. S. Marvin, whose short story, "A Swift, Sharp, Shark" is now out in the current issue of Golden Visions. [Mar 2008]

Sheri Fresonke Harper, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Knees" is now out in the current issue of Aoife's Kiss. [Mar 2008]

Adam Lowe, who reports "I sold my essay 'From Wings to Cyberspace: Teledildonics & the Gendered Body' to the University of Texas' textbook, Queering the Fantastic". [Mar 2008]

Adam Lowe, who has won the Spectrum Silver Editorial award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Singer". [Mar 2008]

Adam Lowe, who sold his screenplay, "The Book" to The Chris James Group (Producers). [Mar 2008]

Adam Lowe, who sold his stageplay, "Tales of Iris: A Redneck Rebirth" to University of Leeds, New Stages Festival. [Mar 2008]

Fred Obermeyer, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Identity Wash" to Tower of Light. {Thanks for your help on the story. } [Mar 2008]

Rick Farnsworth, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Gift of the Bouda" to The Beast Within. {The TOC for TBW was posted last week, and I'm happy to report that I (and a few other critters) made it! Thanks to all who helped. } [Mar 2008]

Terrie Leigh Relf, who reports "A Rhysling Nomination for "Space Envelopes"". {This poem, a collaborative venture between my daughter, Willow Katsumi Relf-Discartin, originally appeared in Sporty Spec, edited by Karen Romanko. } [Mar 2008]

Terrie Leigh Relf, whose novel, "Blood Journey" is now out from Sam's Dot Publishing. [Mar 2008]

Ryan Harvey, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Sorrowless Thief"" to Black Gate. [Mar 2008]

Christopher Kastensmidt, who sold his short story, "Kroop and the Master of Games" to Beyond Centauri. [Mar 2008]

Matthew W. Quinn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Nicor" to Flashing Swords. [Mar 2008]

Matthew W. Quinn, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Lord Giovanni's Daughter" to Flashing Swords. [Mar 2008]

Sheri Fresonke Harper, who sold her short story, "Zoo You" to Alpha Centauri. {This piece was written in a flash fiction course and critiqued there. :) Sheri } [Mar 2008]

Sheri Fresonke Harper, who sold her short story, "Zoo You" to Alpha Centauri. {This piece was written in a flash fiction course and critiqued there. :) Sheri } [Mar 2008]

Mark Lawrence Suplinskas, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Ambassador"" to Afterburn SF. [Mar 2008]

Michael Anthony, who sold his short story, "The Guardian" to Pseudopod. [Mar 2008]

Hazel Ong, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Maimed" is now out in the current issue of Murky Depths. {This was crittered under the title of "In a Fall of Sunset Light". Thanks so much, all! } [Mar 2008]

Jim Stewart, whose short story, "I Can't Look at the City" is now out in the current issue of Apex Digest. {The story is in Issue 11, which will be out in mid to late march. } [Mar 2008]

Dave Hoing, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "We. They." to Hub Magazine. [Mar 2008]

Robert Palmer, whose short story, "Need Not Apply" is now out in the current issue of WWW.THUGLIT.COM. [Mar 2008]

Joe Murphy, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "The Horned Toad and the Hubcap" to Realms of Fantasy. [Mar 2008]

Dal Jeanis, who has won the WOTF Honorable Mention award for his (Critter'd) short story, "Cada Aranya". {The piece was made so much better by the input of all my critters! } [Mar 2008]

Michael Anthony, whose short story, "Don't Leave, She Said" is now out in the current issue of Desolate Places anthology from Hadley Rille Books ([URL]). [Mar 2008]

Regina Patton, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Sister of the Benevolent Gods" to Lorelei Signal. {It will be in the July/September 2008 issue on-line. } [Mar 2008]

Jeff Soesbe, who reports "Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future". {My Critter'd short story "This Moment, and the Times Before" received an Honorable Mention in Writers of the Future for the first quarter of 2008. Thanks to Critters for helping make it a better story! } [Mar 2008]

Dorine Ratulangie, whose poem, "0559" is now out in the current issue of Aoife's Kiss. [Mar 2008]

Scott W. Baker, whose short story, "Faerie Belches" is now out in the current issue of Spaceports and Spidersilk (formerly KidVisions). [Mar 2008]

Dorine Ratulangie, whose poem, "There will be poetry" is now out in the current issue of MindFlights. [Feb 2008]

Simon Cooper, who sold his short story, "Little Marvin's Private Dancer" to Postcards From... (The Hell of Uranus). [Feb 2008]

Michael Greenhut, who sold his short story, "Think Fast" to Greatest Uncommon Denominator. [Feb 2008]

Michael Greenhut, who sold his short story, "Watermark" to Fantasy Magazine. [Feb 2008]

Benjamin Crowell, who sold his short story, "Running" to Strange Horizons. [Feb 2008]

Jo Thomas, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Ally-Ally-Oh" is now out in the current issue of Neonbeam. {Available from 15th March. Thanks for all the help! } [Feb 2008]

Carl Frederick, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Greenwich Nasty Time" to Analog. {Once again, thanks Critters for your help with the rewrite. } [Feb 2008]

Carl Slaughter, who reports "I am launching Science Fiction Showcase, www.ScienceFictionShowcase.com, ScienceFictionShowcase@Yahoo.com, to promote the hard science fiction short stories of new and unestablished authors". [Feb 2008]

Michael Stone, who reports "I have a collection out from Baysgarth Press. It’s called FOURTOLD and consists of four novella length stories, all of them critiqued at one stage or another. The prologue is by the World Fantasy Award-winning fantasist Garry Kilworth and the cover was commissioned from Stephen Player, best known for his work on Terry Pratchett spin-offs. FOURTOLD is only available in hardcover at the moment, but a paperback will follow soon. Go to www.baysgarthpublications.com and click on the catalogue page to check out the awesome cover. Thanks!". [Feb 2008]

Travis L Heermann, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Fragile" to On the Premises. [Feb 2008]

Boris Layupan, who reports "I learned over the weekend that I made it to the semi-finals of the 1st quarter of the 2008 WOTF contest with a crittered short SF story of mine, "Ra-Gho-Zu." I've worked on this story on and off among others. I want to thank again all those Critters who took an interest in one incarnation or another and offered constructive feedback. I will shop this story to some pro markets, but I'm waiting for K.D. Wentworth's crit to come in a few weeks before I do. I hope to submit to WOTF again, but I'm starting to shift to novels and I'm juggling film scripts, too. I'll see how it all works out.". [Feb 2008]

Terrie Leigh Relf, who reports "My friend, the poet, and other poems about people I think I know". {My collection of horror, SF, spec, and fantasy poems will be published by Sam's Dot Publishing this spring! } [Feb 2008]

Terrie Leigh Relf, who reports "Blood Journey". {Blood Journey, a vampire novel co-authored with Henry Lewis Sanders, will be published by Sam's Dot Publishing this spring! } [Feb 2008]

Terrie Leigh Relf, who reports "My collection of columns on writing, Poet's Workshop--and Beyond will be released this month from Sam's Dot Publishing". {NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE For more information, contact: February 14, 2008 Terrie Leigh Relf: 619-234-0763 tlrelf@gmail.com Tyree Campbell, Managing Editor tyreeatsamsdotpublishingdotcom Beyond the Workshop by Terrie Leigh Relf, M.A. to be released from Sam’s Dot Publishing Terrie Leigh Relf’s Beyond the Workshop will be released on approximately February 15, 2008 through Sam’s Dot Publishing. This writing handbook contains many of her previously published columns, and is divided into five chapters: “On Writing Poetry”; “The Fictional Universe”; “The Horror Realm”; “The Science and Speculative Fiction and Poetry Realm”; and “Business Stuff: You Mean People Can Really Make a Living Doing This?”. There is also a section with questions and responses: “Q & A: There’s no such thing as a Stoopid Question”, and a short section with “Writing Exercises”. The cover art is by Lawrence Hollien, a California artist whose work has appeared on several covers. For more information, visit his website at: lawrenceholliendotcom. For over ten years, Relf has been a staff editor/writer, and/or contributing writer for at a variety of publications which include: Absolutewrite.com; City Works, San Diego City College’s Literary Arts Journal; FireWeed, Mindfire-Renewed’s Literary Arts Newsletter; Mindfire-Renewed; Musings; NFG; Sam’s Dot Publishing; Tales from the Moonlit Path, The Espresso, San Diego’s Newspaper of Coffee and Café Culture; Vision Magazine; writersmonthly.us; and writeronline.com. Currently, she is the poetry editor for Tales from the Moonlit Path, the editor for HUNGUR Magazine (SDP), The Drabble (SDP), and associate editor for Sounds of the Night (SDP) and Hahaku (SDP). She is also an editor for Sam’s Dot Publication’s Special Projects Division. Terrie Leigh Relf was born in Coronado, CA, and raised in La Jolla, CA. Currently, she lives in Ocean Beach, in San Diego, CA. She has a bachelors in Buddhist and Western Psychology and Buddhist Studies from Naropa University (formerly Naropa Institute), and a Master of Arts in English with an emphasis in Rhetoric & Writing from San Diego State University. An educator for over fifteen years, she currently teaches English Composition and Critical Thinking at San Diego City College, as well as Academic and Urban Writing at Woodbury University of Architecture & Design. She is an active life-time member of the Science Fiction Poetry Association, and has been nominated for a Rhysling Award, a James B. Baker Award, as well as two Preditors & Editors Awards. More recently, she won a Doorways Magazine poetry contest for “Dali’s Nightmare”. With close to nine-hundred publishing credits, Relf has most recently been published in Doorways Magazine, Niteblade, Radiant Turnstile, Sporty Spec, Tales of the Talisman, The Harrow, The Sword Review, Transparent Words, and various online and print zines including those published under the auspices of Sam’s Dot Publishing. Sam's Dot Publishing is the linear descendant of ProMart Publishing, founded by the late James B. Baker. A small, independent press, Sam's Dot has released approximately a hundred titles, including novels, anthologies, and collections, as well as science fiction/fantasy magazines such as Aoife's Kiss, Beyond Centauri, Sounds of the Night, and Hungur Magazine (this last edited by Ms Relf). For more information, visit the Sam’s Dot Publishing’s website at samsdotpublishingdotcom. } [Feb 2008]

Adam Colston, who sold his short story, "Our World" to Postcards From...(the Hell of Uranus). {This is my first PRO-RATE sale, sadly not SFWA approved pro-market, but hey.. Not a crittered story--but I couldn't have done it without critters. } [Feb 2008]

Sheila Crosby, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "What's a Few Tentacles Between Friends?" to Cross Genre Cthulu. [Feb 2008]

Jeff Soesbe, whose short story, "Apologies All Around" is now out in the current issue of Flash Fiction Online. {The story is in the February 2008 issue, available at their website (flashfictiononline dot com). There are other good stories there as well. Check em out! } [Feb 2008]

Rick Farnsworth, who reports "I was accepted as a member of the Horror Writers Association". {Membership into HWA (as an affiliate) for me, wouldn't have been possible without critters (and the qualifying sale to Nossa Morte!). Thanks to everyone who's helped me improve, both through critting my work and allowing me to learn through your writing as well. } [Feb 2008]

Rick Farnsworth, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Succumbing to Gravity" is now out in the current issue of Nossa Morte ([URL]). [Feb 2008]

Chet Gottfried, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Amoeba Rules" is now out in the current issue of AlienSkin. {>From having been crittered, naturally the story became better and was able to find a good home. Thank you all! } [Feb 2008]

Chet Gottfried, whose short story, "Home, Home on the Brain" is now out in the current issue of Serpentarius. {Although the story wasn't crittered, Critter friends reviewed it for me, so I consider it part of the greater family of Critter stories. } [Feb 2008]

Mary Catelli, who sold her (Critter'd) short story, "Among the Wastes of Time" to Warrior Wisewoman. [Feb 2008]

Tony Pi, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Stilts and Straw" to Flashing Swords. [Feb 2008]

Michael Stone, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Sacred Skin" to Chilling Tales magazine. {The fourth outing for this particular story. Wish all my tales were this popular! } [Feb 2008]

David R. Bridgette, who sold his short story, "Dean The Space Rogue" to Ray Gun Revival. {This one will be appearing under my Andy Heizeler pseudonymn and is the first in the Dean the Space Rogue series. I found Ray Gun Revival a fantastic magazine to work with, only a six day turn around on the MS! Semi-Pro market, well worth your time. } [Feb 2008]

Frank Dukiewicz, who sold his short story, " "Wizard's Brew"" to Alienskin. {This is a Cirole the dragon story and is out in this months issue. } [Feb 2008]

Frank Dukiewicz, who sold his (Critter'd) short story, "Lost Potential" to Goldenvisions Magazine. [Feb 2008]

Bill Siderski, whose (Critter'd) short story, "The Carpet" is now out in the current issue of Golden Visions Magazine. {This was one of my first stories through Critters, and I'm pleased it has finally found a good home. I'm doubly pleased it was included in their premier issue. } [Feb 2008]

Colin Harvey, who reports "I've sold an anthology ". {Killers, an anthology of crime stories with speculative/paranormal elements will be published in September 2008 by Swimming Kangaroo Books, as a POD paperback, e-book and signed numbered limited edition. As well as Nebula, World Fantasy and Bram Stoker Award winners such as Bruce Holland Rogers and Lee Thomas, the anthology includes stories by no less than four -yes, four- Critters. All the writers made it on merit, not because they were Critters, but I guess the two are synonymous. There are some terrific stories from Charlie Allery, Eugie Foster and Philip J. Lees. I'm proud of them. } [Feb 2008]

Michael Stone, who sold his short story, "Like Cat and Dog" to The Beast Within. [Jan 2008]

Jarrah Moore, whose (Critter'd) short story, "Horse of Souls" is now out in the current issue of Aurealis. [Jan 2008]

[Click here to see the full list of Woohoos going back to 1996.]