{"id":1308,"date":"2013-10-07T13:05:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2013-10-07T13:06:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-07T18:06:26","slug":"writing-news-bug-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/writing-news-bug-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Writing News (bug edition)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>1. My story &#8220;Kalar&#8217;s Wall&#8221;&#8211;full of magic and giant beetles&#8211;is out in issue 8 of <a href=\"http:\/\/plasmafrequencymag.com\/CurrentI.html\">Plasma Frequency<\/a> in print and various ebook formats.<\/p>\n<p>I bet Kalar wouldn&#8217;t like our huge Midwestern crickets any more than I do.<\/p>\n<p>2. I got an Honorable Mention from the Writers of the Future contest on a story featuring giant space-faring crustaceans. Still a rejection, but it&#8217;s nice to know someone other than me found at least some good in the story. And now I can send it out to other markets. <\/p>\n<p>3. In arthropod-free news, I&#8217;m now a slush reader for <a href=\"http:\/\/flashfictiononline.com\/main\/\">Flash Fiction Online<\/a>. For the non-writers among you, that means I get to read the stories people submit and help decide whether to accept them. I did this at another magazine a while ago and am excited to get back to it, especially at a market that I enjoy reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1. My story &#8220;Kalar&#8217;s Wall&#8221;&#8211;full of magic and giant beetles&#8211;is out in issue 8 of Plasma Frequency in print and various ebook formats. I bet Kalar wouldn&#8217;t like our huge Midwestern crickets any more than I do. 2. I got &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/07\/writing-news-bug-edition\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-writing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1308"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1311,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1308\/revisions\/1311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}