I’m as attached to my work as any author, but sometimes I write something that I think is so special I market it doggedly. Limbo, a cheeky little story about coming to terms with the legacy of our ancestors, is one of my favorites. Whenever I do a reading, that’s the one I want to read. And while it got many kind letters from editors, I was getting frustrated at the rejections. Today, amidst the insanity that is my life the past few months, I got a letter from Orson Scott Card’s Intergalactic Medicine Show:

Stephanie,

I would like to thank you for sending me this wonderful story. I’d like to use it in a future issue of IGMS (probably issue 8 or 9). I know you’ve waited for quite a while for me to sort things out, but hopefully it was worth the wait.

I’ll get back in touch with you when I know exactly when your story will be published. Contracts and payment will come from managing editor Kathleen Bellamy, usually about a week or two before the issue comes out.

We will need to do a little bit of editing (minor line edits), but I’ll run all that by you for your approval before I do anything else.

Thanks,
Edmund R. Schubert
Editor, Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show
www.InterGalacticMedicineShow.com

I’m absolutely delighted. Not just because Limbo found a home, but because IGMS is one of my favorite genre publications. I’ve been really honored in that the magazines I tend to love are the ones that love me back.