What did you bury before those hands pulled me from the earth?

[sovay]

My short story "The Creeping Influences" has been accepted by Shimmer. This is the one with the genderqueer narrator and the bog body in 1930's Ireland; it was accepted earlier this year by another market, but the sale fell through about a month later in one of the weirder experiences I have had in publishing. I am very, very glad it has found a new home and I am glad that home is Shimmer. They are a new market for me; publication is slated for early 2017 and I'm looking forward. They do illustrations. The story is my longest successful attempt at historical fiction to date; it takes its title from Seamus Heaney's "Bog Queen," the second of the six poems collected in North (1975) which describe and contemplate Irish and Danish bog bodies. I was scared by one of them as a child. Years later, this sort of thing happens.

Comments

[davidgillon]

the sale fell through about a month later in one of the weirder experiences I have had in publishing

Selling this one has become a bit of an epic in its own right!

[yhlee]

Oh, huzzah! I'm glad the story has found a home.

[dhampyresa]

Congrats!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

Shimmer is an awesome market--congratulations!

[gwynnega]

Congratulations! Shimmer is an excellent magazine.

[pameladean]

I am very much looking forward to this story, and am glad that the whirligig of time brought in his revenges. Um, so to speak.
P.

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! I love that story. Look forward to seeing it in all its glory.

Nine

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Ooh, looking forward to this pub. Congratulations!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Congratulations! That sounds like a fascinating story; I love bog bodies, though I don't know very much about them.

[runedrum.livejournal.com]

CANNOT wait to read this piece. Shimmer's illustrator does beautiful work, can't wait to see what appears in tandem with your story.