Journal The Fun Guy's Journal: I just sold a story - for money 7
This is about the second weirdest damned thing that has happened to me all damned week. To be perfectly up front here, I did just sell a story, but it was not the 4000 word mystery/sci-fi story I've been working on. This was a 19 word horror story I sold for $1.20 to Thaumatrope. It will be "published" on Twitter on March 23, 2009, under my Twitter moniker of TheFunGuy. Since I've sold this story to Thaumatrope, including an option on anthology rights, I can't reproduce it here until after it appears. That's how it works. I think.
Notice that I put the word "published" in quotes above, since I have no earthly idea how to regard the idea of a webzine that comes in itty-bitty chunks like Twitter. This is like having written a fortune cookie that somebody liked well enough to have given me some loose change for.
Also please notice, however, that I did not put the word "sold" in quotes above. Unless the $1.20 never shows up in my PayPal account, or my micro-story never sees the light of day, or this is some kind of bizarre phishing scam, this was a real transaction. I wrote a chunk of text and sent it to the editor of this media outlet. In response, he accepted the submission, sent me some money and he will cause my text to appear in his media outlet.
Needless to say, this is NOT how I expected my fiction writing career to get started.
The 21st century gets stranger by the freaking month.
UPDATE: The $1.20 just came through. Oh, come on! My life is complicated enough without having to wrestle with whether or not this makes me a published author! If the IRS expects me to pay taxes on that $1.20, then it's income, right? That makes it a professional activity, right?
How much can one man shake his head in disbelief?
Still (Score:1)
you can add published author to your resume
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I think I'm going to have to pull together an entirely new resume on this one.
sweet (Score:2)
that is so cool - and the only reason you struggle to classify it is you are way out on the front of the wave. that is awesome and you should revel in it. soon you'll be speaking at science events and then running across the street to talk about publishing in the new web 2.0 social media age, etc. just remember us little people when you are hanging out in the green room with all the big wigs.
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Front of the wave, indeed! I feel like the first person ever to set eyes on a platypus egg - amazing and fascinating, to be sure, but how the heck do I classify this thing?
speaking at science events and then running across the street to talk about publishing in the new web 2.0 social media age, etc.
I just hope no one follows me across the street from the ASM [asm.org] annual meeting to the SFWA [sfwa.org] annual meeting. I can change the jacket and tie for a black turtleneck, swap my wireframe glasses for a set of dark emo fram
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Doing it in the phone booth is a giveaway Clark.
Kick-ass! (Score:2)
By Story Did You Mean Sex? (Score:1)
Congratulations.