Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 28/03/2024No on The Winds Will Carry You Home from Astrolabe & on Crime Of The Century from Nunum's Done in a Hundred Anthology. No=79, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3. 030
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 26/03/2024Me, 2017 "Because if you can't write more than a 1000 words about someone like Lemmy going to Mars, you may as well give up writing and become a peach." I did not give up writing & become a peach. 0100
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 25/03/2024No on The Sex Lives Of Robots from ANVIL. No=77, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 25/03/2024No on The Bounty from Fission. No=76, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2024No on Welcome, Home from Worlds of Possibility. No=75, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 24/03/2024Back From The War [REPRINT] subbed to Androids and Dragons. No=74, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3. androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/submissionsandroidsanddragons.substack.comSubmissionsGeneral submissions to Androids and Dragons are now OPEN through March 25. We look forward to reading your stories! General Submissions Guidelines What we publish: We accept flash fiction and short st... 030
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 22/03/2024No on We Grow The Legs Last from Every Day Fiction. No=74, Yes=7, Sub=105, Held=3. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 22/03/2024On this day 8 yrs ago, I got my 1st cheque for a story. $50, from Deserts Of Fire or £35.17 GB pounds. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 21/03/2024No on 11 Walls In The World from Analog. Commence With Enthusiastic Dancing to Seize the Press. No=73, Yes=7, Sub=105, Held=3. www.seizethepress.com/submissions/seizethepress.comSubmissions - Seize The PressSubmissions Guidelines Seize The Press Magazine is an anticapitalist publication looking to publish dark speculative fiction. Bleak sci-fi, dark fantasy, horror and all kinds of weird, messy, genre-de... 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2024I've now got dates for closures/queries on all outstanding subs. All 42 of them. Had to run about a dozen of them down. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2024While Nunum may charge for certain subs, I didn't pay to sub either story today. Stating this in the interests of transparency. I do NOT pay to sub. 020
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 20/03/2024No on Assessment from Stranger. The Winds Will Carry You Home to Astrolabe, Home Turf to Nunum's Opolis Anthology & Crime Of The Century to Nunum's Done in a Hundred Anthology. No=72, Yes=7, Sub=104, Held=3. www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions www.nunum.ca/submissions....nunum.caSubmissionsNUNUM - Blending Flash Fiction & Art - A Canadian literary journal dedicated to blending flash fiction and art. 030
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 19/03/2024Today I learned... I've been in anthologies with 2 Star Trek writers. Richard Matheson & Norman Spinrad. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 19/03/2024I enjoyed writing this, and I hope it shows. 000
Reposted by Ray Daley, WriterJenna Rain H M @jennarainhm.bsky.social · 19/03/2024This week's story at Androids & Dragons is a good one! You can read Ray Daley's tale of a customer service executive for a weapons manufacturer who may not be quite what he seems. #writingcommunity #speclist #sff androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/dear-trans...androidsanddragons.substack.comDear Transnational Death Tank CompanyBy Ray Daley 001
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 19/03/2024And that is another contract signed & returned. You'll find who & what it's for when they give me permission to announce. Suffice to say it's something I've never done before. This is the only Merry Vaguemas I am still currently celebrating. 020
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 18/03/2024Third Flatiron will be opening to subs April 1st-21st, Theme: Offshoots: Humanity Twigged – SF, fantasy, positive futures thirdflatiron.comthirdflatiron.com Third_Flatiron | Speculative fiction for the discerning reader 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 18/03/2024My story "Dear Transnational Death Tank Company" is now live at Androids And Dragons. It's free to read, too! androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/dear-trans...androidsanddragons.substack.comDear Transnational Death Tank CompanyBy Ray Daley 030
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 17/03/2024No on Benchmark from Waystation. No=71, Yes=7, Sub=101, Held=3. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Sad to hear Jayhenge have gone on hiatus. t.co/IFvKBvQXlht.coJayHenge Publishing 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2024No on King Of The Mountain from Shoreline of Infinity. Don't Forget Your Potato! to Lightspeed (Fantasy Flash). No=70, Yes=7, Sub=101, Held=3. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...adamant.moksha.ioMoksha 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 15/03/2024Odd Jobs has been sold to GASPS Anthology. No=69, Yes=7, Sub=100, Held=3. This is the official cover, created by Betty Rocksteady. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024The Safety Of Checkpoints has been sold to Altitude Press Flash Fiction Anthology. No=68, Yes=6, Sub=100, Held=3. And yes, it was both rejected & sold in the same day. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024No on The Doppler Effect from Haven Spec Magazine. No=68, Yes=5, Sub=100, Held=3. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024No on The Safety of Checkpoints from Baubles From Bones. No=67, Yes=5, Sub=100, Held=3. Yes, I am awake at stupid o'clock because I was doing admin for a sale then this came in too. 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024MERRY VAGUEMAS TO ME! Sale #8 this yr. More details when I can. 030
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 12/03/2024If you like Terry Pratchett style humour, I wrote this in 2014. web.archive.org/web/20200804...web.archive.orgPigeon Punching In North AfricaThe following piece of paper was found during the demolition of a late Victorian house, under the bathroom floor. After months of detailed research, no trace of the original publication could be found... 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 11/03/2024Simon Says-Grimdark, My Day At The Park-HyphenPunk, Meat Is Murder-Tasteful Anthology & The Safety Of Checkpoints-Altitude Press Flash. No=66, Yes=5, Sub=100, Held=3. www.grimdarkmagazine.com/submissions/ hyphenpunk.com/submissions/ tastefulanthology.com/about/ altitude-press.com/submission-g...tastefulanthology.comAbout TastefulWe are looking for literary cannibalism stories to fill out our charity anthology, which is raising money for Philabundance. Philabundance distributes food throughout nine counties in Southeastern Pen... 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 08/03/2024How to write a book. Have some people in a place at a time doing a thing which doesn't go right, then shit gets worse & the crazy old wizard/kind old wise woman suggests a thing to the young farm boy & handwavium occurs & everyone is happy with all their problems solved. THE END. 020
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Lots of other writers will be asking for your vote in the Hugos. I don't care if you vote for my work or not. Reading it is enough for me. As for markets, buying it is enough. Awards are nice, but they don't buy food. If you want to vote for my stuff in the short story category, go ahead. 140
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Hyphen Punk are open for subs. Very nice folks to work with, happy to have been pubbed by them. hyphenpunk.com/submissions/hyphenpunk.comSubmissionsWe want to publish your speculative fiction with some type of -Punk aesthetic. Cyber-, steam-, solar-, diesel-, ray-, bio-, street-, splatter-, arcano-, nano-, or whatever else your crazed imagination... 110
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Following up on my vague post. I've had a story accepted to a Best Of 2023 Anthology. Official announcement when we've done contracts. If you see it at the place, keep it to yourself for now. Merry Vaguemas to me! 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024No on I Am Guarding The Tower Now from The Cosmic Background. No=66, Yes=5, Sub=96, Held=3. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 07/03/2024Interesting email that I am waiting to get confirmed. It'll be a 1st for me, if it turns out to be correct. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 06/03/2024No on Empty Chest from Best of British Science Fiction. A Selection Of Fools Grails returned from Bards & Sages. No=64, Yes=5, Sub=96, Held=3. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 06/03/2024@bardsandsages.bsky.social Julie. I'm sorry to see you go. It was an honour to be published by you. On a personal note, you've been a kind and generous person. I wish you nothing but good health and happiness. 110
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 06/03/2024Bards & Sages have closed! www.bardsandsages.com/closure-anno...bardsandsages.com Closure Announcement - Bards and Sages Publishing 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 06/03/2024No on Things To Do When You're Undead In Denver from Weird Horror & on ...And Yet So Far Away from Epic Echoes Magazine. Univercity to Seize the Press & Other People's Gods to Propagule. No=63, Yes=5, Sub=96, Held=3. www.seizethepress.com/submissions/ www.propagule.co/home#w-tabs-...propagule.coPropagule Home PagePropagule is an independently-run convergence of the arts, focused on fiction, music, theory, and more. We are especially interested in the aesthetically novel, experimental, transgressive, and uncate... 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2024MERRY VAGUEMAS TO ME! 6th Sale of the year! More details when I'm allowed to officially announce. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 05/03/2024No on The Hauntings from Elemental Forces & on The Quest For Lansa Rita from The Fantastic Other. No=61, Yes=5, Sub=94, Held=1. NOTE: It appears I forgot to log Lansa Rita back in January. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 04/03/2024No on Two Little Bird from Orion's Belt. No=59, Yes=5, Sub=94, Held=1. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2024Had a Google. (Well, Duck Duck Go, because I didn't want to be tracked, asking that question) Apparently that thing in Bosnia is still classified? 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2024No on Feeding The Ghosts Of The Abandoned Asylum from Dusty Attic. No=58, Yes=5, Sub=94, Held=1. 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2024Always nice to see another cover & TOC reveal. This was for the Spring 2024 issue of 34 ORCHARD, coming April 25, 2024. Features my story "You Have Summoned a Demon". www.facebook.com/kpschoonover...facebook.comKristi Petersen SchoonoverI’m thrilled to announce the ToC for the Spring 2024 issue of 34 ORCHARD, coming April 25, 2024! In this issue, twenty-one artists take stock of the nature of waiting: its anxiety, its despair, its... 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2024Things To Do When You're Undead In Denver to Weird Horror & The Trouble With Being A Sword Of Truth... to Metastellar. No=57, Yes=5, Sub=94, Held=1. undertowpublications.com/weird-horror... www.metastellar.com/write-for-us...metastellar.comOriginal Flash Fiction Submission Form - MetaStellarThe submission window for the spring 2023 flash fiction submission cycle is March 1 to March 31. Authors will be notified in mid-April about whether their stories have been accepted for publication. S... 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 03/03/2024The eggs aren't fully cooked. No amount of tabasco, soy sauce or ketchup will render them edible. Only more cooking will prevent food poisoning. Better to retreat now. The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes, By Ray Daley 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2024If you ever want to ask me stuff about my writing, please do. The only question I won't answer is how much I get paid. Pretty much anything else is open season. ASK ME STUFF ABOUT WRITING! 010
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2024Clever Clogs to Aurealis, Scenario Twelve to Hexagon & Two Little Birds to Orion's Belt. No=57, Yes=5, Sub=92, Held=1. aurealis.com.au/submissions/ hexagonmagazine.ca/submit/ www.orions-belt.net/submissionsorions-belt.netSubmissions — Orion's Belt 000
Ray Daley, Writer @raydaleywriter.bsky.social · 02/03/2024I've eaten, and now I'm going to get some subs out. Because subs must go out. 000