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September 28, 2016September 28, 2016 JES HaysInspiration, On Writing

Handling Rejection

My story didn’t make the cut for the Malice Domestic anthology, which sort of bums me out … but at least they were polite enough to email me and let […]

October 16, 2014 JES HaysBlatherings

Blathering: Rejections

Just learned that the (small) publishing house I’ve had the anthology with is not picking up the rights for another year, due to poor sales.   That smarts, I’ll admit. […]

March 14, 2014 JES HaysOn Writing

On NOT Winning Awards

I just learned that DOWN THE OWLHOOT TRAIL didn’t win a Spur Award – that’s the Western Writers of America awards. I’d entered several of the short stories, and I’ll […]

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