"Five Secret Selves," "The Monsters of Notre-Dame," and "Tell No Tales" will be appearing in Midnight Echo 3. This will be my first time in an Australian publication! Awesome. Another few oceans crossed...
Bwahah. What you haven't seen is that I got yet another rejection from Strange Horizons last night ;) Poetry. But I still have one poem in with them - a new one, a good one (I hope) - and a short story. I intend to go down fighting!
It's all relative: I've had two good acceptances this week, but I've also had three rejections (Strange Horizons, Rattle, and my old favorite, POETRY). Thanks, though!
Absolutely. I'd say I get anywhere between 2-4 rejections for every acceptance. Or thereabouts. I really should keep track of my rejections as carefully as I keep track of my acceptances, but I admit that I generally don't (except in the case of a few special magazines that have begun to get on my nerves ;)
* For a full list of publication credits in poetry and fiction, see my profile.
ABOUT
A.J. Odasso's poetry has appeared in an eclectic variety of publications, including Sybil's Garage, Mythic Delirium, Jabberwocky, Cabinet des Fées, Midnight Echo, Not One of Us, Dreams & Nightmares, Goblin Fruit, Strange Horizons, Stone Telling, Farrago's Wainscot, Through the Gate, Liminality, inkscrawl, Battersea Review, Barking Sycamores, and New England Review of Books. Her début collection, Lost Books (Flipped Eye Publishing), was nominated for the 2010 London New Poetry Award and for the 2011 Forward Prize, and was also a finalist for the 2011 People's Book Prize. Her second collection with Flipped Eye, The Dishonesty of Dreams, was released in 2014. She holds degrees from Wellesley College (B.A. in English), University of York (M.A. in Medieval Studies), and Boston University (M.F.A. in Creative Writing). She has served in the Poetry Department at Strange Horizons since 2012.
And you can't be accepted without some rejections, right?