Genevieve Rose Taylor

Well, I’m super excited for February…

genevieverosetaylor — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:30:44 +0000

Penumbra’s Shakespeare issue just released, including my story Troubles with Shakespeare: an Idler’s Account of His Grand Destiny. I am ridiculously proud of this absurd little story, about Shakespeare in the 35th century. Enjoy!

Shakespeare and Speculative Fiction

genevieverosetaylor — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:20:30 +0000

Also check out my guest blog post at the Penumbra blog, on Shakespeare and Speculative Fiction. Penumbra will be publishing a story of mine called Troubles with Shakespeare: an Idler’s Account of his Grand Destiny, coming out next week! It’s a busy month for me.

Something Wicked Update

genevieverosetaylor — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 04:13:06 +0000

My story the Lighthouse and an interview with me can now be found available on Something Wicked. Enjoy!

The Lighthouse, in Something Wicked Magazine

genevieverosetaylor — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 15:55:09 +0000

The January Issue of Something Wicked Magazine just released, including my story The Lighthouse!

I’m ecstatic. Go check it out!

Acceptance, Professional Payment

genevieverosetaylor — Wed, 09 Nov 2011 06:01:19 +0000

Oh my goodness.

I just got an acceptance letter from One Buck Horror, for a little short story of mine called Juliet. They’ll be publishing it in their February issue!

My second paid story, and this one is at “professional” pay. Five cents a word! Can I call myself a professional writer now?

Sweet sweet buckets, accepted! I feel like a rock star.

My story in Something Wicked should be coming out in December or January. More links as these things actually hit publication.

NaNoWriMo 2011

genevieverosetaylor — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 23:47:53 +0000

November is almost here, and I’ll be participating in National Novel Writing Month–sort of. My friend, fellow writer and roommate Rachel does it every year, according to the true spirit of NaNoWriMo: start a novel on November 1st, and complete at least 50,000 words of it (the length of a short young adult novel) by November 30th. That method doesn’t work for me, but I do like the intense month of writing, and I do well with deadlines, so I’m going to do what I’ve done before: write 50k words of whatever I please. I’ll probably do a handful of short stories, and make some inroads into a novel I’ve already started.

Current progress on Tessare’s Story (working title): 21,629 words. Three chapters.

We’ll see what those numbers look like at the end of the month.

New Writing Published at Cliterature!

genevieverosetaylor — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:34:37 +0000

I have a new story piece published in the latest issue of Cliterature, on the theme of Madness. My story is called Völva, based on Scandinavian history and legend.

Accepted!

genevieverosetaylor — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 03:15:33 +0000

Victory!

Something Wicked wrote me back and said they’d thought it over, passed the story around the office, and unanimously decided that they would very much like to publish it. Oh my goodness.

My first paid story! Expect to see me in print in the next few months. I’ll post a link when the magazine goes up.

At least they’re encouraging rejections…

genevieverosetaylor — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 03:56:19 +0000

Rejection number four on my short stories that have been sent to magazines. I’m particularly bummed about one of them (I was familiar with the editor’s writing and was really hopeful she’d like mine), but two of my four rejections have been really encouraging. And this last one, for Something Wicked, the editor wrote me a personal response saying that my story was “exquisite” and “fantastic” and how “it pains me to reject this story”, among other superlatives. I’m almost shaking with happiness and excitement.

He didn’t think it had enough horror elements, which I completely understand. I’m stymied about what to do with this story, “The Lighthouse”. It’s not enough about ghosts to land in a ghost or horror magazine, and too much about ghosts to land in a general fiction magazine, and I have yet to find a magazine that wants stories that skirt the edges of the paranormal. I’ll keep looking, though.

I’m thinking I might toss together a horror story just for this editor, to thank him for the best rejection letter ever.

My first rejection letter

genevieverosetaylor — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:43:45 +0000

Maybe it’s not normal to be this excited over a rejection letter, but! A few days ago I mentioned that I submitted to Fantasy Magazine. They rejected me, which is not a surprise, since I’ve heard from absolutely everyone that in order to get published you have to first get used to being rejected again and again and again. I also submitted a few other stories to other magazines, and I’m going to continue submitting until these stories get published!

Anyway, the awesome news is that my very first rejection letter was not a form rejection. It was personalized, and he said that my story was nicely written and he enjoyed reading it, although it didn’t quite win him him over, and that he looks forward to my next submission.

Awesome.

I’m submitting to two different magazines with themed issues this month, with pieces that I’ve written specifically for them. Hopefully at least one of them will say yes. I’ll let you know.