"Our Confounding Father, Benjamin Franklin" is now up at Bewildering Stories.

I had sent some great revisions in, which i had made with thanks to Cathy at petrini1. they have not been posted, but I'm not sweating it.

if I resell, or when I put the story up on Fictionwise or somewhere, I'll put up the revised version.

"Our Confounding Father, Benjamin Franklin" will appear in upcoming issue of Bewildering Stories.

New story up at "A Fly In Amber."

"An Heroic Tale In An Enormous Tomb" has nifty new undeads and monsters, an interesting world design, and an almost Disney-esque flourish if you ignore the cannibalism.

I popped up in "The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror - 17th Edition" (2003):

"Weird Tales, edited by George Scithers and Darrell Schwietzer, now eighty years old, is a mix of heroic fantasy, dark fantasy, and the occasional horror story. Tanith Lee and Thomas Ligotti are regular contributors. In 2003 there was notable dark work from them as well as Carrie Vaughn, Tim W. Burke, Lisa Batya Feld, Kelly McCullough, Lillian Csernica, and Gene Wolfe."

This was for "Two Shows Daily", which George hadn't liked much, but Darrell liked.

My measured self-analysis after the jump.

Hey! My first ever review!

From "The Fix"  at http://thefix-online.com/reviews/town-drunk-feb-2008/
The astonishingly perceptive Carole Ann Moleti quotes extensively from "Lampreyhead" and says:

Almost every sentence of “Lampreyhead Meets the Vampire Slaughterers” is a one-liner or parody of paranormal romance and Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Every time I read it, I found something else and laughed harder.

The first Lampreyhead is up at The Town Drunk.

Lampreyhead to make his debut this month on "The Town Drunk."

Three stories appearing in one month! It's a blitz of Burke. A Burkeskrieg. Something.

Oh yeah, March will be a month.

"The Scourge" will be in Aoife's Kiss

and "The Garden and the Mirror" will be in The Willows.

From "A Fly In Amber":

The editors loved the originality of this piece.  
We would like to give you the option of either being in the March issue 
of "A Fly in Amber" 
or being the Featured Fiction in the May issue.


I chose May. It's a nice way to end the day. Personalities are an issue at my job again, 
which means as manager they are my issue. But there are moments when, no, it is their issue.

And I just got "The Tough Guide To Fantasyland." 
I wish I had this book years ago. 
It's funny and a great list things *not* to do in fantasy writing.

Two sales to "The Town Drunk."

"The God of Laundry" and a story named either "Lampreyhead and the Perceptive Spirits" or "Lampreyhead Meets The Vampire Slaughterers."

Have you a preference to titles?

Brit at "The Town Drunk" had some vital edit ideas that made the story jump. Thanks, Brit!

For the bio, I would like to use the photo at the top of this post.

I'm overdue for response from Intergalactic Medicine Show, Space and Time, and for two stories from The Town Drunk. And Aoife's Kiss won't tell me when they're publishing the story they bought. WTF!

I feel very awkward saying this, but things are going very well right now. I am not accustomed to acknowledging this. Being in an emotional crisis keeps petty complainers away. I feel also that I am not taken seriously unless I am about to rip something's head off. Without umbrage and an overblown sense of entitlement, I fear I will fall into a decline.

My short story "The Doge's Gold Statue" is up at A Fly In Amber.

Hello, Tim,

Word is back from the editors about "Meet Benjamin Franklin." Good news: it is scheduled for Bewildering Stories issue 296 or earlier, if possible.

Could you think of a new title? The current one is less descriptive than it might be.

We like to extend an official welcome to new contributors. To do that, we need a bio sketch. It is optional, but almost all of our authors have taken advantage of the opportunity, especially since the biography is accompanied by a linked bibliography. Examples can be found at: http://www.bewilderingstories.com/bios/index.html . Photos are welcome.

Don Webb, managing editor
Bewildering Stories

Dear Tim Burke,> We are happy to write that we would like to publish your submission "The Doge's Gold Statue" in the next issue of "A Fly in Amber". The editors loved your imagery.
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Appears in January at http://aflyinamber.net/

From James Van Pelt:

"Connie Willis says that at one point before she'd published her first story, she had eight manuscripts in the mail to different markets. One day she checked her post office box, and in it was a slip telling her to pick up her mail from the postmaster. Instead of a package or something pleasant, however, the postmaster handed her rejections on all eight stories. Crushed, she considered quitting, but because she'd made it a habit to address envelopes to the next market for each story, she decided to slip the rejected work into the new envelopes and send them off. Eventually, she says, all eight works found publishing homes.

I have never sold a story to the first market that saw it. However, last year I sold a story that had been bounced thirty-one times previously."

Okay. I get it now.