My First Fiction Sale!

I have some exciting news today--my first sale! Yay!
Pseudopod has decided to buy my story The Disconnected to publish as a podcast. It will be available for free download on their site. I'll post a link when it's available.

One nice thing about this sale is that it is audio rights ONLY. That means that I can still try to sell first printing rights to a professional print market.

A few stats in case people are interested:
Time since I started writing fiction: 2 years, 5 months
Time since I started writing short stories: 1 year, 1 month
Total rejections before this sale: 124
Total rejections since last sale: ---(I'll fill this in for future sales)
Time since last sale: ---(I'll fill this in for future sales)
Total rejections of this story before this sale: 8
Total responses from Pseudopod before this sale: 1

New JBU version of "The Disconnected"

I've posted a new version of "The Disconnected" on Jim Baen's Universe Slush forum. It's a story that speculates what the future may look like if over-dependence on cell phones continues to grow. People become so dependent on them that those who are separated from their phones are cast out and are treated like animals.

You can visit the forum by going to bar.baen.com You have to register to get a username and password. Then click on "Baen's Universe Slush" in the Forums panel and choose my story to read it. Then if you want to post comments about it, you can do it under the "Baen's Universe Slush Comments" Forum, under the same title.