{"id":296,"date":"2012-04-24T21:29:11","date_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kristinjanz.com\/?p=296"},"modified":"2012-04-24T21:29:11","modified_gmt":"2012-04-25T01:29:11","slug":"new-story-out-in-nine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/?p=296","title":{"rendered":"New story out in Nine"},"content":{"rendered":"

My story “Clear Skies in Pixieland” just came out in the first issue of Nine<\/em><\/a>, a brand-new e-zine.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re interested, you can buy a copy of the magazine (or even a 3-month subscription)\u00c2\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The authors will receive royalties if the magazine sells enough copies, so if you buy one, you’re helping out the authors as well as the publishers!<\/p>\n

“Clear Skies in Pixieland” is a contemporary fantasy loosely connected to “The Kiss of the Blood-Red Pomegranate”, which appeared in the December issue of Aoife’s Kiss<\/em>.\u00c2\u00a0 The shadowy villain mentioned in TKotBP actually shows up in this one.<\/p>\n

This is an important story for me, because it’s the first one I finished after deciding that I wanted to make a serious attempt at writing and publishing short fiction.\u00c2\u00a0 Before that, I’d mostly worked on novels.\u00c2\u00a0 I’d written a handful of short stories, even submitted a couple to magazines, but I’d give up after they were rejected two or three times (with those earlier stories, giving up was probably a good idea).\u00c2\u00a0 This was the first story I wrote after deciding that I was going to write short stories, and I was going to keep submitting them until they were accepted.\u00c2\u00a0 Perhaps unsurprisingly, the version that you can read now in Nine<\/em> doesn’t bear much resemblance to that first version that I started sending around.\u00c2\u00a0 The basic premise is the same, but it’s been almost completely rewritten.\u00c2\u00a0 Twice.\u00c2\u00a0 As I learned more about writing, I would take another look at that old story, and realize that I could probably do better.\u00c2\u00a0 So I did.<\/p>\n

There are eight other stories in this issue of Nine<\/em> (hence the name), one by Hugo- and Nebula-nominated author Ken Liu, who is also, coincidentally, one of my husband’s coworkers.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven’t read his story in Nine<\/em> yet, but I really liked the story he had in last October’s Clarkesworld<\/em>, “Staying Behind”.<\/a><\/p>\n

So, check out Nine<\/em>!\u00c2\u00a0 Tell your friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My story “Clear Skies in Pixieland” just came out in the first issue of Nine, a brand-new e-zine.\u00c2\u00a0 If you’re interested, you can buy a copy of the magazine (or even a 3-month subscription)\u00c2\u00a0here.\u00c2\u00a0 The authors will receive royalties if … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98,51,7],"tags":[192,194,193,173],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-published-fiction","category-short-fiction-2","category-writing","tag-clear-skies-in-pixieland","tag-ken-liu","tag-nine","tag-the-kiss-of-the-blood-red-pomegranate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kristinjanz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}