I have 4 stories out with editors.

I have one out 29 days at Card’s ezine. They respond in 30-35 days so I might hear this weekend.

I have another one out at Clarkesworld for 5 days and they respond in 3 to 6 days so I expect that one to be rejected tonight or this weekend.

I have one story out at Asimov’s and there is a story to the story. This story was renamed and rewritten with children as the main characters because I wanted to sell it as a YA story. I did sell it. I still had the original, which has some similar elements, but is really a different story. I sent it into a friend’s anthology, but he bounced it for spelling errors. I spell checked it and the only errors are in the names that I made up. Since I had the story and I had to ponder what to do about it, I sent it in to Asimov’s so that they could reject it. When it get it back from there, I’ll send it back to the anthology saying all fixed.

Another story has been out for 60 days and I sent it directly to the editor, but I don’t know the name of the publication where I submitted it. I think it is at Potter’s Field, which has a publication date of next may. If I don’t hear in another 3 months I’ll start sending out again.

I just read on the SamsDot site that they take Short Story collections. I have thought about making an anthology of my short stories, but it would be quite a bit of work for very little return. I would not get much satisfaction out of it if it did not sell. However, SamsDot, despite its small size, pushed their publications and if I could sell a decent number of books, not only would I make money, but I would feel justified somehow in making the effort.

I have a dozen stories that involve computers or algorithms. I wonder if I could come up with a real whiz-bang title that would sell a book?