Let's news! (I'm sure at least one of you will get that reference.)
Big Pulp has reprinted "Section 3A" in their Winter 2010 issue, which you can buy for 99c in PDF form or under $6 as an actual object you can put on your shelf. --
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/big-pulp-december-2010/14360764Still no info on when "Belief" and the reprint of "27 Jennifers" will appear on the internets.
"A Dog And His Boy" is up on the Dunesteef, under the Broken Mirror 2010 section. Given that the first three stories are the ones that got podcast, does that mean my position as fourth makes me the first runner-up? Or is it just arbitrary? In any case, here it is --
http://dunesteef.com/broken-mirror-stories-2010/a-dog-and-his-boy-by-josh-roseman/I haven't gotten the Asimov's contract yet, but I got a holiday card from them, signed by the editor, so I'm hoping the contract comes soon.
After a query response, I sent "The Clockwork Russian" to Icarus, and it got redirected to their novella imprint (launching in 2011). The editor of that imprint said he enjoyed it and gave me a ton of feedback that will eventually turn the story into either a full novella (right now it's only 17k) for them or an actual novel (which may go to Lethe Press, the parent publisher of Icarus). I think that's my main project for the first half of 2011.
Up to 6200 words on my vampire story, which unfortunately will probably end up at 9k, instead of the 6k I was hoping for. At that point I may go back and expand it further (I think I could make a novella or a full novel out of it, with some more plotting) or trim out a bunch of it and hit only the subplot -- the ever-popular vampire-human relationship -- instead of the main "mission" plot.
Island princess story is just over 10k. I come back to it every now and then. I have a pretty good idea of how I'm going to end it. It'll probably go 15-20k in total. It's definitely
for adults, but there's still a market for that.
I think that's everything.