OSFW business : none
Treasurer’s report? new easel and OSFW poster bought for convention in Pryor in October.
Members present: Bill, Mike, Brad, Sue, Greg, Chris and Lori.
Answers to the following ritual questions:
Did anyone write? Yes for everyone !!!
Did anyone submit anything?
- Mike: “That Uncertain Heaven” went to Deadlands
- .Chris: Carbonifercus Yuletide @ From Beyond Press
- .Chris: Right up their alley @ Diner Nior
- .Chris: Final Holding @ Propagule
- .Chris: Carbonifercus Yuletide @ Everyday Fiction
- .Chris: Pulling for Victory @ Shooter Literary
- .Chris: Picture of Lily @ Weird West
- Lori: ‘Ties that bind’ @ worldstonepublishing
- Lori: ‘Trapped’ @ The Fabulist Words & Art
- Lori: ‘Shoreleave’ @ Solarpunk magazine
Did anyone publish anything? No one this month ☹
Did anyone get paid?
- Mike: – Troy Taylor/Whitechapel Press reported that 55 copies of I Heard of That Somewhere sold this year, bringing me $61.60. Better than nothing was Mike’s comment. The attendees agreed.
Any good rejections?
- Chris: Rejected ‘Final Holding’ @ DSP Beastly tales
Readers at today’s meeting (title)
- Sue read part of “A Cross Time.”
- Chris read “Duck the Drones, Goose the statue” a reworking
- Mike read from his latest writing — the first section (about 1/3) of “Gate Patrol”.
- Synopsis: Inkara, an Adolescent Gryphon of the Great Eyrie of Mount Lattipor, thinks that Gate Patrol is an utter waste of her time, for the Gates — Portals to other, possibly unfriendly and dangerous worlds — have not operated for centuries, and nothing is likely ever to emerge from them. Then, however, she is attacked by a praying mantis as big as a horse — a creature certainly not of the Gryphons’ world Aanuu. Inkara fears that much worse is to come, and she joins forces with a human Patroller from the local watchtower.
GIPIC: Christmas Party Saturday in December. Sue and Brad to host. Date to be announced.
Editor’s note: The party will be at 7PM on Saturday, December 10. The secret word for the story fragments is epiphany.