Writing in 2011

I sold one new story in 2011: “Watch Bees” to Asimov’s Science Fiction. It appeared in the August 2011 issue.

“Watch Bees” also gave me my first reprint sale, first foreign sale, and first sale in translation: it should appear in the Russian sf magazine ESLI early in this new year.

A story I sold in 2010 was published in 2011: “Like a Hawk in its Gyre” appeared in the February 2011 issue of Redstone Science Fiction. (They also published an interview with me in the same issue.)

As far as writing new fiction goes, I had mixed results. I finished several first drafts and got them critiqued by the Incognitos, but late in the year I had an unproductive spell, and only one of those critiqued drafts has been transformed into a submission draft that I’m satisfied with. (I have a query out to an editor who had expressed an interest in that story. If he doesn’t want it, I’ll send it off to the regular magazine markets.)

The new year should be more productive, with several stories a short step from being submission-ready, and several new projects waiting to be begun.

I wrote “Four Steps to Managing Personal Debt” for American Public Media Marketplace‘s Makin’ Money blog.

I also wrote 29 articles for Wise Bread. I’ve bolded a few where I thought I managed to say just what I was trying to say:

Who Cheated Us Out of Our Amazing Future?

How to Really Save Money When You Shop

Choosing a Luxury Eccentricity

Bohemians Then and Now

While Waiting for Rates: I-Bonds

Book Review: The Road Out of Debt

Peak Debt and Income

Book Review: Debt Free for Life

The Limits to Just Not Buying

Energy Price Spikes

Stalemate on the Debt Ceiling?

Are Your Finances Fragile?

Building a Credit History

New Tools for the Unbanked

Live Where It’s Cheap

Understanding the Gold Standard

Debt Ceiling Contingency Plans

Stay in School until the Job Market Improves?

Less or Cheaper?

Social Security Is Not a Ponzi Scheme

4 Ways to Beat Debit Card Fees

Avoiding the Poverty Tax

Occupy Wall Street, the 99%, and All That

Why Inflation?

Escape Student Loan Debt — Slowly

The Psychology of Cash Flow

Abandon Losing Strategies

Put Off Saving for Retirement

The Freedom of the Independent Yeoman