LET'S RUMBLE, PART THREE/ACCEPTANCE!

In yesterday's e-mail:

Hey Dan: Look for "Lockdown" in the new issue of rumble, online next Tuesday or Wednesday, if all goes as planned. . .

Craig Snyder, Rumble Editor

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My first flash fiction acceptance. Yes! This was only the second official piece of flash fiction I wrote and rumble was the first place I sent it.

And the "web presence" begins. . .

IDENTITY CRISIS

My goal with publishing flash fiction on the internet, aside from just having fun and practicing the elements of fiction in a short and controlled space, was to create what some call a "web presence" as a writer. In case any agent or editor was curious who I was, for example, he or she would have instant access to my writing. When you Google my name, I want the first three pages to be ALL ABOUT ME AND MY STORIES!

That said, I have also, as I mentioned in the last post, begun sending out some poetry to these on-line venues. Here is the dilemma and a possible solution:

I don't necessarily want my "web presence" as a fiction writer disrupted by a bunch of poetry publications that are also in the Google mix. Therefore (here's the potential solution), I am using "Daniel Tricarico" as my by-line for the fiction and "D.L. Tricarico" as my by-line for the poetry. I'm hoping that will cause a distinction in any search engine that tries to locate my stuff. If I start to place some poems and they come up when I Google "Daniel Tricarico," I will make adjustments as necesssary.

Perhaps, for example, I will compensate by using the pen name George W. Bush. Marilyn Manson? Trini Rodriguez? Billie Jean King? Hulk Hogan? Ryan Seacrest? . . .

TWO BITS OF NEWS AND AN AFTERTHOUGHT

GODTALK

For the first time in my life I am able to say, "I just sent the book to New York."
The Serendipity Agency in Brooklyn sent me an e-mail awhile back expressing initial interest in Godtalk and asked if I would send the entire manuscript. I finished the revision I was working on and mailed it out over my Spring Break. It was very exciting

FLASH FICTION

I received a rejection from ThievesJargon for "Biker Bitch" that said the story "wasn't bad at all" and that they "nearly took this one." They also said they hoped I would send them something else in the future. Yes! I immediately sent the story back out--to WordRiot, I think.

POETRY (THE AFTERTHOUGHT)

Poetry will not leave me alone. I was just starting to send out some poems again when I took the class on Flash Fiction at the Writers Conference. But snail mail poetry submissions take some effort and I wanted to concentrate on my book and flash fiction, so I'd let it slide. Then it occurred to me that many of the on-line journals take poetry and, since it was just for fun, anyway, seeing my poems in an on-line journal was better than not seeing them published at all. I now have three submissions out (Dicey Brown, Kaleidowhirl, and Ghoti Magazine). We'll see what happens.