Went to an event last night where the On Spec staff read from the latest issue. It was nice to finally meet the editors who have sent me so many kindly rejections over the years.

If you don't read On Spec I strongly encourage you to subscribe to it. It is a Canadian magazine, based out of Edmonton, Alberta. Every issue has a nice selection of speculative fiction ranging from deep/touching stories to the horrific. Something for everyone!

Plus you'll get to read the story I sold to them, which will appear in a future issue.

http://www.onspec.ca/subscribe.htm

Just signed and sent the contract! This is my first sale to them. I'm pretty excited because they are a local magazine and I've been reading (and submitting to) them for years.

Their website http://www.onspec.ca/home.html

The story is titled "A Ragman's Vow" but I'm not sure in which issue it will appear.

My story  was a finalist for the 3rd Quarter.

http://wotfblog.galaxypress.com/

More details:

3rd Quarter Finalists Announced!

http://www.freewebs.com/ideakeeper/

Major changes/improvements over last few versions:

1. New Market Picker available that makes choosing where to send your stories and articles much easier.
2. Support for better formatting, such as background highlighting
3. Speed improvements made across the entire application
4. It is more obvious to note which cards are retired
5. Major tooltips now appear in a region on the bottom status bar
6. More short-cut keys
7. Revised the Random page to make it a bit friendlier to use

Several cosmetic upgrades have been made to ideakeeper.bravehost.com

I also posted one of the first stories I ever wrote, "Skin Dancing"

The help file for Keeper can now be downloaded off of the main page ideakeeper.bravehost.com

Noticed my story, "The End of the Road" which appeared in Not One of Us was nominated for an award by the British Science Fiction Association.

http://www.bsfa.co.uk/bsfa/main/nominations2006.asp