Published writers - roll call!

[I, Brian]

I'm aware that we have a number of writers here published in professional markets - both novelists as well as short story writers.

What I'd like to do is get an idea of who exactly we have on the boards that has paid publishing credits.

Feel free to announce yourself here, reveal your credentials, and do a little self-promo.

Just so I can get a better idea of how the community is comprised...

[Teresa Edgerton]

I don't understand why there has been such a resounding silence on this one.

Er ... you already know about me, since I've been a fixture here for a while. But to get the ball rolling, I'll raise my hand.

[TheEndIsNigh]

Isn't their some rule about self promoting on the site. Perhaps that's putting people off

6. As a general rule, self promotion by new members is frowned upon and will likely be treated as spam. This includes promotion of own non-commercial websites.

as they think saunctions may be taken.

[Teresa Edgerton]

But that's just for people who start promoting almost as soon as they get here. The next line is:

Established members are welcome to share their websites/books with other members and facilities may be provided for this.

There have actually been Chronicles sponsored promotions in the past (contests, etc.), but Brian can't promote what he doesn't know about.

[I, Brian]

Indeed - we don't encourage unsolicited advertising, but this thread is soliciting paid published writers to announce themselves more openly.

I'm aware of some of the writers we have here - but I'm keen to see who else I've missed.

[scalem X]

It might also be that the announcements isn't the most popular place of the forum. Alas.

Also, the mentioning of professional markets, might have people not reply in case of doubt. Are you looking to round up the real authors or are you looking for an index of what has been published by all the chronicles members together?
For example, I can't really call myself a published author for the 300 words flash fiction story that they're printing on postcards in Australia. I can hardly buy a couple of subway sandwiches with what they've paid me in royalties so far. Well that and some contributor copies.

Yes, I hath returned. Some people lured me in by mentioning cake and a birthday tread.

[Parson]

I agree with Scalem. I don't think of myself as published. But I was paid royalties for the right to publish one of my poems in a magazine. Was the poem published? No.
So there you have it.

[Jon Sprunk]

I've been published in a few SFF anthologies, but my real debut will be the release of my novel this June.

[w h pugmire, esq.]

My attitude to being a "paid professional" is perhaps odd. I have no desire to be successful in the professional market, which makes it easier for me to concentrate on being a ghoul in the Lovecraft underground. I've also had some stupidity with the commercial market. I never got royalties for an extremely successful professional Lovecraftian anthology that included one of my stories. At WFC last year, a bloke came up to me and announced that he had a "standing check" for me, for royalties due from a vampire anthology that was the most commercially successful book I've ever been in -- all he needed was my mailing address. I supplied the address and, three months later, I'm still waiting. I take all of this in stride, I know these are dire economic times and people are freaking out. But can I count some of these "pro sales" as such when the money is not in hand?

For most of my books I ask to be paid in copies of the product rather than a cheque. That way I have lots of copies of the books to send to mates. Not a very "professional" way to behave, I know. And yet I do consider myself a professional writer and will write for the professional market if the book catches my fancy. The thrill of my writing life is landing a story in S. T. Joshi's Black Wings -- mostly because he is my Lovecraftian hero, but I also think it will be a commercial book that will receive a bit of attention.

I am concerned with critical "success," as it is my creative ache to be adding good solid tales to the Cthulhu Mythos/Lovecraftian genre, and in that respect I strive to write stories that are professional in every way. I'm fairly certain, however, that there is no commercial readership for my books, and so I stay with the small press. I consider the small press absolutely a professional if not a commercial market.

[Tsujigiri]

Maybe its just me, but I found the moment you mention that you have been published, or employed as a writer in any professional capacity people seem to think you are a font of knowledge for them to tap at will.

Strangely when you are up to your neck in research, or completely lost in your writing you tend not to have the inclination to stop and do anything else.
I have to be reminded to eat from time to time.

This is why I used to keep quiet, but recently I have taken to recommending that they seek the guidance and advice of the well known and respected Sage normally referred to as "Google".