Ask the Author: Sarah Pinsker
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Sarah Pinsker
I'm glad you're loving it! I think they did a great job with the audio version. I have other short fiction in a similar genre -- Two Truths and a Lie ( https://reactormag.com/two-truths-and... ) and several of the stories in my collection Lost Places -- but my other novels are near future science fiction. The inspiration, in short, was a carving in the American Visionary Art Museum, plus my weird obsession with the non-reality of reality shows.
Sarah Pinsker
Hi-- Apologies for the delayed response. Excellent question. It might be possible to order another copy of the magazine. Otherwise, if you reach out through my website contact form, I can try to find a copy on my computer to send you. I love the Jemisin take.
Sarah Pinsker
Hi Kayla, and thanks for these great questions! So yes, I've been in bands basically my entire life. I do a singer/songwriter thing and then my band plays the same songs louder and faster. I spent a long time touring, and I've played a lot of DIY venues, so this is definitely a love letter to punk spaces. In my experience, most of those spaces have a wide variety of music coming through, so even though the cover says "rock" I tried to capture that breadth. There's a hidden soundtrack in the chapter titles too...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4mL...
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4mL...
Sarah Pinsker
Every song mentioned in the story except for Wind Will Rove and its antecedents exists, so one could easily make a soundtrack!
They haven't given us schedules yet for Worldcon so I don't know if I'm playing music this year. That said, Wind Will Rove only exists in my head so far.
They haven't given us schedules yet for Worldcon so I don't know if I'm playing music this year. That said, Wind Will Rove only exists in my head so far.
Sarah Pinsker
Hi there! Thanks for your interest. You can buy the issue it appeared in for kindle format (MOBI) at https://weightlessbooks.com/format/un... -- just make sure to choose the MOBI format -- or at https://www.amazon.com/Uncanny-Magazi...
I hope that helps!
I hope that helps!
Sarah Pinsker
Hi Joseph,
Thanks for asking!
I'm not sure there's much to my 'how did you get published' story beyond saying that I wrote a story somebody wanted to publish.
On paper, my breakthrough into short fiction was on the fast side, if you're just looking at stories published. My first pro sale was to Daily Science Fiction, and then several months later things took off with pro sales to Strange Horizons, Asimov's, etc. and many more since then.
On the other hand, I'd been submitting stories to magazines since I was fourteen, with a break when I was playing music full time. Things went fast once they got rolling in 2012, but I had lots of stories under my belt by then.
In my opinion, the only way to get published is to write, write, write and submit, submit, submit. Finish stories, then finish more stories. That sounds glib, but I used to start stories all the time and then abandon them. Some people swear by a stint slush reading at magazines, and others swear by attending one of the genre workshops (Clarion being the gold standard, but there are other shorter/more affordable ones such as Viable Paradise and the one at the University of Kansas). I'll just swear by writing a lot, submitting a lot, and rolling with the rejections until they turn into acceptances.
Thanks for asking!
I'm not sure there's much to my 'how did you get published' story beyond saying that I wrote a story somebody wanted to publish.
On paper, my breakthrough into short fiction was on the fast side, if you're just looking at stories published. My first pro sale was to Daily Science Fiction, and then several months later things took off with pro sales to Strange Horizons, Asimov's, etc. and many more since then.
On the other hand, I'd been submitting stories to magazines since I was fourteen, with a break when I was playing music full time. Things went fast once they got rolling in 2012, but I had lots of stories under my belt by then.
In my opinion, the only way to get published is to write, write, write and submit, submit, submit. Finish stories, then finish more stories. That sounds glib, but I used to start stories all the time and then abandon them. Some people swear by a stint slush reading at magazines, and others swear by attending one of the genre workshops (Clarion being the gold standard, but there are other shorter/more affordable ones such as Viable Paradise and the one at the University of Kansas). I'll just swear by writing a lot, submitting a lot, and rolling with the rejections until they turn into acceptances.
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