[Janice D. Soderling]

The Best of Our Stories is now released http://www.ourstories.us/publishing . Vol.2 includes my short fiction "Walking Home" which appeared online in the fall of 2007.

Other fiction recently accepted or published byThe Chimaera, Left Hand Waving, Toasted Cheese and (in the most recent issue) Soundzine.

Translation at Barefoot Muse.

Recent acceptances of poems by Lucid Rhythms, Lyric Poetry Magazine (based in Scotland: 4 poems for 2 print issues and one web), Literary Mama, and Frostwriting.

Warm thanks to all these editors and their readers for the time and effort expended to provide a showcase for poets and writers.

[Catherine Chandler]

"A few" ??? Way to go, Janice! Major congratulations!

[Cally Conan-Davies]

Amazing, Janice. All those readers will be well rewarded, reading you.

(But the best thing you've done today, so far, is inspired me to begin a prose poem.)

[Zita Zenda]

Yes, congratulations! I can't wait to be one of those readers!

[Donna English]

Janice, a few? Be grateful for electronic submissions and no-lick stamps and envelopes. You could OD on that much glue! Congratulations! Way to go, girl!

Donna

[Maryann Corbett]

Janice, have you left anything for the rest of us?
Seriously, many congratulations.

[Richard Epstein]

Congratulations are well deserved and in order. You should be very pleased.

You know, the only reservation I have from watching this Accomplished Members folder is that the announced publications tend to be concentrated in a relatively few journals which largely publish...well, us. We tend to be announcing to each other our appearances in places where we're all going to encounter each other anyway. It's not like I'm not going to look at the magazines in which my poems appear.

What I'd really like is to be directed to publications I wouldn't see on my own in the ordinary course of things. Is anyone getting accepted in The Hudson Review or American Poetry Review or the South Dakota State Teachers College house organ or TV Guide?

I don't mean to be churlish here. You all have good reason to be pleased with your accomplishments. But sometimes this is a little like announcing to those seated at your dinner table, "Hey, we're all seated at the dinner table."

RHE

[Maryann Corbett]

Janice, excuse me a moment while I talk to Richard, since his question is good.

Richard, a lot of the time that's so, but a good bit of the time it's not. For example, Quincy's acceptances (announced a little lower down the board) are mostly at places the rest of us are not.
My stuff, also lower down, does include Raintown, but the other three aren't the usual run, as I see it. And I should look more carefully, but it seems to me I see as many unusual as usual places lately. A careful count might be interesting...

And I know that when anybody gets into Hudson, the crowing is always loud and long and we don't miss it! I think David Mason was the most recent.

Editing back with stray rememberings: Austin Macrae was in The Cortland Review and Rattle; Patti McCarty was in Rattle. Mary Meriam was in a whole bunch of places. More will come to me.

Janice, kudos again.

[Susan McLean]

Impressive showing, Janice. It's good to see you're getting into so many places, some of them off the beaten track.

Susan

[David Rosenthal]

Happy landings, Janice. Way to go!

David R.