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<div>How does everyone feel about mags that don't allow simultaneous submissions? I typically avoid them but today I got seduced by one and I'm just now realizing I'll be missing approx. 4 months' worth of sub calls while I await the inevitable rejection. What have I done???</div>

<div>I actually just submitted to a magazine that asks for no simultaneous submissions, but they have a really fast response time which makes things easier to bear.</div>

<div>It depends on the genre. Many SFF magazines have very short turnaround times and no-sim-subs policies, and it works well enough in that market. But in Lit, or anywhere the response timelines are longer than days-to-weeks, I currently avoid no-sim-subs publications. (1/2)</div>

<div>I'm not against it on principal, but I've been burned too many times by unexpectedly late responses (on the scale of 1-2 years) by no-sim-sub lit mags. I just don't have the time for that. (2/2)</div>

<div>i only started submitting this year but tbh that sounds like something i'd be likely to avoid... unless their response time is suuuper fast. 4 months would be too long</div>

<div>Yeah, I avoid no-sim places unless I'm confident that they're gonna get back within a couple weeks. In your situation, where you're just now facing the cold reality of the terrible choice you've made - I'm gonna be super honest here, I'd ignore it and submit away. :D</div>

"Atlantic Books snaps up 'transfixing' historical debut novel LIGHTBORNE"  

"Lightborne" press release in The Bookseller 

Establishing your setting and time period from the get-go of your writing process is vital in creating a memorable book, real tension, dynamic characters, and a more complex reading experience. 

Guest on the 7am Novelist Podcast

Announcement of the 2022 Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair winners, inc unpublished novel Lightborne.

Lightborne

Results for the 2019 Bridport Prize in Short Fiction, in which "The Way of the Pack" placed Highly Commended.

The Way of the Pack

If I believed in God, I would use Him 
The way He has been used against me.
Those who have condemned me, I would condemn
From my high pulpit, and rain hellfire down
On what I deem hypocrisy.

'GOD HATES ___' (A sonnet)

They asked me "What do you want to be when you grow up?" And I answered,
     (a wolf)
but I said nothing. Wolves do not speak.

Untitled

Do not tell me to heal. I want no poems
that call the wild geese home, or command me,
behold the winter sunset, or, consider
the fox frozen in river-ice. I want no poems
that tell me how to mend, or how to mourn
all the world’s little losses...

Pearl Mussel

The bell had rung,
and the corridor was strewn with girls,
backs against their lockers, sobbing
into their hands.
I walked through them like a ghost
who had been dead for centuries,
bewildered at their collective grief.

Hesse Phillips

Selected work (9 publications)

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