{"id":1211,"date":"2013-08-27T13:41:58","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T17:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1211"},"modified":"2013-08-27T16:20:08","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T20:20:08","slug":"tors-fantasy-fiction-affliction-first-timers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/?p=1211","title":{"rendered":"Tor&#8217;s Fantasy Fiction Affliction &#8212; First Timers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>UPDATED for Sci-Fi 8\/27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I love me some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/\">Tor.com<\/a>.\u00a0I really do. These people really know what&#8217;s up, so when they post their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/tags\/Fiction%20Affliction\">Fiction Affliction<\/a> lists of <strong>new titles every month<\/strong>, we can safely assume these to be The Deal.<\/p>\n<p>As someone who is actively working to become a <strong>first-time<\/strong> professionally-published novelist, I figured I&#8217;d take a look and see who&#8217;s making the list. So let&#8217;s start with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/08\/fiction-affliction-september-releases-in-fantasy\">fantasy releases in September<\/a>. Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/blogs\/2013\/08\/fiction-affliction-september-releases-in-science-fiction\">sci-fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Of the nineteen fantasy listings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9 are sequels.<\/li>\n<li>2 are anthologies.<\/li>\n<li>5 are written by <strong>well-established<\/strong> novelists.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That leaves two newbies.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookish.com\/books\/the-scroll-of-years-chris-willrich-9781616148133\/de8a9bf8-f0ef-4a3d-a9b0-36fa93b71e1c\" target=\"_blank\">The Scroll of Years: A Gaunt and Bone Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u2014<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chriswillrich.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chris Willrich<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Willrich&#8217;s\u00a0Gaunt and Bone stories have appeared in several pro magazines over the last decade or so. So, that leaves one.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bookish.com\/books\/the-grim-company-luke-scull-9780425264843\/c55c72ca-4322-4011-957c-3edc0a027adf\" target=\"_blank\">The Grim Company<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(Grim Company #1)<\/strong>\u2014<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lukescull.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Luke Scull<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This dude is a videogame designer, and this is his first foray into straight-up fiction. Still, he&#8217;s got some cred.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sci-fi:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7 sequels<\/li>\n<li>1 anthology<\/li>\n<li>1 established novelist<\/li>\n<li>1 prolific short-story writer<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Wowza. I don&#8217;t know if there&#8217;s anything to infer from this &#8212; I firmly believe that\u00a0<strong>quality work<\/strong>\u00a0matters more than anything when editors and agents make decisions. Nonetheless, interesting.<\/p>\n<p>Tor does a great job of keeping up posted on debuts as well, which is cool. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/stories\/2013\/06\/the-daedalus-incident\">Example<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be keeping track of the other Fiction Affliction posts this month. The one I&#8217;m pitching now is more of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tor.com\/tags\/genre%20benders\">genre-bender<\/a>, so I&#8217;ll be looking closely at that post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UPDATED for Sci-Fi 8\/27 I love me some Tor.com.\u00a0I really do. These people really know what&#8217;s up, so when they post their Fiction Affliction lists of new titles every month, we can safely assume these to be The Deal. As someone who is actively working to become a first-time professionally-published novelist, I figured I&#8217;d take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1211"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1217,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211\/revisions\/1217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/galaxyalex.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}