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raydaleywriter.bsky.social
Published UK Writer, SF/F/H/LitFic, RAF Veteran. Former Full SFWA member (lapsed, cant afford it). Qualify for HWA (cant afford it).
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No on The Winds Will Carry You Home from Astrolabe & on Crime Of The Century from Nunum's Done in a Hundred Anthology. No=79, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3.

submitted 402 days ago • 0 comments

Me, 2017 "Because if you can't write more than a 1000 words about someone like Lemmy going to Mars, you may as well give up writing and become a peach." I did not give up writing & become a peach.

submitted 404 days ago • 0 comments

No on The Sex Lives Of Robots from ANVIL. No=77, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3.

submitted 404 days ago • 0 comments

No on The Bounty from Fission. No=76, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3.

submitted 404 days ago • 0 comments

No on Welcome, Home from Worlds of Possibility. No=75, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3.

submitted 405 days ago • 0 comments

Back From The War [REPRINT] subbed to Androids and Dragons. No=74, Yes=7, Sub=106, Held=3. androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/submissions

submitted 405 days ago • 0 comments

No on We Grow The Legs Last from Every Day Fiction. No=74, Yes=7, Sub=105, Held=3.

submitted 407 days ago • 0 comments

On this day 8 yrs ago, I got my 1st cheque for a story. $50, from Deserts Of Fire or £35.17 GB pounds.

submitted 407 days ago • 0 comments

No on 11 Walls In The World from Analog. Commence With Enthusiastic Dancing to Seize the Press. No=73, Yes=7, Sub=105, Held=3. www.seizethepress.com/submissions/

submitted 408 days ago • 0 comments

RIP Vernor Vinge.

submitted 408 days ago • 0 comments

I've now got dates for closures/queries on all outstanding subs. All 42 of them. Had to run about a dozen of them down.

submitted 409 days ago • 0 comments

While Nunum may charge for certain subs, I didn't pay to sub either story today. Stating this in the interests of transparency. I do NOT pay to sub.

submitted 409 days ago • 0 comments

No on Assessment from Stranger. The Winds Will Carry You Home to Astrolabe, Home Turf to Nunum's Opolis Anthology & Crime Of The Century to Nunum's Done in a Hundred Anthology. No=72, Yes=7, Sub=104, Held=3. www.astrolabe.ooo/submissions www.nunum.ca/submissions....

submitted 409 days ago • 0 comments

Today I learned... I've been in anthologies with 2 Star Trek writers. Richard Matheson & Norman Spinrad.

submitted 410 days ago • 0 comments

I enjoyed writing this, and I hope it shows.

submitted 410 days ago • 0 comments

This week's story at Androids & Dragons is a good one! You can read Ray Daley's tale of a customer service executive for a weapons manufacturer who may not be quite what he seems. #writingcommunity #speclist #sff androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/dear-trans...

submitted 410 days ago • 0 comments

And that is another contract signed & returned. You'll find who & what it's for when they give me permission to announce. Suffice to say it's something I've never done before. This is the only Merry Vaguemas I am still currently celebrating.

submitted 411 days ago • 0 comments

Third Flatiron will be opening to subs April 1st-21st, Theme: Offshoots: Humanity Twigged – SF, fantasy, positive futures thirdflatiron.com

submitted 411 days ago • 0 comments

My story "Dear Transnational Death Tank Company" is now live at Androids And Dragons. It's free to read, too! androidsanddragons.substack.com/p/dear-trans...

submitted 411 days ago • 0 comments

No on Benchmark from Waystation. No=71, Yes=7, Sub=101, Held=3.

submitted 412 days ago • 0 comments

Sad to hear Jayhenge have gone on hiatus. t.co/IFvKBvQXlh

submitted 414 days ago • 0 comments

No on King Of The Mountain from Shoreline of Infinity. Don't Forget Your Potato! to Lightspeed (Fantasy Flash). No=70, Yes=7, Sub=101, Held=3. adamant.moksha.io/publication/...

submitted 414 days ago • 0 comments

Odd Jobs has been sold to GASPS Anthology. No=69, Yes=7, Sub=100, Held=3. This is the official cover, created by Betty Rocksteady.

submitted 414 days ago • 0 comments

The Safety Of Checkpoints has been sold to Altitude Press Flash Fiction Anthology. No=68, Yes=6, Sub=100, Held=3. And yes, it was both rejected & sold in the same day.

submitted 417 days ago • 0 comments

No on The Doppler Effect from Haven Spec Magazine. No=68, Yes=5, Sub=100, Held=3.

submitted 417 days ago • 0 comments

No on The Safety of Checkpoints from Baubles From Bones. No=67, Yes=5, Sub=100, Held=3. Yes, I am awake at stupid o'clock because I was doing admin for a sale then this came in too.

submitted 418 days ago • 0 comments

MERRY VAGUEMAS TO ME! Sale #8 this yr. More details when I can.

submitted 418 days ago • 0 comments

If you like Terry Pratchett style humour, I wrote this in 2014. web.archive.org/web/20200804...

submitted 418 days ago • 0 comments

Simon Says-Grimdark, My Day At The Park-HyphenPunk, Meat Is Murder-Tasteful Anthology & The Safety Of Checkpoints-Altitude Press Flash. No=66, Yes=5, Sub=100, Held=3. www.grimdarkmagazine.com/submissions/ hyphenpunk.com/submissions/ tastefulanthology.com/about/ altitude-press.com/submission-g...

submitted 418 days ago • 0 comments

How to write a book. Have some people in a place at a time doing a thing which doesn't go right, then shit gets worse & the crazy old wizard/kind old wise woman suggests a thing to the young farm boy & handwavium occurs & everyone is happy with all their problems solved. THE END.

submitted 421 days ago • 0 comments

Lots of other writers will be asking for your vote in the Hugos. I don't care if you vote for my work or not. Reading it is enough for me. As for markets, buying it is enough. Awards are nice, but they don't buy food. If you want to vote for my stuff in the short story category, go ahead.

submitted 422 days ago • 1 comment

Hyphen Punk are open for subs. Very nice folks to work with, happy to have been pubbed by them. hyphenpunk.com/submissions/

submitted 422 days ago • 1 comment

Following up on my vague post. I've had a story accepted to a Best Of 2023 Anthology. Official announcement when we've done contracts. If you see it at the place, keep it to yourself for now. Merry Vaguemas to me!

submitted 422 days ago • 0 comments

No on I Am Guarding The Tower Now from The Cosmic Background. No=66, Yes=5, Sub=96, Held=3.

submitted 422 days ago • 0 comments

Interesting email that I am waiting to get confirmed. It'll be a 1st for me, if it turns out to be correct.

submitted 422 days ago • 0 comments

No on Empty Chest from Best of British Science Fiction. A Selection Of Fools Grails returned from Bards & Sages. No=64, Yes=5, Sub=96, Held=3.

submitted 423 days ago • 0 comments

@bardsandsages.bsky.social Julie. I'm sorry to see you go. It was an honour to be published by you. On a personal note, you've been a kind and generous person. I wish you nothing but good health and happiness.

submitted 423 days ago • 1 comment

Bards & Sages have closed! www.bardsandsages.com/closure-anno...

submitted 423 days ago • 0 comments

No on Things To Do When You're Undead In Denver from Weird Horror & on ...And Yet So Far Away from Epic Echoes Magazine. Univercity to Seize the Press & Other People's Gods to Propagule. No=63, Yes=5, Sub=96, Held=3. www.seizethepress.com/submissions/ www.propagule.co/home#w-tabs-...

submitted 423 days ago • 0 comments

MERRY VAGUEMAS TO ME! 6th Sale of the year! More details when I'm allowed to officially announce.

submitted 424 days ago • 0 comments

No on The Hauntings from Elemental Forces & on The Quest For Lansa Rita from The Fantastic Other. No=61, Yes=5, Sub=94, Held=1. NOTE: It appears I forgot to log Lansa Rita back in January.

submitted 424 days ago • 0 comments

No on Two Little Bird from Orion's Belt. No=59, Yes=5, Sub=94, Held=1.

submitted 425 days ago • 0 comments