I Sincerely Hope This Is Not the Last Post of Its Kind I Write

I mentioned this back in this post, but last year, I had a short story accepted by The Sierra Nevada Review, a literary magazine out of Sierra Nevada College.

The day before Easter, my contributor’s copies came in the mail!

It’s a pretty short story—about 1100 words and only three pages. It’s called “Things You Don’t Know I Know About You.” In the story, the narrator, a nameless cubicle dweller, tells of everything she’s learned about her coworkers by Googling them. This is something that, I admit, I do all the time—with coworkers, dates, random people from the past, and sometimes my friends and family, just to see what I find. My friends think I’m weird for Googling people before dates—I think they’re weird for not doing it. (Of course, then on the date I have to act like I don’t know things like where the guy went to college or where he works.) But I’ve found out some interesting things by Googling people from the past I think of randomly—like, there was this obnoxious hipster guy I worked with at an internship in college, and I found out through Google that he wrote a fairly popular young adult book.

It’s not online, but you can buy a copy here or just ask me if you want to read it.

I’m happy about it—I feel like it’s rare that there’s something in my life I can be legitimately proud of. Even when I accomplish something professionally, like making my sales goal last year, it’s hard to take much pride in it because of extenuating circumstances—like, I think making that goal was due to luck more than anything else. But I can’t think of any reason The Sierra Nevada Review decided to publish this other than that they liked the story—and according to Duotrope, a site that gives information on different literary magazines, it has a pretty low acceptance rate, although I’m not sure how accurate the rate they give is.

But still, I hope this isn’t the last thing I ever publish. This is actually part of a group of linked short stories I want to have published as a book eventually, with some of them published in magazines first. I’m trying to get more stories published now.

Here’s hoping that someday I’ll have more publications to blog about.

12 thoughts on “I Sincerely Hope This Is Not the Last Post of Its Kind I Write

  1. Cassie @ Witty Title Here

    Congratulations, Katie! That is SO cool, and your piece sounds like something I'd want read whether or not I knew who you are. I've always wanted to publish in a literary journal, too, though it's been a long time since I've written anything fitting for that kind of publication. This kind of makes me want to start up again. :) Congrats again – you absolutely should be proud!

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  2. Cassie @ Witty Title Here

    Congratulations, Katie! That is SO cool, and your piece sounds like something I'd want read whether or not I knew who you are. I've always wanted to publish in a literary journal, too, though it's been a long time since I've written anything fitting for that kind of publication. This kind of makes me want to start up again. :) Congrats again – you absolutely should be proud!

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