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y and i like the sweeping globe trotting aspect of it which means i tend to write long although i got partial and full requests for my first manuscript agents expressed misgivings about the length i thought if i could sell a couple short stories to pro markets before i started submitting my second manuscript then i could put those credits on my query letter and ease those misgivings it made sense to me at the time what i didn t realize was that there aren t a lot of professional markets out there for short speculative fiction and since i was writing stories that stretched past the 5 000 word mark i had even fewer to submit to i tried them anyways and was summarily rejected each time i wrote a new story i thought it would be the one to get published only to be proven wrong and then i wrote the story the one that my writers group loved the one that just seemed to have the right flow and rhythm i submitted it to f sf and received a kind personal rejection clarkesworld form reject two days daily science fiction another kind personal rejection expressing that it was a hard decision the writers of the future contest was always on my peripherals but i never submitted there there was something intimidating about the contest aspect of it but i submitted the story in june not expecting much after the prior rejections and resolved to self publish it if i didn t hear back in november i got the call that my story was a finalist on december 10 i got the call that my story had won first place i can t completely express how overwhelmingly exciting this is for me so exciting that i m abusing adverbs this is the first time something i ve written will be available in bookstores it will be published this summer it will be read so maybe writers are just a little bit crazy the kind of crazy that doesn t care as much about the piles of unread writing about the time and the emotional investment the long nights and frenzied drafting because getting that one yes can make it all worth it it did for me andrea is by day a contract specialist for california and by night a speculative fiction writer we haven t bullied her into getting a twitter yet but you can find out more about her and her writing on her website i have no doubt we ll see plenty more from andrea in the future posted in guest post writing tagged fantasy guest post rejection winning writers of the future 4 comments pantomime extract posted on december 11 2012 december 11 2012 by laura lam today strange chemistry books put up an extract of the first three chapters of pantomime whoohoo my friend shawn helped me figure out the embed code please also go to the original blog post for a sample of broken by a e rought which comes out in january posted in pantomime 2 comments the badass lady pirates of history posted on december 10 2012 by laura lam not so recently in 2005 in fact a racist asshat sent a letter to fantasy author scott lynch offended that he had included a black female mother of two as a competent pirate in the second of his gentleman bastard books red seas under red skies to see lynch give the writer of a letter a smackdown please go here it recently was picked up on tumblr and has made the rounds still here cool firstly applause to scott lynch i wanted to reply to the section where said asshat states real sea pirates could not be controlled by women they were vicous rapits sic and murderers and i am sorry to say it was a man s world it is unrealistic wish fulfilment sic for you and your readers to have so many female pirates especially if you want to be politically correct about it i thought i d take this opportunity to share a bit of information about the real historical badass lady pirates many of whom where not white 1 ching shih or cheng i sao not actually her obv this was one badass lady pirate you can listen to a podcast about her here which is where i first learned about her a brilliant cantonese pirate she commanded 1800 ships and more than 80 000 pirates men women and even children she challenged the world superpower empires at the time such as the british portuguese and the qing dynasty undefeated she would become one of china and asia s strongest pirates and one of world history s most powerful pirates she was also one of the few pirate captains to retire from piracy you can get a brief overview of her life on wikipedia the source of the quote and yeah she was so badass that governments paid her a lot of money to stop pirating the red flag fleet under ching shih s rule could not be defeated not by qing dynasty chinese officials not by the portuguese navy not by the british but in 1810 amnesty was offered to all pirates and ching shih took advantage of it she ended her career in 1810 accepting an amnesty offer from the chinese government she kept her loot married her lieutenant and adoptive son cheung po tsai and opened a gambling house wikipedia and hey look she was a mother too although married him which is a bit weird basically her motto was can t touch this 2 alfhild according to the gesta danorum book 7 alfhid was super hot and so her dad put her in a bedroom guarded by snakes so no one tried to use their one eyed snake on her alf was not deterred by this and impales the snakes with red hot pokers to get to alfhild see those snakes they dead alf was all so where s my sexeh new bride but alfhid s mum was like i dunno about this dude and so alfhild was led to despise the young dane whereupon she exchanged woman s for man s attire and no longer the most modest of maidens began the life of a warlike rover source gesta danorum book 7 alfhild goes off and does pirate lady things like raiding the coasts of the baltic sea with other pirate ladies and alf pursues her lady pirates doing piratey things the danes led my alf started fighting these pirates though they were wondered whence their enemies got such grace of bodily beauty and such supple limbs alf knocks off alfhild s helmet and sees she s the hot lady she wants to marry and she decided she d pillaged enough and became queen instead 3 jeanne de clisson aka the lionness of brittany this isn t actually her jean louise was married at 12 but her first husband died she married a second time and this was for love but her husband olivier iii de clisson was beheaded for treason jeanne de clisson s reaction oh hell naw she swore revenge on the king sold off her possessions bought three warships and became a badass lady pirate the ships that clisson purchased were painted all black on her command and the sails dyed red the black fleet took to the waters and began hunting down and destroying the ships of king philip vi and were merciless with the crews but clisson would always leave two or three of philip s sailors alive so that the message would get back to the king that the lioness of brittany had struck once again jeanne and her fleet also assisted in keeping the english channel free of french warships and it is very likely that as a privateer she had a hand in keeping supplies available to the english forces for the battle of crécy in 1346 when king philip vi died in 1350 it was not the end to jeanne s revenge she continued to wreak havoc among french shipping and it was reported that she took particular joy in hunting down and capturing the ships of french noblemen as long as they were aboard she would then personally behead the aristocrats with an axe tossing their lifeless bodies overboard wikipedia after 13 years of piracy her anger finally abated and she hid in england and married again also she had seven kids between her first two husbands seven 4 anne bonney mary read anne abandoned her husband when she fell for the pirate captain calico jack rackham and they went about as pirates together she had a baby and left it with friends in the caribbean so she could go back to pirating not the mothering type she soon partnered with mary read who for many years disguised herself as a boy she fell in love with another sailor and told him her true sex and they bought an inn together but then he died she went back on the ships as a boy and fell into anne bonney s company they both had reputations for being badass and bloodthirsty even more so than the men one day they were overwhelmed by the british navy and the men went below deck and hid either because they were too drunk or cowardly anne and mary fought them off as long as they could captain jack and the male members of his crew were tried on november 16 1720 and were sentenced to hang anne was allowed to visit her lover in his cell before his execution and instead of the consoling loving words he was undoubtedly expecting her scathing comments live on throughout history had you fought like a man you need not have been hang d like a dog anne and mary were tried one week after rackham s death and were also found guilty but at their sentencing when asked by the judge if they had anything to say they replied mi lord we plead our bellies both were pregnant and since british law forbade killing an unborn child their sentences were stayed temporarily mary is said to have died of a violent fever in the spanish town prison in 1721 before the birth of her child other reports say she feigned death and was sneaked out of the prison under a shroud no record of anne s execution has ever been found some say that her wealthy father bought her release after the birth of her child and she settled down to a quiet family life on a small caribbean island others believe that she lived out her life in the south of england owning a tavern where she regaled the locals with tales of her exploits and yet others say anne and mary moved to louisiana where they raised their children together and were friends to the ends of their lives source the legend of anne mary 5 sayyida al hurra sayyid was an islamic pirate queen of the 16th century perhaps because of the memory of being forced to flee her home in childhood sayyida like many other muslims in the area turned to piracy against her christian enemy she reached out to barbarossa of algiers who controlled the eastern mediterranean sea while she controlled the west and assembled her own fleet she wreaked havoc on spanish and portuguese shipping lines and was the undisputed leader of the pirates in the region later she remarried the king of morocco but she wanted to let him know who was boss and to show that she had no intention of giving up her power and position she refused to leave tétouan for the marriage forcing the king to come to her this is the only time in moroccan history that a king married away from the capital source amazing women in history eventually her son yet another pirate mother overthrew her and people don t know what happened to her after that so there you go plenty of awesome lady pirates were able to wrangle both other male pirates and have babies and do whatever they wanted so booyah to your sexist preconceptions mr asshat further reading cordingly david seafaring women adventures of pirate queens female stowaways and sailors wives druett joan 2000 she captains heroines and hellions of the sea simon schuster lorimer sara 2002 booty girl pirates on the high seas chronicle books if you haven t read scott lynch you should pick up his books the lies of locke lamora and red seas under red skies which are some of the best books in the fantasy genre for another sassy lady pirate try reading the assassin s curse by cassandra rose clarke posted in history random research tagged history lady pirates pirates random research scott lynch 3 comments same agent new agency posted on december 9 2012 by laura lam quite a lot of my blog traffic is people on the hunt for info about my agent so i thought it would be worth posting that i m no longer a client of peters fraser dunlop but have followed my agent juliet mushens to the new london literary branch of the agency group the agency group is primarily one of the biggest music agencies around representing the likes of pink floyd death cab for cutie the black keys dolly parton 50 cent and basically loads of other well known names it s a little surreal everyone and their mother must be asking juliet if she can hook them up with gig tickets now juliet is still open for queries and is interested in the same sort of fiction and non fiction she was before ya and adult fantasy literary fiction crime horror and uh other stuff i forget her new agent page can be found here and to get a feel for how awesome she is you should follow her on twitter where she sometimes does askagent sessions and i have an artists page here that will at some point have my face rather than a rockstar posted in writing leave a comment books read in november posted on december 1 2012 by laura lam 1 anna and the french kiss stephanie perkins ya contemporary romance france 2 carter beats the devil glen david gold literary magicians historical california 3 the mad scientist s daughter robots science fiction literary 4 days of blood and starlight laini taylor ya fantasy angels devils war 5 affinity sarah waters historical literary victorian mediums 6 the oathbreaker s shadow amy mcculloch ya fantasy desert 7 lola and the boy next door stephanie perkins ya contemporary romance california 8 the explorer james smythe science fiction literary totals 84 books 27 849 posted in reading 4 comments welcome hi i m laura lam and i write speculative fiction upcoming books false hearts masquerade out now pantomime shadowplay the vestigial tales follow laura lam on wordpress com pages about contact discussion questions false hearts fan art links micah grey 1 pantomime micah grey 2 shadowplay micah grey 3 masquerade short stories poetry vestigial tales visits events works consulted resources goodreads authors amy alward anne lyle bryony pearce corinne duyvis emma maree justina ireland katherine locke kim curran lee collins robin hobb tristina wright wesley chu publishing bragelonne creative artists agency fanucci editore heyne verlag juliet 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