Wow.

The hits just keep on coming from my Clarion class. Rebecca Rowe, another Clarionite from this past summer, just found out her novel is being published by Edge Sci-Fi/Fantasy and will be coming out next spring or fall. Go Rebecca!

Here’s the tally from Clarion 2004:
Amelia Beamer: Honorable Mention, Issac Asimov Award for Undergraduate Fiction
Peter Burtis: started pro-paying webzine, “Shadows of Saturn”
Grace Dugan: Young Adult book deal with Penguin Australia
Dr. Phil: Honorable mention, CrossTIME Science Fiction Anthology
Marjorie Liu: Multiple book deal with Dorchester, her first novel “Tiger Eye” is already in second printing
Rebecca Rowe: Book deal with Edge
John Schoffstall: Writers of the Future second-quarter winner, sale to Fortean Bureau, sale to Lady Churchill’s
Me: sale to Cicada

There have been other encouraging signs, such as quarterfinalist places in Writers of the Future. This was a good group of writers, something we all recognized and mentioned by our instructors. It’s good to see publishers are starting to find out about us, too! Many of the above were pre-Clarion or while-at-Clarion sales, so it’s only a matter of time before there starts being more and more post-Clarion stuff coming out from this crew. Exciting stuff.