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	<description>in which Michael Ray becomes a writer</description>
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		<title>Two months long gone</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 04:41:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I put issue #4 of Redstone SF up last week. It was exhausting. School started the first week of August and I have simply been hanging on. But, I&#8217;ve done a better job teaching this year, largely because I&#8217;m not coaching. I am announcing the games on radio again, which I really enjoy. I thought [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Heating Up</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=289</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Redstone Science Fiction swallowed June. And it was fun. One issue could have been an accident, two suggests a pattern. I got everything done and got it online. Scored an interview with Fantasy Magazine editor Cat Rambo, which was picked up by io9, which gave us the traffic push we needed. The stories we published [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First Issue Survival</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:25:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first issue of Redstone Science Fiction went online June 1st. The site worked well and the posting of everything went as planned. The stories are good and we hoped the essays and interviews would reinforce the fiction. Instead, io9 and several other sites picked up the kick-ass interview with Lou Anders done by our [...]]]></description>
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		<title>All Redstone, All the Time</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=280</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 05:01:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My school year is coming to an end. I led successful reviews for the AP US History Exam and did what I could for my AP Macroeconomics students (I&#8217;m still not an expert on the material yet). I&#8217;m finishing up my history classes with the Civil War and Reconstruction. I&#8217;m also finishing up my last [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Non-stop Editing</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=271</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 14:36:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We have been working constantly on Redstone Science Fiction. We&#8217;ve read over 100 stories and sent out nearly 90 rejections. (We&#8217;ve chosen a couple of stories we want). There are about a hundred more to go in the slushpile. I&#8217;ve been recruiting writers for our features &#038; columns and setting up interviews. I&#8217;ve also given [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Redstone</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=266</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 15:57:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We opened for submissions at Redstone Science Fiction at 3/15. It has been amazing. We got just over 200 submissions in three weeks, when we closed for submissions on 4/4, so we wouldn&#8217;t be overwhelmed. I learned a great deal in submitting stories and have incorporated that into the magazine plan. The magazine experience has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A good week</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=263</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Mar 2010 04:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a second story accepted this week! &#8216;Service&#8217; was picked up by Everyday Weirdness. Pretty excited.]]></description>
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		<title>Yes!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:19:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My 300-word flash story, &#8220;Wet Zone&#8221;, (a scifi, first contact story) will be published in &#8220;Daily Flash 2011&#8243;, an anthology of 365 flash fiction stories by Pill Hiill Press. I did a ton of research for what was to be, and still may be, a much longer story. It&#8217;s small, but I&#8217;m very pleased!]]></description>
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		<title>I Submit</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=255</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Mar 2010 02:14:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve shaken off the doldrums, distractions, and disappointments. I have submitted every story I own. We will make this happen. Damn it.]]></description>
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		<title>What I&#8217;ve been up to:</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=245</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 07 Mar 2010 03:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Building an online science fiction magazine - I&#8217;ve been submitting my science fiction stories for quite a while now, and I&#8217;ve become familiar with process. - During the controversy among scifi people a couple of months ago over low-paying mags/sites (free/$5 a story) vs. pro-paying mags/sites (5 cents/word) I realized that there are less than [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here and There</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=238</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Feb 2010 00:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Reading]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wrote 500 words on Wednesday. This week while exercising I read This Year You Write Your Novel by Walter Mosley. Standard Advice, but strangely encouraging. Spent a lot of time working on the website for Redstone Science Fiction. Surprised I haven&#8217;t seen The Lester Dent Pulp Paper Master Fiction Plot before. More useful than Mosley&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Brainstorm</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=226</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Feb 2010 19:50:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have gathered so many ideas and factors to include in my story that it may be too much. Should I stick to a story? Should I make this a longer piece? Am I actually going to make it happen? I get so distracted at my computer, I&#8217;m beginning to think I would do better [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Plugging away</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=219</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2010 17:02:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have resubmitted all my stories, except &#8216;Detention&#8217;. I&#8217;ve considered rewriting it, but I may just stick with it as is. I think the website/podcast will be interesting to do. I&#8217;m researching the best way to get quality submissions. I&#8217;m hoping the higher payrate will help, but you have to get teh word out there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Magazine of My Own?</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=211</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jan 2010 18:12:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve finally decided to take a swing at my own online science fiction magazine, now that I&#8217;ve got a little experience with the conventions of the field. I&#8217;ve made a list of things that I need to do: 1) Choose an appealing name 2) Make sure I can get the domain name (I can&#8217;t believe [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Bridge accepted</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=207</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jan 2010 17:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first story of my modern era, &#8220;The Ancient Bridge&#8221;, was accepted by Sams Dot Publishing and will be published October 2010 in Beyond Centauri, a YA Science Fiction &#038; Fantasy quarterly. It&#8217;s a coming of age story with swords, lost causes, and bandits. Hypersonic Tales, the e-zine that has accepted &#8220;Service&#8221;, is running a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Moving Forward</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=192</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 05:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I tell myself that I have been generally useless for about a month. I haven&#8217;t written anything new and am determined to begin anew, but I have been active. - I spruced up the middle of Alchemy. The freshly edited version of it went to and was passed on by Fantasy and Science Fiction, but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In the post</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Dec 2009 03:54:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mailed Alchemy to Fantasy &#038; Science Fiction. According to Duotrope it has the fastest turnaround time for submissions of the Big Three. That way I can send it on to the next more quickly &#8216;if&#8217; it&#8217;s rejected. It&#8217;s my best story so far and someone will publish it eventually (w/fingers crossed).]]></description>
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		<title>Semester done.</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=185</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Dec 2009 21:17:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The only thing I&#8217;ve been writing consistently each day is my Facebook status. Today I finally brought my Blogspot Journal up to speed. I&#8217;ve printed out Alchemy and I&#8217;m going to send it to the big three (and get it officially rejected), one at a time, of course: Fantasy &#038; Science Fiction, Asimov&#8217;s, and Analog. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>One step forward</title>
		<link>http://gatetree.com/blog/?p=183</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:50:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two rejections today. I&#8217;ll take comfort in that they were both read at top markets and I got a nice note from Beneath Ceaseless Skies.]]></description>
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		<title>And so it begins</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Dec 2009 18:18:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>M.E. Ray</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The e-zine Hypersonic Tales bought my story &#8220;Service&#8221;, the one with a satellite in a cotton field, and will publish text and audio versions of it in the very near future. I&#8217;m still a little stunned.]]></description>
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