Better late than never

ceka

Just had a gratis copy of The Weekly News: my Halloween story came out on 26th SEPTEMBER (I missed it!) and all references to Halloween have been removed, POV changed and unnecessary speechtags have been added. Oh well! At least my My Weekly story (out today, page 51) hasn't been too 'fiddled with', only a bit. It sold on its 11th outing.

Carol

Well done on the MW story, as well as the Weekly News one.

LeeH

Congrats Ceka, at least they didn't bastardize the My Weekly story, yay. The other publication can burn in Hell.

ceka

Now then, Lee! Just because Someone got loose and is heading that way, no need to be rough to all the rest ...
Cheers, everyone.

niddy

thanks for the reminder ceka, will buy a copy at the weekend.

Jay Mandal

Congratulations!

Viv

Well done. Altered or not, they liked it enough to pay for it!

Emma B

Sounds like they more or less rewrote it ceka! Well done on both anyway, especially the My Weekly which has been nicely left alone :-)

Summer Solstice

Sorry to hear about what they did to your Halloween story, Ceka. But they must have loved the original idea if they went to so much trouble so as to use your story. And you get paid. And you get to see your name in print again :-)

Lolli

Congratulations ceka

Mutley

Ceka - that's brilliant. Where else did you send it if that was outing 11?

LeeH

[quote=ceka]Now then, Lee! Just because Someone got loose and is heading that way, no need to be rough to all the rest ...[/quote]

There's still a chance for mankind, maybe. Have to see how I feel that day ;)

Col B

Nice one Ceka - keep up the good work.

Just realized, that should be nice 'two'!
;)

ceka

Here's the List: between 2002 and publication date, this story went out to My Weekly (3 times) Radio 4, Writing Magazine's Love Story comp, Fiction Feast, People's Friend, Woman's Weekly (twice) and a couple of other comps.
Moral: NEVER GIVE UP.