Jean Tatro, Writer

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Deadline Trains

Jean | May 17, 2009

Deadlines feel something like trains to me. There is the bullet train deadlines, the ones you don’t know about until they’re on you, and the far scarier freight train deadlines, where you can feel it coming long before it reachs. You can hear them coming, but then the ground shakes and the noise gets louder [...]

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The First

Jean | May 18, 2008

I got my first rejection Saturday. It was for my short story for the Sword and Sorceress Anthology. I got a short, but nicely worded form response that can be summed up as ‘not for us, try elsewhere’. Perhaps all my research and reading has paid off as I was underwhelmed by my causal acceptance. [...]

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