Friday Challenger Makes a Professional Sale!

Yesterday, M sold "Absinthe Fish" (a story that none of the Friday Challengers have yet seen!) to BULL SPEC magazine. The editor, Samuel Montgomery-Blinn, said that the story is "tentatively slated for issue #5," which will—at the current pace—be the Spring 2011 issue.

BULL SPEC is a relatively new genre market, but since it has been paying professional rates from the very beginning, and averages a combined print and download circulation of a thousand copies per issue, it should retroactively qualify as a SFWA-approved professional market by Spring of 2011, when the magazine celebrates its first anniversary.