My Scifi Short Story Production Board – Jackson Allen

Greetings! This is my scifi short story production board, where I list all the scifi short stories I am working on. Organization is key if you intend to be successful, so I wanted to track all my work in a single place. You might find this process interesting, and instructive for your own writing journey. You might also enjoy some of my microfiction entries. Read below for a breakdown on the publication / submittal process.

Title	Submitted To	Date Submitted	Status
Deathclock Machine	Flash Fiction Online Terraform	11/21/2020	Submitted
Last Message from Titan Six	Apex Magazine Escape Pod Clarkesworld	11/18/2020	Submitted
The Necktie Party	Asimovs Apex Magazine Clarkesworld	10/16/2020	Submitted
Pap Therapy	Terraform F&SF	11/13/2020	Submitted
The Conquered	Escape Pod Departure Mirror Augur Magazine Cast of Wonders Analog F&SF Clarkesworld Asimov’s	11/13/2020	Pending
The Battle of Victoria Crater	Amazon Strange Horizons Fantasy & Science Fiction Intergalactic Medicine Show Clarkesworld Asimov’s	12/4/2017	Published
Body Issues	Amazon Asimov’s Clarkesworld Terraform	10/03/2017	Published
Search and Rescue	Strange Horizons Clarkesworld Analog Intergalactic Medicine Show Asimov’s Apex Magazine	8/16/2020	Submitted
The Superhero Shrink	Amazon	3/27/2017	Published
The Superhero Shrink:Climate Change	Amazon	7/18/2017	Published
Planet Ugh	Amazon Strange Horizons Apex Magazine Clarkesworld Intergalactic Medicine Show	10/03/2017	Published
ForeveRest	Amazon Galaxy’s Edge Apex Magazine Strange Horizons Analog  Clarkesworld Intergalactic Medicine Show	9/06/2018	Published
The Rocket	Amazon Lightspeed AnalogApex MagazineIntergalactic Medicine Show Clarkesworld Asimovs	01/21/2019	Published
White Station	TBD	TBD	Production
Purgatory	TBD	TBD	Production
Time Travel Wars	TBD	TBD	Production
The Necktie Party	TBD	TBD	Production
Time Travel Intern	TBD	TBD	Production
Siloed	TBD	TBD	Production
The Thinkers	TBD	TBD	Production

 

The Publication Process

The process is relatively simple, once I think a story is good enough for publication I’ll submit it to magazines/online anthologies that I think will purchase them.

I don’t submit to free online resources and/or smaller publishers for a very important reason (Here’s why). If it doesn’t meet their needs, I’ll try elsewhere. If a story has been through a round-robin of publishers with no success, then I’ll publish it online as a free story for new members of the Inkican Crew.