Category: sucker punch

Starting off 2015 with . . . a WEIRD rejection!

Jan 14, 2015

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Ace Baker

in sucker punch

Okay, 2015 is up and running and I’ve been away from blogging while concentrating on writing new works. But today in the mail–one of the strangest rejections I’ve ever gotten. Without outing the small press it came from (because I still want to submit work to them), here’s an excerpt of the letter: Thank you…
Think YOU had a bad teacher?

Jul 7, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in fiction, novels, poetry, short stories, sucker punch

I remember some horrible instructors I’ve learned from in the past, but only the writing prof I took a class from at the University of Saskatchewan even approaches this one’s behaviour: From “The Master,” by Marc Fisher: Assigned to [Robert] Berman for tenth-grade English, I took a seat one September morning alongside sixteen or seventeen other…
JOE HILL (Stephen King’s Son) Gets Sucker Punched!

Jun 17, 2013

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by

Ace Baker

in contenders, fiction, short stories, sucker punch

[Source: Writer’s Digest] [Joe Hill] had been sending his short stories to The Atlantic for a while now, and thought he was getting close to breaking in. The rejection letters usually came in big envelopes containing his manuscript, but this one was different. It was small. Like, say, something you’d mail a check in. Hill…