In case you're interested, I'll have a poem appearing in the March/April 2012 issue of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ("Hanging Noodles"). Hope you like it!

Congrats, EW! I haven't read that magazine in a while. I'll have to look it up again.

I haven't heard of that magazine. I'll have to look out for it, do you know if it's available in the UK?

Congratulations, EW. Is this magazine available online so we could read your poem? I do believe you said you had submitted other articles to this magazine as well, it might be nice to have a look at those as well, if the magazine was available online.

That's great! You should be very proud of your accomplishment!

Awesome news!!! Congrats!!!

Congrats on the pub! Will have to pick it up soon.

Okay, here are a couple of answers that I can personally provide. . . They do have a website that provides summaries of issues, descriptions of the next issue, and a readers' forum. (Plus, it also has subscription information...but that's only to be expected, I suppose.) The address is: www.sfsite.com/fsf/ I do know that there are readers in the UK, but I'm not sure if they buy their copies from a bookstore or if they subscribe. (They never said, and I never thought to ask...) Thanks for all the kind words! (I'll freely admit that I'm tickled every time I see my name in print.)

You have all the reasons to be excited every time you see your name printed, EW! It always a great satisfaction! Congrats! Thank you also for the link! I know it would be hard for me to acquire a copy from Malta!

I know I always enjoyed (enjoy) seeing my name in print as well. It feels like a real accomplishment and acknowledgment when that happens.

The next great feeling of accomplishment (as far as publishing goes) came when I finally convinced my dad that: 1. I didn't know the editor of the magazine, and 2. I didn't pay to get my work included! (What can I say? I'm not the favorite kid.)

Will check if it's available in Belgium! Sometimes, because of the international community here, we get magazines which are not available elsewhere in Europe! Do you publish with your real name or as EW or with a different pen-name???

Well, DT, just like the UK, I know there are readers in Belgium, but I don't know if they subscribe or go to a bookstore. (Usually, they post "The magazine arrived in Belgium today!" in the readers' forum.) I'll have to stick a note on my pc monitor to remind me to ask these folks how they get their copies -- I never think to ask when I visit the site! Whenever I submit to print magazines, I use my real name, Sophie M. White. If I somehow start having the kind of publishing success like Stephen King has, I might go to a pen name. Otherwise, it's really not worth the paperwork required to keep the taxman happy!