The Round Up for 2024

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Jennifer Brozek

Author, Editor, Media Tie-In Writer

Here’s the numbers. We all love numbers so much.

Books published: 2, Shadowrun: Auditions and Shadowrun: The Mosaic Run
Anthologies published: 3, 99 Fleeting Fantasies, Shadowrun: Magic, Machines, and Mayhem (co-edited with John Helfers), and Shadowrun: Through the Decades (co-edited with John Helfers)
Short stories published: 4, “Eye of the Beholder” (co-written with Raven Oak), “Hella AFK”, “A Tale for Munchausen’s Merriment”, and “Dueling Minstrels” (co-written with Marie Bilodeau)

New words written: 105,830
Words edited: 441,00+

Awards nominated for: 2 (both Scribe awards)
Awards won: 1 (Won the Scribe award for Shadowrun: Auditions)

Stories submitted: 12
Stories sold: 6 (50%)
Stories rejected: 4 (33%)
Stories outstanding: 2 (17%)

Thoughts about the numbers:

I’m pleased with the number of things that were published. It’s nice to have new novels and stories out in the wild.
You’ll note that I did a LOT more editing this year. Gotta pay the bills. The Husband has retired from tech.
The Scribe award nominations and win were very nice. I appreciate being acknowledged by my peers.
As for the stories submitted and sold/rejected…I really am on target with that one. My acceptance rate hovers around 50%. This year I made my 100+ short story sale. That was cool.

I don’t really have a lot to say about the metrics for this year. I’m fine with them. They’re respectable for a full time publishing professional. With the Shadowrun magazine coming out next year and being an editor-at-large for CGL, my editing numbers will not be going down. That does cut into the writing schedule. But I’ve got my plans for next year—which I will talk about in the next blog. In the meantime, enjoy some pictures of my cats.

Leeloo in the catio. She is a singapura with fawn colored fur. The background is blue skies, green lawn and trees, and red-brown deck. — I am the Queen of the Catio!

Mena, a medium sized highlander short hair with a cream colored coat, a bobbed tail, and curled ears looks at the picture-taker with a quizzical expression on her face. She stands on a wooden floor next to a white wall. — I’m all about the treats.

I hope you have had a very good holiday season!

Meet Jennifer Brozek

Jennifer Brozek is a multi-talented, award-winning author, editor, and media tie-in writer. She is the author of Never Let Me Sleep and The Last Days of Salton Academy, both of which were nominated for the Bram Stoker Award. Her YA tie-in novels, BattleTech: The Nellus Academy Incident and Shadowrun: Auditions, have both won Scribe Awards. Her editing work has earned her nominations for the British Fantasy Award, the Bram Stoker Award, and the Hugo Award. She won the Australian Shadows Award for the Grants Pass anthology, co-edited with Amanda Pillar. Jennifer’s short form work has appeared in Apex Publications, Uncanny Magazine, Daily Science Fiction, and in anthologies set in the worlds of Valdemar, Shadowrun, V-Wars, Masters of Orion, Well World, and Predator.

Jennifer has been a full-time freelance author and editor for over seventeen years, and she has never been happier. She keeps a tight schedule on her writing and editing projects and somehow manages to find time to teach writing classes and volunteer for several professional writing organizations such as SFWA, HWA, and IAMTW. She shares her husband, Jeff, with several cats and often uses him as a sounding board for her story ideas. Visit Jennifer’s worlds at jenniferbrozek.com or her social media accounts on LinkTree.

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