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The Critters Queue

Manuscripts themselves are here.

Queue of manuscripts out or to be sent (dates are estimated,
depending on number of mss. sent out, which depends on number of
members; probabalistically, the end of the queue is usually about
a month away):


     Title                      	Author
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Week of 1-Feb-2012 (Crits due 8-Feb-2012):
 SF  The Dread Naughts: Chapters 20     Jeff Cates -#20848
 F   A Bolt for Semele                  Richard Zwicker -#20849
 SF  The Painting and the Painters      Adam Bickford -#20850
 F   Best for the Quest                 Justin R. Lawfer -#20851
 F   Capitol Hell                       Douglas E Ryan -#20852
 H   Take a Deep Breath                 Wendy Turner -#20853
 SF  I need a plastic thingy            Mark Niemann-Ross -#20854
 H   Real                               Ben Jones -#20855
 F   Smear Campaign                     Alex Bottle -#20856
 F   Step                               Caitlin Seal -#20857
 SF  Storming The Pagoda Palace         K.W. Ramsey -#20858
 SF  Botanicaust ch 2                   Tam Schlies -#20859
 SF  Courting Corporal Coogan Chapters 1&2  Cynthia Echterling -#20860
 SF  Microcosm                          Oliver Buckram -#20861
 F   Flash Harry                        Jon Hooper -#20862
 F   The Weight of a Wing, Chapters 4-6  Ioana Visan -#20863
 F   Eternity in an Hour, Chapter 1     Matthew Merendo -#20864
 F   The Intercession, The True Created Series, Book 1, Chapters 1-5  Stacey Nilsen -#20865

Week of 8-Feb-2012 (Crits due 15-Feb-2012):
 F   The Cookie Maker                   Tom Howard
 H   True Fear                          Richard Barber
 SF  Death of a Mistake, Chapter 1 REVISED  Alix Stuckel
 SF  Only Five Hundred Eighty-Seven to Go  Charles J. Walther
 SF  Dave's Not Here                    Paul Tietjens
 H   One Hundred Candles                Donald Jacob Uitvlugt
 SF  Today Before Tomorrow              Maxim Salnikov
 SF  Initiation                         Ryan D. McClanahan
 F   The Symphony                       Scott Mattes
 SF  The Lost Month                     Jimmy Rogers
 F   Forgetting, Chapters 0-4           Rory Macpherson
 F   Priest and the Parish              Clint E. Carlisle
 F   The Healer                         Hugo Xiong
 SF  Never the Twain                    H. Smith
 F   Elflings Chapters 18-20            M L Sawyer
 SF  Abendau's Child                    Jo Disley
 SF  Crocodile Adventures               Jim Bauer
 H   The Not, Chapters 5 & 6            A. R. Braun
 F   Painted Lady                       Russell Adams

Week of 15-Feb-2012 (Crits due 22-Feb-2012):
 F   Labyrinth's Unicorn                Stephan Heard
 SF  Xenologist Ch 19 with intro        Zvi Zaks
 SF  The Magic Cloak                    Heddy Johannesen
 F   Bermuda Disgorged                  Jeremy W. Pardue
 SF  The Ambassador                     Mark Suplinskas
 SF  Doomsday's Wake - First three Chapters Revised  Cregg S Hardwick
 F   Blue - Red - Grey                  R. J. Hughes.
 F   A Long Sentence                    Mark Wh
 SF  The Reality Mendor                 Jana Jackson
 F   A Thanksgiving Odyssey             Lucas Gramajo
 SF  Rapture                            Bonner Litchfield
 SF  Age of Arrogance: Legends of the Fallen  Craig Foster
 H   Fairy Horror                       Ed Kratz
 F   The Scroll, Chapter One            Chris Kenworthy
 H   The Changeling                     Lin Kobee
 SF  Bone Thresher                      Tim Sibiski
 F   Sodbuster                          Silver Bowen
 H   Battle of the Soul Chapters 5 and 6  Carl Alves
 SF  The Depression                     Gary J Beharry
 SF  Death in Memphis                   Carl Frederick

Week of 22-Feb-2012 (Crits due 29-Feb-2012):
 SF  Flybird                            Liza O'Connor
 SF  Truth                              David Shelley
 SF  Pulse                              T. K. M. Morgan
 F   Canaries of Washita County         Sara Mattox
 H   Control                            Nancy G. Wahler
 F   Dark Circles chs1-3                Anna Dickinson
 F   Stone's Fall: A Dinner Tale        Steven Adamson
 SF  The Voyage of The Jules Verne      Gregg Macklin
 F   Who Let the Worms in?              Ken Thomas
 F   Caring                             Joseph Argento
 SF  Eagle's Cry chap. 1                Clarissa Schmidt
 SF  Autonomick                         Jack Calverley
 H   Dirt Man                           Jason Shayer
 SF  Great Demon of the Graveyard World  Christopher Blake
 H   Them Mountains                     Michael Wehunt
 SF  Tel'Mak                            rena zayit
 SF  Moreau's Daughter                  Holly Messinger
 SF  Knowbodies                         Fred Obermeyer
 SF  Desperate Upload                   Basil James Baye
 SF  The End                            John Webb

Week of 29-Feb-2012 (Crits due 7-Mar-2012):
 H   From The Black Widow With Love     Lawrence Vernon
 SF  BTU                                Corey Brown
 SF  Eleena and Elliss-The ViNarian Protectorate  Robert D Philbrook
 F   Transitions                        Greg Kurzawa
 H   Jessica                            G. Gregory
 SF  A spoiled hunt                     Mike Alix
 F   Untitled                           Stephanie Pace
 SF  Arc                                Ken Liu
 SF  Good Luck, Liberator               F. Pierce Skinner
 SF  El BotÃ"n                          Mat Gordon
 F   Ogre                               Tristan Gregory
 F   Clockwork                          Leah Cypess
 SF  Haven                              Samara Lo
 SF  My Best Friend Nearly Killed Me at Sector 52-b  Jen Veldhuyzen
 F   The Druids Cycle: Chapters 1-5     Adam Robbie
 SF  Not Their Cup of Water             Nicole Andrews
 F   OUt of the Steppes Chap 9_10       Sue Kesler
 F   Carrier of All Spirits, Chapter 1  Shanon D. Huston-Willis
 SF  The Clinic                         Joy Hounsell
 H   Azaleas                            C. J. Overend
 F   Stranger                           Karin Ott Kristensen
 SF  Fiery Volcano Ale, Chapters 1-2    Thomas Shaner
 SF  Dismiss Humanity                   Brandon Bradshaw
 F   The Goddess and the Golden Sunflower  Nessma A. El-ssawy
 H   Hi Honey, I'm Home!                Gavin Ireland
 SF  The Walking, Weeping Prototypes    Michael Andre-Driussi
 SF  Protecting Chel                    Erin Neusbaum
 SF  With Apologies to Douglas Adams    Allen Weinstock
 SF  Changing the Game                  Jo-Anne Odell
 YA  Enchanter RFDR                     E. B. Pike
======================================================================
      (Note, if the last week above looks abnormally large, it probably
      needs me to add a new week, a task I do manually when I get around
      to it.  Future critique dates are approximate and subject to change.)

[@] - Pro [SFWA/HWA] author
[*] - Extra week(s) for holidays/aburt-out-of-town.
[mpc] - Most Product Critter Award winner
[!] - Special non-Wednesday dates because Critter Captain will be out of town

Waiting to enter Queue (Will enter at end of queue on "[date]"):

 SF  Meeting Nieva                      Mark Niemann-Ross [8-Feb-2012]
 H   Upgrade                            Donald Jacob Uitvlugt [15-Feb-2012]
 F   Elflings, Chapters 21-23           M L Sawyer [15-Feb-2012]
 H   Ghost of the Bay                   Heddy Johannesen [22-Feb-2012]
 SF  Vengeance                          David Shelley [29-Feb-2012]
 F   The Fear                           David Shelley [?]
 SF  Traveler in the Dark               Tim Sibiski [22-Feb-2012]
 F   Carrier of All Spirits, Chapter 2  Shanon D. Huston-Willis [7-Mar-2012]
 SF  Botanicaust chapter 2              Tam Schlies Linsey [8-Feb-2012]
 F   And I Have Lost the Way Home       Hugo Xiong [15-Feb-2012]
 F   Determination Force                Stephan Heard [22-Feb-2012]
 F   The Intercession, The True Created Series Book 1, Chp 6-10  Stacey Nilsen [8-Feb-2012]
 SF  The Battle of Ganymede             Mark Suplinskas [22-Feb-2012]
				-+-

Held until participation ratio improves (then out that week):
 F   The Dragons Call, Chapters 1       K.W. McCabe [21-Dec-2011]
 SF  An Accidental Immortal, 19 pages   Medda Z. [21-Dec-2011]
 F   The Stone Guardian, chapters 1-5   Theresa McClinton [21-Dec-2011]
 SF  Dark Discoveries                   Tanya Harrison [04-Jan-2012]
 SF  Rise of the Regime, Chapters 2-5   Andrew Iddon [04-Jan-2012]
 SF  Tennessee Whiskey                  Thomas Shaner [11-Jan-2012]
 SF  Genesis                            Erik Blomain [18-Jan-2012]
 SF  True Dedication                    Brent Nichols [18-Jan-2012]
 H   The Wolf With The Silver Blue Hands  Eric Ellert [18-Jan-2012]
 F   Hero of the Flame - Chapter 1      Julien Laporte [25-Jan-2012]
 SF  The Clay Man                       Mike Evan Johnson [25-Jan-2012]
 SF  The Hydra Club                     Andrew J Proverbs [25-Jan-2012]
 F   Excerpt                            Danielle R. Broadway [25-Jan-2012]
 SF  The Wanting                        Seth Z. Herman [01-Feb-2012]
 SF  Chapter 1 - Waking                 David Clarke [01-Feb-2012]
                                :::


>> Note 1:  Held manuscripts are removed after four weeks on hold and
>> must be resubmitted.

>> Note 2:  It is the *author's* responsibility to notify Aburt when
>> they have brought up their critique count and want their ms. sent out.




[Click here to see the queue including archival data from 1995.]