I sold a story to Weird Tales.
If you need me for the rest of the day, I’ll be over in the corner geeking out*.
*For bonus points, I discovered that I like the first half of the novella enough that I’m not actually embaressed to let people read it. It’s still flawed, yes, but not *OMGWTF am I doing, this ferking sucks” flawed. As usual, the problem seems to have been cramming in way to much backstory in one go.**
**Hell, this day keeps getting better. The Australian Government decided to ignore the shitty recomendation from the productivity commission that we remove Australian territorial copyright. I so thought Australian writers and publishers weren’t going to win that fight, for all that there were dozens of sensible reasons on our side and a handful of really daft ones on the pro-parrallel importation end.
That rocks, dude! Congratulations. Are you going to tell us the title/subject of the story or are you just going to be a tease?
The current title is “The Last Thing Said Before Silence.” When you guys read it a while back, it had a different name, but largely it comes down to the one with the mimes.
Awesome! So proud of you! You are living the dream, man. Takes a bit of the sting out of the rejection I got from Ann this morning…
Oh yeah, and if you don’t announce this to the Clarion guys and girls, I’m going to do it for you… Shout it from the rooftops, even…
Oh yeah, you got a review, too…
http://www.sfsignal.com/archives/2009/11/review-interfictions-2-an-anthology-of-interstitial-writing-edited-by-delia-sherman-and-christopher-barzak/
Thanks dude.
I fear my announcements are going to be monoplatform for the next three days – deadline and internet are a dangerous combination, and there’s still 23 scenes in need of line-editing before I can hand the Cold Cases manuscript over on Sunday evening.
Love that story ! Congratulations !