Bad Katherine, No Biscuit.
I got “Corporate Oversight” back almost a week ago and didn’t have a new market lined up, so I’ve been sitting on it. Bad Katherine, no biscuit! Stories should not be allowed to lie around the house with their feet up watching TV and drinking...Yes, it’s been awhile…
You noticed that, too? 😉 When I moved, I sent change of address forms to everywhere I had stories. (You know, back in September.) Well, around New Year’s, one of them said they might have lost my story, and have not written back to confirm this. Judging by their...More rejectomancy…
Alas, JJA says I didn’t “grab” his interest. Woe. Alas, alack, and woe. I took this as a sign to reshuffle the scenes so the opening scene was the one with the blood. Why, yes, I do feel a bit silly editing my story after getting what is basically a...I raked it in!
Apparently, my muttering and grumbling about the sacrilege that was Sci Fi’s Earthsea have paid off. Brian gave me Tehanu and The Other Wind for Christmas. Woohoo! And also The Lathe of Heaven. Yes, we’re having a very Ursula K. Le Guin Christmas here....Wow.
I decided that my enthusiasm for in medias res had led me to start this story too late. There was a large amount of narrative summary/exposition that I thought might work better as scenes. 1400 words later… Yeah. And there’s a lot more narrative summary in...Alas, poor Earthsea!
A Wizard of Earthsea was the first SF/F I ever read, and if I hadn’t enjoyed it I probably wouldn’t be here. I read and loved the entire trilogy, but was particularly fond of The Tombs of Atuan, which had a wonderfully creepy, anthropologically fascinating...What I need.
What I really need right now is a Hollywood Creative Directory. I haven’t done anything with Dot Com since I heard back from Austin Film Festival during the big move, and it’s time I change that. Maybe this weekend I should cuddle up with Max Adams’...Sigh.
I’m trying to be all positive and stuff here about the writing process. Okay, no, I’m trying to be all positive in life about the selling fiction process. Anyway. I’m finding really long turnarounds to be much more discouraging than quick nos....How did Thanksgiving get to be next week?
No, really. I want to know! My mother is coming into town next week. She wants to help me unpack boxes. [Insert imaginary superbeing here] knows that I need the help desperately, but I hope she wants to do fun things, too. Partly because I want to do fun things. Fun...Subscribe
