The anthology I was sure I was going to miss out on because the deadline is in ten days just extended its deadline by two months. All right! Like a stay of execution. What’s more, the guest speaker at the next MWA/SW luncheon is a specialist in the very topic that I want to write about for this story, so I might get to submit after all.
Received a rejection for the story I blogged about back in February (and wrote about at Storytellers Unplugged). I wasn’t surprised. The market provided the initial germ that sparked the story, but the story outgrew the market. As I wrote the day I submitted it: ” It didn’t turn out the way I intended—but I think it turned out better. My horror stories have an annoying tendency to wander off into reality, and never has that been more the case than with this one. For that reason, it might not meet the expectations of the editors for the market that inspired me to write it in the first place, but that’s okay. If they don’t want it, I’m pretty sure I can find some other home for it.” I remain confident that I can sell this somewhere else. It’s just a matter of finding the right home.
I submitted the story I wrote this weekend today. I know that sounds fast, but it’s a short one, hovering around 1800 words, and I revised it several times over the past couple of days. My first reader didn’t even find any typos. I did, but only one. I shuffled a few lines around this morning, and changed a few words, but I decided to get it off my desk. I didn’t know then about the deadline extension for the MWA anthology yet, but having a fairly clear desk makes me happy.
Is anyone out there still watching 24? People seem to have stopped talking about it. Last night’s episode was okay. Lots of high drama in the embassy and less melodrama in CTU. Glad to see that Tom did the right thing after being freed. How many episodes are left? We’re up to something like 6 pm as of last night.
I’ll have some exciting news once I get final confirmation. One of those interesting adventures that several years ago I could never have imagined. Road trip!
By the way, I have an interview with Tabitha King coming up in the April issue of Pensacola Magazine. I submitted it a looooong time ago, but the editor knew when she accepted it that she wouldn’t have space for it until this particular issue. I’m not sure where the magazine will be available outside of Pensacola. I chose that market because the book Burning Candles is set primarily in that area. The paperback edition comes out on May 1st, so the timing isn’t as bad as it seemed to me at the time.
The azaleas are in bloom here. They must be confused, if flora is capable of such a state. It was nearly 80 degrees for a week, then it dipped down to freezing for the past two nights.
Ah… that’s me with arms spread open ready to embrace the 80 degrees you have been hording. It’s been a long gray winter. I hope the azaleas are blooming a deep yellow (the crayon color we all used for the sun)..because they are in my fantasy
24 fan here. I’ve been happy with the show this year. Not a surprise they have used the truth against Tom… painted him into the corner. Didn’t start watching the series until last year so I’m still giddy with the time format. I love Chloe. The faces that girl can make!
Our azaleas are light and dark purple. The light purple ones are almost pink and the dark purple ones are almost blood red.
Oh, yeah, I’m partly colorblind, by the way.
This is my first year watching 24. I like Chloe, too (and it was a blast seeing the actress in a bit part in Little Miss Sunshine) but I’m not so keen on the melodrama between her and Morris. It makes them both seem unprofessional when one of them puts off an important bit of computer geekery in the middle of a crisis to go have a relationship talk.
A chat at that moment could only happen in TVland. Did you catch Morris is her “Ex”. A dynamic in any work place, but in that high stress environment…. wow. Under normal circumstances we know that would not happen, but short handed and crisis mode they need the best so they are tossed together. I think they will be fun to watch during the rest of the season.
Color blind… lots of guys are (more than admit it!)