I’m craving fruitcake. Can you believe that? I saw one in the lunch room yesterday and had flashbacks to the one my mother used to make when I was young. So I e-mailed my sister to get the recipe and I’m going to tackle it this weekend. Sucker takes three hours to bake and reportedly will last for 25 years in a sealed container. Yum!
I turned in my 24th News From the Dead Zone column to Cemetery Dance magazine, for issue #58. This one is a tad shorter than usual, only 4000 words. I always wait until the final moment of my deadline to submit it, because a lot usually comes up at the last minute. Check out the online version of the column for some of the stuff that came up in the last day or so, including a link to the first two chapters of King’s upcoming Bachman novel Blaze.
Now that the column’s out of the way, I want to take a look at my submission log to see what orphans I have that need to be sent out, then tackle the deadline list I have for upcoming anthologies. I definitely want to try my hand again at the MWA anthology, though I doubt that lightning will strike two years in a row.
Currently reading: Next by Michael Crichton. About 50 pages in and there’s still no discernable protagonist. State of Fear had that problem, but in a different way—the nominal protagonist in that book was wishy-washy, and served only as the listening post for the other characters to explain their theories to. In Next, there are several seemingly unrelated storylines all taking off in different directions simultaneously and I’m waiting for some unifying thread to come along. Hoping there will be one.
It’s still over 70° here. Rainy. Looks like autumn. I need to rake the lawn one of these days.
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