The first response to a short story submission I had this year is…an acceptance letter. Dark Wisdom will publish my 1000-word story “Therapy” some time this year. Before issue 15, the editor tells me. Given its relative brevity, the editor says it might get slotted into an empty space sooner rather than later. “Therapy” won the final Wee Small Hours contest at Hellnotes before it changed format last spring. The response time was eight months to the day.
It’s a great confidence-booster to get an acceptance letter on the second day of the year. That raises to six the number of short stories I have coming out this year so far.
I got back to my desk this morning. I didn’t get a lot of writing work done, but I cleaned a bunch of stuff up that had been piling up, filed papers and e-mails, responded to some messages, updated my submission log, started a new account on Microsoft Money for 2007 writing income and expenses, send off my check for NECON 27, and generally got myself back to a point where I can do some real work. I revised the first three or four pages of Ghost Inn, so it wasn’t a total loss in terms of writing. I have a list of about seven or eight anthologies that I’d like to submit stories to over the coming months, so I’m going to try to do some original fiction while revising Ghost Inn.
For Doctor Who fans: I got an email from Amazon this morning saying that the complete second series will be out on DVD on January 16th.
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