Arrant Nonsense

With my first published story about Ben, is now available for download or in a print edition here. The story is "Different in Blood," and it stars a were-squonk. It's a free download for your e-reader, and if you don't have a Kindle, there's an app for that which works on your desktop.

Go forth! Read! Enjoy!

I got in the last bits of edits on the Janni story (unless and until I hear more from the folks who have it) and re-read Ghost Ship. I didn't outline it, but I re-read it. Yeah, it doesn't know what kind of story it wants to be and I'm almost afraid to ask. There's no dramatic tension, not really, it doesn't pop like it should, and neither the stowaway nor the ghosts actually take pride of place. The "problem" is also solved much too easily. I may have to excise the stowaway, even though I like her. I'll do that in a new doc, though. *sigh*

Two rejections in my inbox tonight. One flipped to the very last pro market on my list for it (not because it's a bad market, it just... hit last). The other--after rebooting my printer because it was being a butthead, editing the header after printing part of it out, realizing after I'd printed all 67 pages that I'd still neglected a space in the header and deciding not to print it again, because jeepers, and then printing out a cover letter that called a novelette a "short story" and, yes, reprinting that--is ready to wing its way to a snail mail market. I bet you can guess which one.

So much Fail in such a short space of time. Good Lord, I hope tomorrow is better.

So, on this date eleven years ago, my husband the pilot was in the air and I was home alone with a six-month-old baby. And a bunch of people hijacked planes and murdered nearly three thousand of my fellow countrymen, which is almost as many people as lived in the town I grew up in. People who tell me I should "get over it" and that 9/11 wasn't such a big deal can just sit down and shut up.

Okay. That's off my chest.

IN OTHER NEWS.

I have sold the Zombie Story! Once it comes out, I'll tell you where, because after the last thing where CatFeet got accepted and then they cancelled the antho without actually telling me, I'm a little wary of posting more details until you can hold the publication in your hands, BUT. It's an acceptance and I am happy!

Not only that, but the Squonk Story has been well-received, although not accepted anywhere yet. At least people are reading it all the way to the end before saying they don't want it, if my rejectomancy is right.

And the current project has stuttered to a stop. I really need to pick it up again. Someone kick me.

I've got more to say about WorldCon too, but I'll save that for when I have more than a moment to post.