Just sold reprint of “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” to Apex Magazine! *happy dancing*
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Just sold reprint of “Sinner, Baker, Fabulist, Priest; Red Mask, Black Mask, Gentleman, Beast” to Apex Magazine! *happy dancing*
And the fey-infestation/mild haunting of our house continues. This morning, while I was in the bathroom getting ready for work and fosteronfilm was in the bedroom, heading towards sleep, my cell phone called his—both of which were in the living room.
Huh.
So now we have lights that spontaneously go on and off, toilets that occasionally flush on their own, disembodied thumps, and cell phones that call each other.
I am thoroughly amused.
Epiphany: I need to rewrite “Whatever Skin You Wear” switching from first-person POV to third-person. Glargh! Been second-guessing myself a lot of late.
Writerly instinct fail!
New Words: 700 on “Whatever Skin You Wear.”
Keep waffling about where I want to take this/how I want to approach this. Also worried that I may be administering my point via sledgehammer. Grmf.
For folks wondering about my thoughts on self-publishing, Matthew Nadelhaft started a question on Facebook about it, and Christina Baker Cline posted the resulting discussion on her blog (with everyone’s permission).
Other folks that chimed in include Michael Stackpole, Jeff VanderMeer, Stephen Dedman, Jennifer Stevenson, and Alex Irvine.
Senate and House leaving at 12:30 so Legislative Counsel gets to too. *Woot!* Heading out for an early start on my 3-day weekend!
The trade paperback edition of Returning My Sister’s Face is now out! For folks who’ll be at Readercon next weekend, it’ll be available at the SFPA table—who are graciously stocking it along with other Norilana Books titles. Although, alas, I won’t be attending. Wanted to, but the stars did not align.
The July issue of Bards and Sages Quarterly with the next installment of “Gifts Not Asked For” (Part II: Flame Dancer) is now out. Yay!
Writing Stuff:
Came up with a working title for the new Work in Progress, “Whatever Skin You Wear.” New words: 500
Pondering if the theme would be better served with a narrower, interpersonal focus than my initial concept. I thought the story would be fairly epic and heroic—good guy vanquishes the uber evil and saves the world—but I think what I’m trying to say might be better expressed by two people learning something about each other in a wacky world.
Definitely would be shorter if I go that route, which is always a plus. But it’s gonna be a bear trying to pull it off without some major narrative info dumping since detailed aspects of the setting are vital to the theme.
Hrmmm…
The gods of sleep hath forsaken me. Well I, for one, welcome my new insomnia overlords. Lucid wakefulness is obviously overrated…