Novel novel novel. Need to finish novel. (Lather. Rinse. Repeat.)
Words: 200
Time to get back to work.
Muse, get your ass over here and make with the nicey!
Gakked from puskunk:
1: Take a screencap of your desktop.
(To capture your desktop:
1. Press the “Print Screen” (prt sc) button
2. Open graphics program of your choice
3. Press CTRL + V
4. Save image as a JPG)
2: Upload the screencap to your image server.
3: Post cap in your LJ along with these instructions.
Woot! My first Greek Language publication!
Slept for most of Sunday and a remarkably huge chunk of Monday, and I’m still feeling a bit loopy from Fantasm. Sheesh, it’s taking me longer and longer to recover from these cons.
Dropped dude_the off at the airport yesterday, and Hobkin is relieved to have us back at home. He’s been clinging to me with all his fuzzy might, alternating between expressing his fuzzy neediness and demanding to be fed.
The world returneth to normal.
Came back to no fewer than SIX, count them six rejections from this weekend. Fortunately, I was extremely anesthetized when I got them, so none of them have particularly fazed me.
In order:
– 13-day “Just to let you know, FADE TO BLACK CAME in second. Good luck placing it elsewhere or submitting it again next quarter if you so desire.” From Stephen D. Rogers Presents. DAMMIT!! So close! To re-submit it next quarter or not . . . HELL YES I’m going to submit it again next quarter.
– Three 11-day rejects from the Corpse Blossoms anthology after they invited me to submit multiples to them. After getting a couple “we really liked this but it isn’t what we’re looking for”s, I sent them a range of stories, hoping one of them would fit. Instead, I gave the editors the impression that I suffer from multiple personality disorder, and apparently pump out fiction whilst in the thralls of my various personas. Well, crap.
– 266-day YFoP from Realms of Fantasy with personalized scribble at the bottom apologizing for holding it so long and telling me they’re overstocked.
– 8-day glowing reject from Lenox Ave.. They had wonderful things to say about my story, but found that it wasn’t right for them. Fooie.
Need to make a post office run today, most definitely.
The Final Fantasm blow out has left me groggy and even more incoherent than I was yesterday. I’m sure I’m down a significant number of brain cells. So, more shiny pictures!
First off, my panel with wicked_wish and jackzodiac, The Dark Side of Publishing, whereupon we bitched and complained for an hour and a half about the publishing nightmares we’ve personally experienced. Cathartic whee.
Matthew wanted to see the hypnotist show, so off we went. Forteneau requested volunteer subjects, and off Matthew and dude_the scampered to the stage (along with something like twenty-five other eager convention-goers). They were mercilessly humiliated. I giggled much. (Pardon the blurry image. Had to turn the flash off):
Hooked up with various excellent folk and off we went into the party battles. Continue reading
Went to sleep at 3:30AM, woke up at 8:30. Damn sun! Everyone else, comatose. Posting a pastiche of pictures and events from yesterday. Coherency low. Pictures, shiny.
Fantasm has begun! We had a late start yesterday so didn’t get into Fantasm until after 8PM. Had time to get registered, say our initial hellos, and then find seats at the ballroom. I was scheduled to be a presenter at the Fannie Awards, so I checked in with poppyaseed, and then settled down to wait for my time to be escorted backstage. And waited. And waited. Of course, silly me, the award ceremony was on “convention time”! So we (Matthew, dude_the, and I) relaxed and gabbed with Melanie (Pony Girl) and Hugh.
Then the event began! The presenters had to reach the backstage by going around outside. I was slated to present an award with one of the Purgatory crew, Mistress Sapphire, and we were both not dressed for the outside. It’s cold out there! Shivering, we discussed what we were going to do onstage (which I now realize I totally messed up on–she suggested the presenter who ended up stage left should introduce herself first. Being a ninny (and terrified of public speaking), I blanked out and confused stage left with “left of Eugie”. Oops.) We presented the “Favorite Volunteer” award, and it was won by the lovely redwitch. I noticed when there that the stage was extremely slippery. I was very concerned for all the dancers who were performing ceremony numbers. Walking on the stage was a chancy undertaking. Dancing, yikes.
My stint done, I went back into the audience, eagerly awaiting the “Favorite Ms. Fantasm” award presentation. The presenters mispronounced my name at the “and the nominees are” part, and there was a bit of a mix-up at the “and the winner is” stage. But who cares? I won!
Thank you, everyone who voted for me! 
Slightly (only slightly) hung over, but definitely in need of more sleeping . . . and yet I’m wide awake.
dude_the‘s plane was delayed due to the bits of rain we had yesterday, but he arrived at last, safe and sound. He, arkhamrefugee, Matthew, and even Hobkin, are all asleep throughout the house after a late night of chatting, movie-viewing (we watched Snatch, courtesy dude_the who brought a pile of DVDs with), drinking, and hot tub soaking. Well, Hobkin didn’t do much drinking or hot tubbing, but all the new people in the house were pretty exciting to his wee brain.
Probably not wise of me to go into Fantasm already suffering the effects of celebratory excess, but hey, too late now to do anything about it. Although forcing myself to nap for another couple hours seems like it would be a wise course of action to take.
Phone call this AM. Long chat. Resulting in: I’ve got an agent!
I’m now officially a client of William Reiss, Vice-President of John Hawkins & Associates, Inc.
My agent (I love how that sounds) also represents John Katzenbach, Gregory Maguire, Janet Fitch, and Phyllis Reynolds Naylor, among others, and his agency has (had) clients including P.G. Wodehouse, Malcolm X, and Joyce Carol Oates! He’s been with the agency since 1971 and JH&A is the first literary agency in the U.S., established in 1893. And yes, they’re a member of AAR (actually, they founded AAR!).
Woohooo!! Must go breathe now.
