A Normal Entry

January 8

Just wanted to briefly stop in -- it's late, and there's not much of import going on, so this won't be long.

I've gotten my first rejections of 2003. One from Chizine, and it only took a day. Or several months. I subbed it in September, queried a few days ago, they said it was lost, I re-subbed, the fiction editor liked it and kicked it up to the editor in chief, who didn't like it enough. So it goes. The other was a personal rejection from Asimov's, after about 4 months. I think that story has a good shot of being sold, still. It hasn't gone to Realms yet, and I think Shawna would like it, though it's rather long. I just sold her one, though, so I'm going to wait a while before sending another...

I have a poem, "Carcinodjinn," at Strange Horizons this week. Go read it! I love that title. I've been trying to use it for years. When I was 15 I wrote a terrible story called "Carcinogenie." The poem is better...

Heather and I have been watching season 2 of Oz tonight, and it's good. My life may have its low points, but at least I'm not in a maximum security prison... I'm still reading Chabon's Werewolves in Their Youth, though I only have one or two stories left. Just got Dale Bailey's The Fallen, which is supposed to be good. Otherwise, just reading this-and-that, the Santa Cruz Comic News, old issues of The New Yorker... I'm enjoying bite-sized reading lately for some reason.

Last night was great fun, Buffy and 24 with Susan and Matt, with much wine (including a nice dessert wine that Avi brought to Susan's party last week), and much talk, and much goodness.

Work is work. The February Year-in-Review issue is shaping up. I really like that issue (reading it, anyway -- working on it can be stressful, though it hasn't been bad so far this year). It doesn't hurt that my stories are mentioned favorably by two different reviewers, but I'll save details for after the magazine comes out.

Not much else to say. Hope you're all doing well, here in the thick of the second week of the year...

Words written since February 1, 2002: 204,600

Words written since last entry:
Still not writing. An inauspicious beginning to the year, I know. Though the annual February story-fest is fast approaching...

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