Idiomatic

September 4

Greg interviewed me for Ideomancer, as part of my stint as featured author. Go read the interview here. They also have a reprint of my ghost story "Melancholy Shore", available online for the first time. It's a veritable embarrassment of a wealth of a cornucopia of riches.

Submissions to Flytrap continue to come steadily, and I've seen a few stories I'd be happy to have. I suspect I'm going to have some hard decisions to make when the end of the reading period comes.

Reading good stories rocks.

Speak of -- today I read the collaboration Greg and Mike sold to Asimov's, "California King," and it's just awesome, very much my kind of story. Look for it when it comes out. And at work, we got a copy of Greetings from Lake Wu, the Jay Lake/Frank Wu collection, and it looks fabulous (I'm going to wait and get the special color version, though) -- Jay's great stories and Frank's great art, put together in a very lovely book. I'm going to spend a lot of money on books this fall, I think...

Jeff VanderMeer has an interesting, long journal entry about insterstitialism.

(No, I don't have anything else to say about it, except that I think he makes a good point when he says that "interstitial" isn't a name that can be used to tag a particular school or movement -- it is, by nature, a reactive term, descriptive rather than prescriptive.)

Another 1,300 words on the Frog novel. My heroes are in the East Bay Vivarium, learning about frogs. Soon they'll to the Musee Mecanique, and then things get really cool.

When I update two days in a row, sometimes there isn't much to say. Um... Subscribe to Flytrap! There. Got that out of my system.

Honestly not much else going on. I'm waiting to hear back on submissions, waiting to hear about Rangergirl from the agent (today she told me she'll read it this weekend and get in touch next week), waiting until this weekend to get some editing stuff done, and to finalize Flytrap layout. Otherwise, I'm just taking it easy, eating well, snuggling Heather, trying to resist the siren-song of cable television. Things aren't bad.

Words written since February 1, 2003: 90,300

Words written since last entry:
1,300

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