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an unexpected party
Or, How I Wound Up At Readercon.
I hadn't planned to go. Too much studying, not enough money. But it turned out that the blood drive was short of volunteers for its signup/admin table, and I help with the blood drive at Arisia, so I was on the list that got asked for help, and they said they'd comp people, and I said "sure, why not..."
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Cover art update
I got a look at the first draft of my cover art for Love Continuance and Increasing last night.
I am SO excited!
It's a first draft, and there are things that need tweaking, but overall? WOW.
I love the layout, I love the character poses, the typography is gorgeous, and there's even a tall ship worthy of Geoffrey Hunt.
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Follow-up: my faith in humanity is improved
That nice polite letter I wrote to the B-24 guy, waving my little Pride flag but leaving out the surprise!pr0n?
I got an answer:
Thanks Julian. That is really great news about getting your short story published and the bonus of having the proceeds go toward a worthy military cause is good to hear as well. It seems to me Torquere made the selection ( Read more... ) -
My very first interview
I'm appearing today at Top 2 Bottom Reviews as part of their Storm Moon Press July blog feature. Go have a look! This entry was originally posted at http://julian-griffith.dreamwidth.org/32867.html and has
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I still don't know if this was a good idea
But, since my story got accepted, I sent this to the author of the super-helpful B-24 page:
Dear Mike,
I'm proud to say that my story, "Lost and Found in the Pacific", will be appearing in September in a Torquere Press charity anthology - I just got the acceptance today! The proceeds from the anthology will support Outserve SDLN, a non-profit that ( Read more... ) -
Lost and Found in the Pacific
That's its tentative new title. Torquere accepted the story, but they already had a "Lost and Found".
Nice to know I can knock something out in four days and still make it work!
This is for a charity anthology, and I'll just quote from the Torquere site:
For the 2013-2014 Charity event, which will premiere in September 2013, we've chosen OutServe-SLDN ( Read more... ) -
QOTD
"I sometimes wonder whether I am a scholar at all," said Miss Lydgate. "It's all quite clear in my head, you know, but I get muddled when I put it down on paper. How do you manage about your plots? All that time-table work with the alibis and so on must be terribly hard to bear in mind."
"I'm always getting mixed up myself," admitted Harriet. "I've ( Read more... ) -
talk about awkward
So, when I got "Lost and Found" submitted, I decided I'd drop a little thank-you note to the fellow who'd made this page about the B-24 bomber, because it was so helpful for me to have those diagrams, and everybody likes to get positive feedback, right?
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And it's off!
Project: Lost and Found
Market: Torquere Monthly Sips, September "In Uniform" call
Deadline: July 1, 2013
Required length: 3-8K
Final wordcount: 6456
This may have been the most outline-driven piece I've written yet. And even so, the first thing I wrote was the shorthand version of the love-confession conversation. I just outlined backwards from there.
I ( Read more... )
