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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2008-02-21 04:28 pm
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that noise you hear in the background is my brain squeaking


So I started writing this piece about our expedition yesterday for me to read at the KGB Bar in Manhattan: the reading was by four authors with stories in the [personal profile] ellen_datlow  anthology Inferno. I'm currently ruing my bravado in undergoing this trip, flu-buggered as I am; we got home at about 1am, with me in such a comatic state that poor [profile] pds_lit  was subjected to me being  jolly.

There are depths.

Pam is currently slumbering. We'd assumed she'd missed out on the super-extra-nasty flu that hit me last Thursday/Friday (how come you rarely got hit by these bugs in the past, Paul? because I was a slave to Socialized Medicine, I confess it, wot a total bumhead I am), but we seem to have been wrong.

My description of the KGB wonderama was destroyed by LJ's software because I couldn't recall offhand Elizabeth Bear's LJ name. I went away to look, and by the time I got back there was a blank page.

So: My co-readers were Nathan Ballingrud ([profile] nballingrud ), Elizabeth "Difficult Moniker To Remember" Bear ([personal profile] matociquala ) and Jeffrey Ford ([profile] 14theditch ). I think we did OK. I was just amazed that my voice held up.

Whatever, forget my egocentric crap: go over to [profile] pastorbear , who's in real difficulties. She's worth far more than this stuff.

UPDATE: Ellen Datlow has put pix at http://tinyurl.com/29w9ta.

[identity profile] lonfiction.livejournal.com 2008-02-25 12:32 am (UTC)(link)
Indeed. I managed to wise up, eventually. The phrase "once bitten twice shy" implies you are smart enough not to let the dog bite you for two or three years without stopping.

But I guess those are the bites you REALLY remember and learn something from. :)

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-02-25 12:36 am (UTC)(link)

Have you put Dave Langford at Ansible in the picture? He might be interested in what's going on.

[identity profile] lonfiction.livejournal.com 2008-02-25 12:52 am (UTC)(link)
I just sent them an email with the link. I didn't think of them in reference to market warnings. I had previously info's Preditors & Editors and Duotrope market lists. Just saw P&E has a note attached now.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-02-25 02:09 am (UTC)(link)

"I didn't think of them in reference to market warnings"

It struck me Dave might be interested in it as a news item. 'Course, I could be entirely wrong!

[identity profile] lonfiction.livejournal.com 2008-02-25 12:29 pm (UTC)(link)
Appears he is. It's linked now!