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realthog ([personal profile] realthog) wrote2008-10-17 10:43 am
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sold: "Lives" (reprint)


The story of mine, "Lives", that appeared in Ellen Datlow's 2007 anthology Inferno has been bought for "reprint" by the UK electronic f/sf magazine The Hub.

I am, obviously, very pleased. The contract doesn't state when the story will be making its Hub appearance, but if you subscribe (it's free) to the ezine (follow above link) you'll find out about at the same time as I do . . . and you'll also have a weekly ration of other fiction popping cheerily into your inbox!



[identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2008-10-18 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks, Paul. Actually, I think they might be clearing up already. He got on with another company this afternoon, starts work next Tuesday. He's been in this town long enough now that he's made a lot of connections, thank goodness. "With a little help from my friends," as the song goes. We're fortunate. Phew. Not so easy for others right now.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-10-18 04:05 am (UTC)(link)

"He got on with another company this afternoon, starts work next Tuesday."

Oh, that's great! I'm so relieved!

"Not so easy for others right now."

You probably have said truer words from time to time, but none of us has done so all that often.

[identity profile] sarcobatus.livejournal.com 2008-10-18 05:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I feel sorry for people who are being laid-off and do not have alternative work lined up. Too many people live from pay-check to pay-check, always teetering on the edge of financial annihilation, homes repossessed, so on and so forth.

The interesting thing is, when I was young and owned nothing and drove an old old clunker of a car (I still drive an old clunker) I was a happier person.

[identity profile] realthog.livejournal.com 2008-10-19 07:30 pm (UTC)(link)

"The interesting thing is, when I was young and owned nothing and drove an old old clunker of a car (I still drive an old clunker) I was a happier person."

Same here. As I'm sure you'll agree, the only cloud on the horizon was boring old farts telling us how much happier they'd been when they were our age and didn't have any money and . . .

:)