sold: "Lives" (reprint)
Oct. 17th, 2008 10:43 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
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!
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Date: 2008-10-17 02:55 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-17 03:00 pm (UTC)It reopened just a few weeks ago.
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Date: 2008-10-17 03:00 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-17 03:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 03:30 pm (UTC)What're you off to Orlando for?
It's closed to submissions again!
It is? Well, dang! I'd just assembled a folder of 732 stories to send you . . .
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Date: 2008-10-17 03:32 pm (UTC)Oh, but see the correction below from Ellen of The Hub. Apparently they've closed for submissions again already!
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Date: 2008-10-17 03:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 03:49 pm (UTC)Thanks!
*The Hub's a nice venue.*
I think so too!
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 04:03 pm (UTC)Many thanks! How're you feeling, oh Quiet One?
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:04 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:06 pm (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:06 pm (UTC)Oh that this were still the case. I've slowed down a lot in recent years.
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 04:29 pm (UTC)Not very ornery these days, I'm afraid. My husband just got laid-off from his job this week, and work in town has come to a screeching halt across the board. It's been doing this for about eight months now, with hotel and casino patronage cut by half. We expect it to get worse.
You know it's a bad sign for the economy when Plague Town slows down. Even the zombies are keeping low profiles.
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:38 pm (UTC)Oh, I'm so sorry to hear this! Fingers crossed he can buck the trend and find a replacement (and one that's fun to do!) Real Quick.
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Date: 2008-10-17 04:39 pm (UTC)Like, I doubt if I could write a novel in two or three weeks any more.
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Date: 2008-10-17 05:39 pm (UTC)Many thanks, D!
"our introduction"
A good thing!
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Date: 2008-10-17 06:53 pm (UTC)Well, dang! I'd just assembled a folder of 732 stories to send you . . .
Shucks! You'll just have to hang onto them until we reopen. We've actually got around 30 or so stories queued up to publish, with another 60-ish still to read through in the slushpile. Which is why we're shut again. We really do appreciate getting so many great stories in so quickly, but we have a limited budget so we can't afford to publish more than one story a week. Now, if people would only donate, we'd be able to buy more stories and pay our hard-working authors more money... /shameless plug
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Date: 2008-10-17 08:47 pm (UTC)Why, thank you, ma'am!
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Date: 2008-10-17 08:48 pm (UTC)Double thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-17 08:50 pm (UTC)"I get to smile at people and offer them chocolate"
I imagine giving the chocolate away is going to be hell!
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Date: 2008-10-17 10:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-17 10:33 pm (UTC)Thanks, Charles!
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Date: 2008-10-17 11:50 pm (UTC)Well, I think it behoves you to go out at 4am and knock a few things down so they have to be reconstructed . . .
Joking aside, thinking lots about this. I do hope the troubles clear up soon.
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Date: 2008-10-18 01:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 01:24 am (UTC)Thanks!
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Date: 2008-10-18 03:38 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 04:05 am (UTC)"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.
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Date: 2008-10-18 06:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-10-18 05:00 pm (UTC)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.
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Date: 2008-10-18 07:48 pm (UTC)Thanks, JM!
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Date: 2008-10-19 07:30 pm (UTC)"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 . . .
:)