Autumn has latched her grooved claws into the nub of my neck and is maliciously, needlessly needling me. I awoke this morning to the first showing of frost of the year, and the in-dash thermometer in the Mitchell Clan Shuttle read 37 degrees. I know that’s not cold to you folks up in the hinterland, but for us Southerners it’s what we call God-almighty Cold.
On a positive side note: I was worried that we wouldn’t see any fall color this year because of the drought, but, while it may not be as vibrant as it’s been in years past, the leaves are showing color with struggling courage.
I admit I’m not exactly on my game today; I’ve had server problems, Wordpress problems, printer problems, and a slough of grief it seems from the air itself. I was notified today that my short story “Wagon Hill” will not be considered for a future issue of Coyote Wild. They did offer a positive little note on the rejection email, however: “There’s a lot about “Wagon Hill” to like — but ultimately it’s not
quite right for us.” Oh, well. You can’t win them all. I hope to be back in form tomorrow. Meanwhile, there are a lot of very positive things brewing in my camp:
On the docket for this weekend:
Working on an interview with Cherie Priest, author of Four and Twenty Blackbirds, among other novels and short stories, for posting here on Unabashed. The interview will primarily focus on her rise to fame by way of blogging, but, as you can read on her blog, she’s swamped right now with personal issues and has had to postpone the interview.- Also working on an interview with Momus, another blogger who came to fame by blogging, but I haven’t heard back from him on the request yet. Stay tuned.
- I’m trying to figure out if it’d be worth my time to try John Scalzi and David Wellington for the same interview series, which actually began a few weeks ago as an article for Unabashed concerning “Bloggers who came to notoriety through blogging,” but the project swelled and became a 4-part series with interviews and research and more than a little distraction. Still, the interviews will make it all worth while, even if Cherie is the only one who finally participates.
- Get some printer ink: GUD (Greatest Uncommon Denomenator) Magazine has asked me to review their introductory issue and kindly sent me an Advance Review Copy (makes me feel all special and tingly. Seriously, I’m very honored). But my frail little printer promptly shat itself when it realized I wanted it to print off 214-odd pages of text. I think all it needs is ink. I hope all it needs is ink, because it printed all but the first 25 pages before dying with a moan and a little puff of smoke (kidding. There was no smoke. Only a moan).
- Work on Psuburbia, the Ning social-networking site I’ve created and had little chance to fondle since.
- Work on populating the Mythica Wiki with some more information, to help that project breeze along a little quicker.
- Get my Wordpress comments working right again.
- Plus, and finally, today I am the proud owner of the first three issues of Steampunk Magazine, delivered into my hands by UPS this very afternoon directly from Merry Olde England. Coincidentally, Cherie Priest is a big Steampunk buff, as you can see in the photograph above. It is fated: we will be BFF (&E).
- I have so much reading to do…
- But that’s a great problem to have!
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