Good vs. Bad

[handful_ofdust]

Good Part: Yesterday my classes ended early, so I was able to do BodyCombat for the first time in a month and a half. Bad Part: I obviously was far more out of practice than I thought, because today all the muscles involved in throwing a hook are in such pain that I can barely raise my arms above chest-level. Good Part: Finished the query package for BFTA and sent it off. Bad Part: Formatted it wrong, so the intended recipient couldn't open/read it. Had to reformat and re-send.

Good Part: Googled myself, thus finding reviews of Words Written Backwards I hadn't run across before. Bad Part: Also accidentally discovered a blog entry in which a person I had hitherto considered some variety of friend states proudly that he's never liked my writing and therefore will never buy anything of mine again--this would seem far less calculatedly an insult if he wasn't actually addressing me directly in said entry, like: "Well, Gemma Files, here's the score..." Thus leading me to A) conclude he's obviously not my friend, and should stay far away from me in future and B) respond with a simple statement: Okay, so-and-so, I'll keep that in mind, but don't do me any favors. Oh, and while I've never before personally felt the urge to blog in a publicly accessible space about what I may or may not feel about your writing, the best way to sum it up would be with these words---"one Crad Kilodney was enough." Thank you, fuck on through.

Yes, yes. I'm a shit. But at least I didn't address him directly, eh?

Comments

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

My books are available through Prime Books, an imprint of Wildside Press, and are listed at Amazon.com, amongst other places. Pretty sure you do need a credit card to order them, though...unless you want to buy from me direct. Which you could.;)

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Ah. And then there's Words Written Backwards itself, which you can get through Burning Effigy Press. I'm not sure what their ramge of method of payment is, though.

[baggyeyes]

I'm more of a fiction person than a poetry person, so I would have to take a close look at your titles - and prices, of course. When my work actually begins, (and I actually get paid) then, I can' think about lovely things like books. And ice cream.

I may begin pestering you next month. Be forewarned!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Contrary to Mr Idiot's assessment, most of my stuff is fiction. I only have two chapbooks of poetry, and you'd have to search pretty hard to find them; nothing I mentioned above is poetry. So...great, look forward to it! I'll talk to you then.;)