handful_ofdust | Shittiest Sunday Ever

...though the funny part is, language aside, I'm neither all that angry nor all that surprised: Of course, I have to pull the POV piece out of my ass by tomorrow morning. Of course, Steve misheard "10:30 AM" for "11:30 AM", and left me standing in the cold for forty-five minutes; by the time I finally got fed up enough to just leave, I'd already missed the meeting with Michael McMaster and friends, and when I came back, Steve was sitting there waiting for me. With Cal. He'd probably still be there, if I hadn't shown up. Oh, and of course the other front wheel broke off the stroller, because hell, it'd only finally been fixed for what? A fucking DAY? Of course, infinity.

So I won't stay long. Cal is toothy and screamy and down in his crib, and he's staying there 'till I get a first draft. Steve has finally funked himself to sleep, because all this means to him isn't hey, wake-up call, time to maybe get a frigging cellphone and wear a frigging watch and take frigging responsibility for what I do or don't do but, instead, yet another prime chance to play the oh poor sinful me, I'm such a BAD person, I don't desrve to enjoy my own life and should mope around constantly, gazing at my own navel instead of keeping my child away from my wife while she's writing something we'll both receive money for, like I promised I would game. Cry me a river, bitch: World's smallest violin, right 'chere.

And...that's that.I'm done. No more time to BS, me. Because some of us don't get to act like fucking babies.

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You poor kid. :-/ For what it's worth, I just reread "The Emperor's Old Bones" because I'm about to make a friend of mine read it, and I'm more bowled over than I was the first time. So however difficult the process I have no doubt the end result will be brilliant.

Are most of your publications in anthologies? I keep nosing around bookstores for your name but I haven't turned up anything yet. Not that that's a reflection on you, these are some really crappy bookstores we're talking about.

Seriously. Actually, I just finished Draft One, thank Christ--surprisingly painless, for all the procrastination. As to the end result being brilliant, I doubt it, because it's (just) a journalistic article about a woman who's apparently one of the best sound editors in Canada...I'd settle for "readable", 'specially since I know so pitifully little about the subject. Anyhow, hopefully the editor will be back with notes by morning, and I can get it out to bed.

As to your other question: I have two collections of short stories out (Kissing Carrion and The Worm in Every Heart), and they encapsulate/collect pretty much everything I've written over the last fifteen years, most of which was indeed published in magazines and/or anthologies. They're the single best place to find my stuff, but you'd probably have to order them either directly from Prime Books or through Amazon.com--that's what I have to do, when I want some. Absolute worst-case scenario, send me an email directly and we'll work out some sort of deal, with me mailing you copies on my own hook. I'm not proud, and I have so few fans, it seems stupid not to cultivate them any way I can.;)

BTW, I never did give you the Cliff's Notes version on "The Emperor's..." Do you still want it?

actually I just got smart and went amazoning, and found those two collections. does it make any difference to you financially whether I order them from Amazon or from Prime Books? All prices being equal I'd rather you got the maximum cut, naturally.

And yes, please, I would adore the cliff's notes. My email is chipiscrazy AT netzero DOT net.

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