Yo, a three day weekend! Very cool. The neighbors have already started lighting fireworks. Either that or someone's car needs some work...

Man, a busy couple of days, as I had the pleasure of re-reading the excellent (if I say so myself) Intracities stories and making suggestions and edits to email back to the authors. Very few of the stories needed much revising at all; most of my tweaks were suggestions, usually to embellish the setting a bit more, as this is an anthology focusing on setting.

I even started tweaking a short story, "My Bridge that Will Never Be," based on the Intracities guidelines. If I was a self-publishing kind of fellow, I'd slap it into the antho, but that would be goofy. Plus I wanna send it to some pro markets and get some moolah for it!

I also started work on my story for the Exquisite Corpuscle antho, and it's gonna be fun. Right now I've got medusa, a hero with bad eyesight, and about 20,000 years to cover in the meantime.

I've been busy on the submission front as well, sending out no less than SIX stories in the past 2 days. Rejections are coming fast and furious here nowadays. But what can you do except keep throwing them back out there and see what sticks?

Finally, I just realized this morning that if I'd wanted to, I'd be back in Iowa this weekend for my 15th high school reunion. Weird. 1988 seems like another lifetime ago -- I don't keep up with anyone from high school, and I only have 1 friend from college I stay in touch with these days. It's sort of like when I moved out to North Carolina, my real life started. The fun part of it did, that is. Everything before that was just... practice. Have a great three-day weekend!!!

Now Playing:
"The Essential Clash," The Clash

Now Reading:
Pattern Recognition, William Gibson

Stories out to Publishers:
15