Unseasonably warm today — just a hair shy of 70° and it’s supposed to be even warmer tomorrow. However, we’ll dip into the 30s on Thursday night, so it might feel a little more seasonal by then.
It’s hard to believe that the first decade of the new millennium is almost over. I remember all the Y2K hubbub almost as if it were yesterday, although when I stop to think about everything that has transpired in the ensuing years it hardly seems that ten years could have held all of those developments. I got my first-ever acceptance letter for a short story almost exactly ten years ago. Of course, the market folded before the issue containing my story was published, but still…
Still working hard on the writing, and still getting acceptance letters and rejections and requests for revision. Today, for example, I received official word that my story “Zombies on a Plane” will be part of the charity anthology Dead Set, to be published in 2010 by 23 House Publishing. One of my earliest publications was a story in another of their charity anthologies, an eBook that benefitted the Make a Wish Foundation, so when I heard that they were putting something else together I decided to submit. I happened to have a zombie story kicking around, one that started as a title and turned into a plot, so it seemed like a good fit.
I’m continuing to work on two other stories under revision. I’m hoping to have them both up to snuff by the end of the year, but my writing schedule is going to become catch-as-catch-can after tomorrow so I’m not entirely sure that’s going to happen. We’ll see.
The Closer was pretty clever last night. I thought I had it all figured out as a collusion between the supposedly battered wife and the cop who arrived on the scene, but it turned out that the story was even more devious than that. Mary McDonnell always brings out the best and worst in Brenda. The evolving drawing of the Wicked Witch of the West was an amusing running joke. The subplot about Fritz’s potential new job made for a good motivator for both Fritz’s behavior and Chief Pope’s inexplicable anger as well.
I’m about 3/4 of the way through Don Quixote. Sancho Panza is deep in discussion with the Duchess, the one who is humoring him and Don Quixote because they are fans of their published exploits.
