Conducted business regarding three different short story submissions this weekend. On Friday I received the check for a story that will appear in the new market AE: The Canadian Science Fiction Review. I’m not exactly sure when it will be published, but they pay well and have been great to work with.
Then yesterday I received my contract for “Red Planet,” which will appear in Evolve 2, edited by Nancy Kilpatrick. Finally, this morning I received a rejection letter for my submission to Tesseracts Fifteen. I had high hopes for the story but it didn’t make the cut, alas.
We met Clint Cannon and his girlfriend during our late-December trip back to Canada. The trip where we almost got stranded in Newark because of a blizzard. At the time, we just knew them as the people we kept running into all the time, on both legs of the journey. Then I noticed that some people recognized him and discovered that he was a famous bareback rodeo rider who had starred in a documentary. He took first place in the bareback riding competition at the Houston Livestock and Rodeo Show last week.
Two-thirds of the way through the final season of Deadwood. The doc looks like he’s on the mend. At least he wasn’t hacking when he came to see the moron who bought the livery. There doesn’t seem to be much historical evidence to support the presence of Wyatt Earp and his brother in Deadwood, but that’s okay. The guys look shiftier than I would have expected, though.
Kynt and Vyxsin made an amazing recovery on The Amazing Race this week. I was sure the loss of their fanny pack was going to be the end of them, but they recovered and finished in the middle of the pack. The double U-turn didn’t phase team Globetrotter much, but it was the undoing of the redheads. That dinosaur challenge looked hard, and yet Margie finished it quickly.
