 And as usual, someone is doing it better than I.
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May. 8th, 2008 @ 05:26 am 
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But that's okay, because it really is wondrously grand.
This, this, this, this is the sort of thing I need to find, crawl into, and photograph. Found via Neil Gaiman's blog, a bit wishfully shared here.
Ellen Datlow and Nick Mamatas are editing a new anthology for Tor called Haunted Legends. Even niftier: they are accepting open submissions for it. This is virtually unheard-of. I imagine the competition is going to be v. stiff. Most of the better-known stories and legends are likely to be already taken by authors of the sort that get emails or phone calls saying "please would you write something for this anthology?" rather than the sort I am, which is almost precisely backwards of that dynamic, and involves me hopefully and rather desperately sending off emails saying "please won't you publish this in your anthology?".
Despite this, I hear you say, do you honestly intend to write something, edit it into something you wouldn't be ashamed to use as tinder in a campfire, and send it off, likely only to be rejected as crap?
Yup. I do indeed. Watch me crash and burn, folks! It'll be a pretty pyre, and I feel fairly good about it all. And who the hell knows? Maybe it won't be crap after all.
In other news, I am going to try to craft this headphone mod in time for A-Kon. Which may be a moot endeavour, as the Doctor (my iPod) is being a moody, nonfunctional pile of uselessness. I should, perhaps, rename it, but damnit, David Tennant is so adorable, and when I scored the Doctor, it sort of matched the look: affably, slightly deviant looking. Ah, well.
Avanti, y'all! |
Good luck, most beloved :-)
Thank you, lovely :)
Oooh, it's been so long since I caught up with you. I've had a letter set to go out for over a year now. Procrastination, thy name is Nadine. xD
Things are well, I hope?
Goodness, do not worry, most beloved... Time flies so quickly, eh? I cannot keep up with it.
I have been well... The usual lunacy, and all that ;-) I hope that you have been well too... You are always in my heart.
*tender robed embrace*
Do it. Do it! Do it DO IT DO IT! It will be wonderful experience, and you might just hit the jackpot. Nothing ventured, nothing gained.
Also...you mention the A-Kon. As in the one in Dallas? For lo, I too languish in the endless white-bread malignity that is DFW, and it would be odd and interesting to see you there. I'm sure I'm going on Friday, in any case, as my favorite Rocky cast is performing.
:O!!
That would be the one, yes indeed! I am going with a good friend, and will be cosplaying (for lo! I am a dork) as well as wearing an original steampunky costume at some point.
If you will be there on Friday, you should look up the Hellsing Photoshoot, for you will find me there. We're meeting at 6:30 and moving up the street to the old Dallas high school for the shoot. I will be one of a possible two Integra Hellsings at the shoot, and potentially the only one, so I should be easy to find. *wg*
I can say, without limit or prevarication, that I want to be Sir Integra when I grow up. Integra = awesome. That's a formula, y'all. Formulas are math. And math is science. You can't argue with science.
Will definately look for you! I'm not fully cosplay-ish, but I will be sort of steampunkesque. Steampunk lite -- all the brass, half the calories.
Buahahahaha! I do so look forward to this. :3
Ooooh! Thank you! I will post it to my writer's group as well. :)
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