Tuesday, January 07, 2003
Sorry about the grumpy entry yesterday. The day started out bad, but got better. All in all, I think I've done an amazing job of not letting on how disagreeable a thing writing for a living can be. Usually, I let the tantrums pass, unexpressed, certainly unrecorded. Jennifer chased away the guys with their noisy, smoky leafblowers (and accidientally locked herself outside, in the process). I think I'm going to ask our landlord if I can please rake our yard, instead.
Anyway, I'm making this short because I seem to be getting back into the swing of work and don't need to linger here. Oh, some news. I've been asked by Bill Schafer to do the afterword for a best of Subterranean Press volume (which will, by the way, include my story "Andromeda Among the Stones," to be released first as a chapbook with the lettered edition of J. K. Potter's Embrace the Mutation). Also, another new Subterranean project that has me very, very excited — I'll be doing a series of four novellas, each 25-30,000 words, to be released separately as hardbound volumes. The novellas will be interconnected, somewhat in the fashion of many of the stories in Tales of Pain and Wonder and will be published six months apart (so, over a period of two years). Ultimately, a slip case will be available to hold all four. But the big news about the project is that the stories will be science fiction, the first pure sf I've done since I wrote "Hoar Isis" in early 1994! I'll keep you posted as I know more details.
Now. Work.
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