First:
The finished copy of the book came today!
Me acting like a grade school boy with his spelling bee award or something to that effect.
And second:
The Endicott Studio’s Journal of the Mythic Arts has its Summer YA issue live now. They’ve got fantastic stories, poetry, art and essays over there, so go take a look. My story “The Guardian of the Egg” is reprinted in the issue. It originally appeared in Salon Fantastique. Now it has artist Greg Spalenka’s work illustrating it, and it’s really fantastic. I love it. The girl with the tree growing out of her head has only been visually represented by one other artist, and that artist doesn’t actually know it. I took inspiration for the story from Leonora Carrington’s painting, “The Giantess” along with the story of Daisy Head Maisy by Dr. Suess. In any case, go take a look at the issue. It has work by Gwenda Bond, Jeffrey Ford, Holly Black, Steve Berman, Terri Windling, Midori Snyder, Will Shetterly and Catherynne Valente, among others. You can’t get a quarterly publication for free that’s better than this one, I think. So take advantage of it.
Lastly, pictures from mine and Tony’s trip to NYC this month are in my Flickr box in the sidebar. We did a lot of sightseeing. Some of the pictures are really nice, thanks to the sights we were seeing. My favorites are the ones at the Cloisters, but I love the memories of the dark piano bar we visited called Marie’s Crisis.
Lookit you with your first book! Awwwwwwwwwww!
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Congrats, Chris!!! Can’t wait to read it.
Fun to see your photos from NYC– I’m so glad you made it to Marie’s! I’m sorry I missed you, but you’ll just have to come back soon, okay?
YAY BOOK!
Sorry we missed you too, Robert. Next time for sure!
And definitely, yay book! I spent most of the past twenty-four hours sort of just paging through it and looking at it. It’s actually real!
A friend of mine at work gave me a copy of ONE FOR SORROW (I work for one of the imprints where you’re published) and am about halfway through it – really wonderful story. Congratulations!
Oh wow, I’m so glad you’re liking it! I’ll keep my fingers crossed that the second half doesn’t disappoint! 🙂