Parcel to Agent? Check.

[dr_pretentious]

Had hoped for Monday postmark, then Tuesday postmark. Ended up using kitchen scale, stamps, printout from www.usps.com, and corner mailbox at 11pm. Wednesday postmark. Grump. Better late than never.

First three chapters very clean now. Short story smooth as glass.

So tired.

Thud.

Comments

[annathepiper]

Congratulations! Good luck, manuscript! Fare well upon your journey!

[peartreealley.livejournal.com]

Best of luck!

[calene.livejournal.com]

Wishing you luck on it!

[vgnwtch.livejournal.com]

:::Luck, luck, luck:::

(Not that you'll need it)

[reynaud.livejournal.com]

Hey, congratulations! Good luck.

Just out of curiosity, is the short story you mentioned a bit of the book, or something else?

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

The short story's the kernel of a stand-alone prequel to the massive project I've been working on. Same world, two hundred years earlier.

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

Wow, it took me long enough to get back to you. Oops.

Anyhow, the story is something else. It's an incident from a stand-alone prequel to the series. Actually, the prequel's the current conceptualization of the novel I'd wanted to write for my senior thesis at Vassar. Now that I'm not writing it in an academic setting, it's a lot less saturated with Borges and Calvino influences, and a lot more of a straight fantasy novel. The character and her predicament had been kicking around in my head since 1990. This spring, though, I took advantage of a call for submissions for Very Short Epics (under 10,000 words) to take the incident from Stisele's life that I thought was the best one for revealing everywhere she'd been and everywhere she was going, and to make a short story of it. The editors of the mini-epic anthology wrote me a very cordial, encouraging rejection, so now it's making the rounds elsewhere. Anyhow, it seemed like a good demonstration of the fact that I can tell a complete story in a very short form, if that's the form I think is suitable (the mini-epic weighs in at 2,300 words), and it gives a taste of the project I think I could write to the parameters of the current market without violating its basic nature as a story.