Especially to Midori Snyder and Terri Windling for special award, non-professional (although: huh?) and to Ellen Datlow for the anthology Inferno.
And, out of courtesy to their sensibilities I will not now be gnashing my teeth and screaming about rigged elections because neither Will Shetterly nor Emma Bull won. They would certainly not appreciate such a display on any level.
So I will quietly pout.
Draft of Iorich sent off to Teresa. Now to find out if she can read it.
Meanwhile, on to work on Super Sekrit Project.
The murder mystery I wrote with my poker teacher Don Hill is being serialized on an online poker magazine called Blind Straddle. The sample can be found here.
It’s a subscription site: you have to pay a fee to get access to the story. I think it’s like $15.00 a year or so. They have writers like Bob Ciaffone and Lou Krieger, as well as Adam Stemple and Chris Fox, so, while it may not be worth it just for my story, for any serious poker player it’s an easy call.
Just finished the first draft of Your Itch. Starting revisions tomorrow, I think. I have no idea what I think of this one; have to wait until the revisions to see how it feels.
Yet again, I have to start a full rewrite before finishing the first draft. This is unusual for me–I like to get to the end before doing major revisions. But all of a sudden PLOT showed up in the book, so what can I do?
The good news is that this is a much less significant rewrite than the last, and involves mostly a lot of cutting and pasting. In draft form, I’ve finished chapter 14, and I suspect when I get finished with the rewrite, I’ll probably be in about the same place, only this time with a clear view to the end.