This evening, I came home from work to find my completed EQMM contract in the mail, along with a big, fat check. Okay, the check was normal-sized, and I'm not exactly about to backstroke Scrooge-McDuck-style through my giant vault o' riches, but I just got paid for a bunch of stuff I made up. Like actual money and everything. Pretty cool, that.
It's easy to get lost in the minutiae of queries and partials and nudges and whatnot, and lose track of what this writing deal's supposed to be about. Tonight, however, I drink not out of frustration; tonight I drink in celebration. (One glass, Ma, I swear. Okay, maybe two.)
Oh, and lest you think I have a shoe fetish, the title is cribbed from Sports Night. As far as you know.
Now, about that drink...
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The first glass is in celebration.
The second glass is because the first one tasted so good. :)
Congratulations.
Thank you very much!
Now, if only I could figure out what that THIRD glass is all about...
Maybe the third glass is because your self-control and better judgment have been diminished by the first two.
I'd be inclined to agree, were it not for my utter lack of self-control and better judgment.
sweet. nice going.
Thanks, Steve. Now go get crackin' on "The Briefcase" so's I can find out how it ends!
I don't often buy EQMM, but I'll have to pick up the June issue so I can read your story.
Patrick,
Thanks! I'm glad there're folks out there looking forward to reading the story.
I know plenty of crime-types who shy away from EQMM; it's certainly a touch old-guard. If it makes you feel any better, my story's chock-full of swearing and violence (including not just a few taboos in the crime genre). Hell, I thought there was no WAY they were gonna accept it.
And it goes without saying (except that here I am saying it) that I'm psyched to see your story in Crimespree -- summer '07, yes?
Swearing and violence always warm my heart.
Yes, "The Red Garter" will be in the July/August CrimeSpree. It's set in St. Albans, ME. Guns, sex, bass players...I'm wicked excited.
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