Reviews, Recipes, and Random Slices of Life

Reasons that today was a good day:
*St. Patrick's Day! I love silly holidays. To observe it, I wore 10 green things.
* Shirt.woot.com had a "buy a bag of random shirt" sale. So I did. And now I can expect a random limited-design-run shirt in my size to show up in the mail in a few days.
* I mailed off the registration form for the CSA to the farm we chose. I'll get my first box of mystery produce on April May 8th, and I get bouncy-hyper with anticipation just thinking about it.
* I managed to finish off the last bit of work at my day job before I left, which means I won't have to go in to work tomorrow!
* Today was the first day that after working and commuting, my knee didn't bother me so much that I took a heavy-duty painkiller as soon as I walked in the door. This is a major improvement.
* New episode of How I Met Your Mother tonight! Funny!
*No AKs were involved.



I'm really quite fond of randomness! And receiving mystery packages! Which is why this is so cool (bonus points for the whole "experimenting with alternate revenue streams" idea), and I'm quite sad I don't have a hundred dollars to spare to sign up for a year. I can't really spare $10 just now for one month's delivery, either, but I'm super-tempted to go ahead and spend it anyway.

Yay! "Blood for Oil" has been accepted by Allegory Magazine, formerly known as Peridot Books, and will be published in their September issue (yes, I will link to it again then). Their submissions process is unusual--they only accept submissions for the next issue, so there's a relatively short time between acceptance and publication. It took them about a month longer than their stated response times to answer, but that's entirely understandable, as they're going through a transition right now.

"Blood for Oil" is a short story about an oil company executive charged with finding new energy resources who finds one that has less to do with science and more to do with black magic. Continuing the pattern of which of my stories get published, it's straight-up horror with an environmental twist and a conspiracy-theory kicker.

And when it's published, you must all go there and read it and send letters to the editor along the lines of, "You should buy everything this writer ever offers you, because she is brilliant. Also, you should give her lots of money so she never has to do honest work again."

It's worth a try.

I wonder if it's professional to respond in a squeeing, slobbering with joy, "You love me! I love you because you love me!" fashion to the editor? Hmm. Probably not. Particularly the slobbering. Best to keep elation under wraps until returning contracts and bio and whatnot, and even then to express it in a more professional manner.

And now...to the updating of my various and sundry profiles and biographies and cover letters, oh my!