Four Dozen · 5:46am Feb 9th, 2013
With me celebrating:
The above-entitled number of years upon this rollicking ol' sphere this weekend, I'm convinced that the only appropriate agenda item should entail me entering a local donut emporium, purchasing four dozen heavily-frosted and creme-filled comestibles, and devouring each and every one of them over the course of the day. I somehow doubt this course of action would be conducive to me seeing four dozen and one, but still...
Of course, the real purpose of this blog entry is to point out that I haven't got chapter 4, "Igneous - Pumice," of History quite ready to go yet. I blame magical squirrels. See, I had a story called "Familiars" reprinted in The Ursa Major Anthology last summer, and the editor is doing a follow-up book called What Happens Next. He asked me for a sequel to "Familiars," and I figured I could have 7,000 words of magical squirrel adventure finished by Feb. 1st, plenty of time to then get the three or four thousand words of "Igneous - Pumice" finished by Feb. 8th.
Well, the squirrel story ended up being 9,300 words long, and I just finished it yesterday. And while I've been tapping away steadily at "Igneous - Pumice," it's just reached 4,500 words and is only maybe two-thirds of the way done. So it'll be up when it's ready, and hopefully that'll be sometime this weekend. I mean, unless I actually go for this whole donut thing. And I gotta say, it's sounding better each time I think about it...
Mike
Where do they find the stories for The Ursa Major Anthology?
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The Ursa Major Awards:
Are presented every year for "the Best Anthropomorphic Literature and Art." Anyone can nominate and vote, and all the details are at the website I've linked to above. The anthology, then, is a collection of stories that've won over the past dozen or so years--my story was originally published in Marion Zimmer Bradley's Sword & Sorceress anthology back in 2002 and got the award the next year.
Mike
Happy Birthday!!! Woot woot!!
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Thank you:
For the woots. I shall treasure them always.
Mike
I support the donut idea. not just because it makes me crave donuts. Also I'm glad to find Familiars again, I read it ages back and missed it terribly. I'm eager to hear a sequel will be coming. Are these characters you think you would ever revisit? Or only for Ursa?
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Actually:
I've had a story about Cluny in every issue of Sword and Sorceress since 2008. The original sequel to "Familiars," "Squirrel Errant," is in volume 23, and that's followed by "Three on a Match" in volume 24, "Matriculation" in volume 25, "The Raw and the Cooked" in volume 26, and "Airs Above the Ground" in the latest, volume 27.
This one I just finished, "Immolation," will squeeze in between "Familiars" and "Squirrel Errant." I'll be sure post about it when it becomes available!
Mike
816688 This is what I get for simply taking advantage of my Dad's huge sci-fi/fantasy collection and not seeking more out on my own. On the plus side it means I can vividly recall learning to read by reading Asimov with my Dad.
I shall have to see about hunting down the other stories. Do you think it'd ever be possible or likely that you could collect the Cluny stories into their own book? Or is that not possible due to copyright stuff?
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I've been thinking about it:
For a while now, but there's a couple other things ahead of that on my list right now. Some of which are Pony stories, of course....
Mike
821825 *Squees* Well I certainly won't be complaining