Home!
Got back home today. My flight was delayed 4 hours in the end, so I'm pretty wiped. I slept a bit on the plane, but 2 hours of plane sleep just doesn't cut it.
The first thing I did when I got home, before unpacking, was open my mail. Lo and behold, I received my rejection letter from F&SF! Yay! Don't know what the other Alphan rejections look like, but mine is pretty form. My summary of it goes something like... Tale didn't grab interest, good luck with it, thanks. Tomorrow I think I'm going to look for a binder and follow in DBK's footsteps (imitation and flattery, you know).
One more thing. I have a big new beef to share. After Alpha, I vowed to subscribe to a few magazines. So today, I went to the various magazine websites: Locus, F&SF, Weird Tales, Analog, Asimov's etc. And what do I find? International subscriptions are bloody outrageous! (For the most part.) I particularly want to subscribe to F&SF, Weird Tales, and Locus.
For a one-year subscrip, F&SF is 35 bucks in the States and 47 bucks in Canada (Gross Sales Tax included.)
For a one year subscrip, Weird Tales is 24 bucks in the States and a whopping 54 bucks in Canada! $54.00! WTF!
Most of the rest tend to be about ten dollars more.
It will cost me $144.00 just to subscribe to Locus, F&SF, and Weird Tales! Gah! With the school year coming up (tuition + school books) and being broke and all after that vacation, I think I will have to hold off on the subscriptions.
Oh, and here are some vacation pics:
Me and my sis (Sierra) on a drum bridge in a Japanese garden. That's my mom beside the bridge.
Me and my sis shopping.
A fish storm.
My dad feeding the ravenous Californian wildlife.
We are Rock Stars.
And a seagull. He's a rock star too.
The first thing I did when I got home, before unpacking, was open my mail. Lo and behold, I received my rejection letter from F&SF! Yay! Don't know what the other Alphan rejections look like, but mine is pretty form. My summary of it goes something like... Tale didn't grab interest, good luck with it, thanks. Tomorrow I think I'm going to look for a binder and follow in DBK's footsteps (imitation and flattery, you know).
One more thing. I have a big new beef to share. After Alpha, I vowed to subscribe to a few magazines. So today, I went to the various magazine websites: Locus, F&SF, Weird Tales, Analog, Asimov's etc. And what do I find? International subscriptions are bloody outrageous! (For the most part.) I particularly want to subscribe to F&SF, Weird Tales, and Locus.
For a one-year subscrip, F&SF is 35 bucks in the States and 47 bucks in Canada (Gross Sales Tax included.)
For a one year subscrip, Weird Tales is 24 bucks in the States and a whopping 54 bucks in Canada! $54.00! WTF!
Most of the rest tend to be about ten dollars more.
It will cost me $144.00 just to subscribe to Locus, F&SF, and Weird Tales! Gah! With the school year coming up (tuition + school books) and being broke and all after that vacation, I think I will have to hold off on the subscriptions.
Oh, and here are some vacation pics:
Me and my sis (Sierra) on a drum bridge in a Japanese garden. That's my mom beside the bridge.
Me and my sis shopping.
A fish storm.
My dad feeding the ravenous Californian wildlife.
We are Rock Stars.
And a seagull. He's a rock star too.