Busy Writing Other Things
And not much mind for writing journal entries, I regret to admit. Life got crazy busy with work, and then I got another head cold, after working during the stretch of below-zero wind chill weather we had just before St. Valentine's Day. I did manage to knock it out of my system, and I'm back to my self again, but... it annoys me that this keeps happening, even when I wash my hands, take vitamin C, try and get plenty of sleep and do everything I can to protect myself, yet I still keep getting sick, due to people sneezing on me. I wish I was kidding. I've taken to standing well back from people and instinctively holding my breath with they cough or sneeze.
Sorry for the rant: just a bit burned up from this, since it makes it hard for me to work on my writing. Though I did manage to get another story typed and sent out, and so am now waiting to hear back from three editors at three markets, including the latest, an anthology of faery tale sequels. I've posted about it and another work in progress at some length over here. Faery tales and the ReAnimator: quite a combination. I've also started tinkering with a longer short story dealing with a monster fight in the Maine Woods, in which a family boogeyman squares off against a wendigo, as if to say, "Go find yer own humans to terrorize: these are *my* humans!"
Also been doing a fair amount of reading since my last journal entry: I finished "Kushiel's Mercy", which is in my opinion, the best of the D'Angeline novels of all, so many twists (including Actual Magic in play), also the short story anthology "Dancing With Mr. Darcy", an all Jane Austen-inspired collection, edited by the keepers of Chawton House including Jane Austen's several times grand-niece; for a change of pace, "The Thief-Lord" by Cornelia Funke a somewhat modernized take on Peter Pan and the Lost Boys, set in Venice, Italy; also "Book of Shadows", a murder mystery with horror and slight urban magical realism elements, set in and around modern-day Boston and Salem; and Scott R. Jones's "Resonator" anthology, featuring short stories inspired by H.P.L.'s "From Beyond".