At least I know the backstory of my own life.

[bluedevi]

What a grim, ugly day, with hardly any light. I'm fighting it with fairy lights, candles, and work.

Right now I'm filling in the ISBN application form - which is pretty scary, requiring all sorts of precise details I don't know yet - and mailing hatmandu to ask him lots of dull questions about booksellers' pricing practices. puritybrown has half the manuscript and

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[absinthecity]

that's funny - I was just wondering the other day if you and the Hat had been introduced, as I thought he could be helpful on the publishing front...

[bluedevi]

He certainly has been. Like I just said in an email, by now I feel the need to buy him a great deal of beer.

[hatmandu]

Mmm, beer

[millionreasons]

this might be of interest to you (issue 31)

http://www.mslexia.co.uk/v2/menu/submit.html

[bluedevi]

Travellers' tales! Thanks.

I should resubscribe already, as per my task list.

[metame]

hmph... women's only... hmph...

I'm not exactly your stereotypical feminist-basher but bias in writing always gets my goat. It strikes me as a field where there really isn't a glass ceiling to be shot out with positive discrimination like this.

And if it ain't justified it ain't 'positive' it's just discrimination, and I don't like that.

Ho hum

[verlaine]

I agree with you completely! Mslexia is such a darn good little magazine, but it always leaves a nasty taste in my mouth that men are explicitly excluded.

It wouldn't matter so much if there was a good unisex writers' magazine out there, but to the best of my knowledge, there isn't...

[juggzy]

like the opposite of amoebas

Ooh, thank you for this. Have any of mine you want in return?