Short story sale: "Cinderella City."

[seanan_mcguire]

So there's this anthology coming out in March, called Tales from the Ur-Bar. Every story takes place in a different location and time period, and by the time I was invited to the anthology, my usual time periods had all been taken, leaving me with the early 1900s. Everyone assumed I would write steampunk. I wrote gaslamp instead, which is a

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[priscellie]

Woohoo! Congrats on the sale!

[seanan_mcguire]

Thanks!

[mneme]

Congrats! You can't get away from long form, can you, even when you write short stories? (Not that I'm complaining, mind; one of my issues with stand alone short stories is that when they're good, I'm usually left wanting more).

[seanan_mcguire]

No.

I can't.

[trektone]

Congrats -- Margaret is asleep again?

[trektone]

Oh, wait. Is that a spoiler?

[seanan_mcguire]

I don't think so.

[seanan_mcguire]

It does happen for three months out of every year.

[ladymurmur]

Congratulations on the sale!
:-)

[seanan_mcguire]

Thanks!

[tigertoy]

Congrats on the sale!

Would you mind explaining the difference between steampunk and gaslamp?

[seanan_mcguire]

Thankfully, someone else beat me to it, as my response would have involved a lot of the word "um."