sovay: (Lord Peter Wimsey: passion)
sovay ([personal profile] sovay) wrote2019-05-31 10:00 am

And his voice became like a brook, as clear and as pure as water

Good morning! Three totally disparate things:

1. I can now announce that my short story "The Face of the Waters" has been accepted for reprint by Transcendent 4: The Year's Best Transgender Fiction, edited by Bogi Takács (Lethe Press). Look at that cover! Look at that table of contents! My contribution was originally published in Forget the Sleepless Shores (2018); it was written for [personal profile] ashlyme who had had a disappointing experience with a narrative of canals and rain. I feel it was also a little influenced by recent exposure to Sapphire & Steel (1979–82), whose second three serials I never seem to have reviewed. I am honored to have it included in this anthology.

2. The Flick Filosopher is reporting trouble with e-mail notification of her posts at Patreon. Since Patreon is trying to track the bug: did everyone here who is a patron of mine (thank you!) and has their account set to receive notifications of my posts get one for this morning's review? [edit] The answers appear to be yes and I appreciate the data. I am paranoid about something going wrong with Patreon.

3. I find this story of flag-burning at an anti-KKK rally really upsetting: "It's like a meat-world version of the Jewish impersonators Yair Rosenberg used to bust." We're going to need a bigger golem.

Once more to the doctor's, dear friends. Last night's concert was fun.
dewline: Facepalming upon learning bad news (bad news)

[personal profile] dewline 2019-05-31 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
Item 3 is Deeply Disturbing, oh yeah...someone missed the alarm bells there.
gwynnega: (Leslie Howard mswyrr)

[personal profile] gwynnega 2019-05-31 05:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on the reprint!

I did get the email notification.
rachelmanija: (Default)

[personal profile] rachelmanija 2019-05-31 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations!
swan_tower: (Default)

[personal profile] swan_tower 2019-05-31 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
I got the notification, yes.
asakiyume: created by the ninja girl (Default)

[personal profile] asakiyume 2019-05-31 08:11 pm (UTC)(link)
Yay reprint! That's going to be a lovely anthology. And yes, I did get a notification.
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[personal profile] labingi 2019-05-31 09:27 pm (UTC)(link)
Congratulations on your publication! I am always impressed with how much you contribute on DW and what a strong authorial presence you project, and I wonder if I could ask you a general question about that:

Do you use DW as part of a general/public author platform, or is more a separate space for you? If you consider it a significant piece in your author platform, do you find it works well, and how so?

I ask because I'm hoping to refurbish/reinvent my sadly neglected author outreach this summer, and I love DW, so it would be great to have it as a piece, but DW seems so out of the loop as a platform that I'm a) not sure how that would work and also b) a little anxious about publicizing something that has been my separate fannish space historically, going back to LJ in 2004. Thank you in advance!
sholio: sun on winter trees (Default)

[personal profile] sholio 2019-06-01 02:48 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, what lovely news - congratulations!

(Item #3 is unbelievably fucked up. WTF, American left.)
viggorlijah: Klee (Default)

[personal profile] viggorlijah 2019-06-01 04:02 am (UTC)(link)
congrats!!