Feel it in the sound of water touching all the rocks

[sovay]

Rabbit, rabbit! The streets are flooded with freezing sun and the novelette of "As the Tide Came Flowing In" has made the 2022 Locus Recommended Reading List. I am delighted and surprised and honored. The company is very fine. A magnet has arrived in the mail from minoanmiss: the mutual domestication of cats and humans. I must feed our semi-domesticated houseguests and I am off for water with rushthatspeaks.

Comments

[yhlee]

HUZZAH!!!

[sovay]

HUZZAH!!!

Thank you!

[naraht]

Congratulations! Well-deserved.

[sovay]

Congratulations! Well-deserved.

Thank you!

[thisbluespirit]

Aw, congrats!

[sovay]

Aw, congrats!

Thank you!

[cafenowhere]

Hooray!

[sovay]

Hooray!

Thank you!

[ashlyme]

Well done, you! Enjoy the water.

[sovay]

Well done, you! Enjoy the water.

Thank you! (It was great.)

[gwynnega]

Congratulations! That is wonderful.

[sovay]

Congratulations! That is wonderful.

Thank you!

[minoanmiss]

Congratulations and well earned! Woot woot!

I'm glad (and surprised) the magnet got there so fast!

[sovay]

Congratulations and well earned! Woot woot!

Thank you!

I'm glad (and surprised) the magnet got there so fast!

It is our first refrigerator magnet in the new home!

[thawrecka]

Congrats!

[sovay]

Congrats!

Thank you!

[sara]

I just got a copy from the local bookstore and very much enjoyed the poetry and then hit a (personal and subjective) wall in the novelette because the protagonists were being so nice to each other and I struggle with romances nowadays.


But probably people who aren't deeply fucked up enough to not be able to get through stories where people are loving with each other will like it a lot.

[sovay]

I just got a copy from the local bookstore and very much enjoyed the poetry and then hit a (personal and subjective) wall in the novelette because the protagonists were being so nice to each other and I struggle with romances nowadays.

I am glad you enjoyed the poetry!

I am aware that not everything I write works for people even when trauma is not involved, but I appreciate you making sure to tell me.

[sara]

I am not at all criticizing, I liked it and hope to come back to it sometime. "You made the people in the story seem too kind to each other so I cried and had to stop reading" is, I hope, really a compliment.

[sovay]

I am not at all criticizing

I didn't think you were! I thought you were being careful to explain the nature of the personal and subjective wall, which I was trying to make clear was thoughtful but unnecessary, since I know that sometimes people just stick on a thing for whatever reason and it doesn't even have to indicate dislike.

I liked it and hope to come back to it sometime. "You made the people in the story seem too kind to each other so I cried and had to stop reading" is, I hope, really a compliment.

It is. Thank you. I hope it will be possible for you return to it.

[skygiants]

A MUCH-DESERVED CONGRATULATIONS!!

[sovay]

A MUCH-DESERVED CONGRATULATIONS!!

Thank you!