It's a fool who doesn't see what I see watching trees
My poem "The Same Fur Coat" has been accepted by Strange Horizons. It was written this spring for ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
selkie's birthday. I am toast across the board and frustrated by nearly every angle of this month so far, but wish to commemorate that this week did contain something good.
selkie's birthday. I am toast across the board and frustrated by nearly every angle of this month so far, but wish to commemorate that this week did contain something good.
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*hugs*
Nine
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Thank you!
*hugs*
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Thank you!
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Thank you! That would be cool.
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I am so sorry about all the rest of it.
In the meantime, I offer up a bit of quality tumblr random for you: https://www.tumblr.com/sadclowncentral/752633647324069888/no-you-dont-understand-i-do-international?source=share
♥
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Thank you!
I am so sorry about all the rest of it.
*hugs*
In the meantime, I offer up a bit of quality tumblr random for you
I love that. And honestly, with the shipbuilding in Belfast and the tradition of immrama, any sightings of the Titanic might as well land in Ireland's lap as anyone's. (I got nothing on Mexico.)
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Some more tumblr, a bit less amazing, but hopefully still cheering, and slightly more than I'd realised - don't feel obliged to follow every link unless you wish to:
How to make an asshole politician run away in terror with the power of folk horror, courtesy of DW & "73 Yards": https://www.tumblr.com/threesonsofyorks/751498710381363200?source=share
HOw to advertise your bookshop: https://www.tumblr.com/oldshrewsburyian/752094502361153536?source=share
Pure fantasy pretty via HotD: https://www.tumblr.com/alicent-hightowers/752199198335746048?source=share
David Collings caps from The Suicide Club (not by me!!!!!): https://www.tumblr.com/ronnola/752554658055290880?source=share (<-- This is the one with the cream pies and the hyenas, for reference)
Peter Cushing as Van Helsing pretty: https://www.tumblr.com/talesfromthecrypts/690489379195600896/peter-cushing-as-abraham-van-helsing-in-horror-of?source=share
Some pretty amazing 21st art: https://www.tumblr.com/389/750583693445398528/389-la-cama-inglesa-the-english-bed-guillermo?source=share
I dredged up some Gosford Park gifs on a reblogging spree and started off a little reblog chain: https://www.tumblr.com/hangingfire/752740325252022273/cinemaocd-framesinmemories-day-75-mabel?source=share
and that's it!! ♥
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I ket meaning to mention how much it surprised me that in at least two of those screenshots he looks as though he could be played by George MacKay, a likeness which had not occurred to me before.
I dredged up some Gosford Park gifs on a reblogging spree and started off a little reblog chain
Congratulations! And now I shall follow the fic rec.
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I suppose he does a bit! :-)
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you! They have published my work before—and I was one of the poetry editors for about seven years, during which time I could not of course send them anything for obvious conflict of interest reasons—but I still rate it a big deal.
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Hooray!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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Thank you!
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And a question: do you mind sharing whether you're generally selling to the same editor at Strange Horizons (and if so, who), or if it's been all over the place? I'm trying to get a sense of their tastes, and it's made hard by them not listing who bought a given poem.
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Thank you! I never mind belated!
And a question: do you mind sharing whether you're generally selling to the same editor at Strange Horizons (and if so, who), or if it's been all over the place?
I don't mind and I don't even think it's a secret, since the magazine lists its reading periods by editor. My acceptances with the current staff have come from Romie Stott, with whom I have the luck of my work being simpatico even when it doesn't make the final cut. They have wide-ranging tastes; we often picked very different poems when we were part of the same editing team.
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* "When I saw in your cover letter that you have no poetry credits, I thought 'surely that's not true' and searched the Strange Horizons archive. So although I'm declining this poem, you are writing good enough poetry that I already think of you as one of our poets.
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That's wonderful and I hope you very soon do.
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Thank you!
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Thank you! Your poems deserve the best.