I'm sorry I left your umbrella in Mail Boxes Etc.

[sovay]

General public service announcement: I appear to be experiencing a significant problem with my e-mail—as in, for reasons I do not yet understand, about a third of all messages sent to my account are not reaching me. Livejournal and Facebook notifications included. Nothing is showing up in my spam filter and no one is reporting any bounces, but if you've written to me recently and haven't received a reply, please re-send your message; it's not you, it's computers. In the meantime, I shall continue to worry about the work-related correspondences I have almost certainly been missing and hope I haven't permanently alienated anyone.

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Score one for old-fashioned methods of communication: I just received a box in the mail from shweta_narayan, containing multiple books including Angélica Gorodischer's Kalpa Imperial (2003) trans. Ursula K. Le Guin, Alexei Panshin's Rite of Passage (1968), and a trade paperback of Elizabeth Marie Pope's The Sherwood Ring (1958), to replace the copy I lent out to friends once and never saw again.

Combined with the fact that nineweaving gave me Susan Cooper's The Magic Maker: A Portrait of John Langstaff (2011) this afternoon at Porter Square Books and I had a store coupon that covered Le Guin's The Wild Girls (2011), I consider today a total win for print and ink. Just not so much for electronics.

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[sovay]

This is your editor at taaffe address?

This is both my editorial and my private addresses, since they run off the same server. I'm praying it didn't interfere with the last submissions of the month, because I have no way of tracking that unless the authors start to complain.

(I have your e-mail from December 6th in this time zone and you should be hearing back from me soon.)