Infinitely slowly, but it grows

[sovay]

My flash piece "And Black Unfathomable Lakes" has been accepted by Not One of Us. I had sent it to lesser_celery for an opinion on whether it worked independent of The Brides of Dracula (1960), whose ending inspired it: apparently the answer was yes. Blame handful_ofdust. I am very pleased about this. Among other things, it is the first fiction of any length I've been able to finish in some time.

(Happy centenary, Peter Cushing.)

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[phi]

Congratulations!

[sovay]

Congratulations!

Thank you!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

That's really wonderful, Sonya. It's a great piece, and certainly hits that particular sweet spot between fic and 'tion, especially since you're working from a public domain canon but not really naming anybody. I'm very glad more people will get to see it, and that you get to claim it on your bibliography, because it's well worth claiming.;)

[sovay]

I'm very glad more people will get to see it, and that you get to claim it on your bibliography, because it's well worth claiming.

Thank you! It was an unexpected piece and I am very happy about it.

(Now send John a poem or something and we can share the ToC!)

Also, because I cannot respond on Tumblr to your post about Whitstable: I have just e-mailed the publisher about ordering a copy by check rather than PayPal, because it sounds excellent and in some ways like a gentler, realist version of Fright Night. I recognized Stephen Volk's name without being able to place any of his stories and then remembered he co-wrote The Awakening (2011), so this has definitely gone from "curiosity I might pick up if I ran across it in a dealer's room" to "what the hell, it's worth having rice cakes for dinner another night." Thank you for the pointer!

[handful-ofdust.livejournal.com]

Oh, no problem! I'm probably going to revisit, expand and fold that post into one which also looks at Prospero's Mirror, another small press book I recently bought because its protagonist is M.R. James, which I didn't find quite as successful in its RPF aspirations. But yeah, this is totally your kind of book. There's at least one passage I feel like you could have written, which I'll quote.

[sovay]

There's at least one passage I feel like you could have written, which I'll quote.

All right; I'm curious.

(Prospero's Mirror is a great title; I'm sorry it didn't live up.)

[xjenavivex.livejournal.com]

Congratulations.

[sovay]

Congratulations.

Thank you.

[ashlyme.livejournal.com]

Yay, you!

[sovay]

Yay, you!

Thank you! It's a good way to start a day.

[ladymondegreen.livejournal.com]

Hooray for short turn around times on sales and putting a really excellent and creepy piece in front of the public!

[sovay]

Hooray for short turn around times on sales and putting a really excellent and creepy piece in front of the public!

Thank you! I am happy about all of these things.

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I am really glad to hear it!

[sovay]

I am really glad to hear it!

Thank you!

(And I did hear what you said about more, although I didn't have any in mind when I wrote it. I don't know; I don't want to promise and I won't rule it out, because I can see why. I didn't have anything in mind when I went to shower two nights ago.)

[cucumberseed.livejournal.com]

I understand, and I would be totally satisfied if what there is is all there is.

[snowy-owlet.livejournal.com]

Hooray!

[sovay]

Hooray!

Thank you!

[gwynnega]

Excellent!!

[sovay]

Excellent!!

Thanks!

[alankria.livejournal.com]

Among other things, it is the first fiction of any length I've been able to finish in some time.

Yay, Sonya fiction!

[sovay]

Yay, Sonya fiction!

Thank you! (It's very short! But it is prose!)

[nineweaving.livejournal.com]

Huzzah! Prose!

Nine

[sovay]

Huzzah! Prose!

I'm writing more as we speak! And trying not to break it. (Buzz off, T. Witt.)

[ap-aelfwine.livejournal.com]

Hurrah! Congratulations! I'm very happy to hear this.

[sovay]

Hurrah! Congratulations!

Thank you!

[asakiyume.livejournal.com]

And this would have given me my answer, too. Congratulations--it is such an excellent piece, and perfect for Not One of Us.

[sovay]

Congratulations--it is such an excellent piece, and perfect for Not One of Us.

Thank you! I think it's a very good home.

[three-magpies.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!