Yesterday, my copy of The Sour Aftertaste of Olive Lemon by Catherine J. Gardner arrived in the mail. I waited until 8:00 PM to settle down in a comfy spot on the couch and dig into it. WOW! This is easily my favorite story of hers. As the story was unfolding, I kept looking at the page count and bemoaning the fact that it was so short. Such beautiful, haunting strangeness! And all wrapped up in one memorable ending. I wanted more! Bucket 'O' Guts press could not have picked a better story to kick off their chapbook line than this one. Be sure to grab a copy for yourself!
On the personal writing front, since my gleeful post from two days ago I have actually had two more acceptances. I am in utter shock. That's four days in a row that I've gotten an acceptance and six overall for the month. The acceptances actually outnumber the rejections this month. I'm sure duotrope thinks that I am a full of shit when I report these. As elated as I am, I need to get to work on some new stuff as I am running out of stories to sub (I know, cry me a river ;) ). I also know that such a good run is not the norm and I could easily be in the middle of a weeks long barrage of rejections. Still, I am tickled pink - as pink as the colors on this blog - that my first year of serious writing has worked out as well as it has. There's always room for improvement, so back at it I go.
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Congrats at your amazing run of acceptances!
I loved Olive Lemon too. I just read it this afternoon. She has such a surreal, dreamlike quality to her writing that I could just keep reading and reading and reading.
I don't hink your on fire, I think your spontaneously combusting. I sit here in awe.
And thank you for yet a further Olive Lemon pimp. She's getting a big head, I'll have to do something about that.
Congrats on all the acceptances rolling in. Great news!
Thanks, Danielle!
I'll just go and sit quietly beside Cate - maybe we can wipe each others chin when we begin to drool.
Brilliant.
Rock on, I say. We all know you're not a filthy liar : )
Dude, I hope the string of acceptances continues the rest of the month, knock on wood (*wraps knuckles soundly against head*)
I hope that truck you drive doesn't carry flammable liquid. I have never seen such a hot streak.
Enjoy the ride. It's a good, good ride.
Jeez Duotrope has been congratulating you all week so I thought I'd drop by and say Huzzah myself!
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