Reflection...

So as I last posted my short story was rejected. While I am obviously disappointed I'm not really all bent out of shape over it. First, I'm not a horror writer so I was working a little out of my element, trying something new. Second, this was my first actual submission for publication and it was in retrospect not as good as it looked when I finished the third draft. It was clunky and kind of all over the place, almost like 2.5 stories going on at once.

So I'm gonna write a better one and try to sell it to a magazine, wish me luck.

bjoly

Rejected...

My story didn't pass muster, back to the drawing board.

The waiting REALLY is the hardest part...

"84 TBR
37 Maybe
147 rejections"

I submitted a short story for a horror anthology and have been waiting to hear back. The editor of said anthology "The World is Dead" has been kind (cruel?) enough to post status reports, above you see his latest numbers. Professor Paffinroth has also said that he is reading them in order and he has reached 8-25 in the submissions. I sent mine on the 26th so I should know soon if I made the cut or not.

Loyalty...

For the most part I really like my job. About 75% of the time I'm doing OK with it. I particuarlly hate window duty, dealing with junkies and welfare cases and all manner of jerks. I was sick as a dog yesterday and barely got out of bed, I don't feel much better today. But I still got up and went into work to do inventory. I got there a bit before 2 and got right to it as did everybody else. We all then sat around waiting for an hour for the stupid company people to come in and do our counts. They come in do their thing and take the numbers downstairs for crunching. We then wait 2 hours for the numbers to come back... And their all wrong. Every single item had been entered wrong. They come back up redo the counts and spend another 2 hours doing God knows what while we wait.

Long story short I didn't get home til after 10pm. The people working in Central Pharmacy got snacks and sandwiches and we got to wait around. Since I still feel like shit and my baby girl has a fever and can't go to daycare I am not going in tomorrow, so look for more rants on the bailout tomorrow afternoon.

bjoly

The Man is Dead!?

Paul Newman passed away from cancer yesterday. He has long been one of my favorite actors of all time being awesome in everything he touched. I think I have to watch Slapshot now, to get over my depression.

bjoly

Since the Government is giving stuff away...

I would like to challenge both Obama and McCain to a contest for my vote. Whichever one of them or their staff can score me 3 tickets to AC/DC's Boston show will get my vote. As I don't think that either one of these jokers can do a damned thing to set this country right the least they can do is get me into a concert that I've been dying for.

bjoly

Blurbs 'bout me...

OK, not that I've had my daily outrage per the inital post on to the regular real life (kinda dull huh?) stuff:

Currently reading and enjoying 'The Serial Killers Club' by Jeff Povey. I haven't watched Dexter but my Dad loves that show and it sounds just like this book so I might have to check it out on DVD.

I was reading and mostly enjoying the anthology 'The Living Dead' but needed a break as per my comment on Professor Paffenroth's post even good zombie fiction can get tedious after a while but that's why I like anthologies, you can pick and choose. An added bonus to this is that nobody on the train will bother you if you are reading a book with zombies on the cover, except for maybe other horror fans who want to know if it's any good.

While I'm on books I confess to being a total fool for only recently discovering Glen Cook's Black Company series. These so far are some of the best fantasy books I have read, anybody got a copy of the Glittering Stone? All four books of that cycle are out of print. Tor has recently republished the first 6 books in two volumes, anybody know if and when they're gonna follow up?

Work is stupid some days. I can't give details due to all the privacy laws so I will just say that today was a very stupid day.

Having said that it is now tomorrow and I got to go to work in about 6 hours so good night.

bjoly