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A Little Holiday

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We went to Faro, Portugal, for a four day break. It was truly lovely. We wandered around, had lots of good food (mostly fish, not to mention the delicious pastel de nata) and wine (porto!), listen to music (Fado!),  and generally just chilled. It was a good break. I actually managed to relax, which is rare. And I've started on a new short story for a Codex contest. I don't quite know where it's going, or even if I'll finish it, but I like the opening, and it's a nice feeling to be working on new words.

Edits Done

Edit's on Orion's Shadows are done and off to the agent. Hopefully, he won't mind the instances where I went against his advice. I've also added the opening quotes for both parts, something I had been thinking about earlier. Now, if the agent likes the result, we will draft a list of editors to send this to--and then the waiting will start. From what I've heard, anything from a month to a year... With Christmas coming, I doubt it will be a month. I hope it won't be a year, though, because I'll go mad if I have to wait that long. Now I should be sensible and start on a new, unrelated project.  But I'm not sensible. So I'll either start on the sequel, or sit around pulling hair till I hear from the publishers. Wish me luck.

Rejection! :(

Well, I've jinxed it. The story is back with a personal rejection--very friendly, but still a rejection. Weirdly, this time the editor said the ending didn't work for them, while the previous personals loved the end in particular… Another proof that it's all a matter of taste. And so the story goes off to the next market. Of all my stories (and there aren't many as I"m not really a short-form writer), this one I'm really stubborn about. Maybe because it's so much "me" in the way it plays with the theme of choices that I come back to again and again in all of my writing. Well, I keep sending it out till it finds a home. And if it doesn't, then I'll keep it to one day give away as a Patreon bonus or something. You know, when I'm famous enough to have a Patreon which anybody other than my mother will support... ;) Current mood: philosophical