Tuesday,
December 30, 2003
Sale!
One of the nicer pieces of email awaiting my arrival home was the notification that Jeff Turner had bought "That Time of the Month" for his antho FUNDAMENTALLY CHALLENGED, which lets me turn my sale counter over one, and just before the end of the year, too.
2003 may have sucked from a financial point of view, but from a writing point of view it was one of my best years -- I finished eight stories, sold four of them ("Female of the Species" and "Happily Ever After" to Quantum Muse, "A Rose By Any Other Name" to FOUR BUBBAS OF THE APOCALYPSE, and "That Time of the Month" to FUNDAMENTALLY CHALLENGED), I'm close to finishing PHARAOH OF THE LONE STAR STATE, and I have a new book on the back burner. Not too shabby.
Of course, I'm still waiting for that third pro-level sale so that I can finally, FINALLY get my Active membership in SFWA, but hey, I figure I'm paying my dues with the semi-pro sales first. All will come in its own good time, I figure. Now all I have to do is finish PHARAOH, edit it, sell it and contract an agent, and I will be quite pleased with myself.
I also think I
picked up something on the way home (unsurprising, considering the sheer number
of bathrooms I visited) -- I suspect it's just a cold, but it's making my face
feel numb. Very weird. Lyndon's complaining of the exact same symptoms, so whatever
it is, we got it together.