Tags: clarion west, friends, i sold a thing, publication, short stories, the applause of others
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Worst title ever, I know.
Anyway! As I mentioned on Twitter a few days back, I made a new short story sale, this time to the Dagan Books anthology FISH. My first anthology sale! Neat. The story is titled “The Applause of Others”, and it’s about magic eels in Amsterdam. No, not electric or moray eels — we definitely don’t have those in the canals — the other kind. The kind you smoke and eat.
Anyway x2, if that story concept sounds familiar, it’s because I mentioned it before — it’s my week 6 Clarion West story. One story down, four to go!
The anthology will be out on February 8, 2012, has a lovely cover, and one hell of a ToC. I’ll be reunited with editor K.V.Taylor and author Cate Gardner for the first time since last year’s inaugural Red Penny Papers issue, and other nifty people in the ToC include my loverly Clarion West classmate Maria Romasco-Moore (High five! Affable mofos repra-zent!) and Cat Rambo, whom I also met in Seattle this year.
This is going to be one gorgeous book.
When I saw your acceptance on Twitter the other day I wondered if it was Fish. The cover is soooooo beautiful. Very happy to be sharing a TOC with you.
Same here, Cate! We're rockin' this thing. *high five*
Congratulations on the sale! That cover is stunning. Can't wait to read your piece.
Thank you! It's quite different from my usual work, so I'm very curious what people will think of it…
EEEEEEEEEEE! SO EXCITED for you!
Thanks, Jess!
I'm excited too. An actual book! In book form! With my name in it! Few things are cooler than that, right?
It's definitely going to be gorgeous, and I am so, so excited we get to work together again! (Er, we've worked together a lot, come to think of it. Just, not in this capacity, so much. More and more and more!)
Yeah, this is like… official! We get our name in the same book! That's totally different. And SO very cool. I can't wait to hold the end result.