Chickens in the yard, and randomness.: seanan

Chickens in the yard, and randomness.

First:

I have leveled up in Real Author. How do I know? I know because I actually managed to miss a publication date. Not a deadline; a publication. As in, "something got released, and I completely missed it." So! My poem, "Clockwork Chickens," was published in issue #25 of Apex Magazine, which previously published the stories "Dying With Her Cheer Pants On" and "The Tolling of Pavlov's Bells." Hooray!

You can read my poem here, for now. Apex takes down back issues in a sort of rolling pattern, so you should read soon, or better yet, buy the e-book download of the issue so that you can keep it forever and for always. Apex is a company that does good work, and they keep buying my stuff, which naturally endears them to me. I would like it if they would keep doing that. And also, I like this poem.

In other news, I am safely home from Ohio, and attempting to figure out where I left my head. I sadly suspect it may have been in the Houston airport, where I was so hungry that I ate an entire cheeseburger in approximately four bites and an inhale. I think I scared the waitress. I know I counted my fingers when I was done. Just in case. So I am tired and I am grumpy, and I am getting tired of being tired.

I am almost done packing the most recent run of poster orders, and should be getting those in the mail this week. Better yet, the lovely Deborah has finished collating all the T-shirt orders, and I am working with the printer now to get everything submitted and start the production process. We wound up with over three hundred shirts on the order. My house is going to be one hell of a shipping party.

I am also almost done with the technical revisions on Blackout, which I will be shipping off to my publisher Real Soon Now. And thus do I buy myself time to finish the other three books I need to be working on, and perhaps someday, one day, take a nap.

Onwards and upwards.

Zzz.

vulpine137

August 30 2011, 16:18:02 UTC 5 years ago

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*reads poem* *giggles at the ending line* I like it.

seanan_mcguire

August 30 2011, 16:25:59 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

ladymurmur

August 30 2011, 16:20:39 UTC 5 years ago

Smart of you to count your fingers, just in case. Could make for difficult typing to be suddenly minus a digit. Though it would make for an interesting story... "tastes like cheeseburger!" ;-)

August 30 2011, 16:26:05 UTC 5 years ago

Noms.

kyburg

August 30 2011, 16:21:56 UTC 5 years ago

Huzzah for publication dates! As far as the tired goes, so glad you didn't have a chance to catch the bug that laid me out last week - but can relate.

Would send a cheer-up, but not sure what that would look like right now. Anything I can think of requires energy and yeah, that. (Thanks for working so hard.)

And Coyote *has* gotten all my beer this week.

August 31 2011, 15:03:30 UTC 5 years ago

bunsen_h

August 30 2011, 19:08:40 UTC 5 years ago

Fingers are good for you. Nutritionally balanced for your diet; none of that "protein complement" stuff. Autophagy has its merits.

August 31 2011, 15:03:39 UTC 5 years ago

Mmmm.

Fingers.

qnofhrt

August 30 2011, 21:16:36 UTC 5 years ago

Better yet, the lovely Deborah has finished collating all the T-shirt orders, and I am working with the printer now to get everything submitted and start the production process.

Huzzah! Thank you for doing this and a huge thank you to Deborah for doing the order tabulation! Herding cats is a snap in comparison!

August 31 2011, 15:03:50 UTC 5 years ago

It really, truly is.

catsittingstill

August 30 2011, 21:20:47 UTC 5 years ago

Just in case you missed it last week: New song here you might like

And a couple more since then; click the "new song" tag at my LJ if you want to check them out.

Welcome home and good luck with _One Salt Sea_'s release!

August 31 2011, 15:04:00 UTC 5 years ago

Oh, that makes me happy. Thank you!

vincentursus

August 30 2011, 22:57:32 UTC 5 years ago

Whee!

Fun.

Good luck in finding rest.

August 31 2011, 15:04:08 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks.

alitalf

August 31 2011, 08:23:01 UTC 5 years ago

What fun! Looking at it from one angle, were you in any way inspired or influenced by Girl Genius?

Thinking of Blackout, one of my friends who has recently emigrated to NZ,

rustica, wrote:

...Feed, by Mira Grant, is every bit as good as

alitalf said it was! I have been glued to my Kindle, these last few days, and

crazyscot has been getting even less sense out of me than normal. Despite already being shattered, I had to stay up late last night to finish it (and dreamed of zombies the whole night as a result!). I am so not allowed to buy the next one until I have had at least one early night, otherwise I shall have joined the ranks of the undead myself by the end of the week....

August 31 2011, 15:04:48 UTC 5 years ago

Probably influenced, since I read that comic religiously, but not inspired.

Aw, yay. Thanks for the awesome quote!

joecoustic

August 31 2011, 09:40:24 UTC 5 years ago

I am amazed how busy you are, and what you are keeping up with!! *hugs*

I hesitate to mention this, cuz it just may be something you haven't gotten to yet, or just something you didn't need to do in whatever order you handle communicating for orders... but you mention posters here.... I was realizing recently that I never heard back from you with regard to my Wicked Girls poster order back from your post about it in the beginning of August and info about if sending a check was okay and address info. Here is the link to my order comment from August 8 and my additional comment mentioning my email (if it helps you track it): http://seanan-mcguire.livejournal.com/377969.html?thread=15503985#t15503985 . Thanks!!

August 31 2011, 15:05:39 UTC 5 years ago

I have to go through those slowly, since I am one person, and cannot pack that many posters instantly. I don't want eighty people to pay me, and then get their posters eight months later. You'll get a reply when I reach you in the queue.

August 31 2011, 17:25:37 UTC 5 years ago

Yay! This makes complete sense. Thank you *so* much for getting back to me so quickly!! I'm so relieved it wasn't something to do with a miscommunication (or the lj wonkiness of late).

If it helps, for when you get there, I'm totally cool and happy to either pay (cash or check) and/or receive delivery in person at OVFF. Not sure if this would make things easier or not, but it is an option I wanted you to know about.

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