Monday, January 29
Sex By The Book contract
Got my contract for Sex By The Book, edited by Kevin Bentley. Looks like it'll be released from Green Candy Press in September 2007. I love getting contracts....getting a story from submission to print is such a long process that I have nothing to do with. So signing a contract makes me feel like stuff's moving & is final confirmation that a story is really on its way into print. I LOVE CONTRACTS!
Thursday, January 18
Octavia Butler class
A friend at work just gave me a brochure for Germantown Friends School Adult English enrichment courses because she thinks I should try to teach one. I think I want to take one, though: "Wild Seeds: The Science Fiction of Octavia Butler," taught by Yolanda Palacio. Eight weeks of reading and discussing Butler's short stories and "one novel from each series."
I wonder if they'll do Fledgling, and how she has picked which novel from which series. Same for Kindred, which is wonderful but a stand alone and not too science fictiony. I'd go with Dawn from Xenogenesis because you can't beat the exposition of the series. From the Patternists, I guess I'd pick Wild Seed because its so rich, but they are all so different that I might want to chose something like Clay's Ark because it's so unexpected. Or Patternmaster itself, because it might be interesting to study world creation among the first books in this series and Xenogenesis. And from the Parables, I'm not sure. Parable of The Sower is world-establishing and scary and wonderful, but Parable of the Talents gives a happy ending (sort of) and builds just as multilayered a world. And the three part narration would be interesting to study as a fictional strategy that is different from Dawn or Fledgling or Patternmaster. And Olamina's daughter's anguish is so brutal... Here's a wikipedichronology, because it's hard to keep straight.
anyway, I think I'm going to convince Ray to take this GFS class, which shouldn't be hard because he's the one who turned me on to her in the first place. Here are two pictures of me with Octavia Butler, when she read at Robin's shortly before her untimely death. Hopefully you can't see how red my cheeks are and that I was hyperventilating...
I wonder if they'll do Fledgling, and how she has picked which novel from which series. Same for Kindred, which is wonderful but a stand alone and not too science fictiony. I'd go with Dawn from Xenogenesis because you can't beat the exposition of the series. From the Patternists, I guess I'd pick Wild Seed because its so rich, but they are all so different that I might want to chose something like Clay's Ark because it's so unexpected. Or Patternmaster itself, because it might be interesting to study world creation among the first books in this series and Xenogenesis. And from the Parables, I'm not sure. Parable of The Sower is world-establishing and scary and wonderful, but Parable of the Talents gives a happy ending (sort of) and builds just as multilayered a world. And the three part narration would be interesting to study as a fictional strategy that is different from Dawn or Fledgling or Patternmaster. And Olamina's daughter's anguish is so brutal... Here's a wikipedichronology, because it's hard to keep straight.
anyway, I think I'm going to convince Ray to take this GFS class, which shouldn't be hard because he's the one who turned me on to her in the first place. Here are two pictures of me with Octavia Butler, when she read at Robin's shortly before her untimely death. Hopefully you can't see how red my cheeks are and that I was hyperventilating...
Tuesday, January 16
Fast Balls acceptance
Got a contract for Fast Balls: Erotic Stories About America's Favorite Pastime (ed. Jesse Grant) from Alyson today. My story is called "Bennington Boomers," & is narrated by an octogenarian recalling his first baseball sex in 1920s Vermont. Book will be out June 1, 2007. All of Alyson's cover art on the spring books looks hot and I can't wait to see this one.
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