Recent Book Acquisitions And A Writing Update

[mmerriam]

Despite our moratorium on book buying, we have acquired more books. Darn used book sales!

Datlow, Ellen, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant, ed: The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror #17.
Dozois, Gardner, ed: The Year's Best Science Fiction #16.
Hallaway, Tate: Tall, Dark, and Dead.
Morse, Drew, ed: The 2005 Rhysling Anthology.
Pratchett, Terry: Monstrous Regiment.
Zelazney, Roger: Creatures of Light and Darkness.

Also, Apex Science Fiction and Horror issue 7 arrived in the mail.

In other news: Jones Soda's "Candy Corn" soda is way too sweet and tastes way too much like carbonated Karo syrup. Their "Spider Cider" is also very sweet, but has a nice flavor.

490 words on "Untitled 12" aka The Phantom Streetcars Story. We're bearing down on Lakeview Cemetery, and Death has boarded the streetcar. Mae needs to make a transfer before it's too late.

Comments

[aliettedb.livejournal.com]

"Creatures of Light and Darkness" is weird (though maybe not as weird as "Cat's Eye", which I still haven't understood), but pretty good.

Bleh on the rejection, and good luck on the Phantom Streetcars. Looks like Mae's in trouble :)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

a lot of Zelazney's stuff is weird, but Lord of Light is one of my favorite novels of all time, so I tend to read anything of his I can find.

[eavanne.livejournal.com]

ha. My fella and I can't get out of used bookstores or thrift stores without an entire moviing box full of "new" books to add to the library.
It's a handy compulsion to have, when our local library is cutting down on its hours, and I can just do my research at home. :)

Cheers on resubmitting. It'll stick somewhere, you just have to find the right direction to throw it.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Used book store are soooooo dangerous...