It's Not So Much Like Kissing Your Sister, As It Is Like Kissing Your Really Attractive Cousin

[mmerriam]

So.

I have this story I wrote a couple of years ago. It's that weird size that no one really wants (18,000 words), and I never felt the story worked. I could never decide what it was. It wasn't urban fantasy, or magical realism. Maybe it was soft science fiction. The writing itself was pretty good and the dialogue is rather snappy, but the story just didn't click. I put it in the trunk.

Two weeks ago I pulled it out. I dusted it off and sent it out to a market that doesn't pay (yeah, yeah, I know, I'm giving stuff away), but has a reputation for offering good editorial feedback. I knew no one would ever pay me for this story, and I wanted the editorial feedback; I want to see if anything in this story worked right. I needed to know if there was anything I could cannibalize from it. Plus, I have this weird need to find publishing homes for all my stories, even the ones I have no confidence in, and this was the last story of mine I thought I would ever place anywhere.

The editor wants it, but not for her SF&F E-zine. She wants it for her other E-zine.

Her Romance E-zine.

Good lord, I wrote a romance. A Science Fiction Romance. And after further consideration, it is not the only one I've written (Rainfall, which I just sent to F&SF, is another, for you OWWers who might remember it). *Facepalm* Laugh, go ahead, you know you want to.

Angel Above goes to Lyrica.

I'll post a link when it goes live.

Hugs and Kiss
Michael

Comments

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

I'm sooooo dying to read that story now.

*g*

And congrats.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Thanks ! Lyrica is going to serialize it, so I might wait and post links to it after they've finished posting it.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Hey, what's wrong with a romance? Some of us like romance!

I think a sale is a sale, even if there aren't bux involved...congrats!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Oh, I like romance well enough, I just never expected to find myself writing it, even by accident! I should have known it would happen eventually, since I tend to write about broken characters trying to find their way back to something ressembling wholeness.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

*grins* YAY!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Thank You!

[navicat.livejournal.com]

No laughter at all. It's fantastic, romance or no romance :)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

That's the point of view I'm trying to take. :-)

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

Congrats! That's great news!

And there ain't nuthin' wrong with romance. (At least, that a good dose of antibiotics won't fix, most cases.)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Thank you! I just never expected to find my 40 year-old grandfather self writing a romance, even if it was by accident! But hey, to quote [Unknown site tag], a sale is a sale.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

For some reason that last comment didn't like sartorias. Stupid lj and it not allowing you to edit comments!

[careswen.livejournal.com]

I've been telling folks around the office, and everybody said Congratulations! Some are really excited for you.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Tell them i said, "Thank You."

[wine-love-pen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Yes, definitely post a link when you have it. And I lurve lurve lurve romance.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Lurving romance seems to a thing on my flist. I will definately post the link!

[mreauow.livejournal.com]

Congrats on both the sale and discovering that you can write romance. Woohoo.

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

I'm still shaking my head on the whole romance thing.

Woo hoo!

[hilarymoonmurph.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

Heh, heh, heh. We need to have a publication party for you!

Hmm

Re: Woo hoo!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

sounds good!

[pezwitch.livejournal.com]

You accidental romantic, you! Congrats :)

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Thank you!