> The new Crimewtime is out and about. There are always
problems with
> distribution. Patience is required. I have my advance
copy and so
> should you sdoon for your very own short story "One
for The Road". I've not
> read it yet but will soon.
Ah--the advance copy! It all falls into place now (I had an
e-note from
Peter D-P, about 'having lost my address', which would
explain the
apparent delay).
Let me get my excuses in first re. 'One for the road'.
It's not a short story as such, more of a vignette; a little
exercise I
set myself to see if I could 'do' something with characters,
such as
move them around and use dialogue.
I was pleased to be able to find it a home in CT, and the
more pleased
now I find it in such good company.
I do have a short story I'm trying to place at the moment:
it's been
rejected by Do-Not (I offered to 'em as Fresh Blood fodder,
but
apparently the Blood shouldn't be *too fresh*, but be about
one
published novel old) and is currently with CT.
It's more experimental in terms of form--I actually think
it's quite
good (but hey, that's just me) and there's some 'science' in
it,
involving the extraction of arsenic from wood preservative,
which might
seem a bit, well, unlikely; but the father-in-law's a chemist
and it's
all been checked out with him, so the science, at least, is
bona.
Maybe CT'll run it, or perhaps the Do-Not people will come up
with the
idea of a collection they could call *Really* Fresh Blood
...
ED
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