The Land Of Wind And Ghosts

Almost unheard of, for me...

It's good news time.   

Good news part 1: I've just flashed at LH, for the first time in three months.   The particularly good news is that it's a Yi Qin story, and it's 1142 words long.   If I can carefully prune 142 words of that, then I have the Yi Qin story I want for Every Day Fiction.   Oh, and I've also tossed "When the Men returned" into the Polish Challenge there.   I think the final paragraph/line needs work, it's too abrupt at the moment, but otherwise I'm quite pleased with it.   However it's another of my "fantasy stories without the fantasy" (like "The Man His Father Was") and they appear to be a hard sell.   Never mind; I had fun writing it.   I suppose at a pinch I could even throw it at Sword and Sorceress...

Good news part 2: Howard Jones (aka bg_editor) has passed "What Chains Bind Us" on up to John O'Neill at Black Gate.   If John likes it (fingers crossed) that'll be my third sale there.   So fingers are most definitely crossed.   If he does take it, it lay well end up being the first to see print, since it's set earlier than the other two and also fills in a bit more backstory about Yi Qin and Yi Zhang (and so far all the BG stories feature Yi Zhang - at least in part because BG takes stories long enough to fit her in; in a 4k-or-under Yi Qin story trying to explain not just Yi Qin, but her dead twin sister as well, is just toooo much work).

No other news of interest to the world, I think.

And thanks for the comments on the Serial Fiction post.   Much appreciated.   I wasn't talking about vast quantities of increased traffic (I'm not Scalzi or Doctorow), but I would like to keep a steady slow expansion of my lj presence and name recognition and figured that posting a mini-chapter a day of a Yi Qin story might be worthwhile.   More musings on the subject next week, I suspect.