From the Land of Miscellania...

[leahbobet]

Last week? Busy.

First I had to get rid of a cold that was either Delia Sherman's via matociquala or my cousin's via my mother's house, which apparently carries cold germs. Then I had a family birthday dinner, two days at work (Saturday a large-group signing), and most of a day helping move a friend. Then it was today. *g* So I did not post things on the internet.

(Also interestingly? When you hit five or six days without even really checking your internet stuff, the internet starts to fade into something trivial, with pointless slapfights and minutiae (much like the ones I'm recounting) that just aren't that important. This fascinates me a little and I may do future tests on the half-life of the internet in one's brain.)

So here are things that happened while I was busy:

As you might have seen here, "Fitcher's Third Wife", the poem I read at the Rhysling Poetry Slam at Readercon, will be appearing in Mythic Delirium #17. First sale to this market!

There are several blog reviews/comments on "The Girl From Another World":

-- Book-O-Holic likes it fine, and says nice things about other recent SH stories.

-- So does Littlebird-Blue.

-- stephanieburgis is further nice to the story.

-- Joe Sherry, who has a lot of rather thoughtful commentary on other SF things elsewhere in said blog, likes it but is not so keen on the ending.

-- Variety SF does not know what it is about, and asks the internets if they do.

Also!

-- lastshortstory has a short review of "After the War", as well as many other pieces of recent short fiction. (Thanks to Matt Kressel for pointing me at this one.)


I have a few content posts upcoming, including a big book report post and some issue things and an interview meme from ksumnersmith, but right now I think I will have myself some lunch.

Comments

[stevenagy.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale. :-)

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

the ending

[(Anonymous)]

"...though Bobet's ending left a bit to be desired"

I wonder what he meant by that.

When I have thoughts like that about a story, they usually orbit around the fact that I envy (even covet) the idea of the story, but that I would have done something different with it. Not necessarily something 'better', just something different.

So I think it's flattery, saying that about a story. Subconscious flattery, but flattery nonetheless.

I wonder what other people think when they say something like "the ending left a bit to be desired."

Discuss.

- gully

Re: the ending

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Well...could mean a few things. That the ending that's there didn't stand up to the weight of what's set up, or wasn't the ending the reader expected (went off the rails from what was set up) or wanted (the something different), or it just didn't work as closure for that reader (isn't an important thing for that reader).

I don't really know the reviewer and how they read, so I kinda have to take it at face value. *g*