Fiction! Free (as in beer)! And other stuff!
Hi guys! Remember how I said I’d be busy?
Well, dang, have I been busy.
Both my move and my revisions are well-and-good underway. I’ll be out of the old place by Saturday, into the new the week after, and will be staying with my mom for a few days in the interim. I’m hoping to get a review posted tomorrow (of The Near Witch by Victoria Schwab; spoilers: I loved it!), but my apologies if I’m scarce with the blogging-thing over the next few days.
To make it up to you, I’m going to give you some fiction–which you could have gotten for free over the past few weeks anyway, but danged if I haven’t been remiss in linking you to them!
The first is a short story for kids called “Sandy, Piper’s Foal on Tau Ceti 8″ over at Spaceports & Spidersilk. I’m really excited to share it with you for the following reasons:
- This story has a long and illustrious history. It was once a poem. Then a piece of flash fiction. Now this. Yay for finding the right form for the thing! And also for never editing it again!
- It kind of represented a major shift for me in writing poetry to writing genre stuff about kids. So it means something, in a way.
- It’s the first piece of writing I’ve ever gotten paid for! Two whole dollars! They arrived in the mail today–look at me, rolling in the Washingtons! I’m planning on framing them.
Aaaand, secondly, on a whim I started a message board the other day for the denizens of metafilter.com called the metacooler to chat about television. They’re generally a smart, insightful bunch, so if you want to have conversations about the boob tube with a bunch of (amazing, stupendous) nerds, come, join us! We’d love to have you!
Okay, tired now.
Phoebe
Phoebe is a 20-something writer who lives in New York State with her husband and cat. She is a dork, not a geek or a nerd.
Her debut novel, Starglass, will be released from Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers in Summer 2013.
7 comments
In most cases, I'd think anybody who talked about framing dollars was joking.
In your case, I'm waiting for pictures >:0 Congrats!
(Also Jesus, the background on the page your short story is on is…uh, hard to look at. Eye-melting, even.)
Hehe, yeah, I'm DEAD SERIOUS.
And yeeeah . . . I had nothing to do with that background, I swear!
Hey hey hey! Congrats on those Benjamins! I think I got something like $30 for the first essay I'd ever had accepted and that was the day I cried and allowed myself to believe that I was a real writer. I'd thought I'd believe before that, but there's something about being paid for your work that hits you in the right place. Your meta board sounds awesome. I keep thinking about signing up for metafilter, but I worry that I would be sucked in, never to return . . .
Thanks! It really is funny how BIG something like GETTING PAID seems, even if it's a small amount. Like, whoa, legitimacy!
Metafilter IS amazing, but you probably will get sucked in. On the plus side, they've given me some amazing advice, like here and here, so I feel like the total net has been a gain for me.
You already know how I feel about your short story and how PSYCHED I am to one day read the novel that goes with it! Also, you probably already know how DISAPPOINTED I am that you're leaving the area before we got to hang out, but c'est la vie. <3
I KNOW! I suck! So sorry we weren't able to make it happen. We will definitely have to meet up elsewhere in the future though. <3
Can I borrow two bucks?