A Voice Once Stentorian Is Now Again Weak and Muffled

[snurri]

Some coolness: Senses Five Press, the cool folks behind the zine Sybil's Garage, will be publishing Kathy Sedia's anthology of urban fantasy, Paper Cities (formerly Moonlit Domes). That includes original fiction from Forrest Aguirre, Barth Anderson, Steve Berman, Darin Bradley, Stephanie Campisi, Hal Duncan, Mike Jasper, Vylar Kaftan, Jay Lake, Paul Meloy, Richard Parks, Ben Peek, Cat Rambo, Jenn Reese, Cat Sparks, Anna Tambour, Mark Teppo, Catherynne M. Valente, Greg van Eekhout, and Kaaren Warren. My story "The Somnambulist," one of the weirder things I've written, will be appearing in this august company. This one will be coming out around the time of WFC, so save your bucks.

Not much to report, otherwise. Gearing up for the move, which I expect to be as painful as such things always are. Such is life. My bro is coming down to help out, but he can't get here until Sunday night, and I need to have a lot done before then. Books. Always with the books, and the boxes, and the loading. Someday I will move into a library, and never leave.

Comments

[darinbradley.livejournal.com]

I feel your pain on the looming move. I've got one from Texas to South Carolina coming up this summer. Cool, yet not cool.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

That's a bigger one, even. Got a job there?

[darinbradley.livejournal.com]

*Cough* No, actually. My wife just landed a gig as the new 18th-Century British Lit. professor at a university there, and since I just finally finished my degree, I'm going to go along and catch my breath. I'm sure I'll find something. I delivered pizza in the past--can always go back.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Maybe, if you don't find something right away, they'll let you teach some extension classes or something as an associate. I have some friends who've done that kind of thing.

[readingthedark.livejournal.com]

The idea of moving frightens me because of the book issues.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'm not really sure why I do it. I guess because I haven't found a place and situation good enough to stay in.

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Or because in the overall scheme of bad things, packing books isn't nearly that bad. I mean, it sucks at the time, but we always end up with ours reordered, or culled, etc.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

It's the culling that rarely seems to happen, for me :-)

[bondgwendabond.livejournal.com]

Well, ours is usually faux culling -- y'know, getting rid of doubles and that sort of thing.

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

Someday I will move into a library, and never leave.

Do all writers have that library nirvana? I think so.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

I have a plan for the house I will never be able to afford to build. It's basically a two-story library with some other, less important rooms around it.

[ajjones.livejournal.com]

With one of those rolling ladders, right? Yeah. The house I'll never afford has one of those too.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Yup. And a catwalk around the upper level.

[dxmachina.livejournal.com]

Cool! Then you can be grumpy and teach diction to flower girls.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Who says I don't already?

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

Just have the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen in some kind of outhouse affair in the back.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

The bedroom is on the east end, and probably the bathroom too. The kitchen and office are on the west, 'cause writing is hungry work.

Author?

[(Anonymous)]

Hi,

Are you the author of the book "The magic of thinking big"? If you are not, I am sorry.

Re: Author?

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Hi; no, I'm afraid I'm not. I'm afraid that David J. Schwartz passed away a few years ago.

[timakers.livejournal.com]

Perhaps someday a library will accrete around you, and you will be *unable* to leave. That's what I'm thinking.

[snurri.livejournal.com]

Thank you for that TERRIFYING thought.

[tacithydra.livejournal.com]

Hah! Oh, I hope that's what happens to me, too.

:: sigh ::