5 things

[truepenny]

1. You know the faces people make when they're about to sneeze? Horses do that, too.

2. Sold "Coyote Gets His Own Back" to Apex Magazine & reprint rights for "The Watcher in the Corners" to Ghosts: Recent Hauntings, edited by Paula Guran.

3. Also, because I failed abysmally to blog on the actual launch day, Chicks Dig Comics is out! I contributed an essay on revenge tragedy and Sandman.

4. If arthropods give you a wiggins, DO NOT CLICK THROUGH to the story about the Cincinnati Zoo's Emperor Scorpion and her twenty-five babies. Seriously. Don't. Instead, may I suggest Point Defiance Zoo's unbelievably charming clouded leopard cubs?

5. Speaking of things I failed abysmally to mention, congratulations to all the 2012 Hugo nominees!

Comments

[resolute.livejournal.com]

I saw scorpions in the wild like that, with the babies on the back. Granted, "the wild" was the renovated-pigsty-cum-shack I was living in at the time.

I was less than thrilled. The people who lived in the village assured me that baby scorpion stings hurt *far more* than adult scorpion stings.

[batwrangler.livejournal.com]

Awww, baby scorplings. (And the kitties are cute, too.)

[sovay]

2. Sold "Coyote Gets His Own Back" to Apex Magazine & reprint rights for "The Watcher in the Corners" to Ghosts: Recent Hauntings, edited by Paula Guran.

Congratulations!

[bghost.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't say you didn't warn me... for some reason I thought it was going to link to a short story. Imagine my surprise...

I'm really interested in your essay on revenge tragedies and Sandman! Not sure how to go about buying the "chicks dig comics" ... do you have a link to same?

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

There should be a link in my post, which takes you to Mad Norwegian Press's page--which in turn has a "buy it from Amazon" button.

[bghost.livejournal.com]

Thank you kindly! I'm a big fan of Revenge Tragedies... one of the best things I ever saw on stage was Tamburlaine the Great. (Both plays edited into one.) The Duchess of Malfi and the Spanish Tragedy are also up there... though it was the Duchess that gave me the most nightmares. I'm always interested in any take on Revenge Tragedies, particularly feminist ones, since women in these plays can often be marginalised. They're not often the Revengers, after all. It's interesting, by the way, to watch a Lear in which his eldest daughters are avenging...

[kate_nepveu]

2. Yay!

3. And got quite the compliment on it too!

4. OMG THAT, I was just scrolling down in Google Reader and suddenly AAGGH BUGS AAGH.

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Those are cute, in a really creepy-crawly sort of way. I do hope you have already see the videos of the Pallas cat kittens and their pumpkins, because it would be a shame for you to miss those.

[http://users.livejournal.com/la_marquise_de_/]

Congratulations on the sales.

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

I heard somewhere that your Sandman essay was the best ever written. :-)

[kellymccullough.livejournal.com]

I heard that too…