My pappy was a pistol, I'm a son of a gun

Oh, well. Fantasy Magazine rejected my story after 34 days. This doesn’t come as a shock, but I have to admit that I had fallen into the trap of daydreaming about getting published right out of the gate. My baby is now off to Strange Horizons.

In other SF news, numerous friends and acquaintance received Hugo nominations yesterday. I congratulate them all, but especially matociquala, tobias_buckell, and shsilver. shsilver is not only nominated for Best Fan Writer, but his 'zine Argentus is up for Best Fanzine. As some of you may recall, both Lynne and I have pieces in that issue. This is the second time that Argentus has been nominated for a Hugo. I wrote for both issues. Coincidence? ;)

Caitlin is home on Spring Break. I don’t expect to get much work done in the next week.

Catherynne M. Valente Joins the NIU SF Archives

Another amazing author is archiving their papers at Northern Illinois University. Catherynne M. Valente (yuki_onna) joined on Wednesday by handing rarelylynne a DVD copy of her hard drive.
Here is the current "official" roster of authors archiving at NIU:

Jack McDevitt
E.E. Knight
Sarah Monette
Elizabeth Bear
Kage Baker
Catherynne M. Valente
Tobias Buckell
Tamora Pierce
Robert Asprin
Jody Lynn Nye
Eric Flint
David Weber
Sarah Prineas
Jim C. Hines
Caroline Stevermer
Kelly McCullough
Cat Rambo
Donald Bingle
Catherine Lundoff

That's a phenomenal list, and over 30 more authors have said yes. NIU will one day be a major center for SF studies.

Adventure!

With that news, I can now reveal what Lynne and I were up to on Wednesday. Cat Valente was in Chicago for a book event, so we ended up having lunch with her. It was a hectic morning. After dropping Caitlin off with my aunt in the burbs, we ran to Hyde Park to meet Cat.
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