Swimming Back with an Acceptance Letter

[mrissa]

Aeon just let me know they're buying "Swimming Back from Hell by Moonlight." Yaaaaay! Maybe we're not supposed to play favorites, but I can come right out and say I think this is one of my best. It's got girl-Orpheus, who is a picture book illustrator, and hell is in fact full of mice. And I wrote it partly for cristalia and partly for Andrew, and I like it when stories that are for people don't turn out too narrow to be for anyone else. (Although I think the ways in which it's for Leah are a great deal more sidelong than that.)

You know what this means, of course: I have sold more stories than I've written this year. Again. So I have to write another story. Wailie woe etc.

Comments

[apis-mellifera.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

And of course hell is full of mice. Sheesh. :)

[stillsostrange.livejournal.com]

Wooohoo!

How long did they have it before accepting? I've been sharpening a poking stick for Aeon, but if they're cleaning out the subs maybe I'll wait before poking.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I sent it in May, and they asked to hold it in June. I queried them yesterday.

[haddayr.livejournal.com]

woohooo!

[wshaffer.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[ccfinlay.livejournal.com]

If hell is full of mice, I am soooo screwed.

And YEAH! Congratulations!

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

YAY! Here, have a cupcake!

[panjianlien.livejournal.com]

Oh, I wondered: if hell is full of mice, is heaven full of cats?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The mice are not particularly dead.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I...would like a cupcake. Actually. Huh. How about that.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

o.o hopefully because dark centrally-heated tunnels are mousie heaven...

Wooo sale! Woo new Mrissa story!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

The mice are not, as I just wrote to panjianlien, particularly dead. It's not their hell, any more than mice in a library are using it for a library. It's just that they happened to put a hell where the mice wanted to be, so, being mice, they shrugged and moved on with their mousely business.

[katallen.livejournal.com]

Very sensible of them.

[athenais.livejournal.com]

How excellent. Congrats!

[david-de-beer.livejournal.com]

so, when you and Leah put together a joint short collection, you can call it Of Mice and Bears (?)

and congrats:)

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Or we can include reminiscences of matociquala and call it Of Mice and Bears, and Bear.

Funny, I never thought of calling Thermionic Night, Of Moose and Men.

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Funny, I never thought of calling Thermionic Night, Of Moose and Men.

I'm a little disappointed in both of us.

But congratulations on the story sale! And don't forget: you don't have to figure out what book to write next.

[jmeadows.livejournal.com]

Yay!

[truepenny.livejournal.com]

Yay! Congratulations!

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[angeyja.livejournal.com]

Excellent!

[mmerriam.livejournal.com]

Excellent News! Congrats to you.

[papersky.livejournal.com]

I thought hell was full of mice just to rhyme! Well done in making something of it.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I sat there thinking, "Hell, hell, hell. What do I know about hell?" And that's what came up: dark, deep, full of mice. Right then.

I confess a fondness for the mice.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so glad. That story deserves a good home. :)

[j-cheney.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale!

[retrobabble.livejournal.com]

Woo! How cool is that?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Just a sec, let me check here in my files.

Fairly cool, it turns out.

So good then!

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[raecarson.livejournal.com]

Yay, favorite story! Congrats!!!

From Hell by Moonlight, you say?

[jymdyer.livejournal.com]

=v= Congrats! See panel 4. (http://www.octopuspie.com/2007/09/24/050-a-hero-a-legend/)

Re: From Hell by Moonlight, you say?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Mine wound up on the Oregon coast instead, but the principle is sound.