Five Ways.

[mrissa]

It has been a good full day celebrating my mom's birthday, including brunch and godkid-time and cake-baking and lo these many fine things.

To top it off, I got e-mail from John at Not One of Us saying he'd like to buy my radio astronomy short story, "Five Ways to Ruin a First Date." Sound horns! Bang drums! Look with increasing alarm at the small number of short stories still out on submission! Hmm. Maybe that last bit can be reserved for just me.

ETA: Huh. Seventy short story sales sneak up on you faster than you'd think.

Comments

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Very cool!

I have a lot of practice looking alarmed. I'm happy to contribute to that part of the list.

[leahbobet.livejournal.com]

Woot! Bill Barilko says you shoot, you score!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Bill Barilko makes everything better.

[swan-tower.livejournal.com]

No, I'm with you on the alarm -- the two I've sent out recently are of the "these are only fit for a small number of markets" sort, which does not really solve my problem.

Congrats on the sale, though!

[ex-benpayne119.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[athenais.livejournal.com]

Huzzah!

[kythiaranos.livejournal.com]

Congrats on the sale!

[papersky.livejournal.com]

Yay, sale!

Have you read The Sand Reckoner?

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

No. Should I?

[scottjames.livejournal.com]

Congratulations again!

[prettymuchpeggy.livejournal.com]

Good times and good sales are deservedly so. {Yippee for mrissa}

[madwriter.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[zalena.livejournal.com]

I just realized that with the latest paying book review I accepted that I am going to make enough money through this activity to be taxed. This, to me, signified that perhaps I should stop thinking of myself as a complete amateur.

Congratulations on your accomplishment!

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I think that the flip side of the people who become praise junkies when we praise kids constantly are the people who distrust all external recognition because it was clearly meaningless. I keep running into too many friends who are convinced that they are doing nothing with their lives despite doing quite a bit, because they keep moving the goalposts, because if somebody said it was good it must obviously be easy and meaningless.

I keep trying not to do that to myself. It's okay to be ambitious to do more without disparaging what we've already done, no matter what the field.

Thanks.