Whatever are you doing?

[venta]

Recently, I was rummaging around my very old LJ posts to examine long-past new year resolutions. Pretty much every year in which I posted resolutions since I started writing here[*], they included something along the lines of writing more fiction, and getting something published.

Many years have involved a lot of not-doing that.

But! As of this week, I have a proper, published story out in the world. It appears in Luna Station Quarterly, which publishes "Stellar Short Fiction by Women-Identified Writers". I've actually been reading LSQ for some time, and I rate their fiction pretty highly. Accordingly, I am absolutely over the moon that they elected to publish a story of mine.

I've always read e-book issues of LSQ up until now. This quarter I've splashed out and got the p-book, which is altogether more professional, glamorous and real-looking than I could possibly have imagined. I am ridiculously over-excited about it.

If you wish for a copy, Amazon or Weightless Books can provide. Or you can read the whole thing online for no money here. Or you can read my story in particular, should you want to. It's fairly gentle sci-fi, and the save-your-stuff-offline app on my phone estimates it to be an 11-minute read.

(Note for the easily confused who know me IRL: I am using a pseudonym. This is because my actual surname is quite ridiculously hard to spell.)

As part of the publication process, the magazine wanted a bio from me, and a photo, and they have sent me some hard questions for an interview (to be published later in the month). I am feeling terribly important about the whole thing. I might almost be able to call myself a writer :-)

[*] OK, "here" is technically Dreamwidth these days. I don't really draw much of a distinction in my head!

Comments

[hirez]

That is a lovely piece. May I bang on about it on the Faceache?

[kotturinn]

Where's the like button when you need it!

[venta]

Thank you! Given your own excellent fiction-writing, that means a lot. And yes, please, do bang on! I'm still a Facebook refusenik so I lack the capacity to do my own banging on that medium. (Although I'm not too keen to have things that link back here, if possible.)

Nice to see you around these parts, though, I wasn't aware you were still here!

[hirez]

Glad to be of service. I really liked the subversion of the mil-SF/body horror tropes. I suspect I shall try to give LSQ some of my money.

I've not stopped reading. It's just that I do so much of my FB posting from the phone (cos I is well millennial innit) and then DW broke the truly ancient unix LJ client, and that was just enough to put the tools in the way of the thought process.

[venta]

Thank you :)

[motodraconis]

I enjoyed that! I don't normally read people's writings as they're usually pretty boring but that engaged me from the get go. Impressed!

[venta]

Thank you :-)

[zenithed]

Congrats! Really happy that so many of my friends are doing cool creative stuff these days.

[ceb]

Congratulations! That's very cool :-D