Whatever are you doing?

Fri, 07 Jun 2019 21:16:41 GMT

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!

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Whatever are you doing?