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J. Kathleen Cheney ([personal profile] j_cheney) wrote2008-05-12 03:28 pm

In the mail....

Received:
a) Contributor's copy of Strange Worlds of Lunacy which included my short short "First Day Jitters". There's a wonderful illustration by Richard Svensson, which pleases me muchly. ;o) It's available from Lulu. I need to go update my web-page with all the linkery....just haven't done it yet. ;o)

b) Copy of Jim Butcher's first three Dresden novels. Must read.

c) YFOP from ROF, which brings me to a level 4 yellow/4 blue. Nice, but I'd still rather have a sale....or even a rewrite request.

d) Bills, junk mail, and catalogs (you really didn't need to know that)

Sent:
Box 'o books to Australia, for friend in Melbourne. Single-rate Priority boxes went up slightly today...in addition to all other American postage.

Note:
Fingernails are getting just long enough to interfere with typing. Blame all typos on that....

[identity profile] justin-pilon.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 07:49 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats on the 4:4 ratio! (You're bound to get in eventually)

I sent a query for my novel out to Mr. Butcher's agent
Jennifer Jackson a while back and got shut down! Ouch!
:-'(

Haven't read his novels yet, but I'll probably give
them a shot.

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 12:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Wouldn't we all love to have [livejournal.com profile] arcaedia in our corner! (I would, at least).

They're not deep serious reading, which is about at my mentality level ;o)

[identity profile] justin-pilon.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 04:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll second that. She's awesome! I haven't given
up on her quite yet. I have another query to send out to her on my first book. Trying to get some magazine publication under my belt before approaching her again though...

[identity profile] j-cheney.livejournal.com 2008-05-13 06:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Good luck!