Month: February 2007

Skiing in the Sunshine

After starting the year with a burst of writing, I took the last five days off and went up to Whistler. It was beautiful and sunny, and the views (http://www.flickr.com/photos/78523822@N00/sets/72157594514935628/) were spectactular. No fresh snow, but I was perfectly happy spending most of my time on wide open groomed runs. Midweek skiing is definitely the way to go, if you can swing it–no lift lines and fewer people on the runs, very nice stuff.

Also had some very tasty food this trip, including crepes, tapas and Belgian chocolate fondue. Yum! Good thing I got a lot of exercise skiing to …

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Rejection #16

Back from Canada (more on that later). In the stack of mail from when I was gone:

After 44 days, Stanley Schmidt at Analog found my backwards-in-time story ‘not quite suitable.’ Next market up for this one is probably Asimov’s, though I’m tempted to hold it for a bit and send it to Strange Horizons, since they have a quicker turnaround time. (Can’t send it to SH immediately, since I’ve already got a story there.) At 5,300 words, it is a smidge above SH’s preferred length (5k), but the guidelines say that they’ll consider stories up to 9k.

Also a …

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