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desperanceDoes it count as a sale, if the story's not new and monies are purely notional?
Yes, yes, of course it does! The blessed Andy Cox (who is pretty much sustaining the professional genre magazine in the UK all by himself - well, with lots of help from m'friend Dave Mathew and Jetse et al, but Andy is sole proprietor of Interzone and Black Static and Crimewave, which between them cover the spread) is hoping to publish a 'Best Of' anthology to commemorate the end of The Third Alternative. Not that it's gone away, exactly, only transmuted into Black Static, but still, it seems an opportunity. As I pointed out my own self, so if this book does happen it will be All My Own Idea. And, what is more, I will be in it. Andy wants to reprint my story "Going the Jerusalem Mile" (which was also picked by Ellen Datlow for the Year's Best; that boy done good).
Which is, of course, all encouragement to write the other stories in the cycle. I have all their titles written up on the back of an envelope; the whole collection will be called Ex Cathedra, and individual stories are "An Insider's Guide to the Mind of God" and "Mappa Lundi" and "The Battle Flag of the Republic" and so on, with little interspersal vignettes called Rex Cathedra and Lex Cathedra and Sex Cathedra...
Yup. All set in a cathedral. Whoo, yeah.
[Edit: here's a link to my favourite review of the story. Now I wonder why I like this one...?]
Yes, yes, of course it does! The blessed Andy Cox (who is pretty much sustaining the professional genre magazine in the UK all by himself - well, with lots of help from m'friend Dave Mathew and Jetse et al, but Andy is sole proprietor of Interzone and Black Static and Crimewave, which between them cover the spread) is hoping to publish a 'Best Of' anthology to commemorate the end of The Third Alternative. Not that it's gone away, exactly, only transmuted into Black Static, but still, it seems an opportunity. As I pointed out my own self, so if this book does happen it will be All My Own Idea. And, what is more, I will be in it. Andy wants to reprint my story "Going the Jerusalem Mile" (which was also picked by Ellen Datlow for the Year's Best; that boy done good).
Which is, of course, all encouragement to write the other stories in the cycle. I have all their titles written up on the back of an envelope; the whole collection will be called Ex Cathedra, and individual stories are "An Insider's Guide to the Mind of God" and "Mappa Lundi" and "The Battle Flag of the Republic" and so on, with little interspersal vignettes called Rex Cathedra and Lex Cathedra and Sex Cathedra...
Yup. All set in a cathedral. Whoo, yeah.
[Edit: here's a link to my favourite review of the story. Now I wonder why I like this one...?]
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