Looking for that Perfect Fit
12/20/09 7:45pm ~ UncategorizedOutstanding Submissions: 15
Rejections: 2, personal, Fractured West and form, Mississippi Review
Alaska. Alacrity. Anonymous. I have not been spared rejection despite this being the most wonderful time of the year, or so the story goes. My story wasn’t the right fit for them but they are very interested in seeing more. That poor, ill-fitting story, left in a crumpled pile in the back of the closet, is waiting for just the right editor with whom to fit.
The Mississippi Review addressed me as Dear Writer. Again, my writerness has been acknowledged. I thank you Mississippi Review. I will crack you, tough nut, just you wait and see! Imagine me, if you will, belting out “And I Am Telling You,” from Dreamgirls.
True story: a couple months ago, I decided to ego google myself. I stumbled upon a forum where an angry writer, who spelled my name incorrectly, was absolutely irate that the PANK rejection e-mail addressed them as Dear Writer. That was something I wasn’t even aware of so I immediately changed the rejection letter template and e-mailed the writer to let them know that their concerns had been heard and action had been taken. To this writer’s credit, they were mortified and apologetic. That was the last time I Googled myself. I don’t like knowing what people say about me.
If you’d like to hear me reading La Negra Blanca, which appeared in the October issue of The Collagist, go here. I cannot explain the strange lisp I adopt from time to time save to say that I was very thirsty while reading this story and nervous about messing up because I am afraid of reading.
I saw Avatar. I loved Avatar. I blogged about it for Barrelhouse.
I talk about some things from the past year at Big Other.
I am writing this with conditioner in my hair while wearing a plastic shower cap. Yes, yes, ladies and gentlemen. Calm yourselves. I know this image is terribly sexy but there’s more than enough of me to go around. Please form an orderly line to the left.
Read your Avatar review and I will just say, Yes. The battle scenes with the flying at the end took my breath away. The world he created from top to bottom (literally) was incredible. From the ground (couldn’t stop thinking of the Billie Jean video) , to the plants, to the creatures to the inhabitants. Okay, and the blue chicks were pretty hot in a tough, athletic, alien sort of way.
:::first in line:::
I saw it in 3D and it was definitely one of best filmgoing experiences of my life. It’s great someone is finally using the technology in a way that makes the film seem larger-than-life, as opposed to just throwing shit at the viewer’s face. Can’t wait to see it again.
Yeah, the Mississippi Review got me today as well. One day …
I remain mortified and apologetic.
Also, I don’t Google myself either.
Read your Best of 2009 list, and I hear you re: TV sucking=feeling incomplete.
Gosh, you don’t sound at all like I expected! I like the lisp though.
I will be sad if you don’t send another story to FW. Writing that email made me realise that when editors say they want to see more of your work, they really actually do.
I am writing this wearing fingerless gloves and pink fluffy slippers because it’s cold cold cold in Glasgow. And I consent to that being added to the sexy images list.
I will definitely be submitting again! Just want to wait a non-obnoxious amount of time before sending another story your way!
Issue 1 is nearly full now, but we’d really like a ghost story or some erotica. If you can combine sex and ghosts, you’re in!