An ego boost … September 7, 2009
Posted by Steve in Books, Fiction.Tags: Books, Fantasy, Fiction, Literature, Reviews, Short Stories, Sword & Sorcery, Writing
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OK, so I haven’t had a lot of time for writing fiction or poetry or blog posts of late. It seems every time I turn around, there is something going on. But I did have a brief writerly moment not long ago, and it was a nice little ego boost.
I was in a new library not far from our home, and saw a book on the “New Books” shelf. It was “The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008,” edited by Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link and Gavin J. Grant. So I led my daughter over to the shelf, opened the volume to the honorable mentions list and showed her dad’s name. “Wow, Daddy! You really are a famous writer!”
Well, no, I explained, but I did pretty good with that story (“The Gods-Forsaken World,” featuring everybody’s favorite resurrected sword-and-sorcery guy, Calthus). My daughter had already seen the honorable mention list in the volume I have at home, of course, but she seemed more impressed to see it in a book at a library.
To be honest, I rather enjoyed that myself. Now if I can just get the library to stock a book with one of my actual stories in it …
The odds of that would go way up if I got back on the writer train, I’m sure.
— Steve
terrific site , good solid poetry! Loved Ohio Autumn very much being I was from Ohio, (now living in Florida) – I just started a poetry site -
I find it’s awfully hard to get published – congrats on your work! Abbe
visit my poetry site http://abberrantverse.wordpress.com