• Location: in my pajamas and wrist braces
• Mood: surprised
• Music: Yo La Tengo - Here To Fall (Radio Paradise - DJ-mixed modern & classic rock, world, electronica & mo

i kissed your lips and broke your heart

Well, that's a first draft--a complete draft, even, and not just a Bad Draft--of this thing I'm calling "The Governess" until and unless I come up with a title I actually like. It's Victorian horror about class issues, mostly.

And my last solicited short for the year goes down in a hail of bullets.

Now to let it sit for a while and see if my friends have anything critical to say about it before I revise.


State of the Honeydew:

2011:

OWW EC review: September 15, 2011
OWW EC review: October 15, 2011
Realms of Fantasy columns: October 25, 2011
"The Governess," aka Victorian fantasy story: December 15, 2011
Revise "The Governess": December 15 2011
Shattered Pillars: December 31, 2011

travel:
100-Year Starship Symposium, Part II: Sept 30-Oct 2, Orlando
Viable Paradise: October 7-16, 2011, Oak Bluffs MA
Supernatural Noir reading: October 24, 2011 New Jersey
World Fantasy Convention: October 27-30, 2011, San Diego

2012:
"Latency": March 2012
An Apprentice to Elves: June 11, 2012 with truepenny
Hard SF adventure story: June 11, 2012
Steles of the Sky : November 2012
"Underworld": September 2012

travel:
Epic ConFusion: January 20-22, Troy MI
ConStellation: April 13-15, Lincoln NE (Guest of Honor)
4th Street Fantasy Conversation: June 21-24, Minneapolis MN
ConVergence: July 5-8, Minneapolis MN
Readercon: July 12-15, Burlington MA
Armadillocon: July 26-29, Austin TX
Viable Paradise: October, Oak Bluffs MA
World Fantasy Convention: November 1-4, 2012, Toronto


2013:
"Dark Leader": March 2013
"Something's Gotta Eat T. rexes": September 2013


No fixed deadline:

"The Deeps of the Sky"
Karen Memory
Smile (unless its name is actually Salt Water)
Unsuitable Metal
Gotham Jazz
"Form & Void"
"Untitled Space Opera Thingy" aka "Periastron"
"Steel Monkey"
"Posthumous Jonson"
"The Death of Terrestrial Radio"
"On Safari in R'lyeh and Carcosa with Gun and Camera"