Bye Bye, Love

Got the girl up. Got her fed, dressed, and out the door. When we parked at SFO we ran into a bunch of her friends. Took her in. Hung out feeling distinctly superfluous while she gabbed with the friends. And then, when they got in a long, long line (I think there must be 30 kids on this trip) to check in, I gave her a hug, told her to watch out for bears and hippos, and left.

The plane has landed in Seattle, and, since I haven't gotten any frantic messages about missing limbs, I assume all is well and she's off to have a serious adventure. And when she gets back I'll be at Wiscon!

Meanwhile, I was so distracted (and sleepy) that I forgot which floor my car was parked on, and wandered around for ten minutes before I asked a wandering security guard if this was the floor on which I had entered the parking structure. Nope: three floors down. Took the elevator up, found the car, drove home, went back to bed. For some reason the dog, the older daughter and boyfriend who stayed here last night, and the Spouse all seemed to find this somewhat comical--but I note that they let me sleep.

Again, Book View Café!

Since I'm going to be reading at Wiscon and on a panel about the Book View Café website, of which I am a member, I thought it would behoove me to get more of my fiction up on the site.

You remember what Book View Café is, right? An online publishing venture started by two dozen or so women writing in science fiction, fantasy, horror, and romance, as a venue for their short and novel-length fiction. Some work is free (mine is, so far) and some available at a nominal charge. There's really great stuff there, and on the affiliated Book View Café Blog. Go look!

My slowness in getting stuff up on the site has been forced, to some extent, by the fact that some of my stories are old enough that I didn't have electronic files for them--and that even the stories that I did have files for got lost when my hard disk was replaced last year. Which means I've been keyboarding them all, which has been interesting; I have an curious flinch/smile reaction: flinches for the lines I wish I'd been smart enough to take out, smiles, overall, for the stories.

So far, this is what I've got up there:

"The Boarder," my first published SF story. Originally published in Asimov's in 1982.*
"Somewhere in Dreamland Tonight," originally published in F&SF in 1994.
"Nimüe's Tale," my only Arthurian story, published in Invitation to Camelot in 1988.
"Cuckoo," published in F&SF in 198...6?
"Willie," published in F&SF in 1992, and probably my best personal commentary on parenthood.
"Climacteric," published here, but no where else until BVC came along.

I'll be putting more stuff up as I get it retyped. I may even try to put up some of my old Regencies, from back in the pleistocene era--someday when I have a lot of time on my hands. Meanwhile, if you're curious, go look. After all, it's free. And I'll be reading from one of these stories at Wiscon...but I don't know which yet.