Blow-Up Doll

[cranefly]

Thanks for giving me an audience.
I intended one more entry -- LC's return -- but am prosed out for now, and out of time -- need to switch to house-cleaning bigtime.

I'll package the episodes up, maybe add one or two more, try to give it a nice shape, then think about a market. Gordon Van Gelder at the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction has always been kind to me, but he's being forced to bi-monthly now, curse this economy. Also, he is forever pressured by the libraries and others to keep the prose clean (I've had to negotiate with him in the past on the number of "fuck"s in a story).

Sometimes there's anthology markets with weird subjects -- such as stories about carousels, or crime stories with a gay PI, or stories in which a clown masturbates on stage. I'll just have to check around, see if something fits the bill. The hardest part by far is always writing the story. Getting it published is merely very difficult.

Thanks again.

--cranefly

P.S. Would any of you be free in the next few days to lend a helping hand? I hadn't considered how hard it'd be to get a TV back down from the roof.