I'm back home (which is good) and somewhat overwhelmed with stuff to get done (not so good). Blowfish anthology stuff, applying for jobs stuff (both of which need to be finished by tomorrow), cookbook stuff (which it would be good to do tomorrow), and then there's packing for Kirstie's wedding, which I fly out to at 6 a.m. on Friday. I'll be back late Sunday night. It was a good weekend; productive fun workshop, and had a nice time visiting my folks afterwards. But oh, tired. Going to go see if I can get Kevin to put down his math and curl up with me in front of the tv for a bit before I go back to work.
Gee, writers must be an impatient set of people. I had decided to wait a month before querying further.
There are several anthologies with deadlines today – it provides an incentive for people to check whether something’s available to send elsewhere. But it’s still a bit hard on Mary Anne:-( A couple of days’ slippage on a date only two weeks after the deadline is not exactly unreasonable, especially given that a couple of *weeks* slippage would still make it a fairly fast response time.