I think this is my first new short story sale in...umm...three or four years? Okay, that's scary, if true. So, hooray for getting this written, and revised (what I did for most of this afternoon), and sold. Yay!
I sold a story! To…
I sold a story! To Tumbarumba, a project of Ben Rosenbaum and artist Ethan Ham. The story, "Sequins," is about Sarala and Nihal -- Nihal is one of the Bodies in Motion characters, although I'm not sure he ever gets mentioned in the book. He's Shefali's second cousin, for those following along (Shefali from "And Baby Makes Four"). I love working with these characters.
Coolness! (I don’t know how you get so much done. Don’t worry about the time lag.)
Congratulations! That’s fabulous.
What’s frustrating is that the story only took about six hours total to write. There’s really no good reason I can’t write a story a week, if I just make space in my life to do it.
Well…there’s that fermentation part, though–if you don’t have some times when you’re not churning it out, it can be hard to keep producing. That’s part of why ministers in my denomination get one Sunday a month out of the pulpit–it helps us stay fresh. I think you deserve some slack. 🙂
Congrats on the sale! I thought that project was still technically a secret… has it been made public?
I asked Ben, and he said it was fine to announce.
The exact nature of the project is still a highly myssssssssssterious sekrit, but I decided it was time to let folks announce that there WAS such a project….