Last summer, when I wrote “Bring Out Your Dead” it was the first short fiction I’d written since the concussion.\u00a0 The first that almost, nearly, sort of, had a true narrative arc.\u00a0 Short fiction\u00a0 is not my main talent.\u00a0 My agent asked if I’d consider writing a story for a particular editor & anthology, and buoyed up (believe it or not) by “Bring Out Your Dead,”\u00a0 I took a week to see if I could write a “western” SF story.\u00a0\u00a0 To my surprise, the ideas came immediately, were the right size for a short piece, and consented to be finished.\u00a0 Whee.\u00a0 Off to the editor it went.<\/p>\n
I’m now working through the Editor’s Letter on it,\u00a0 and when he approves the edits I’ve done, it’ll be my first short fiction sale<\/em> since the concussion.\u00a0 I’ve never written anything like it. ..though I think it’s a distant relative of the Chicks in Chainmail <\/em>stories in that it’s funny in a weird way.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After it sells and when I have a release date for the anthology, I’ll let you know.<\/p>\n Back at the ranch…and to work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Last summer, when I wrote “Bring Out Your Dead” it was the first short fiction I’d written since the concussion.\u00a0 The first that almost, nearly, sort of, had a true narrative arc.\u00a0 Short fiction\u00a0 is not my main talent.\u00a0 My agent asked if I’d consider writing a story for a particular editor & anthology, and Read More…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=562"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/562\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/elizabethmoon.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}