Home
 
Previous | Memories | Tell a Friend | Next
 
jeffsoesbe
jeffsoesbe
14 October 2009 @ 12:27 pm
SALE! "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram" to SHINE Anthology!  
I am very pleased to be able to announce that my story "The Very Difficult Diwali of Sub-Inspector Gurushankar Rajaram" has sold to the SHINE Anthology, edited by Jetse de Vries!

I've been holding off on this announcement for a while, because Jetse wasn't sure where exactly the story would be appearing (anthology or online). But he just let me know that it will be appearing as a featured story on the SHINE Anthology website, and in fact will be up by this weekend (!) just in time for the Indian holiday of Diwali (during which the story is set) on October 17.

The SHINE Anthology is an anthology of "near-future, optimistic, sci-fi", which is a neat description of the kind of SF I often like to write, so I'm very thrilled to be associated with the project.

I will post on the LJ when it's online, but for now I say WOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOO! and do the Happy Writer Dance!
Tags: , ,
 
31 comments | Leave a comment
 
( 31 comments — Post a new comment )
D.K. Thompson: Roar![info]krylyr on October 14th, 2009 07:53 pm (UTC)
Man, you just keep kicking ass, don't you? Well done, sir. Very well done :)
jeffsoesbe: vpxi vineyard sculpture spearing fish[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:11 am (UTC)
Not quite sure how these things are happening, but I'm trying to live by the Viable Paradise Oath: Write. Revise. Submit. Repeat. So I think that has a lot to do with it.

Thanks!
jeanhuets[info]jeanhuets on October 14th, 2009 07:58 pm (UTC)
Yay! congrats, Jeff!
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:11 am (UTC)
Thanks!
prusik[info]prusik on October 14th, 2009 08:06 pm (UTC)
That's awesome! Congrats.
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:12 am (UTC)
I agree! Thanks!
JH-R[info]hirez on October 14th, 2009 08:08 pm (UTC)
!!

Excellent darts there!
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:12 am (UTC)
Slang translation needed, but I say Thanks for sure!
JH-R[info]hirez on October 15th, 2009 07:06 am (UTC)
== jolly well done.
marshaldillon[info]marshaldillon on October 14th, 2009 08:48 pm (UTC)
I really think we need to see video footage of the Happy Writer Dance.
jeffsoesbe: yeff speed racer[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:13 am (UTC)
One day, though it's more of a Happy Writer Pose with hands thrust high. And a little bouncing up and down!
Bethany: braiding[info]anachred on October 14th, 2009 08:57 pm (UTC)
Awesome!
jeffsoesbe: yeff speed racer[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:13 am (UTC)
Agreed! Thanks!
Adam Israel: Excited[info]stonetable on October 14th, 2009 08:57 pm (UTC)
Congrats, man!
jeffsoesbe: yeff speed racer[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:13 am (UTC)
Thanks!
bogwitch64[info]bogwitch64 on October 14th, 2009 09:03 pm (UTC)
Rock on!
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:13 am (UTC)
I shall endeavor to continue earning the sparkly good words!
drumiller: writing[info]drumiller on October 14th, 2009 10:12 pm (UTC)
Sounds like an excuse for a tasty beverage hoist at WFC! Congratulations, and what wonderful timing!
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:14 am (UTC)
I totally agree. Many hoists, in fact! WFC will be some good celebration for me with the VP gang, what with the two recent sales.
G. Jules[info]gjules on October 14th, 2009 10:19 pm (UTC)
Hey, congratulations!
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:14 am (UTC)
Thanks!
maggie l. wood: yay[info]faerie_writer on October 14th, 2009 11:52 pm (UTC)
Congratulations!! :D
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 12:14 am (UTC)
Thanks!

Edited at 2009-10-15 03:28 am (UTC)
Christopher Kastensmidt[info]ckastens on October 15th, 2009 12:46 am (UTC)
Sale, sale, SALE!!!
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 03:27 am (UTC)
Yes, yes, YES!!!
Erin Cashier[info]therinth on October 15th, 2009 04:53 am (UTC)
Congrats! :D
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 05:12 am (UTC)
Thanks!
quixhobbit: VP tent[info]quixhobbit on October 15th, 2009 05:01 am (UTC)
Yippie kai-yay! Way to go Yeff! :)
jeffsoesbe: yeff southpark[info]jeffsoesbe on October 15th, 2009 05:14 am (UTC)
Yippie, indeed! Too bad I didn't think to get a reading at WFC or I could read part of it. Of course, we can also have impromptu readings in the bar at the VP table. Especially after a couple glasses of wine.

No salty cursing in this one, though. Sorry. But there are monkeys! Lots and lots of monkeys (Chris's rule wins again)

Brenda Cooper[info]bjcooper on October 18th, 2009 12:29 am (UTC)
Yeah Yeff!
And now, next time we are on a panel together, you will NO EXCUSES to feel like you do not rock (not that you ever did)! Lovely story, and a lovely place for it.
jeffsoesbe: yeff yahoo avatar[info]jeffsoesbe on October 21st, 2009 07:50 pm (UTC)
Re: Yeah Yeff!
Hi Brenda!

I will make sure to be less self-dissy on panels from now on. And if I start getting all self-dissy, and you're there, feel free to throw something at me.

Yeah, that was indeed one of my Lincoln City Workshop stories. I did do a revision to work more on depth of character and physical sensations, the things we talked about at the workshop that have in the long run proved very useful.

But I did keep the unwieldy title! Ha! Take *that*, DWS! :-) I'm just kidding. The effect of that workshop has been great once I was able to really integrate the discussions into my writing...

Besides, I'm sure Dean would say "The title/manuscript didn't work for me, but it did work for someone else. Congrats!" He's cool like that.

- yeff

Edited at 2009-10-21 07:50 pm (UTC)