OK, this just made me mist up a little. Talk about the best kind of attention:
Hi, my name is Elise and I attend Washington High School in the Bay Area. In my English class I have been assigned an "I-Search" project where you have to research your target job and interview people already involved in that profession. I have wanted to be a writer for as long as I can remember so I thought it would be perfect to interview you because I love your writing. I'm sure you are very busy but I could schedule the interview around your schedule and it would be very short. If you do find it feasible you can email me. Whatever your decision, I thank you for your time and ask that you continue to write.
My daughter Joanna went to Washington. (So did Maya Angelou, and a few others interesting people, but mostly, Jo went there.) I taught a couple of guest lectures on the Scots play at Washington.
This is absolutely the best butter. Nice nice nice.
Aw, deb, that is so sweet! And cool, with all the connections and stuff.
Of course I pinged her back and told her I'd do it, whenever she liked but Tuesday is bad (medical crap, ugh).
Stuff like that makes me happy.
Readers?
The original short story topic was "espionage." Once the editors selected stories for the anthology, they saw that most of the ones they selected had a fantasy or sci-fi element, so they wanted them all to have a fantasy or sci-fi theme. Mine didn't, although they felt it was a bit dream-like and asked me to play that up.
It honestly would've been easier to make it hard sci-fi, but I've taken a crack at it. Could I get a couple folks to give it a read in the next couple days?
I'd like to read it, please.
Talk about the best kind of attention
That's really wonderful, Deb.
Happy to read, Raq... profile addy is good. (Though I'm going to work shortly, so won't able to look till tonight.)
Thanks guys - insent to deb and -t and dcp and Ailleann.
Got it, Raq. I'll get back to you as soon as I can - tonight or tomorrow, probably.
I'll look at it, Raq, if you like.
