Hanging Vines Contract Received, Returned; A Not-So-Small Royalty for Anthology Offering

Two quickies this time around. The first from BLACK INFINITY Editor/Publisher Tom English (cf. also January 17): Hope all is well with you. Here’s the contract for “Hanging Vines”. I’m sending it as a Word DOC to facilitate signing. I’ll send a story proof for corrections sometime in September. Thanks again!

Due to vagaries of the vintage equipment in the Computer Cave (and area thunderstorms preventing a trip to the public library) it proved less simple than may at first seem. But in not too much time it was downloaded, signed, and sent back, with more to come here (the issue theme: “Starships and Spacesuits,” the story itself originally published in CONADIAN SOUVENIR BOOK for the 52nd World Science Convention, September 1994) as it becomes known.

Then, second, the payment was for just one horror story, and was for a whole year, but still it was surprisingly hefty given that my part was one twenty-fifth of the anthology pie. I will continue the custom of outing neither publisher nor amount (nor the story’s title), but what went ker-plunk in the PayPal pot this time would cover more than just one fancy dinner — or even perhaps a month’s worth of groceries to cook for myself.

And that’s more like the writing life as it should be lived.