The Writing Life: LOLCraft Edits Arrive, Returned

It’s been a fairly fallow summer, these last few months. Still, though, the Writing Life continues, as in today’s email from Editor/Publisher Michael Cieslak:

Greetings from the Maryland Pop and Horror Con!

Enclosed please find a copy of your story with the suggested edits. There may also be comments noted. Please review them and accept or decline using the Track Changes function, stating a reason why for any declines.

Once we receive the corrected copy we will make a final word count for the story and send you the contract.

The story in question is “The Reading” and the publication LOLCRAFT: A COMPENDIUM OF ELDRITCH HUMOR (cf. July 21, April 27) by Dragon’s Roost Press with, any changes being slight, my okay going back this afternoon. A tale of poetry, performance, and fear, “The Reading” originally appeared in UNIVERSE HORRIBILIS in 2013 from Third Flatiron Publishing, while LOLCRAFT (to quote its original call) is intended to evoke visceral, physical reactions. Horror generates fear and dread. Our hearts race. The stress rises and we feel the need for a release, to scream. Humor generates similar physical reactions, but the release comes in the form of laughter.

More to come here as it becomes known.