I’m Dreaming “Corrections” Okayed and Sent Back
Another one of those very quick “The Writing Life” updates, this from Christine Morgan of Madness Heart Press. Actually going back two days to December 19: . . .I’ve been tasked with doing the edits on this anthology. Thank you all for contributing, congrats on being accepted! It’s for a good cause and I hope we can make it a success.
Over the next few days, I’ll be contacting each of you individually, sending a draft of your story with my suggested edits as well as any comments or questions. Look them over, accept or reject as you see fit, make any other changes or revisions as needed, and return another draft to me when you can.
The book in question is MONSTORM: A CHARITY ANTHOLOGY (cf. November 18, 13) and so this morning, December 21, my turn came. But going through it, line by line, the few suggested changes I found were very slight, and with no quarrels with them on my part at all. So that was easy: this evening I’ve sent back a reply saying, in effect, just to use the “corrected” copy exactly as I received it.
The story is “I’m Dreaming Of A. . . ,” its title reflecting the Bing Crosby still-sung yuletide hit, “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas.” But as for MONSTORM (to quote myself from November 18), [a]s noted, it is a charity anthology for relief for victims of Hurricane Ian, with stories revolving around monstrous storms. Thus mine, originally published as a stand-alone chapbook in 2011 by Untreed Reads, is a snowy description of a Christmas season, decidedly NOT filled with peace and/or joy.
