What Else in June

Other Stuff Read

I’ve been doing a bad job of keeping up with my short stories and poems, or at least documenting them. In the land of poetry, I’ve been reading a Carl Sandburg collection that will get reviewed eventually. Also making poor progress on ARCs due to reading for research. Been reading about séances and spirit photography.

Writing Work

Started posting writing updates on Fridays. Don’t know whether that will continue, but for the moment I’m in a documenting mood.

Query-wise:

# of submissions for Luck for Hire: 8

# of responses: 8 – including one submission from January and one assumed rejected.

# of submissions for Model Species: 0

# of responses: 0 – Model Species is pretty much all home, as it were.

Other Life Stuff

I’m not a big fan of summer. It’s bright. It’s hot. Frisbee leagues are over; Wednesday disc gets moved to mornings, which means it gets cancelled a lot. Generally any schedule I have totally goes out the window.  I’ve been trying to ride that wave and work when I’m awake and not worry about if I’m awake at 3am.

Computer got infected a couple weeks back. Eric had been meaning to upgrade my machine to Windows 7. Alas, a mistake lead to some file loss, but nothing important.

Books Obtained

The Poet and Dream Girl: The Love Letters of Lilian Steichen and Carl Sandburg
The Blue Blazes by Chuck Wendig – Won this during the Wicked Wildfire Readathon. Thanks Pabkins @ My Shelf Confessions!
Also purchased the September ’99 issue of Magic magazine. Not only did it have an article by Jim Steinmeyer about Joseffy, but Carl Sandburg’s 1907 appreciation of the same.

Other Books I Want to Read

At Goodreads:

The Shining Girls by Lauren Beukes
A History of Ghosts: The True Story of Séances, Mediums, Ghosts, and Ghostbusters by Peter H. Aykroyd

At the Greater Phoenix Digital Library:

The Spiritualist by Megan Chance
Ghosts at Christmas by Darren W. Ritson

At Open Library:

Shirley Jackson by Lenemaja Friedman
Mickelsson’s Ghosts by John Gardner
The New Girl by Sally Mitchell
–where love begins by Helga Sandburg
The Book of the Damned by Charles Fort