Exclamation Points!!!

About a week-and-a-half ago, I submitted an entry to the open call for micro-submissions for the Thackery T. Lambshead Cabinet of Curiosities over at Jeff VanderMeer's blog. Not long afterward, I got an email from Jason Yarn, an agent at Paradigm, who said that he'd seen my entry and really enjoyed it. We emailed back and forth a couple of times, and this weekend he gave me a call.

We hit it off. He was really nice, he talked about all the right stuff, and he really seemed to get what it is I'...