Industrious, if nothing else.

Well, if nothing else, posting the first-lines meme was enough of a kick in the ass to get me to start submitting things again.

Four completed short stories are now in submission:

1. "Coyote Gets His Own Back" (#4) at Tor.com
2. "Extract from '"I opened the book and read'": Self-Reflexivity and Self-Reinvention in Hôtel Image'" (#7) at The Magazine of Speculative Poetry
3. "Imposters" (#5) at Dark Discoveries
4. "Learning to See Dragons" at Apex (since July 1st, so not technically part of my personal urban renewal here, but still worthy of note!)

I also queried about the two stories that have been in press since 2006.

And I opened up "The Devil in Gaylord's Creek" (#2) and made a stab at putting more of the cool/important stuff in the story. We will see what matociquala and mirrorthaw think of it.

The next step is to open "Hollywood and Vine" (#1) and see about making the protagonist pick his goddamn agency up off the floor and use it.