New Comic Day!

[newnumber6]

First one in a while, since I stopped buying the only comics I buy due to the crossover.

I got:
New Mutants #15 (interesting setup, although since I skipped the crossover a bunch of what they're talking about doesn't mean that much to me)

I also picked up some nice finds in the used bookstore:

Tatja Grimm's World, by Vernor Vinge (early novel)
The Dreaming Void, by Peter F. Hamilton
The Exile Kiss, by George Alec Effinger (Book 3 of the Budayeen/Marid Audran novels)
and
Ender in Exile by Orson Scott Card (and a pretty good deal for used in hardcover too... I'd have preferred softcover but most used bookstores would even sell the softcover for more than that)

And, in video game news, I picked up Left 4 Dead 2. You know me and the zombies. I've been having a ball playing #1 online. I'll practice a bit on the levels for 2 solo (so I get a little familiar with the maps) before playing that on line.

And blah, mid-writing this, checked my e-mail, another rejection on a short story. I didn't really expect much, since it was one of the big ones (Asimov's), but still harshes my buzz from the purchases. So that particular one's going on in the trunk for a little while, maybe to try again if I get a printer or one of the current 'mail only' places opens up to e-mail submissions.

Comments

[karenjeane.livejournal.com]

Cool, you submitted to Asimov's. Bummer about the rejection... they just seem to publish the same (old) people over and over again. :/

[newnumber6.livejournal.com]

Yeah, they recently changed to allow e-mail submissions, so I figured I'd give them a try even though I didn't expect much if I got rejected from other, less well-known places. Asimov pays more and accepts longer stories than most, so I imagine it's one of the first stops by the more 'well-known' authors to try to sell things, so it's even harder to break in.