Friday, April 15, 2011

A first: Two Stories in One Day

I'm laid up with a flu-type thing, no voice at all but much wooziness, which means, to my immense sadness and frustration, I won't be chairing the session on short stories at the Cambridge WordFest tomorrow with Vanessa Gebbie and Andre Mangeot. Dammit. If you are near there, tickets are going fast, it'll be great!

To cheer me up, today witnesses a first for me: two stories published in one day: In triplicate in Metazen and Tiny Unborn Fish in the science-themed issue of Litro. Very nice news, both are fantastic publications I've had the honour of being published in before, do support them. Litro is also a print publication, "100,000 copies are distributed monthly around London and the UK, including in underground stations, libraries, galleries, bars and cafes, as well as online."

I am now going to spend a quiet weekend reading. I just devoured the new Fred Vargas book, An Uncertain Place, totally wonderful. And new books by writer friends recently received include Melissa Lee-Houghton's A Body Made of You and Meg Pokrass' Damn Sure Right. I can't see the carpet around my bed, it is heaving with books... as it should be. Nice.

6 comments:

Deb Rickard said...

Great - two publications in one day. Well done! Must check out Metazen and Litro. Hope you're feeling better soon.

Sarah Hilary said...

Congratulations on the stories and the heap of books anchoring you to the bed until you're well again.

I enjoyed the Metazen story, but couldn't access the Litro one as my computer kept saying it was blocking a "malicious threat" !

Sue Guiney said...

Sorry you 're not well. how disappointing to have to miss the ting with V. but 2 publications in 1 day is a pretty good consolation :-) xo

Vanessa Gebbie said...

A hot toddy for you, my lass. So sorry we won't get to see you tomorrow in Cambridge - but congrats on the double whammy!

Dora Dee said...

I commiserate with you. I've been sick as well for the past couple of days. I think it's allergies (I hope!) Hope you feel better soon and congratulations on your accomplishment. Happy reading.

Tania Hershman said...

Deb, thank you!

Sarah, how odd, is it working now? Most definitely not a malicious threat...

Sue, thanks, it did cheer me up a little. Was really looking forward to the event :(

V, had a little red wine, not sure if that counts. Congrats on a great event, by all accounts!

Dora, thank you, wishing you better soon too.