Home From The Holidays

Epiphany

The 6th of January 2010 -- the end of the Traditional Christmas Season.

We did a series of Christmases this year. We had some company on December 21st. We had our very private Christmas at home on December 25th. And then on Tuesday 29 December we flew down to my folks in Greensboro NC, having our family Christmas on New Year's Eve, followed by New Year's. And now we're home.

I have some thoughts and stories to relate. Yes, we were flying Northwest via Detroit. (grin) Right now I've been updating class webpages for the new semester, which starts on Monday 11 January 2010. Trying something new this semester -- providing some weekly checklists that students can fill out and print out, if they care to. I'm hoping it will give my students a new way to remember to keep their studying up.

More anon, good people.

Oh, and all you who've been jumping on the bandwagon and writing up your Best Of the Decade -- like the error of having the year 2000 be the start of the 21st century, this decade ends 31 December 2010 -- so you're wrong. (double-dating-grin)

Dr. Phil

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Author Copies From Greece!

Today, Wednesday, I received my three author copies of my story "ΤΟ ΠΡΩΤΟ ΣΟΥ ΠΡΑΓΜΑΤΙΚΟ ΠΥΡΑΥΛΟΚΙΝΗΤΟ" ("Your First Real Rocket Ship" or "THE ONE YOUR REAL rocket" according to Google Translation) published in Εννέα (Nine) issue 443 back on Τετάρτη 11 Φεβρουαρίου 2009 -- whoa, that's way back on Wednesday 11 February 2009! They definitely work on their own timeline over there, as I didn't hear from them until 1 December 2009. Yes, they publish first then tell you later.

This is my second story translated into Greek and published in Εννέα, the first was "The Uranium Age". Neither story has yet sold to an English language market, so it's a nice little source of Euros.

As I mentioned a year ago, Εννέα is a lovely SF and comic supplement. Really nice illustrations for my stories, decent covers and a lot of the comics are understandable even if they are in Greek. Heck, I have a harder time trying to figure out what the punch line in English was for The Far Side cartoons -- out of four I've seen, I know two really well. (grin)





More?

I still have one submission to them from May, back when I assumed that "Your First Real Rocket Ship" hadn't made the cut, so I could already have a third story published with Εννέα. And that would suit me just fine. General reminder is that Εννέα needs a lot of SF stories, they've raised their word counts, they will do the translations and eventually they will get around to paying you if they get around to publishing you. (grin)

What's not to love?

Dr. Phil