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a short break before we get back to incessant book-blogging

I published a poem this weekend!

You can find it at the current issue of Chiaroscuro Magazine, or Chizine for short.


It is a much altered version of a poem you may or may not have seen called
What The Gargoyle Does Not Speak, but Dreams




cool note about this...the editor told me she was going to get in trouble with other writers because I broke a few of her rules--one is the inclusion of the word blood, which is even in their submissions guidelines as a no. Since the blood mentioned is not so much a symbol as the actual biological thing, I kind of ignored that? And so did she.


SO HURRAH!

Date: 2010-10-02 07:00 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] rhinemouse.livejournal.com
Congratulations!

And that is a very cool poem.

Date: 2010-10-02 08:20 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] idiosyncreant.livejournal.com
Thank you!

I take credit for the word-images but not all of the structure--the editor reworked it quite a bit.

Which was *awesome*, to have her like it enough to do that!

Date: 2010-10-02 07:22 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] eilis-oneal.livejournal.com
Congrats! Very cool!

Date: 2010-10-02 08:22 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] idiosyncreant.livejournal.com
Thank you! It's only my second sale, so I'm kinda hurtling around in a tizzy of excitement, especially since I came across it, published, by surprise.

Date: 2010-10-03 02:00 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] eilis-oneal.livejournal.com
As in, they published it without telling you first?

Date: 2010-10-03 03:04 am (UTC)From: [identity profile] idiosyncreant.livejournal.com
More like, she'd said it would be in the October issue back in April or so, but some of the circumstances of our correspondence this week made me think that couldn't happen. She told me she was taking it and put it up right away, though!

She'd asked me for a bio yesterday and I waited until today to come up with one, because I wanted to check and see what kind they seemed to use, and there my name was. 0_o

Date: 2010-10-03 01:55 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] eilis-oneal.livejournal.com
Ah, I see . . . Well, there are certainly worse surprises! :)

Date: 2010-10-02 08:08 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] dawtheminstrel.livejournal.com
Congrats on the poem! Isn't it great to see your stuff out there?

Date: 2010-10-02 08:23 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] idiosyncreant.livejournal.com
It is! It's especially exciting, because it's a magazine other people besides me, that I know, have heard of, and one I think is cool.

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