5/9/05: Posted

[davidlevine]

Put my novel manuscript in the mail today! Yay! Now I will take at least a week off from writing. After that it's short stories for the rest of the year, though I may also do some research for novel #2, a fantasy set in an alternate WWII.

Also, my short story "At the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Uncle Teco's Homebrew Gravitics Club," which originally appeared in the OryCon 25 program book, has been posted at Infinity Plus. You can read it here (for free!): http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/uncleteco.htm

We have started getting a box of organic veggies delivered to our door every week again. Dinner tonight was a pizza with spinach, fresh mozarella, and caramelized onions, made from a recipe that came with the veggies, on pizza dough from Trader Joe's. Simple and very, very good.

Comments

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I enjoyed that story. Interesting how the reader's (ok, my) assumptions about the situation and about the people turn out to be wrong. :-)

[davidlevine]

You can thank my critiquer and sometime co-author Sara Mueller for that. In the first draft, Babette was as dim as she appears to be :-)

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Impressive that it now appears to have been planned in from the start. Smooth!

[badger2305.livejournal.com]

Alternate WWII, eh? If you need obscure research advice, feel free to ask. :)

[davidlevine]

Thanks for the offer! I don't have any questions yet -- haven't even started researching. Most of the action will take place at Los Alamos (the main character is a version of Oppenheimer) but I want to have another viewpoint or two on the front lines. Any suggestions for where to start (books or websites)?

[markbourne.livejournal.com]

Much luck with the novel submission. Here's hoping that your byline will be face-out at Powells soon enough.

[calimac.livejournal.com]

Nice little story. The setting's enough like an SF con to make it familiar, and enough different to give that element of surprise (totally apart from the plot). Good standard handling of the "narrator who knows everything but isn't telling it to the reader" voice.

Couple minor places where my mind hit speed bumps, but as the story's published I'll leave them be unless you want them.

[davidlevine]

Well, I'm not going to change this particular story, but feedback is always welcome; it might help on some future project.