Rejection from Aeon today. That means I only have 6 of 10 total submissions out there doing their job, and I’m about to have 5 (briefly), because I need to withdraw a story from a super-lengthy response-time market in order to try my luck at Sword and Sorceress. S&S is just too good of an opportunity to pass up–I’ve read several of the volumes over the years, and I’ve always known about the anthology series.

I’ve had a brainstorm on “The Library Seed”–a good way to get to the action sooner–so I’m going to pull that for rewrite for the next week. Working on a “Sun’s East” rewrite that may or may not be for the good, but certainly isn’t for the bad. Need to do second draft on “Lawncare” and get that out. How did I end up back in short story land? Ah. Well. Can’t abandon any of them just because I’ve stopped writing them. Which I’ve only theoretically stopped doing.

Anyway. In my dark hour of rejection (which really isn’t so dark), I went to look at this again. Because I like the information that my story is being held, of course, but I’m also tickled to see my name under the Baen logo. Good times!