FROM KLAUDIA (mostly): news and a little chatter

     Three Crow Press has accepted my latest short story, THE BEGINNING IS THE END. They plan to publish it sometime between August and November. Here's a snippet:

    He spent six years trying to learn every part of her. Not only the smiles, what she showed the world, but her dark corners, fears. He was so in love, convinced that they should know everything about each other, so sure that they could.

    It didn’t save her. And in the end, it turned out that he knew even less about himself than he did Jane. For example, he’d never thought he could kill another human being. But there she lies on the floor at his feet, body ripped apart. 

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    I learned something this week. I like to work on one thing at a time. I've always been that way, so much so that I've resisted trying otherwise. Not anymore. I can't tell you why it suddenly worked for me to do so, but I worked on three pieces at once and it made me happy. I had them all open on the desktop. I'd write on one, then go edit another, write on the third and lather, rinse, repeat. I think it helped prevent me from getting stuck, plus one of the pieces seems to flow better for me and helped me with the other two. One is a newish piece for Theda and the other two are Klaudia's Babylon the Great and the Novel That Mocked Me Now and Forever (aka the one I refuse to even NAME anymore).