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Bardic Tales and Sage Advice, Volume IV

~ Bon Steele ~ 3 Comments

The anthology with my short story is coming out tomorrow.

I couldn’t be more happy, excited, honored, and a whole bunch of other adjectives!

 

Pretty flowers are pretty

“Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.”

~ Bon Steele ~ 1 Comment
Title by the wordy Mr. Charles Dickens.
Chemical shorthand for "You will now sneeze forty times in a row!"

Trying to think through the haze of histamine and anti-histamine is an exercise in frustration. There is nothing more annoying, as a writer, as getting a good idea and not having the wherewithal to sit down at the computer with it.

And while I am completely grateful that my allergies are few – only mountain cedar and mold – they are vile enough to make me consider the desert as a viable living space.1

So! Today, I am trying for a more grateful attitude. And I do have much to be appreciative of. On a personal level, Literary Austin just put my news up on their website.  Which is super exciting! Also, The Girl got tagged for the gifted and talented program at school. My Mom’s move went well, with no Michael Bay-esque explosions.  Mister Man got a capital job offer with the state.2 Elder Kitty is doing as well as can be expected, even though we just found out that she has a plethora of endocrine issues. Also, in exactly one week and a day, I will start university. Excited? A bit, yes. Freaked out? Oh, my god. You have no idea.

Deep breaths!  Deeeeep breaths!

Kaff kaff sneeze sneeze hork sneeze kaff

 

Ok. Maybe deep breaths are a bad idea.

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 – Only briefly, though. I actually really love living in the Austin, TX area. There is much and more that is nifty, here.
2 – See what I did there?

The Honorable Bon

~ Bon Steele ~ 11 Comments

Back in August, I entered a writing contest. The prizes were donations to charitable organizations – a concept I could totally get behind. I sent along my soft science fiction short story “Flora, Not Fauna” to Bards and Sages Publishing.
On December 18th, I got notice that I was an Honorable Mention. I couldn’t say anything until they made the announcements, though. I’ve been sitting on this gnus! for a half month. You can imagine the flailing that has been happening. Kermie-dances galore, people.

The upshot?
I’m gonna be published in an anthology this summer! I’ll pause to allow the squee-ing to commence.1

Screen capture of SQUEE!!

 

The information that I have says that I may choose to have my “story included in our awards anthology, Bardic Tales and Sage Advice vol. 4,” – to which I say “Do people actually say ‘No’ to that question?”

I am, of course, encouraging you all to go and purchase 12 copies of this anthology.  😀

 

To say that I am completely bowled over and excited would be understating things. So, I will just say that I am honored to have been chosen. Thank you so very, very much.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1 – You *are* squee-ing, right?  I sure am!