... but hopefully not a dollar short.

Yes, it's another podcast!

I hope you'll forgive the delay, but I've had to shovel my driveway every single day since last Friday. It's more time-consuming than you might think.

Anyway, enjoy our take on Heinlein's 5 laws, what to do with your endings, and how to make readers care about your story.

This weeks Triangulation podcast revealed something that was surprising to me: most writers don't work anywhere near as hard on their stories as I do.

This wouldn't be surprising to me if the other writers I was talking to hadn't been considerably more successful than me.

We accepted 3 stories this week for Triangulation: End of the Rainbow, and we still have two rewrite requests out.

This past Saturday, we met to go through another pile of stories for Triangulation: End of the Rainbow.

Not a bad week, overall. It's a little frightening that we've had no outright acceptances yet (only rewrite request), but it's still early, and I'm hoping we'll start to see some stories show up that were written just for us.

We finished up the first day of reading yesterday. We got through about 30 stories, which is about par for a typical Saturday session. If you sent in a story in the first few weeks of December, you probably have a response by now.

We also did our first podcast. We're new at this, but I think it turned out well. If you have an suggestions about topics you'd like us to cover in future podcasts, please send us an email. Can't guarantee we'll answer every request, but we'll certainly try.

Well, it tried to snow day us again, but it's not too bad, so we're on.

In about 15 minutes or so, we'll start digging through the slushpile looking for stories to print in Tringulation: End of the Rainbow. If you've submitted and were wondering when we'll be getting back to you, there's about a 50% chance you'll get a response today. That's because there are 70 stories in the slushpile, and past experience says that we can get through about 30 in a sitting.

Well, it looks like it's done snowing for the weekend, but it's too late to recover from a missed reading session.

I'm not terribly worried. We're still ahead of schedule compared to last year, but we're going to have one hell of a pile of stories to wade through come the first weekend in January.

Did do some pre-screening of stories yesterday. Nothing much to speak of yet, but I only read a fraction of the 50+ stories that are currently sitting in our slushpile. We'll get caught up pretty quick as long as the weather doesn't thwart us.

I've been spending a fair amount of time getting things going for Triangulation: End of the Rainbow. This has involved things such as getting a budget approved, getting the guidelines put together and online, scheduling the first sessions, etc.

I'm a little behind, so you may already know about this. I'm sure all the fuss and excitement has filtered to you already. I mean, is there anyone who hasn't already seen the paparazzi photos of the release party?!

I'm talking, of course, about the publication of Triangulation: Dark Glass. Click on the link to go buy a copy. You won't be disappointed. You might find yourself overwhelmed with Miltons, though ... but that can't be helped.