Might as well send one out.

I have some bad news — for months I’ve had, in the background of my mind, held-out hope that a tale of mine, “Todd Elrin and the Forever Reset”, was going to get accepted at Baen’s Universe, which had the story in final review status.

It was not to be.

I could whine and moan about my feelings about this, but you’re readers and editors out there, and my feelings have as much relevance as a single fry out of your last extra value meal. In other words, you wouldn’t miss them.

So, in short: it was a story with an upbeat message that I would have popped a cork on a wine bottle just for seeing it in a pro market at the absolute perfect time for it to be published, not to mention marking my first pro sale, but it just didn’t happen. Okay, so there’s my one-line whine. Now back to business.

I’m lucky to have dealt with such an excellent editorial staff. It was an honor just making it into such consideration. I’ll be back to that mag’s slush before they can say slurpee.

In other updates, the rest of my subs are pretty quiet lately. Just waiting on responses.

I have surgery next week, which is going to give me a solid two weeks to work on yet another story with yet another message, and this one is — here I come.

This is the big splash you’ll hopefully be drenched in this fall.

Stay tuned.