Ann Leckie (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} ann_leckie) wrote,@ 2008-12-04 10:58:00 |
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Squeeage!
So, yesterday I got an email saying Rich Horton would like to put my story "The God of Au" in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2009 Edition.
Woohoo! And surfing around in the past day or so, I see I'm in good company--Jay Lake, Beth Bernobich, and Mary Robinette Kowal are in the TOC as well. Awesome.
Then today, I read Mr. Horton's review of "Needle and Thread," a story Rachel Swirsky and I wrote together and that was published in last quarter's Lone Star Stories:
Excellent new writers! Did ya catch that part?
As for the "conventional morality tale" part, well, all I can say is, it's a fair cop.
So, yesterday I got an email saying Rich Horton would like to put my story "The God of Au" in Fantasy: The Best of the Year 2009 Edition.
Woohoo! And surfing around in the past day or so, I see I'm in good company--Jay Lake, Beth Bernobich, and Mary Robinette Kowal are in the TOC as well. Awesome.
Then today, I read Mr. Horton's review of "Needle and Thread," a story Rachel Swirsky and I wrote together and that was published in last quarter's Lone Star Stories:
I also enjoyed Ann Leckie and Rachel Swirsky's "Needle and Thread", about a dressmaker charged to make a gown to turn a princess beautiful--but such magic is illegal. And, perhaps, wasted--the prince is not so interested in beauty. The characters are well done, the idea clever, but it flattens into a somewhat conventional morality fairy tale; not quite what I've come to expect from either of these excellent new writers. Still, it does what it aims to do quite well.
Excellent new writers! Did ya catch that part?
As for the "conventional morality tale" part, well, all I can say is, it's a fair cop.
