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Short story sale
Jun. 13th, 2012 11:58 pmI'm thrilled to announce that my short story "Netcasters" will appear in Sword and Sorceress 27 this November. The complete anthology lineup is here.
This is my first "pro" short story sale -- as determined by pay rate -- and I'm totally jazzed about it. :) (Naturally this is the first year in awhile that I haven't included "pro short story sale" in my list of goals for the year. Nuts.)
This story was inspired by macramé, the art of creative knot tying. Looking at a piece of ornamental macramé on my desk, the thought occurred to me that it might be an interesting idea for a story to include a magic system that uses knots as a spellcasting medium (rather than, say, a spoken spell, a scroll or potion, etc). Then I started wondering what sort of people might find magic knots useful, and what instantly came to mind was "Fishermen!" So that's what this story is about: a fishing village in which the fisherfolk have a closely guarded talent for tying very special knots, and a thief who stumbles onto their secret.
This is my first "pro" short story sale -- as determined by pay rate -- and I'm totally jazzed about it. :) (Naturally this is the first year in awhile that I haven't included "pro short story sale" in my list of goals for the year. Nuts.)
This story was inspired by macramé, the art of creative knot tying. Looking at a piece of ornamental macramé on my desk, the thought occurred to me that it might be an interesting idea for a story to include a magic system that uses knots as a spellcasting medium (rather than, say, a spoken spell, a scroll or potion, etc). Then I started wondering what sort of people might find magic knots useful, and what instantly came to mind was "Fishermen!" So that's what this story is about: a fishing village in which the fisherfolk have a closely guarded talent for tying very special knots, and a thief who stumbles onto their secret.