Granted, it also wasn't accepted; Jed sent an e-mail today letting me know that they would like it if I were to revise the ending significantly because it just isn't funny or tonaly consistant. Which, I have to admit, is true; it suddenly gets about as subtle as A Very Special Episode of Blossom for no apparent reason. So revise it I shall. I unfortunately have no idea how to do that -- I've never been very good at writing endings. I wish I knew anybody else who writes.
One of the changes required is to change the super-villain name "Auntie Maim". Apparently, a story they printed not long ago had a villain called "Auntie Arctic", and even though I think my name's better, they got there first. I'm considering either going with "The Spinster" or "The Old Maid", which shouldn't make me any friends among my LIS peers, since this is a mad library scientist (and card-carrying Communist villain -- the card's signed by Khrushchev!) from the 1960s, and there's a back-lash against the old stereotype. (I'm leaning towards The Spinster, myself.)
In honor of the season, a link to the Shaggs performing It's Halloween, from their album Philosophy of the World.
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Hey, congrats! Good luck with the revising - and to hell with spinster-related backlash. If any librarians complain, you can tell them that, um, fiction reflects just one possible world, and ask if after reading this they expect there will be a wave of copycat mad spinster library science. Or something.
One could only hope that there would be a wave of copycat mad spinster library scientists; the world would be a lot more interesting for it.
Hey Bill --
Great news. I'd be happy to volunteer to look at your revisions for you. I don't know how I'd live without my readery people.
That would be right kindly of you, ma'am, if you would be willing to assist me. I keep making my family and friends read it, and getting irritated when their criticism amounts to, "Oh, that's nice, very funny." It's not as hard on them as when I used to make them read my papers for school, but it's still something I think most of them can live without.
Now I just have to do the revisions. I wrote half a paragraph yesterday; it was easier when I didn't have schoolwork to do. *sigh*
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