What a GREAT pick-me up

Work was absolutely painstaking yesterday.  Actually, that’s a bit of an overstatement.  For the most part, I like what I do.  It’s just that a BIG project got tossed at me around lunchtime yesterday.  I was up until after midnight finishing it.  And then the kids thought it was time to wake up at 5:30.

So groggily, I got up.  Got dressed.  Made a super-strong pot of coffee.  Took the 2 year old to Day Care and came back home with the 3 month old.  Normally, in that situation, I’d be zombie-like and drooling, tired, needing a nap as I stare at the computer.

But not this morning.  That’s because on the way to Day Care, the little red light on the top of my Blackberry was blinking, indicating that I had either a missed call or a new e-mail.  So I checked my e-mail.  It was the first response I’d had from an editor in over 3 weeks.  And I am still giddy over the response.

I am VERY excited to say that Library of Horror Press will be publishing my collection, Debris!

I know, it seems like a peculiar title.  But there truly is an assortment of different writing within.  Flash stories of 700 words and short stories of 8,800 words.  Horror stories, mild sci-fi stories and all areas in between.  There are even a few poems in there.  So yeah, it’s literary debris.

Most of the stories are previously published works from the past year and a half.  But there are some stories in there (2 in particular) that never found a home but garnered positive comments from publishers…comments that were usually followed by “but it needs to be about 4,000 words shorter”.

So yes, I am on Cloud 9 this morning.  I am actually thinking about hopping over to Cloud 10 soon because I am hungry and I hear they have some really great Chinese over there…