Excellent news. Congratulations.

Wow, Congratulations to you, Bob! When you say this will be out “soon”, do you mean like one week soon or within the month soon or tomorrow soon? Anyone who spots it should post here to let the rest of us know. I mean, you’re not obligated to, but…yeah. It would be cool.

DOUBLE congrats on getting rjhowe up and running- it looks great. I always regretted not being around for fetish weather forecast.

I poked around the site, and the audio is up from Hour of the Wolf ! Yaaaay! Thanks, Bill!

Great news all around. I hope you are thrilled.

Fantastic, and after looking around a bit, I have to offer super-congrats. I think I need to follow your trajectory, myself, only without such a long gap. What got you going again? Sometimes it’s hard not to be so damned down on the publishing industry.

Chris

Congratulations from this quarter as well!

Thanks, Luke.

Thanks, man. You know, I just wrote about this topic in ‘s blog.

Hey, Laurie, thanks! Double thanks!

I already have my contributor’s copies, and I know a few subscribers have already received the October issue, so I imagine it’s only a matter of days before it’s on the stands.

And yes, YAAAAY Bill! Not only for the audio page, but for design and HTML ideas, as well.

Why thank you, Mamadoiselle.

And another long pat on the back from the west coast. I’ll be looking for it.

Thank you for that link! Sometimes we just need to think about their process. However, much of my dismay centers around the multi-year-sitting-on-novels-while-stringing-authors-along thing. I suppose if what we submit to them is immediately recognizable as a best-seller, there’d be no sitting on it, but short of that, it’s tough to know what’s going on in book publishing.

Chris

Another reason to renew my subscription. You just never know.

Belated congratulations. I will keep an eye out for when it shows up on newsstands.

Big congrats on both counts. I will take this excuse to decamp from the office this afternoon and see if your Analog is available yet at Borders, and the web site looks great. My favorite picture is the Coast Guard file photo. You’re a fetus!

The sincerest form of flattery

Hey, the 8th of February Group sticks together!

The dratted Union Square B&N still has September’s Analog, but only one copy. This would seem to indicate that when October’s appears the stack will vanish quickly!

Re: The sincerest form of flattery

For which some of us are eternally grateful.

It’s disheartening, no question. But what else can you do? Not writing will definitely insure you won’t be published—I’ve tested that method empirically and found it wanting.

Thanks Mark, I appreciate your support. (That sounds stilted, but I mean it sincerely.)

Thank you, thank you. Of course I’ve already seen it on your dining room/book storage table. I appreciate it.

Ha! Reserve judgment until you’ve read the story.

Ha, thanks for making the pilgrimage.

Yes, I was nineteen, going on twenty when that photograph was taken. I I’d have known then what I know now—well, I was dense, it probably wouldn’t have made an iota of difference.

I’m amazed you saw anything in there. By now it’s probably buried under the books I bought last night.

I know, I know—I would have had more gerbil sex too, but what’s past is past.

Ah yes, Gerbil: the other other white meat. Around here we refer to them as happy meals on a string.

Found your Analog this morning at the B&N at Third & 54th! I got the last copy.

Aw, thanks, Bill. <Yup, I thought better of that comment.>

You’re welcome! Of course, Laura has now stolen it from me….

I’ve always had a theory that it’s best to be the last story in the magazine. First story is good too, because it no doubt gets the most eyeballs, but if I start skipping through a magazine in the middle, I always go to the last story because it always seems the editor wants to put something more substantial and satisfying there. So good on ya.

(Interesting, seeing the magazine up close, that they’ve apparently put The War of the Worlds on the cover. Nice illustration, IMHO.)

Well, thanks. I’d like to think that’s the rationale behind putting the story last. Of course I can already find flaws in the story—cold, hard print is so unforgiving. But I’m glad it’s out there, and that people are reading it (Laura included—will she be reading it aloud to Ella?).

Of course that’s it. I’m always right.

Found more copies last night at a big news agent’s on Broadway somewhere between Houston and 8th Street. (Things are a little fuzzy.) Tom picked up a copy but wants to have you to sign it and us mail it to him.

(We’re not sure Ella is ready yet for a story about entropy. The notion that things tend toward disorder would probably be a little too disquieting for a dog of her age. When she’s a little older.)

That was incredibly nice of you, and I was delighted to sign the magazine for Tom.

I think it’s probably too late to shield Ella from the concept of entropy: dog is the Algonquin word for chaos.

True, and we have already subtitled her “Agent of Chaos.” We walk past certain yards on the way to Astoria Park and nonchalant leaves frenzied barking in her wake.