Katherine Fabian

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I have a twitter account: krfabian!

I also have six rejections, two stories under consideration (my superhero romance for Samhain's anthology and a little something about covering mirrors), and a copy of Keith Hartman's new novella for review purposes!

Keith Hartman is the author of the first ever queer sci fi I read -- The Gumshoe, The Witch and The Virtual Corpse -- which is, now I come to think of it, one of only eight books that have moved with me everywhere I've lived in the last ten years.

Do you have any books like that? The ones that follow you wherever you go, without which your bookshelf just doesn't look right.

Mine are Douglas Adams' The Complete Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy; Keith Hartman's The Gumshoe, The Witch and The Virtual Corpse; its sequel, Gumshoe Gorilla; Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman's Good Omens; selected works of WH Auden; MM Kaye's The Ordinary Princess; Paul Krugman's The Accidental Theorist; George Orwell's Animal Farm.

I am in a fight with one of my stories.

Normally when I fight with a story, it's all pointed huffs, slammed doors and refusing to speak to each other. Then, once we've both had a chance to sulk, the story might say, "This is not an apology, but did I mention I'm actually twice the length you thought I was?" or I might say, "Hey, I had an idea -- if you're not still in a mood, maybe we could check it out?" and we put it all behind us.

Not this story. This story has an inflated sense of its own importance and serious entitlement issues. (That's my side of things. Its side of things is that if I'm going to persist in not telling it right, I should just leave it alone.) We've tried five different iterations so far, and the best I can say is at least neither of us has tried to poison the other one yet.

It's a shame, because it really could be a good story if [it were possible to tell / it weren't being written by an incompetent hack]*, but, hey, these things happen.

*delete as applicable

Now if you'll excuse me, I have to see whether or not I can order arsenic online.