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dw_maintenanceHi all!
I'm doing some minor operational work tonight. It should be transparent, but there's always a chance that something goes wrong. The main thing I'm touching is testing a replacement for Apache2 (our web server software) in one area of the site.
Thank you!
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luninosityI’ve got a new (old) short story out now! Well, technically yesterday, but gosh, this semester’s teaching schedule is brutal, and I have very little free time to do things like promo…
“An Exchange of Hearts” is fantasy-romance, a sort of spin on the princess-in-a-tower and glass-mountain fairytale motifs. Except the princess is also a magician, and the prince on the quest is less interesting than his brother, also a magician, who initially just came along to help…except there’s something intriguing about the person who could create such magic, and such a challenge… (I did do some rewriting to clearly have bisexual main characters and a queer-normative world; that was actually always the case in my head, but I made it more overt in this version.) I always liked the idea of them falling in love through magic first – being impressed by each other – and also the light subversion of whose quest it ends up being!
This story, as I mentioned, is both old and new – the oldest version was actually one of my very first pro story sales, maybe a decade ago! That speculative fiction magazine closed, and we got all our rights back and everything. So I figured I’d see if JMS would like it!
The new version is a couple thousand words longer (hey, it’s me: any editing will add more words…) and lightly edited (and retitled) to be a little closer to my current writing style, though the core of the story is the same.
I still like it – in fact, I’ve got a lot of affection for it! – and I hope you do too!
And look at the gorgeous cover! It never had a cover before, just being internal inside the magazine. JMS did a lovely job!
JMS Books link here! (On sale – only $1.87!)
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