A story, it is sold

[ksmith]

"Continuing Education," to appear in THE MODERN FAE'S GUIDE TO SURVIVING HUMANITY (Eds. Patricia Bray & Joshua Palmatier). Published by DAW, to appear sometime in 2012.

::happy::

Comments

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo! I just got my acceptance for that one as well. ::High five::

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Congrats to you too!!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Woo hoo!! Neat-o!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

::icon love::

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!!!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

::this one, too::

[jimhines.livejournal.com]

Hm ... okay, now I'm torn as to whether to keep my Dancing Snoopy icon or swipe yours, which seems to be a better animation :-)

[cailleuch.livejournal.com]

Yours has a more engaging smile.

[wood-dragon.livejournal.com]

You can never have too many Snoopys. :-)

[marthawells.livejournal.com]

Congrats!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks! I don't write much short stuff--this is only my third short story sale--so it's fun when I can put something out there.

[e-moon60.livejournal.com]

YAAYYYYYY!!!!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

I'm pretty happy.

[mindyklasky.livejournal.com]

Many congrats! It's always fun when I get to "recategorize" writers I know - now I'll think of you as a short story-ist!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

Oy, Kris-the-short-storyist. That's strange. Short works are a struggle for me, although this one came more easily than the others.

Overall, shorts are a fun way to quickly set up and explore new worlds and characters. Speed dating, as opposed to the serial monogamy of novels.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Woot!

(And great icon!)

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks, and thanks. I wish I could change the text to something more readable. I used the El-Jay icon maker, which used to be out in the wild, but is now apparently a Windows-only program. I need to find a decent, uncomplicated Mac icon maker.

[galeni.livejournal.com]

Let me know if you find one, please. I use Photoshop to make mine, and I'm not good at it.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

I'm fairly decent with Photoshop. I could try to make one for you, if you have a blank icon base, or just a plain copy of the original image.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

No plain copies, unfortunately. I made it right at the old El Jay site. I even tried to download the program anyway, and it apparently is no more. The links from other sites led nowhere.

Is Photoshop expensive? Is it hard to use?

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Photoshop is very expensive. I have an ancient, outdated copy I got several years ago. Haven't been able to justify the cost of upgrading, and the old version does what I need it to do.

There are decent freeware graphics programs available. I can check with my tech-goddess about which would be best for a Mac user if you like.

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

That would be great, thanks. Not paying $700 to make LJ icons, nope.

I already have iPhoto. I remember looking for an option for adding text once, and not finding it, but if there is one, that pretty much solves my problem.

[seachanges.livejournal.com]

Congratulations!

[kristine-smith.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[michaeldthomas.livejournal.com]

Congrats! :-)