One of the small pleasures of a writer’s life is the arrival of author’s comp copies in the mail. The new-book smell, the solid heft of the real and physical object, the gratifying appearance of one’s name and words in crisp black type . . . there’s nothing quite like it, and it never really gets old.
Today’s mail included our comp copies of the Thomas Easton and Judith K. Dial anthology Impossible Futures, which contains our short story, “According to the Rule.” We think the anthology looks nifty-keen, especially the cover art:
(This has been a shameless plug. Buy one; better still, buy a dozen. They’re just the right thickness to shim up that short table leg that’s been driving you crazy for months now . . . .)