I woke up this morning to email from Alexander Shalganov, Editor-in-Chief of ESLI, an sf and fantasy magazine in Russia, saying that he wanted to buy reprint rights for my story “Watch Bees,” which appeared in the August issue of Asimov’s! (The name ESLI apparently means “IF” or perhaps “What if” in Russian.)
This ticks off a couple of firsts for me: First reprint sale and first translation into a foreign language.
I pick up a mention in the beta of the new on-line Science Fiction Encyclopedia, in the entry on Redstone Science Fiction:
“Like a Hawk in its Gyre” (February 2011 #9) by Philip Brewer delivers a soft but effective punch in portraying a future that’s not all it seems.
The story itself is available at Redstone: Like a Hawk in its Gyre.
An article I wrote for the Makin’ Money blog at American Public Media’s Marketplace went live last week. Check it out: Four steps to managing personal debt.
My Wise Bread post Live Where It’s Cheap was featured on MSN Money’s Smart Spending blog as Live where it’s cheap- MSN Money.
It’s always nice to see my work get a bigger audience.
Of course, with the Dow down 500 points again, I doubt if anyone noticed.
Lois Tilton seems unconvinced by the economic scenario implied by my story “Watch Bees.”
The August issue of Asimov’s Science Fiction with my story “Watch Bees” was on the shelf at the local Borders this evening!
My mom bought two copies, leaving just one on the shelf. (A fact possibly of interest to local folks who’re hoping to get a copy.)
I got a call from my dad, who said that he’d found a copy as well, but he bought his at the Michigan News Agency in Kalamazoo.
“Watch Bees” is in Asimov’s Science Fiction, August 2011, Vol. 35, No. 8, edited by Sheila Williams.
Picking his way through morning glory vines, over rolling chunks of old pavement, David made his way to the edge of the ditch. Kneeling down, he got close enough to the dandelions and clover to see that the bees visiting them were striped the distinctive orange-and-black of watch bees.
Looking up, David took in the farm as a whole. The paint on the farmhouse and barn wasn’t fresh, but it wasn’t peeling. The garden was big. The fields grew food, not just biofuel crops. He was six or seven miles from town, having rejected each of the farms he’d passed, but this one looked promising.
Update: “Watch Bees” has been reprinted in the Russian Magazine Esli!
I got my contributors copies of the August Asimov’s! It’s a treat to see my story in print.
I haven’t read it yet, but of course I flipped through it. Seeing the “next issue” section of the new issue prompted me to check out that section of the previous issue, which turns out to be available on-line. It mentions my story, saying:
Another new author, Philip Brewer, gives us a stinging tale about how to recover from the end of life as we know it in “Watch Bees.”
I hadn’t noticed that before; it’s sure fun to see.
The new issue should go on sale June 21st.
SFScope has the first mention I’ve seen of the table of contents of the August Asimov’s including my story “Watch Bees,” and an image of the cover.
Looking over the ToC is a treat. I’m in some great company!
They say it’ll go on sale on June 21st.
I got the galley proofs for my story “Watch Bees”! (I enjoy all these steps in the process of seeing my work through to publication.)
I did two read-throughs: one frontwards, and then another backwards from the end, paragraph-by-paragraph. That’s a trick that I find helps keep me focused on error checking (as opposed to getting caught up in the story). Didn’t find any errors, though.
Sent a note with my lack of corrections to the managing editor.
I gather that the story will be in the August issue of Asimov’s.
