Windfall

[dreamer_easy]

I had an epiphany in the middle of the night, thanks to the Zen nun I left murmuring on my iPod. I've been feeling frustrated and unworthy because I haven't yet got an original SF novel published, let alone won the Hugo, Nebula, Tiptree, Ditmar, despairing love of all humanity, etc. This is doing things backwards. An apple tree isn't trying to make apples, or thinking 'Why haven't I made apples yet, all my mates are making fantastic apples, I'm never gonna make these freakin' apples'. It just makes a bunch of apples, because that's a hoot, and also because it's an apple tree. Like everything in nature, then, I shall be goalless.

Comments

[george potter (from livejournal.com)]

Even more than a novel, I'd be first in line to buy multiple copies of a collection of your original stories! Ever since you mentioned it in that thread on GB, I've been pining for it. Haha. Lulu is a terrific company, you know. Easy to use. Fun even. Imagine the killer cover! Imagine the witty title! Imagine getting someone to write an embarrassingly praise-filled foreword! (bet Paul Di Filippo would do it! Betcha!) Imagine the ego-boost! Imagine!

[dreamer-easy.livejournal.com]

Paul Di Filippo?! You flatter me, sir!

Were you there on GB when I mocked up this daft novel cover?



(I'd just read In the Miso Soup by Ryu Murakami.)

[george potter (from livejournal.com)]

LOL! Nope, must have been before my time. That's a striking cover, though, actually.

And, based on the praise he lavished on "Chimaera", it wouldn't surprise me a bit if Mr. Di Filippo agreed to write a short introduction to a collection of yours. :)