As if to make up for last week's breaking and entering, I'm having an amazing week. My Sherlock Holmes story, The Shocking Affair of the Dutch Steamship Friesland is being published in the fall issue of The First Line. Thank you to everyone who researched poisons and critiqued my story. I am, to put it mildly, happy.
Posted by GZ (Member # 1374) on :
Great news, Mary, for a great story! Congrats! (Congrats on the Iceland gig too, BTW)
Posted by Kathleen Dalton Woodbury (Member # 59) on :
I love it when this forum proves useful for people.
Write/right on, Mary!
Posted by shadowynd (Member # 2077) on :
WOO HOO!!!!!!!! Congratulations!!!
I do still hope you'll expand the story at some point in the future, though. Or write another Holmsian tale!! If you do, count me in to crit it for ya!!
Susan
Posted by Kolona (Member # 1438) on :
Awesome!
Posted by EricJamesStone (Member # 1681) on :
Congratulations.
Posted by SamiJo (Member # 2124) on :
Congrats!!!
Posted by Christine (Member # 1646) on :
I'm not at all surprised but still quite happy for you. Posted by Hildy9595 (Member # 1489) on :
Wow, MR, you're really on roll. Congrats again on yet another impressive achievement!
Posted by rickfisher (Member # 1214) on :
My dear Mrs. Kowal and most esteemed colleague,
I cannot express the joy which your announcement brings. I regret having been away for the weekend, and thus was unable to respond in a more timely fashion. I hope that your sojourn to Iceland does not preclude your accessing this board; however, should such prove the case, this note shall be awaiting your perusal five months hence.
Sincerely, Mr. Fisher
Posted by Robyn_Hood (Member # 2083) on :
Iceland, First Line, wow! What goes around comes around, Mary, you contribute a lot to Hatrack and you deserve all of this. Congratulations Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :
Thanks, guys. Have I mentioned that I'm excited?
Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :
I have my kids all lined up. We're doin' the Wave! Wahooo!! Congrats x 10!
Posted by Keeley (Member # 2088) on :
A belated congratulations, Mary!
Posted by Kolona (Member # 1438) on :
You have 10 kids, dakota? Wow!
Posted by shadowynd (Member # 2077) on :
My guess is 4 plus herself: five people, doing the wave, at two hands apiece.
Susan
Posted by djvdakota (Member # 2002) on :
TEN!!! <She faints>
No, but I know someone with eleven!And she's nearly 70, so apparently it is possible to survive a family that large. Whoda thunk?
I was misunderstood. I was really only trying to emphasize how happy I am for Mary by multiplying my congratulations by a meaningful number.
But, three kids, one mom, one dad--yeah, I suppose that makes congrats X 10! Count in the dog--Congrats X 14! Hermit crabs? I'm not sure how many legs they have--six each, I think--Congrats X 32! A fish--two fins = Congrats X 34! I'm one heck of an animal trainer, eh?
Posted by MaryRobinette (Member # 1680) on :
Well, I'm here and incredibally jet-lagged, quite loggy with exhaustion but everyone is being very nice, so that's alright.
Posted by RFLong (Member # 1923) on :
HUGE congratulations!
(glad to hear you're safely in Iceland too).
R
Posted by Cathy Perdue (Member # 7987) on :
Hi Mary, Just saw this. Congratulations! What a busy life you have...
Posted by punahougirl84 (Member # 1731) on :
Jumping up and down (belatedly), doing old cheers from my high school... (edited for appropriateness):
Two, four, six, eight, Who do we congratulate? MR, MR, Yea MR!
Strawberry shortcake Huckleberry pie V-I-C-T-O-R-Y Is she in it? Well I guess, Mary R, Mary R, Yes Yes Yes!
