Greetings fellow bloggers! You might have noticed I made some changes to the "Links" area (to your left.)

If anyone would like to add something in any category, or suggest a new category, please let me know. I don't want to be the only one who can pick links!

Everything in the "Resources" area (so far) is part of the Critters Workshop site. Their Submitting to the Black Hole page and the article "Query Etiquette -- or How Long is Too Long?" are helping to maintain my sanity regarding my Asimov's submission. Tomorrow it will have been 3 months . That's when, according to their guidelines, if you haven't heard you should consider it lost and resubmit. The maximum response time "Black Hole" lists for Asimov's is 174 days, which is almost 6 months (for a rejection.) That's a welcome grain of salt.

As for the next story, "The Daily Grind," I'm planning on joining Critters & submitting it for critique, which means also getting stories to critique by e-mail. They* say writing critiques is as valuable as getting critiqued. Athena's critique was very helpful, but I think I want a lot of opinions on this one! It's been through some revision since Athena, Cyn, Mom, and Michael-in-LA read it, and I'm not done yet. The trouble is preparing a submission to Critters is about as much work as a submission for publication. They* say it's worth it. After that comes "Best Laid Plans," which I think has Stanley Schmidt's name all over it, but it's still fairly early in its first draft.

* Who are they? Why, the Critters, of course!