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I just sold the short story "The Girl With The Killer Eyes" to Jim Baen's Universe. It is, very tentatively, scheduled to come out in their December issue. Since it's my first professional fiction sale, it will appear in one of their 'introducing' slots, which means I get the princely sum six cents a word (hence it being a pro sale, because SFWA considers anything over five cents a word pro rates).

I kind of embarassed myself a bit when I got the email though. I slapped the table, jumped up and shouted "YES!". Got me a few strange looks from the computer lab guy and the other students in the lounge. Oh well. I'm really to excited to care. I can't sit still. I'm just sort of bouncing. Selling the article was one thing, but the article is basically just an essay. I knew I could write those. This is fiction, and someone is paying me for the chance to publish it. By industry standards, they're actually paying a good bit of money to do so. It's enough to make a guy feel like he hasn't been wasting huge chunks of his time over the last five years.