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I just received my first contract. It's for a non-fiction article which will appear in Jim Baen's Universe magazine. I'm not entirely sure what issue, but likely the first or second. The pay rate was a bit more than I was expecting too.

Now, if you'll excuse me, I'm going to be off in the corner being happy.

"Dana Scully with Frickin' Laser Beams" is now "The Girl with the Killer Eyes"

Paula and Rick, two of the editors for Baen's Universe had pretty similar suggestions. They both said the story was funny, but thought the pop culture references detracted from it. I stripped out the Scully joke, made some tweaks and resubbed so we'll see how it goes.

The good news is, the title gave me a basic format for all four stories in "We're Here To Help You"

I'm feeling pretty good right now, all things considered.

Bleh...

Okay, it's just not my week.

'Dana Scully With Fricken Laser Beams' got rejected in about three hours. That was a little sobering.

Also, Eric Flint emailed me yesterday to ask for major rewrites on the Terraforming article.

Boy, I'm not doing well on the humor front. Really just not. Ouch.

Normally, I'd just dive right into the rewrites. The problem is, when I get home tonight, I've got a paper to write for my Chem Lab and a test to study for.

Ugh.

Man, I've been busy.