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First, The Girl With The Killer Eyes will appear in Issue 3 of Jim Baen's Universe. (Edit: It got moved to issue 4)

Second, it will also be appearing in The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2006 anthology, which should be out in hardback in July, 2007.

I got my first set of Copy Edits back from Jim Baen's Universe today. Whoever's doing the editing over there is doing a heck of a job. I was also pleasantly surprised to learn that they apparently have commissioned/purchased art to go with the story.

Of course, I still don't know what issue it will be in, but hopefully, soon.

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).

"The Girl with the Killer Eyes" (originally "Dana Scully with Frickin' Laser Beams", then briefly "The Girl with the Laser Beam Eyes") apparently impressed Paula enough in its revised form to pass it along to Eric Flint, which means it's all up to Eric as to whether it sells or not.

Needless to say, I am totally, seriously going out of my mind excited right now.

I also need to rewrite the article this weekend, which pretty much means Sunday because I'm going to see my brother and his sprog tomorrow.

Man am I jazzed.

"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.