{"id":3281,"date":"2008-12-31T22:06:24","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3281"},"modified":"2008-12-31T22:07:47","modified_gmt":"2009-01-01T03:07:47","slug":"more-year-in-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unreality.net\/weblog\/?p=3281","title":{"rendered":"More year in review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\">In 2008, I&#8230;<\/font><\/p>\n<ul> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Began, in earnest, my job as Developmental Editor. When I&#8217;m knee-deep in a manuscript with a red pen or blue pencil, when I&#8217;m looking at what the competition does and how we can do it better or do something else, that&#8217;s when I really <em>feel<\/em> like an editor.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Published two issues of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kaleidotrope.net\/\">Kaleidotrope<\/a>, to generally favorable reviews, including a brief mention in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lcrw.net\/yearsbest\/\">Year&#8217;s Best Fantasy &amp; Horror<\/a>. I&#8217;d love to see a story or poem from the zine reprinted there in the next edition, or at least included among the honorable mentions. I&#8217;d love to see the zine reviewed in more places, like at <a href=\"http:\/\/thefix-online.com\/\">The Fix<\/a> or the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irosf.com\/\">Internet Review of Science Fiction<\/a>. Heaven knows I send them copies. I think I need to step up the zine a little in 2009, looking at better ways to market it, and looking at ways I can maybe start paying my contributors more money. I&#8217;m very excited about the next issue, coming out in April, and already have a lot of material for future issues.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Suffered a herniated disc. Of course, it&#8217;s not the disc so much as the nerves it presses in on that cause the pain and discomfort. In my case, that&#8217;s L5-S1, and despite three spinal steroid injections and many weeks of physical therapy, I&#8217;m not free from pain half a year later. It&#8217;s usually very manageable, however, and nothing that&#8217;s actually incapacitated me. I do miss being able to sit comfortably in chairs. I think I need to keep at the stretching every day, and maybe look at some additional strengthening exercises I can do. I liked my orthopedist, but I&#8217;d like to avoid ever seeing him again all the same. I&#8217;d like to avoid surgery altogether if I can help it. (Right this minute it&#8217;s pretty painful, I must say.)<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Traveled a little. I went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/sets\/72157607142544442\/\">Los Angeles at Labor Day<\/a> to sightsee and watch bad movies with friends &#8212; some of whom I met for the very first time in person &#8212; and then to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/81595350@N00\/sets\/72157609973357062\/\">England in November<\/a> for work. We spent a gorgeous weekend in Miami in January, visiting my sister, who was down there at the time, and I spent my birthday down in New Orleans at a conference. I had to cancel going to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.readercon.org\/\">Readercon<\/a> in July, however, and would have liked to have seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldfantasy2008.org\/\">World Fantasy Convention<\/a> in Calgary. But who knows what 2009 holds? It&#8217;s already been suggested I&#8217;ll be going to Chicago for business in March.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Voted for a black man for President. Who won. Felt really damn good about that.<\/li>\n<p><\/font><font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Moved this blog to WordPress. I want to change the template, though.<\/li>\n<p><\/font> <font face=\"Verdana\" size=\"2\"><\/p>\n<li>Continued to write, but not enough. I hope to improve on that in 2009.<\/li>\n<li>Learned that my sister is getting married. My congratulations again to her and Brian!<\/li>\n<p><\/font><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2008, I&#8230; Began, in earnest, my job as Developmental Editor. When I&#8217;m knee-deep in a manuscript with a red pen or blue pencil, when I&#8217;m looking at what the competition does and how we can do it better or do something else, that&#8217;s when I really feel like an editor. 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