{"id":3485,"date":"2006-04-11T01:03:16","date_gmt":"2006-04-11T08:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kith.org\/journals\/jed\/2006\/04\/11\/3485.html"},"modified":"2006-04-11T01:03:16","modified_gmt":"2006-04-11T08:03:16","slug":"surprise-minicheck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kith.org\/jed\/2006\/04\/11\/surprise-minicheck\/","title":{"rendered":"Surprise mini-check"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was on my way to sleep, but I just remembered to mention a recent event, and if I don't write it down now I'll forget again, so here goes.<\/p>\n

One of the relevant pieces of backstory for the following is that Kam is now living in a house that I lived in for about three years in the early '90s.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Kam got back from the nine-day geology trip she'd been on, and she called to let me know she was back and to tell me that she had mail addressed to me.<\/p>\n

Who's it from? I asked.<\/p>\n

Tekno Books, she said.<\/p>\n

For those unfamiliar with them, Tekno Books is a book packager run by anthologist Martin H. Greenberg.<\/p>\n

Another relevant piece of backstory is that in 1995, one of their books was an anthology of short-short stories called 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories<\/a><\/cite>, which contains my only professional-level sf sale to date. (That story was very good to me; it also helped me get into Clarion West.) I believe I sold the story for $75. (And btw, one reason that I try to be gentle with writers who behave unprofessionally is that I made a gigantic and embarrassing mistake in the process of selling that story to that anthology, and they were very nice to me and bought the story anyway.) A few years later they sent me a small royalty check, and I had always sort of wondered whether I ought to keep them apprised of my address as I moved, but figured it wasn't worth it. It never occurred to me that the last address they had for me was the place Kam's now living.<\/p>\n

Anyway, yup, sure 'nough, the envelope contained a royalty check, for $16. I was thoroughly tickled.<\/p>\n

I guess the moral is: always send change-of-address forms to your publishers, just in case.<\/p>\n

Or maybe the moral is: short-short stories can be surprisingly lucrative over a surprisingly long period.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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