smugness

[incandescens]

http://www.strangehorizons.com/

in connection with which,

http://www.strangehorizons.com/index.pl?Contents=/2004/20040719/snow.shtml

mmmmmmmmm.

Comments

[copperbird.livejournal.com]

Oh, very nice! Congrats!

[incandescens]

Thanks!

[typhoid-mary.livejournal.com]

Yours? Very evocative and interesting. Was the battered wife being punished again at the end? The tone for the red-hot shoes seemed ambiguous because, I suppose, there weren't any happy adjectives you'd expect to go with dancing and escape. Were you saying that she was still in the abusive relationship, with her husband a weight on her feet? I was impressed at how much came through in such a short story, despite my questions. Thanks so much for pointing me to that story, I greatly enjoyed it.
-Mari

[incandescens]

Actually, the stepmother being forced to dance herself to death in red-hot iron shoes comes from the original Snow White (as opposed to muted-down later versions), and it felt appropriate here. I'm glad that you liked it!

[typhoid-mary.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I recognized it -- I like the Snow White story, and I've read a few. I just wondered what the step-mother was feeling in this mirror version.

[incandescens]

Self-destructive, mostly, I think.

[archangelbeth]

WOOHOO!

And man, that is creepy.

And has a certain Nightside flavor, am I right?

[incandescens]

Not actually meant as such, though you could certainly read it that way.

[archangelbeth]

Not Nightside pastiche, but... that ineffable sense of dark magics beneath lighter legends?

[incandescens]

Yes, that's true. Those things that get prettied up later with glass slippers and glass coffins and kisses and happy endings.

[rob-donoghue.livejournal.com]

Woo!

[solaas.livejournal.com]

Oh, excellent! A voodoo version of Snow White, and with such dark poesy in it. Mmmmm! Enthralled, I am.

[incandescens]

Thanks. :)

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

A wonderful job--I salute you! And congratulations!!

[incandescens]

Thanks!

Whoa. Cool!!

[nojojojo.livejournal.com]

Don't know you well (well... at all ^^;;), though I hear MJJ talk about you all the time and you frequently have interesting stuff to say so I watch your blog. But just had to say congratulations (assuming from your comments that this is a story you wrote ^_^)! I don't even know you and I'm jealous. =)

Re: Whoa. Cool!!

[incandescens]

I'm afraid I don't know you either, though I have also heard mjj mention you and read your journal because it's interesting. ;) (Will I run into you at Yaoicon, perhaps?)

Thank you very much! I still can't quite believe it.

Re: Whoa. Cool!!

[nojojojo.livejournal.com]

I'm afraid I don't know you either, though I have also heard mjj mention you and read your journal because it's interesting. ;) (Will I run into you at Yaoicon, perhaps?)

Very belated reply because I have the memory of a gnat, sorry. I had no idea you were also striving for pro publication. It's good to know I'm not the only yaoista trying to go "legit" (while still yaoiing on the side); sometimes I feel painfully alone in my obsession. (Though you don't seem near as obsessed about it as I do, so maybe I still am alone in it =P)

You might run into me at Ycon; still assessing finances, and so far the answer is "probably".

Re: Whoa. Cool!!

[incandescens]

Oh, you certainly aren't the only one. I've got a few chapters of a novel sitting with a publisher, and live in hope. (Sigh.)

I do some roleplaying game freelance writing -- the paper sort, not the computer sort -- but that's not quite the same thing as being a professional novelist. (They pay, though, which is something . . . Just not much.)