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Amid all the horror in New Orleans and the shock in the rest of the country, I'm going to take a moment of time and selfishly talk about a small, personal thing. To wit: a check for $15 that arrived yesterday.
Circumstances demand that I give it to the Red Cross immediately. (I did donate a larger sum Monday.) Practically orders me to cash it and stick it in theemergency Stratford fund. Whimsy wistfully suggests that I spend it on something personal, something permanent, something that I can look back at and say:
"I bought this with the first money I was ever paid for non-technical writing."
Once Written has had its problems. But it's back on track now, and this is my paycheck for three book reviews - The Frog Prince, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and To Love a Thief, all of which still appear on the Recommended Reads page.
The acorn was planted a year ago, when Barb and Shaz at Reviewing the Evidence said, "Sure, you can join." This is the first shoot above the ground (and it came courtesy of LJ and![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lizbetann). I have hopes that it will become a mighty oak.
In the meantime, I have 2 more books to review for ILMN, four that just arrived for OW (and one of the Bouchercon books that I'm going to add to the stack), and about 20 for RtE. And I picked up the last three issues of a newspaper that does only mystery reviews, along with the special Bouchercon subscription offer. They say that they don't have a reviewing slot open right now. Fair enough.
But I intend to be there and waiting when things change, and with quite the online corpus to back me up.
Circumstances demand that I give it to the Red Cross immediately. (I did donate a larger sum Monday.) Practically orders me to cash it and stick it in the
"I bought this with the first money I was ever paid for non-technical writing."
Once Written has had its problems. But it's back on track now, and this is my paycheck for three book reviews - The Frog Prince, Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell, and To Love a Thief, all of which still appear on the Recommended Reads page.
The acorn was planted a year ago, when Barb and Shaz at Reviewing the Evidence said, "Sure, you can join." This is the first shoot above the ground (and it came courtesy of LJ and
lizbetann). I have hopes that it will become a mighty oak.In the meantime, I have 2 more books to review for ILMN, four that just arrived for OW (and one of the Bouchercon books that I'm going to add to the stack), and about 20 for RtE. And I picked up the last three issues of a newspaper that does only mystery reviews, along with the special Bouchercon subscription offer. They say that they don't have a reviewing slot open right now. Fair enough.
But I intend to be there and waiting when things change, and with quite the online corpus to back me up.
