I should write for Gilmore Girls.

I got a copy of Eating Stella Style from Simon and Schuster today. Have ten more author's copies on the way too! (Wonder what everyone is getting for Christmas?)

From my blog in May of this year...

I am also going to start revising the stories as I go. Old stories on the site may soon be noted as revised on the archive page... better to make everything stronger as I go, then to overwhelm myself later.

Better to have stronger pieces for submission to more and more magazines. Not to mention, I am going to actively participate in Chuck Palahniuk's writing workshop, where I receive critique and criticism and can work toward getting a piece in an anthology book at the end of the year, introduced by Chuck himself.

These are my goals for this year.

To finish this book.
To bring Ribcage to that next level.
To try my damndest at getting in that Chuck anthology.

Though I never got around to revising older stories as I went, I did however revise this week's story, seeing as Jeremy pointed out that there are no geckos in Connecticut, where the characters still live.

Apparently I wasn't the only one to make that mistake. As a Google search for "Geckos in Connecticut" brings up a blog pointing out that there shouldn't have been geckos in Connecticut on some episode of Gilmore Girls. I've heard that Gilmore Girls has some snappy, smart writing. So I guess us snappy, smart writers are stupid when it comes to geckos.

That's fine though, because now Ribcage: Volume 2 can have a pretty, colorful cover, adorned with red-spotted newts.

As far as those three goals I wrote about...

My book is almost finished, still on track to be shopped after the release of Eating Stella Style. I've written sixty pages in a little over a month. Recently, I printed it out to read and do some revising before writing the epilogue and learned that it now requires two of my binders to be able to turn the pages.

By "bringing Ribcage to that next level" I was talking about the whole pregnancy thing.

And even though I completely fell out of the Chuck Palahniuk writing workshop since working on my father's book, two nights ago I was selected into the next level of the anthology project. Right now, I have to rewrite the heck out of the story Animal Assignments. I have to make it glisten. Because this is it. This is as close as I can be to making that anthology book at this point in time.