• 01:44 My flight was delayed coming in to San Fransisco. Almost missed the connection, but that’s delayed too. Arriving in NYC at 7:30 am. I hope. #
• 07:40 My flight has landed. I’ve got to take the train home to drop off my bags, then I’ll vote. YAY. #
• 07:40 My flight has landed. #
• 08:49 On the train from Newark to Penn Station. #
• 09:54 I am in line to vote. #
• 10:07 I have voted! #
• 16:17 I just sold “The Consciousness Problem” to Asimov’s!!!!! Holy cow! #
• 18:16 Just realizing that if I try to thank everyone individually, your screen will fill up with “THANK YOU!” and many exclamation points.THANKS!! #
• 19:21 Stopped to pick up bread at my favorite bakery, but they closed early to vote. #
• 23:57 Would you look at the size of the crowd in Chicago? The whole thing is amazing. #
• 00:00 There he is. God. Thank you. And grant me tissue. #

I think this post should probably consist of nothing but exclamation points.

Growing up, I subscribed to Asimov’s and had a shelf full of back issues until I went to college.  It was one of my favorite tickets to other worlds but I never imagined, back then, of actually appearing in its pages.  But my story, “The Consciousness Problem” just Sold! To! Asimov’s!

!!!!! !

Be happy there’s no audio component to this post because the squeel would destroy your eardrums.  This is my first sale to one of the “Big Three” and I’m so pleased that it’s to Asimov’s.  I wrote the story as part of the workshop run by Dean Wesley Smith and Kristine Kathryn Rusch, with special guest Sheila Williams.  Clearly, I got invaluable feedback from that.

Could this day get any better?  Oh yes, I think it can.  I just have to wait for the polls to close.

My flight landed an hour later than scheduled, but it got me here, so that’s what counts. I came home, dropped my bags, sponged off because I was rank, changed clothes and then Rob and I went to vote.

This is the first time in twenty years that I’ve voted in person for a presidential election.  In Oregon, it’s all vote by mail and before that I was on tour, using absentee ballots.  The lines were shorter than I expected, but I’ve been told that they were out the door this morning.  Lots of people were there waiting when the station opened, apparently.  It’s exciting to see this many people involved.

Have you voted yet?

The flight out of Calgary was delayed due to weather in San Fransisco. So we landed after my flight to Newark was supposed to have left. Fortunately, that flight was also delayed and it looks like I’ll get on. I should be back in NYC at 7:30 tomorrow morning.