This morning, to cheer myself up, I walked over to the campus bookstore to admire the shelved copies of All the Rage This Year. An undergrad screenwriter I know walked by. I showed her the books, and she was like, “That’s so cool!” and bought one. (The first one anyone’s bought.) So that was pretty cool. Then, within the span of ten minutes, I separately ran into two other people I know, neither of them from my program (since people from my program are never around during the day). I’m starting to feel like a regular BMOC.
In other news, my two horror stories, “The Disciple” (Lovecraftian) and “The Skull-Faced Boy” (zombies), are currently the top two bestselling horror titles at Fictionwise.com. In spite of this, they are still selling noticeably less well than any of my other (fantasy & science fiction) stories. I’d heard that horror was not selling well right now as a genre, but this is the first direct numerical evidence of that that’s crossed my path.
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