Matthew Hughes's Blog: barbarians of the beyond - Posts Tagged "kai-herbertz"
Another reprint sale
I've just heard that I've sold another reprint. "Petri Parousia" ran in F&SF back in 2008. In January, I submitted it to a Kickstarter-funded indie anthology to be called Arcane Arts, edited by Kai Herbertz.
"Petri Parousia" spun off from the then popular novel The Da Vinci Code, to the extent that it was about a research scientist who discovered he could recreate the DNA of anyone's ancestors so you could clone your great-grandfather. Or Napoleon. Or anybody you thought deserved a second coming.
As with the recent sale of "Nature Tale" to Tesseracts 20, the acceptance came as a complete surprise because I did not remember submitting the story (I have an increasingly unreliable memory which may turn out to be a precursor to Alzheimers).
Still, it's very nice to receive acceptances for submissions I don't remember. Like an unexpected birthday present.
"Petri Parousia" spun off from the then popular novel The Da Vinci Code, to the extent that it was about a research scientist who discovered he could recreate the DNA of anyone's ancestors so you could clone your great-grandfather. Or Napoleon. Or anybody you thought deserved a second coming.
As with the recent sale of "Nature Tale" to Tesseracts 20, the acceptance came as a complete surprise because I did not remember submitting the story (I have an increasingly unreliable memory which may turn out to be a precursor to Alzheimers).
Still, it's very nice to receive acceptances for submissions I don't remember. Like an unexpected birthday present.
