Life has been so nuts that I haven’t even told y’all: my very short story “My Summer Romance” was accepted for the zombie erotica anthology Rigor Amortis, to be published by Absolute XPress.
This anthology went from random twitter conversation to table of contents in two months, publisher and all, due to the insanity hard work of Jaym Gates and Erika Holt.
The full table of contents should be released sometime soon. I’m looking forward to seeing who I share the roster with (though I know quite a few already through the magic of twitter), and to reading the whole thing when it comes out this autumn (I think?).
(Do note that this is a zombie erotica anthology, and thus not for everyone. From some things the editors have said, it’s definitely not for the squeamish.)
Among the 30 OEDC countries, the United States is number one in health expenditures, but 28 in infant mortality, and 24 in overall life expectancies. We also work the most hours per week, and are the third richest country. But then, we are obese, and don’t get enough sleep. (No time to do anything but work? How do you suppose that contributes to the life expectancy stats?) The full report is here.
Whatever it is we’ve been doing, it isn’t working, and it will continue to not work. We need to fix any number of things. The most urgent place to start is with universal health care. How can anyone read that we are 28th in infant mortality (better than only Mexico and Turkey) and not support access to medical care, and especially preventative care?
Speaking of medical care, here are two important swine-flu links: one and two. Though if you only listen to mainstream news media, you might like three better.
Completely changing the subject, Neil Gaiman provides the best commentary ever on the recent complaints about GRR Martin’s delays in writing the next “Song of Ice and Fire Book”. Let me quote:
“George R.R. Martin is not your bitch.”
Thank you, Neil. (I adore this man. From afar, and very politely.) (I would like to read GRRM’s book, but c’mon people. Go read something else while you wait!)
Sarah Goslee is a scientist, weaver, and writer, not necessarily in that order.
She spends far too much time chattering on Twitter, or you can email her at sarah dot goslee at gmail.
