SJ Driscoll

“IN VIVO”

Today Daily Science Fiction emailed my story, “In Vivo,” to subscribers. It’s due out on the DSF website next week.

Initial Twitter comments are “Great twist” from @AnneEJohnson in Brooklyn and “Amazing and somehow disgusting at the same time” from @kisalar in Turkey. =))

Brooklyn and Turkey. I love the Internet.

TWO SIDES TO MY HEAD

Last week, Daily Science Fiction accepted “In Vivo,” one of my speculative fiction stories.

That’s my third pro level spec fiction publication, since I had a story in Asimov’s and one in Interzone under my previous name.

I’ve spent the last few years learning to write novel-length contemporary romance and have garnered quite a few helpful editorial rejections that taught me to focus on strengthening my story conflicts.

Selling this little story in my “old” genre comes as a delightful surprise.

I was uneasy to return to the quicker pace of short story writing after the long, slow haul of writing at novel length, but my mind’s boiling over with spec fiction ideas and there’s now a sheaf of drafts/ideas on my writing desk.

I’m also about 9,000 words into the draft of my 5th(?) contemporary romance and have a pile of new plot notes to add to the story plan.

Which to concentrate on is the question, isn’t it?

All I can do is write both spec fiction and romance, and see where it all leads.

So these days I’m getting up much, much earlier. If the birds have started twittering, I’ve stayed in bed too long.